Question

This artist painted both small and large “grotesque heads” for what may have been intended as a guidebook, for which he also produced a series of warty screaming mouths. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Spanish artist known for his interest in ugly subjects. He painted the bearded woman Magdalena Ventura with her husband to her side and her baby breastfeeding.
ANSWER: Jusepe de Ribera [or La Spagnoletto]
[10m] Riber’s studies were linked to guidebook by Guercinco, who painted an event of this type regarding Saint Petronilla. The gold clad saints Augustine and Stephen carry an armored man in a painting titled for one of these events.
ANSWER: burials [accept word forms like burying; accept The Burial of Saint Petronilla; accept The Burial of the Count of Orgaz]
[10e] Ribera’s grotesque heads may have been inspired by this artist’s series Five Grotesque Heads. He drew the Vitruvian Man.
ANSWER: Leonardo da Vinci
<Emmett Laurie, Visual Fine Arts>

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2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y310.00100%0%0%
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y611.67100%0%17%

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Columbia ANYU001010
UMD ARIT1001020
SwarthmoreCornell B001010
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