Question
Vasari reports that, to ensure the job got finished, this patron allowed an artist to move a live-in mistress into a building where he was painting The Triumph of Galatea. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this vastly rich art patron, who names a part of the Santa Maria del Popolo whose dome includes that artist’s mosaic The Creation of the World.
ANSWER: Agostino Chigi (“KEE-ji”) [accept Chigi Chapel]
[10e] The Chigi Chapel ceiling was designed by this artist, who painted The Triumph of Galatea in Chigi’s Villa Farnesina. This artist’s patron Pope Julius II commissioned his painting The School of Athens in the Vatican.
ANSWER: Raphael Sanzio da Urbino [accept either underlined part]
[10m] The Villa Farnesina was designed by the architecturally-untrained painter Baldassare Peruzzi (“peh-RUT-si”), apparently because he was from this home city of Chigi. The early Renaissance painter Duccio (“DUTCH-oh”) was based in this city.
ANSWER: Siena
Summary
| 2023 UMN COOT | 08/19/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
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