Question

A version of this painting in which a man’s bare bottom is visible in some trees, and the Sun is shown at its zenith, is held by the Museum Van Buuren. The proverb “sword and silver require intelligent hands” may have inspired a sword and a knife in this painting, which lie on a rock against which rests a bag of grain. A partridge rests above a fisherman in this painting in an allusion to its (*) Ovidian source. A 1912 dendrochronological analysis of this painting at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium contributed to its contested attribution. A horse pulls a plough in the foreground (10[1])of this circa 1590 painting, whose title event occurs unnoticed (-5[1])next to a four-master (10[1])ship in the background. For 10 points, what painting long attributed to Pieter Breughel the Elder depicts the death of a Greek mythical figure who flew too close to the Sun? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Landscape with the Fall of Icarus [or De val von Icarus]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Carson GehringWeird Klaus BarbieOur Job is Buzz10610
Sharath NarayanPalestrina SawayamaJeff Weiner Fan Club116-5
Rob CarsonBHSUdoubleplusnegfive12010
Ethan AshbrookJeff Weiner Fan ClubPalestrina Sawayama15210

Summary

2023 UMN COOT08/19/2023Y3100%0%33%126.00