El Greco - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

Like many contemporaries, this artist bemoaned Giorgio Vasari’s ignorance in the marginalia of his copy of the Lives. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this Mannerist. Trained as an icon painter, this artist is known for vividly colored works like View of Toledo.

ANSWER: El Greco [or Doménikos Theotokópoulos; prompt on “the Greek”]

[10h] In his copy, this Mannerist grumbled about Vasari praising Michelangelo more than Raphael. This artist finished Vasari’s fresco for the Florence Cathedral’s dome and followed El Greco in a series of failed commissions for Philip II’s Escorial (“ess-kor-YAHL”).

ANSWER: Federico Zuccaro [or Federico Zuccari]

[10m] A member of this Bolognese family called Vasari a “shitface” in the margin of his copy. Illusionistic quadro riportato was used by a member of this family in a ceiling fresco cycle on The Loves of the Gods for the Palazzo Farnese (“far-NAY-zay”).

ANSWER: Carracci family [accept Annibale Carracci] (It is unclear which of the Carracci wrote the comment.)

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2024 ACF Nationals	2024-04-21	Y	24	13.75	96%	42%	0%

Data


Virginia	Columbia B	10	10	20
Berkeley A	Toronto A	10	0	10
Brown	Yale A	10	10	20
Cornell B	Chicago C	0	0	0
Chicago D	Harvard	10	0	10
Claremont Colleges	Florida	10	0	10
Indiana	Cornell A	10	10	20
Iowa State	Illinois	10	10	20
McGill	Kentucky	10	0	10
Maryland	Georgia Tech	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins	Michigan	10	0	10
Chicago A	Minnesota A	10	10	20
NYU	Northwestern	10	10	20
Columbia A	North Carolina A	10	0	10
Berkeley B	North Carolina B	10	10	20
Duke	Penn	10	0	10
Texas	Purdue	10	0	10
Stanford	Chicago B	10	10	20
Toronto B	Rutgers	10	0	10
Truman State	South Carolina	10	0	10
Vanderbilt	Minnesota B	10	0	10
WUSTL B	Ottawa	10	0	10
Arizona State	Yale B	10	10	20
Waterloo	WUSTL A	10	0	10