Question
In Painting and Experience, Michael Baxandall analyzes this century’s cognitive style using terms like ornato and devoto. For 10 points each:
[10e] Baxandall charts the development of linear perspective by Filippo Brunelleschi (“broo-nuh-LESS-kee”) and Masaccio during the [emphasize] beginning of what century?
ANSWER: 15th century [or 1400s; or quattrocento]
[10h] In the section “The Conditions of Trade,” Baxandall reproduces many of these things to show how a “cult of pictorial skill” developed in the 15th century as these things started to deemphasize gold and ultramarine.
ANSWER: contracts between artists and patrons [prompt on agreements, documents, texts, or equivalents of any]
[10m] Baxandall quotes Piero’s De Abaco on how to gauge these objects to show how geometrical training shaped the perception of paintings. Romanesque art often featured a vault named for these objects, which frames the scene in Masaccio’s Holy Trinity.
ANSWER: barrels [accept barrel vaults]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 20 | 12.00 | 85% | 30% | 5% |
Data
| Brown | McGill | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Minnesota A | Chicago C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Claremont Colleges | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Michigan | Columbia B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell A | Toronto B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rutgers | Harvard | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Ottawa | Illinois | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida | Indiana | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto A | Kentucky | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Duke | Minnesota B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins | NYU | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Berkeley A | North Carolina B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern | Stanford | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland | Penn | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Truman State | Purdue | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chicago A | South Carolina | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell B | Texas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vanderbilt | Yale B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Virginia | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | WUSTL B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |