Question

An early painting in this genre by Hans Memling with a Christ monogram and a namesake carpet was done on the reverse of his Portrait of a Young Man Praying. Oil-on-copper, monogrammed paintings in this genre were made by the Bosschaert family. An album cover by Peter Saville added small color blocks to a painting in this genre by Henri Fantin-Latour. (10[1])A pupil of Maria Sibylla Merian used real butterfly wings (10[1])in “impossible” (-5[1])paintings in this genre; that artist was the first woman to join the Confrerie (10[1])Pictura of The Hague. (-5[1])It’s not landscapes, but a Brueghel (-5[1])family member nicknamed for paintings in this genre (10[1])collaborated with Peter Paul Rubens. Rachel Ruysch (10[1]-5[1])worked (10[2])in this genre, (10[5]-5[2])which a later artist painted for a studio shared with Paul Gauguin. For (-5[1])10 points, the Yellow House was decorated with paintings in what genre by Vincent van Gogh? (10[2])■END■ (10[6]0[6])

ANSWER: floral still lifes [or still lifes of flowers; or still lifes of sunflowers; prompt on still lifes by asking “of what objects?”; prompt on vanitas by asking “what are the primary objects depicted in the paintings?”; prompt on plants or botanical art or equivalents]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Halle FriedmanNYUBerkeley A6010
Tim MorrisonStanfordTexas7010
Aidan FeinVanderbiltSouth Carolina72-5
Guy IndoranteIowa StateMichigan8610
Caleb KendrickMarylandJohns Hopkins90-5
Andrew HannaPennArizona State96-5
Vincent DuNorth Carolina AWaterloo10410
Tiffany ZhouFloridaToronto B11110
Kevin ParkClaremont CollegesWUSTL B111-5
Justin WytmarIllinoisYale A11210
Jeffrey FungHarvardTruman State11210
Sky LiToronto ABrown11510
Joel MilesMinnesota AIndiana11510
Matt JacksonChicago AColumbia A115-5
Albert ZhangColumbia BDuke115-5
Annabelle YangWUSTL APurdue11510
Raymond WangCornell AChicago B11510
Jem BurchYale BRutgers11510
Chris SimsNorthwesternGeorgia Tech128-5
Andrew EllisKentuckyChicago D14410
Jeremy CummingsWUSTL BClaremont Colleges14410
Nicolas EdwardsMcGillCornell B1450
Sarod NoriCornell BMcGill1450
Sinecio MoralesJohns HopkinsMaryland14510
Cooper RohColumbia AChicago A14510
Arunn SankarGeorgia TechNorthwestern14510
Morgan BozemanMinnesota BNorth Carolina B1450
Max HodesChicago CBerkeley B14510
Denis LiuArizona StatePenn14510
Ivvone ZhouNorth Carolina BMinnesota B1450
Maude-Sophie LockmanOttawaVirginia1450
Justin ZhangDukeColumbia B14510
Joseph ChambersVirginiaOttawa1450