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This artist became a pariah in Rome after he offered to completely paint over Michelangelo’s The Last (10[1])Judgment for Pius V. The lower left of a painting depicts this artist’s son displaying a handkerchief with his signature and pointing at a saint (-5[1])in golden vestments. (10[1])Scholars dispute the affinity between this artist’s flatly composed, tempera-and-gold Dormition of the Virgin and his later style. An unfinished altar panel by this artist depicts naked souls receiving robes behind Saint John of Patmos, who raises (10[1])his arms to the sky. (10[1])This former (10[1])icon painter used his trademark (-5[1])pale, elongated figures (10[1])for a 1586 painting in which Saint Stephen and Augustine (10[1])lay an armored nobleman (10[1])in the ground. For 10 points, what painter of Opening of the Fifth Seal and The Burial (10[2])of the Count (10[2])of Orgaz (10[1])was born in Crete? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: El Greco [or Doménikos Theotokópoulos or Doménikos Theotokópoulos]
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Sara SimkinsGeorgia AAuburn C1610
Henry BylinowskiAuburn ASouth Carolina A41-5
Alex ThomasGeorgia Tech EGeorgia A4410
Malachi LedfordTusculum AGeorgia Tech D8110
Jeffry XuGeorgia Tech BGeorgia Tech F8610
Ethan AltshulEmory BClemson A8810
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Will LockeTennesse BGeorgia Tech A10610
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Ian LuGeorgia Tech FGeorgia Tech E12710
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Asheton WilbanksClemson ASouth Carolina A13010
William BarnesTennesse AAuburn C13010
Will LockeTennesse BGeorgia Tech C13210
Harris BeckerAlabama AAuburn B13710