Question

This substance is lit by dramatic evening light in an 1861 “great picture” by Frederic Edwin Church, which inspired the subsequent career of the traveling painter William Bradford. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this substance that an 1826 painting by Caspar David Friedrich depicts as a jagged, towering heap under a blue sky.
ANSWER: sea ice [accept The Icebergs, The Sea of Ice, or Das Eismeer; prompt on water]
[10e] Romantic painters used Arctic icescapes to express this great and terrifying quality of nature, which the aesthetic theory of Edmund Burke contrasts with “the beautiful.”
ANSWER: sublime
[10h] The University of London covers up this icescape during exams, as students consider it cursed. Two polar bears snack on human remains from a shipwreck in this piece by the Victorian dog painter Edwin Landseer.
ANSWER: Man Proposes, God Disposes
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Bard ARowan A010010
Columbia BJohns Hopkins A010010
Princeton AHaverford A0101020
Rutgers AJohns Hopkins B100010
Penn BPenn A010010
Penn State AColumbia A0101020
Penn State BRutgers C0000