insects - 2024 ACF Winter at Online

Question

Historians of Dutch Golden Age painting agree: there are too many Jan (“yaan”) van Kessels. For 10 points each:

[10h] Jan van Kessel the Elder was famous for his detailed paintings of these things, which he once had spell out his name. Rachel Ruysch drew on her father’s research to accurately depict these things in her still lifes of flowers.

ANSWER: insects [or arthropods or bugs; accept specific arthropods such as flies, butterflies, caterpillars, and centipedes; prompt on animals]

[10e] Jan van Kessel the Younger took his talents to Spain, where he made paintings in this genre at the court of Charles II. Hans Holbein made paintings in this genre of Thomas More and Henry VIII for the Tudor court.

ANSWER: portrait painting [or portraiture]

[10m] “The other” Jan van Kessel made many still lifes depicting products from these events. Anthony van Dyck painted Charles I dismounted during one of these events.

ANSWER: hunts [accept hunting still lifes or Charles I at the Hunt] (In addition to those three, there are at least two more painters from the mid-17th century named Jan van Kessel: Jan van Kessel of Amsterdam and the uncle of Jan van Kessel the Elder.)

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2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	23.33	100%	67%	67%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	3	20.00	67%	100%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	6	15.00	100%	17%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%