Question
Lucian’s description of the wedding of Alexander the Great may be the reason that this painting depicts baby satyrs playing in a suit of armor. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this panel painting in which a figure reclines to the left of her spent, sleeping lover. Ernst Gombrich suggested that a wasps’ nest in this painting is a reference to the Vespucci (“ves-POO-chee”) family.
ANSWER: Venus and Mars [or Mars and Venus; accept, but DO NOT REVEAL, descriptions of Botticelli’s painting of Venus and Mars]
[10e] Venus and Mars is by this painter. This Florentine made the first major paintings of mythological subjects since antiquity, including The Birth of Venus.
ANSWER: Sandro Botticelli [or Sandro or Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi]
[10m] Botticelli was rescued from obscurity by Victorians like this critic, who claimed that Venus was Simonetta Vespucci. James McNeill Whistler won just one farthing in a libel suit against this author of The Stones of Venice.
ANSWER: John Ruskin
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley | 2024-11-16 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at UBC | 2024-11-16 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
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| Oxford B | Birmingham | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cambridge B | Southampton B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| LSE A | Southampton A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |