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This artist depicted a spherical ornament hanging beside a merchant who stands behind a vase with carnations in his Portrait of Georg Giese [GHEE-suh]. This painter, who caricatured Martin Luther as Hercules, also painted his patron’s deceased and current spouses beside Mary, who wears a blue dress with an orange sash. This artist created a set of 41 woodcuts depicting skeletons interacting with ordinary (-5[1])people, as well as a painting where a gaunt, rotting (*) Jesus appears to give the middle finger titled The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb. In another painting, this artist of the Darmstadt Madonna and Dances of Death placed a globe and a (10[1])lute between the two title figures, who stand on either side of an (10[1])anamorphic (10[1])skull. For 10 points, Henry VIII employed which German painter of The Ambassadors? (0[2])■END■

ANSWER: Hans Holbein the Younger
<Fine Arts - Visual Fine Arts>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Gavin MarkoffVanderbilt AMTSU64-5
Kevin ParkClaremontGeorgia Tech B10910
Ophelia Cherry-PulayUSN AGeorgia Tech A12210
Jack LewisMTSUVanderbilt A12310
Jeremy CummingsWUSTLBelmont1360
Linda Ellisen AsquiBelmontWUSTL1360

Summary

2024 Booster Shot (Columbia)02/23/2024Y6100%0%17%116.17
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo)02/23/2024Y4100%0%25%111.75
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)03/02/2024Y475%0%25%118.00
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes)03/09/2024Y683%50%17%81.80
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL)03/09/2024Y3100%0%0%103.67