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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 (10[1])Dead Christ in the Tomb. In another painting, this artist of the Darmstadt Madonna and Dances of Death placed a globe and a lute between (10[1])the two title (10[1])figures, who stand on either side of an anamorphic skull. For 10 points, Henry VIII employed which German painter of The Ambassadors? (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: Hans Holbein the Younger
<Fine Arts - Visual Fine Arts>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Maude-Sophie LockmanOttawaToronto Penguin World War64-5
Amy WangToronto SproutToronto Tony Jingyu Chen eats quizbowl8610
Jared HeWaterloo BustToronto Pilk11110
Jacob BicolWaterloo CaliToronto cDNA11410
Ski LiToronto Penguin World WarOttawa13610

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