Question
An 1880s painting depicts a famous historical member of this profession with crossed legs and a cynical expression during the title Prussian Homage. For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this profession of Stańczyk (“STAN-cheek”), the subject of another painting by Jan Matejko in which he sits wearily in a chair with interlaced fingers.
ANSWER: clowns [or jesters or fools]
[10e] Matejko painted a person in this profession on a balcony amidst a Conversation with God. Vermeer’s The Geographer is often paired with another of his paintings in which a member of this title profession holds their hand over a globe.
ANSWER: astronomers (The Matejko work is Astronomer Copernicus.)
[10h] Despite promising to do so, Matejko did not finish Christ Preaching at Capernaum (“ka-PER-nay-um”) by this student of his. This artist of Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur died aged 23, but still earned the moniker “father of Jewish art.”
ANSWER: Maurycy Gottlieb
<JG, Painting and Sculpture>
Summary
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Data
| Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | The Oldest Men in the World | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Lisan al-Quib | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | var merchants | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Les Missourables | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| The Dyatlov Passement incident | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| The Jeam Team | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Punished "Venom" BHSU | We Need New Names | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | The Empire Bikes Back | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| BHSU B | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |