Sandro Botticelli - Great Lakes

Question

The preaching of Girolamo Savonarola inspired this artist’s apocalyptic depiction of the Nativity, which was the only painting he ever signed. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this Florentine artist who drew on Savonarola’s teachings for the painting Primavera and depicted the title Roman goddess coming out of a scallop shell in The Birth of Venus.

ANSWER: Sandro Botticelli [or Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi]

[10m] This adjective appears in the modern titles of Botticelli’s Savonarola-inspired depictions of the Nativity and the Crucifixion. The Ghent Altarpiece’s central panel is titled after a lamb described by this adjective.

ANSWER: mystic [or mystical; accept The Mystic Nativity or The Mystical Nativity or The Mystic Crucifixion or The Mystical Crucifixion or Adoration of the Mystic Lamb]

[10h] Public backlash towards Savonarola may have inspired this late-period Botticelli painting, an allegorical piece about slander based on a lost painting by an ancient Greek artist from Kos.

ANSWER: The Calumny of Apelles [or La Calunnia di Apelle]

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Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
Southern California	Main	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Eastern Canada	Main	Y	12	14.17	92%	42%	8%
Florida	Main	Y	7	8.57	71%	14%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	7	20.00	100%	71%	29%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	10	11.00	80%	20%	10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic (1)	Main	Y	11	15.45	91%	46%	18%
Upper Mid-Atlantic (2)	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Lower Midwest	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
North	Main	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	12	13.33	100%	25%	8%
Northwest	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	8	17.50	100%	63%	13%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


CWRU D	CWRU C	10	0	0	10
OSU D	MSU A	10	10	0	20
MSU B	Pitt C	10	10	10	30
OSU A	CWRU B	10	10	0	20
OSU B	OSU C	10	10	0	20
Pitt A	CWRU A	10	10	10	30
Kenyon B	Pitt B	10	0	0	10