Folio 500 of the Codex Osuna depicts the production of this good, whose Nahuatl (“na-WA-tull”) name is nocheztli. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this good produced by grinding the bodies of a scale insect that lives on prickly pear cacti. This dye gave English army coats and Catholic cardinal robes their distinctive colorations.
ANSWER: cochineal dye [or carmine; or crimson lake; or carminic acid; prompt on red dye]
[10m] The red robes of this artist’s portrait of Agostino Pallavicini may have been created with cochineal. This artist painted a self-portrait of himself with a sunflower and a chain awarded to him by Charles I of England.
ANSWER: Anthony van Dyck [reject “van Eyck”]
[10e] Cochineal was used to render the fabric draped over the right shoulder of a lute-playing youth in The Musicians by this artist known for his use of tenebrism in paintings such as The Calling of St. Matthew.
ANSWER: Caravaggio [or Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio; reject “Michelangelo”]
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