Théodore Géricault’s Man Clutching a Horse in Water was modeled on a painting in this series that depicts a deluge, which William Hazlitt hailed as “perhaps the finest historical landscape in the world.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this 17th-century series of paintings based on Old Testament stories. Two spies carry giant grapes in one painting in this series, while another shows Ruth kneeling before Boaz.
ANSWER: The Four Seasons [or Les Quatre Saisons]
[10m] The Four Seasons is a series by this Baroque artist. He may have allegorically depicted the seasons as four figures holding hands in a circle in a painting in which a winged old man on the right plays the lyre.
ANSWER: Nicolas Poussin (The painting is A Dance to the Music of Time.)
[10e] In another Poussin painting, the four seasons comprise this god’s retinue as he is beseeched by his son. The Colossus of Rhodes was a statue of this sun god who was often identified with Apollo.
ANSWER: Helios [or Helius]
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