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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