Question
The story from Vasari’s Lives of the Artist in which Giotto draws a perfect circle for the pope was likely inspired by Pliny the Elder’s anecdote in which this painter impressed Protogenes with a single fine line. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Ancient Greek painter of Aphrodite Anadyomene (“an-uh-dy-OM-uh-nee”). Botticelli painted a “Calumny” modeled on a lost work by this painter from Kos.
ANSWER: Apelles of Kos [accept The Calumny of Apelles]
[10h] A challenge posed by this author led many Renaissance artists to create versions of The Calumny of Apelles. This author devised geometric ideas on perspective in De pictura and built on Vitruvius in On the Art of Building.
ANSWER: Leon Battista Alberti
[10e] Raphael may have modeled his depiction of himself in this painting on Apelles, next to a man modeled on Protogenes. Plato points toward the sky in this painting.
ANSWER: The School of Athens [or Scuola di Atene]
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