Question
Though Mary Berenson largely wrote and edited an 1894 history of this city’s Renaissance painters, the book was solely credited to her husband Bernard. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this Italian city whose native painter Canaletto fittingly painted its canals.
ANSWER: Venice [accept the Venetian School; accept Venetian Painters of the Renaissance]
[10m] Mary claimed she was “grappling with [this artist]” in her own Hampton Court Guide. This artist of The Miracle of the Slave created a scene of the Last Supper at a diagonal table.
ANSWER: Tintoretto [or Jacopo Tintoretto; or Jacopo Robusti]
[10h] Bernard Berenson claimed “every critic” had a private painting by this artist, whose works he routinely reattributed to a student of this artist. A shepherd appears below a dark blue sky with a lightning bolt in a painting by this artist.
ANSWER: Giorgione (“jor-JOE-nay”) (The painting is The Tempest.)
<Ganon Evans, Fine Arts - Painting - European to 1600> ~22729~ <Editor: Chandler West>
Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 PACE NSC | 06/08/2024 | Y | 35 | 19.43 | 100% | 69% | 26% |