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Artists from this modern-day country mass-produced artworks dubbed “Madonneri” that inspired a Giovanni Bellini painting of a baby Christ with a golden apple. A “shadow painter” from this country prefigured Italian chiaroscuro with his dark shading. An artist [emphasize] born in this modern-day country may have inspired the layout of Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (20[3])(“lay duh-mwah-ZELL dah-veen-YON”) with a painting (20[1])depicting flailing (20[3])nudes behind an outstretched St. John. (20[1])That artist born in this country depicted (*) Saints Stephen and Augustine (10[1])carrying (10[2])the body of a (10[1])local (10[1])official (10[2])as his soul (10[2])rises to heaven (10[2])in another painting. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])Spanish friends of the creator of The Opening of the Fifth Seal and The Burial (10[1])of the Count of Orgaz nicknamed him for being (10[1])from (10[1])what (10[1])country? (10[3])■END■ (10[7])

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