Packet 2: Bonus 9
A blindfolded man holds some of these objects while seated before a checkers board in Angelo Caroselli’s painting Blind Love. For 10 points each:
[10e] In Caravaggio’s The Calling of Saint Matthew, a young man is shown counting what objects on the table? Judas is shown holding a bag of thirty of these objects in Leonardo’s The Last Supper.
ANSWER: coins [or pieces of silver or currency or gold coins or silver talents]
[10h] This early Renaissance artist created portraits inspired by Roman coinage, including a depiction of Byzantine emperor John VIII Palaeologus. This man also painted The Vision of Saint Eustace.
ANSWER: Pisanello [or Antonio di Puccio Pisano or Antonio di Puccio da Cereto]
[10m] A man removes a coin from the mouth of a fish in the leftmost vignette of this fresco in the Brancacci Chapel.
ANSWER: The Tribute Money [or Il tributo della moneta] (by Masaccio)
<Case Western, Painting and Sculpture> | I2. Prelims Tiebreaker - NYU A + NYU B + Case Western + Cornell (Tiebreaker Half 2)
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |