Packet 1: Tossup 5

A nude, pointy-eared figure raises a weapon against the creature coiled around his other arm in this artist’s print Faun Attacking a Snake. Baccio Baldini and this artist name a set of tarrochi card decks that show a hierarchy of social positions from the Beggar to the Pope. This artist’s recovery from the plague may have influenced his decision to place a scythe-wielding man on horseback in the clouds of a painting that now resides in Vienna. This (10[1])artist showed a man carrying a vase beneath a canopy of banners in a panel from a series of nine large (10[1])historical paintings (10[1])now (10[1])housed in (-5[1])Hampton (-5[1])Court Palace. (10[1])This artist (10[2])of The Triumphs of Caesar (10[3])painted (10[1])an arrow-ridden (10[1])subject in front of a column (10[1])in his 1480 (10[1])painting of Saint Sebastian. (10[2])For 10 points, what Italian Renaissance artist showed a view near the feet in his foreshortened (10[1])Dead Christ? ■END■ (10[6]0[2])

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