Packet 2: Tossup 3

A figure grasps this man’s hair and buttocks in a Netherlandish aquamanile (“aqua-muh-NIL”) held by the Met. A record sale price of a painting of this person led Otis Kaye to show a stack of dollars pinned to his chest in Heart of the Matter. A Simon Schama book titled for a painter’s “eyes” argues that a painting usually titled for this person instead depicts Apelles. In a painting made for Antonio Ruffo, a curtain partially obscures a stack of books near this bearded man, who wears a white ruffed (10[1])jacket and sash. This man is humiliatingly (10[1])“ridden” (10[2])by the mistress (10[3]-5[1])of his (10[2])pupil (10[2])in a common motif (10[2]-5[2])from medieval art. This person appears in a (10[1]-5[1])Rembrandt painting in which he rests (10[1])his hand on a bust of (-5[1])Homer. (10[1])For 10 (10[1])points, (10[1])what philosopher gestures toward the Earth (10[1])while his older companion points upward in the center of Raphael’s (10[1])The School of Athens? (10[1])■END■ (10[3])

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