Packet 6: Tossup 6

Brunelleschi’s inability to perfectly depict these features on panels is discussed in a book titled for a “theory of” them by Hubert Damisch. Restorer Mark Leonard created responses to one-foot, oil-on-paper sketches of these features held at a center at Yale. Rectilinear and curvilinear perspective diagrams of these features appear in sections on their “truth” from John Ruskin’s Modern Painters. The color of the animal seen crossing the River Stour matches that of these features in the top right of the painting The White Horse. (10[2])“Schematic” studies (10[1])of these (-5[1])features by Alexander Cozens (10[1])were used (10[1])as inspiration for a series of 1820s studies (10[1])of these features (-5[1])by an artist who depicted them above trees in canvases like Wivenhoe Park and (-5[1])The Hay Wain. (-5[1])For 10 points, John Constable (10[1])used (10[1]-5[1])blues, grays, (10[1]-5[1])and whites (10[1])to depict what (10[1])atmospheric (10[3])features? ■END■ (10[7]0[1])

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