Packet 2: Tossup 18

In this city, a brick chapel with an octagonal pitched roof is named for Saint Agatha. A nude Daniel appears on the frieze of a six-sided pulpit in this city that Kenneth Clark called the “false dawn of the Renaissance” for (10[1])its completion in 1260. Inlaid ceramic bowls called bacini (“bah-CHEE-nee”) characterize a style named for this (-5[1])city and used by Rainaldo and Buscheto. The 12th-century architect Diotisalvi began a baptistry in this city completed by Nicola and Giovanni, (10[1])two sculptors (10[1])named for this (10[1])city. (10[2])Andrea, a sculptor (-5[1])from this city, (10[1]-5[1])created the south doors of the Florence (10[1]-5[1])Baptistry. This city’s (10[2])Piazza dei Miracoli contains examples of its namesake “Romanesque” style like the Camposanto Monumentale and an eight-tiered campanile (-5[1])(“cam-pa-NEE-lay”) that is offset by lead counter-weights. (10[3])For 10 points, named this Tuscan city home (-5[1])to a tower (10[2])with a (10[1])four-degree (10[2])tilt. ■END■ (10[6])

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