Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time - 2026 ACF Nationals

Packet 7: Tossup 16

Noah Charney’s reading of this painting proposes that two of its figures represent a warning to Benedetto Varchi against falling for the courtesan Tullia d’Aragona. In this painting, a toothless figure rending his hair (10[1])likely represents a person with both syphilis and mercury poisoning. (10[1])A monster on the right of this painting (10[1])has body parts of a lion and serpent, with hands that a scorpion and honeycomb (10[1])placed backwards (10[1])on its arms. A pair of (10[1])masks lie near the pierced foot of a figure in this painting who is poised to throw (10[1])a handful of roses. (10[1])Along the top of this painting, a muscular winged man with an hourglass (10[2])reaches across (10[1])the blue sheet (10[2]-5[1])that backgrounds (10[1])the erotically (-5[1])posed central couple. For 10 points, (10[1])the goddess of love shares an incestuous kiss with her (10[1])son (-5[1])in what Mannerist masterpiece (10[1])of Bronzino? ■END■ (10[3]0[6])

ANSWER: Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time [or An Allegory of Venus and Cupid or A Triumph of Venus or Cupid, Venus, Folly, and Time or Allegoria del trionfo di Venere or Allegoria di Venere e Amore]

<Editors, Painting and Sculpture> | P. Playoffs 7 (Editors 7)

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzzpoint	Value
Ariel Faeder	Pittsburgh	Vanderbilt	33	10
Jeffrey Xu	Georgia Tech B	Michigan	43	10
Evan Schleck	Georgetown	North Carolina	51	10
Karthik Jayaram	UCLA	Texas	66	10
Andrei Hui	Cambridge	WashU	68	10
Alex Jiang	Brown	Chicago B	74	10
Eve Fleisig	UC Berkeley A	Chicago A	91	10
Zach Tseng	Georgia Tech C	Minnesota	95	10
Sinecio Morales	Johns Hopkins	Bruin	108	10
Noah Chin	Virginia Tech	Harvard	108	10
Justin Wytmar	NYU A	Stanford A	110	10
Teigue Kelly	Penn State	Ohio State	113	-5
Ryan Sun	UC Berkeley B	Maryland A	113	10
Shiva Tegulla	UCF	Waterloo	113	10
Justin Hawkins	Indiana	Columbia A	115	10
Tianyu Xu	Georgia Tech A	Virginia	117	-5
Jason Lee	Rutgers	Columbia B	123	10
Tiffany Zhou	Ohio State	Penn State	133	10
Hadley Green	Northwestern B	Cornell	134	-5
Sky Li	Toronto A	Northwestern A	138	10
Alan Zhang	British Columbia	MIT	141	0
Joseph Chambers	Virginia	Georgia Tech A	141	10
Shardul Parthasarathy	Illinois B	Maryland B	141	0
August Vanskike	Maryland B	Illinois B	141	0
Pranaav Senthilkumar	Cornell	Northwestern B	141	0
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt	NYU B	Stanford B	141	0
Denis Liu	Stanford B	NYU B	141	10
Eric Yang	Purdue	Swarthmore	141	0
Andrew Wang	Illinois A	Toronto B	141	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	Conv. %	Neg %	Avg. Buzz
Main Site	2026-04-17	✓	24	83%	13%	100.25