Round 8: Tossup 15

This artist featured a stone column topped by a statue of a nude boy pouring (-5[1])water in the center of his painting Diana and Callisto. The upper left of the canvas features a ring of eight stars in the sky in a painting by this artist that features two cheetahs pulling the chariot of the title (15[1])deity. (15[1])Maids rummage through a marriage chest in the background of a painting by this artist of (*) Bacchus and Ariadne. (10[1])This teacher of Tintoretto featured a dog at the foot of a reclining nude goddess in a painting whose form (10[1])is derived from the earlier Sleeping Venus by his teacher, Giorgione. (10[1])For 10 points, name this Venetian Renaissance artist of Venus of Urbino. ■END■

ANSWER: Titian [or Tiziano Vecellio]
<Visual Fine Arts — Sinecio Morales> | SHOW-ME Four Packet 8
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