Packet 11: Bonus 20
Answer the following about errors made by Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. For 10 points each:
[10m] Vasari suggested that nearly all innovations of Renaissance art could be attributed to artists from this city, which just so happened to be his hometown. He also claimed that an artist who worked in this city had a romantic relationship with his assistant Salaì and would buy and release caged birds.
ANSWER: Florence (The unnamed artist is Leonardo da Vinci.)
[10e] In a rare comment on a non-Italian artist, Vasari incorrectly stated that this artist invented oil paints. This Flemish artist painted the Ghent Altarpiece and the Arnolfini Wedding.
ANSWER: Jan van Eyck [reject “Hubert van Eyck”]
[10h] Vasari was likely influenced by tales of the ancient Greek artist Apelles in his claim that Cimabue (“CHEE-ma-BOO-ay”) tried to brush away a fly painted by this student of his. Enrico Scrovegni commissioned a fresco cycle by this artist that includes an ultramarine vaulted ceiling.
ANSWER: Giotto [or Giotto di Bondone; prompt on di Bondone]
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