Packet 5: Tossup 9

One of these objects is held by a young man wearing a red feather bonnet in a portrait by Frans Hals. (-5[1])Two shepherds stare at one of these objects in the bottom right corner of a painting (15[2]-5[1])by Guercino (15[1])(“gwair-CHEE-noh”). A (15[1])Caravaggio painting of a man writing (15[1])a book as one of these objects (-5[1])sits on his desk (15[3])depicts (15[1])St. Jerome, (15[5])who (15[1])is often (15[1])shown (15[1]-5[1])alongside (15[4])one of (15[1])these objects (15[1]-5[2])in art. These objects feature (15[1])alongside candles in a prominent subgenre of (*) still life. (10[1])Paul Cezanne (10[1])created a “Pyramid” of four of (10[2])these (10[1])objects, (10[2])which are the (-5[1])primary (10[1])subject of Vanitas paintings. (10[1])The memento (10[1])mori (10[1])genre often (10[1])features, (10[3])for 10 points, what bone used to represent (10[1])death? (10[1])■END■ (10[3])

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