Round 5: Tossup 9

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

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