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 (“gwair-CHEE-noh”). A Caravaggio painting of a man writing a book as one of these objects sits on his desk depicts St. Jerome, who is often shown alongside (15[1])one of these objects in art. These objects feature alongside candles in a prominent subgenre of (*) still life. Paul Cezanne (10[1])created a “Pyramid” of four of (10[1])these objects, which are the primary subject of Vanitas paintings. (10[1])The memento mori genre often features, for 10 points, what bone used to represent death? ■END■

ANSWER: human skulls [prompt on bones or skeletons]
<Fine Arts - Visual, Rohan Ganeshan> | VAULT II Packet 05
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Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
VAULT II at Georgia Tech2026-01-246100%67%17%73.67
Triangle Cup2026-03-132100%50%0%75.50
VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS2026-03-133100%67%0%72.67
VAULT II at McGill2026-03-134100%50%0%83.50
VAULT II at UCSB2026-03-135100%20%20%90.60
VAULT II Northern UK2026-04-243100%33%0%81.67
VAULT II Southern UK2026-04-244100%50%25%78.75
VAULT II at Harvard2026-04-304100%25%0%84.50
VAULT II at MINT2026-06-195100%80%40%66.20
VAULT II Stanford Online2026-07-178100%75%25%69.63