Macchiaioli - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

Norma Broude’s monograph on this group highlights the influence of Walter Scott and describes their dissatisfaction with the Florentine Academy. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this mid-19th century Italian group named for their “patchy” landscapes and street scenes. Though their work anticipated Impressionism, this group painted indoors after making plein air sketches.

ANSWER: Macchiaioli (“mock-yah-YO-lee”) [or movimento macchiaiolo]

[10e] The Macchiaioli championed this proto-Impressionist school of landscape painting that included Charles-François Daubigny and Jean-François Millet.

ANSWER: Barbizon School

[10m] This artist befriended the Macchiaioli and painted their critic Diego Martelli. The cover of Eric Hobsbawm’s The Age of Capital often features a painting by this artist set at his uncle’s office, where his brother reads a newspaper.

ANSWER: Edgar Degas (That painting is The Cotton Exchange in New Orleans.)

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Data

Team	Opponent	Part 2	Part 3	Total
Berkeley A	Yale A	10	10	20
Berkeley B	Truman State	10	0	10
Chicago A	Cornell A	10	10	20
Chicago C	Vanderbilt	0	0	0
Claremont Colleges	Arizona State	10	10	20
Columbia A	Texas	10	0	10
Columbia B	WUSTL B	10	10	20
Georgia Tech	Illinois	0	10	10
Harvard	Kentucky	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins	Iowa State	10	10	20
McGill	South Carolina	10	10	20
Michigan	NYU	0	10	10
Minnesota A	Stanford	10	0	10
Minnesota B	Chicago D	0	10	10
North Carolina B	Cornell B	0	0	0
Northwestern	Brown	10	10	20
Ottawa	Penn	10	10	20
Purdue	Indiana	10	0	10
Rutgers	Florida	0	0	0
Toronto A	Maryland	0	0	0
Toronto B	Duke	0	0	0
WUSTL A	North Carolina A	10	10	20
Waterloo	Chicago B	10	10	20
Yale B	Virginia	10	10	20

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	Heard	PPB	Easy %	Medium %	Hard %
2024 ACF Nationals	04/21/2024	Y	24	12.50	63%	63%	0%