Tossup

A figure speculated to be this painting’s only woman appears in a white robe near a man driving away three youths carrying a scroll. Guerino Mazzola analyzed a drawn six pointed star in this painting on a small chalkboard. This painting (10[1])is housed (10[1])with the artist’s Parnassus and La Disputa in the Stanza della Segnatura (“sen-yah-TOO-rah”). A man in this painting lays on some stairs and reads a paper underneath a massive (10[1])honeycomb-decorated hallway. One of the two central figures in this painting holds a copy of his Nicomachean (10[1])Ethics (10[1])while the other, (-5[1])likely modeled after Leonardo Da Vinci, points upwards towards the sky. For 10 points, Plato, Aristotle, and other (10[1])philosophers appear in what fresco by Raphael? ■END■

ANSWER: The School of Athens [or La Scuola di Atene]
<Editors, Painting and Sculpture>
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Summary

TournamentEditionTUHConv. %Neg %Average Buzz
UK (North)UK580%40%96.25
UK (South)UK875%50%98.00
Southern CaliforniaUS6100%17%72.67
Eastern Canada (2)US9100%11%74.56
Great LakesUS12100%8%62.17
Lower Mid-AtlanticUS6100%0%79.17
Upper Mid-AtlanticUS1283%17%63.20
MidwestUS9100%11%60.33
NortheastUS12100%0%69.58
PacificUS9100%0%79.78
SoutheastUS12100%8%71.08
Upstate NYUS560%0%93.67