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The Sinking City
100
Sicilian painter who brought a new understanding of oil painting technique to Venice. 

Who is Antonello da Messina?

100

The rules against self-aggrandizement seemed not to apply to this leader, as we see at the Porta della Carta. 

Who is Doge Francesco Foscari?

100

March 25, 421.

What is the foundation date for Venice? 

100

This is an important sacra conversazione, painted in oil, with specific reference to Venice (even if you are really tired of seeing it in class).

Need artist and title

What is Giovanni Bellini's San Giobbe Altarpiece?

100

This is the only reasonable month to visit Venice (according to Katy). 

What is January?

200

This German painter is famous for self-portraits that make him appear like a traditional image of Christ.

Who is Albrecht Durer?

200

This artist is the one to commission when you really need a ceiling painting that depicts a triumphant image of Venice. Or is it Justice? or the Virgin Mary? 

Who is Veronese?

200

This was one of the distinguishing features of dress worn by Venetian courtesans. 

What are pearls?

OR

What are high clogs (chopine/pianelle)

OR

What are men's pants worn under a dress?

200

This is Professor Smith Abbott's favorite work of art in Venice. 

Need artist and title

What is Titian's Assumption of the Virgin in the Church of the Frari?

200

These are the extraordinarily high tides that test Venice between October and December. 

What is acqua alta?

300

This artist received his early training with a family of mosaic artists (before he studied with Bellini).

Who is Titian?

300

This artist painted an elaborate depiction of a ducal procession in the Piazza San Marco. 

Who is Gentile Bellini?

300

This was a potential career awaiting black Africans once "freed" from enslavement. 

What is a traghetto operator?

OR

What is a maidservant?

300

This image was referred to as "la donna nuda" by its would-be owner. Part-poesia, part-courtesan portrait. 

What is Titian's Venus of Urbino?

300

This cost 8 billion dollars and will likely be outdated within 2 decades or less. 

What is MOSE? 

400

This artist's paintings most reveal the impact of the Wars with the League of Cambrai. Hint: the backgrounds

Who is Giorgione?

400

Designed to frame the space between the Piazza San Marco and the Doge's palace, this structure was also intended to provide a meeting place for patricians waiting to convene with the Doge. 

Need artist's name and name of work of art.

What is Jacopo Sansovino's Loggetta? 

400

This is one way to distinguish the location of a synagogue in the Venetian ghetto. 

What are 5 windows on a second story?

400

This artist/painting was criticized for the inclusion of "buffoons, drunken Germans, dwarfs and other such scurrilities."

What is Veronese's Feast in the House of Levi?

400

These are major reasons for all of Venice's sinking issues. 

(name 2)

What is a salt marsh?

What is climate change?

What is an industrial harbor known as Port Marghera?

What are cruise ships?

500

This artist was given a nickname (that stuck) to match his fascination with ancient Rome/antiquity.

Who is Palladio?

500

This individual was responsible for launching the renovatio urbis.

Who is Doge Andrea Gritti?

500

This beautiful structure gives us some sense of the lives of isolation and despair lived out by patrician daughters who suffered forced monachization (forced convent life). 

What is the Church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli?

500

Floating alone, this was designed by the author of "L'antichita' di Roma." 

What is Palladio's church of San Giorgio Maggiore?

500

This is the solution to rising waters in Venice that we Gen-Zers will come through with. 

What is.....?