Just to set a few things straight. Vasari doesn't come up just because he is important. Vasari comes up because he has an entry in Benet's and other literary references (or at least I presume he does, never touched the book ever in my life). He also comes up because of that whole architect of the Uffizi Palace clue, since Uffizi is a funny-sounding yet still pronounceable, and therefore memorable, name regardless of its importance. People want to puff up their own intellectual self-image by talking about how things are important, but more often than they want to admit, academic importance is often window dressing used by a writer to justify writing questions on their favorite things or things they think are cool (or things they hate and want to mock). One way to work an important art historian in as a clue is if you can say that a certain person is an expert on the answer, whether it be a period, a specific artist, or something else. You'll have to make sure, of course, that the answer is unique, and I suspect that even if the answer is clearly and uniquely identified the dark ages of Greece, some people will take umbrage at any question with that sort of answer, no matter how academically rigorous, pramidal, accessable, and non-hoserific the clues may be. Also Cindy Sherman is way cool, and you are not the first person to write a question on her, but there's always been a bias against recent fine arts. Anthony, worst question writer ever, or so the Germans would have us believe
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