Hi, everybody! Here is your Friday Afternoon Challenge: “Group Shots”!
Can you name their titles?
And please don’t cheat...it ruins the Challenge for others...
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It was his first go at "Sea Lion Going After Anchovies"
And not one decent upskirt view in the bunch.
Then I realized you meant "piazza"
I always K&R to help keep it going, then come back to be educated after those who know have weighed in.
#3 is called Fanatics of Tangier and is by Eugene Delacroix.
CTYankee. Always love your art challenge!
Urban Baby -- I love it.
Have a wonderful first meeting with Jack tomorrow, CTYankee!
The style told me that this was one of the Della Robbia, so being pretty sure of that was a big help, eventually.
Did a lot of searches for "della robbia, outdoor art, florence." Still not finding it. Figured out that it was a tabernacle by its shape. I just stared at the thing waiting for something - anything - to jump out and me. Worked on the inscription where I found something that really helped:
The inscription on the tabernacle states that it was posted on the Via Chaterina in 1522 (MDXXII). Couldn't be Luca - he died in 1482. So, this would have to have been either Andrea or Giovanni Della Robbia.
So, this narrowed it down. A search on "Della Robbia, Florence, tabernacle 1522" and variations of that led quickly to the big hits.
The hits that I would call scholarly are:
http://www.academia.edu/425678/_Every_Sort_of_Manual_Type_and_Mostly_Foreigners_Migrants_Brothers_and_Festive_Kings_in_Early_Modern_Florence
This deals with the wool workers, in this case German and Flemish immigrants, and how much they added to the Florence art scene in their commissioning of these works.
and also this, in which author, Allan Marquand, mentions Giovanni's homage to Ghiberti's bronze gate, and plenty more!
http://books.google.com/books?id=VMQVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA157&lpg=PA157&dq=inscription+on+Tabernacolo+delle+Fonticine&source=bl&ots=007C8_dpBt&sig=wL1xz1zI2CsD-gzlCb3Mp05PJ7c&hl=en&sa=X&ei=JQkEUajRI-my0QGB3YHQAw&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=inscription%20on%20Tabernacolo%20delle%20Fonticine&f=false
Love those popping heads on the baptistery gate and on the tabernacle! Fascinating challenge this week.
Hope this helps CTYankee.
I'm especially intrigued by#'s 2 and 5 -- and love the floor on #1! 
Looks like a view of the Rapture from the point of view of one left behind. For some reason I think of this on the ceiling of some English country house. 
I'm guessing this is the same subject by another artist.
That was the hint I needed to find it. Once I saw others of his, the style is very clear. Sort of like one of the old-fashioned photo shops.
(I guess so--you edited it to #5 while I was replying )
Don't have a clue
Like you I don't even know how to cheat at this.
I do love this weekly thread.
interesting or that "speak" to you...if you know what I mean...
If you know what I mean...
Jealous of their commercial success!!
#5 sure looks like a photo...how did he do that? Must be a warm day, with the women sitting and laying all over that cool marble floor!
Detail from:
by Raphael, but it's been turned into Nappy Time at the ladies' spa.
YAWN!!!! 
All of these works were tough, because in most cases they weren't turning up in normal searching, even after repeated tweaks of the search terms. For more tweaking ideas for the Correggio, I looked at the titles of similar works, some of which included names like Abraham and some prominent saints--but the names were no help. Other terms from the titles finally did it. I don't think I used 'assumption'--I think I found it when I included 'apotheosis.' (As you know, one can get a bit spacey after searching a lot of images, and it can be hard to remember what was the final key.)
The Turner should have been the easiest. But I think I overlooked the painting when it popped up in early searches because I wasn't recognizing it from the detail (easy to do when looking at small images of large canvasses). It was only looking at the titles of similar works that led me to include 'Trafalgar' in my search terms.
I think horseshoecrab's find (the Giovanni Della Robbia) may have been the toughest (along with the Sir Lawrence), because I couldn't find it even when I searched on 'tabernacle.'
Thanks for another great challenge, CTyankee. This one was tough--but I guess I'm addicted to the weekly combo of torture and fun. (Do you think I need to see someone about that?)
I simply gave up on the Turner. I know what you mean -- In the heat of the chase, things melt together but I'm glad you kept at it pinboy3niner!
Thanks for the hat-tip. That tabernacle was brutal but gratifying to hunt down. The Turner was tougher because of it being a detail. So hat's off back at you!
Combo of torture and fun? 
hmmm . . .
I didn't get any individual titles correct, but I at least guessed Lawrence Alma-Tadema correctly so that counts for something, doesn't it? I find pre-Raphaelite artists the easiest to identify, for some reason.
Too bad I failed to identify Delacroix despite having seen so many of his beautiful works 
As a token of thanks, here is one of my Delacroix favorites - it is also based on his North African odyssey.
quite the experience!
Most of us struggle to search for images, but we have the utmost respect for those who have real art knowledge.
Nice Delacroix you posted, too.
I am (alas) a dilettante and very far from possessing "real art knowledge". However, I've found that visiting CTYankee's thread weekly does have a rather beneficial effect.
