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In reply to the discussion: Hi, everybody! Here is your Friday Afternoon Challenge: “Group Shots”! [View all]entanglement
(3,615 posts)85. This is a Saturday night challenge for me :)
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.
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Hi, everybody! Here is your Friday Afternoon Challenge: “Group Shots”! [View all]
CTyankee
Jan 2013
OP
there is a way you can find the location of the image and thus find out what it is.
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#14
Or, if you cheat, just don't pretend to "guess." Besides being annoying, it is just rude...
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#16
I think people find a picture they like (for whatever reason) and they want to learn more,
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#104
Because I'm catching an early train into Manhattan to see my little "urban baby" I won't be
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#26
tough find! When I first saw it, I thought of LUCA della Robbia, Giovanni's great uncle...
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#61
I LOVED that last read! It was a nice addendum to Jill Burke's masterful analysis (which is
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#79
The Mannerists were reactionary against established Renaissance principles... they
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#86
Nothing like a head on a platter and a dancing woman to announce SALOME! Ta da!
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#40
Probably not so great for the young woman but felippo lippi was a bad monk and never
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#82
no, but the ascension of just about anybody is lost in all the damn legs...doncha love
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#41
I don't either, but sometimes it is so ridiculous you just have to laugh...this is one of those
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#52
He's an interesting guy. Kind of lost favor in the first part of the 20th century but then
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#51
It is a bit odd...I'm not sure what the artist is trying to say...but maybe it is just telling a
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#102
it seems to me that it is no fun to cheat (you just follow the "copy image location" to
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#70
actually I knew how to do that and sometimes I right click to see if simply reading the
grantcart
Jan 2013
#73
I hope to inspire you! What happens is eventually you find an artist whose works are
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#77
Actually, my former father in law wrote music for Paramount Cartoon Studios in New York.
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#99
no, no, just put a few clues together and google them! You might get the right answer!
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#54
The key word was "tabernacle." I would not have thught of that word in describing this
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#81
Thanks! I thought my mentioning Mannerism would have eventually led someone to find
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#76
No, but I can imagine that seeing the original "Death of Sardanapalus" would be
entanglement
Jan 2013
#92
I am convinced that pre-raphaelite art "engages" our brains to such an extent that we
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#89