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In reply to the discussion: Here, again, is your Friday Afternoon Challenge, DUers! Today: “Backstory Redux.”* [View all]longship
(40,416 posts)40. 3a is from Michelangelo's Night and Day.
I thought it looked kind of like Michelangelo, so I gave it a shot.
Here's Night:
Here's both Day and Night:
I have no idea about 3b, but I'd bet it's a mask of the same character.
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Here, again, is your Friday Afternoon Challenge, DUers! Today: “Backstory Redux.”* [View all]
CTyankee
Feb 2013
OP
You got it marion's ghost! There are two versions. Which is which? and which came first?
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#18
Sir Kenneth argues for 1a. to be the SECOND version, albeit a bit reservedly...
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#25
Oh, dear. That is a heavy responsibility...I am no art critic, just an art lover...
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#33
Oh, yes, and why is it that we don't like Mantegna so much and love Bellini more?
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#19
When I see Bellini's "St. Francis in the Desert" at the Frick in NYC I am reminded of how
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#26
Oh, Bellini has his rabbit in a hole in St. Francis in the desert...kinda cute it is...
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#36
Oh, great, that is what I really hoped would happen (the Challenge part is just a hook
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#51
Bellini was he younger of the two and must have been a bit unhappy about it so my guess is
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#29