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In reply to the discussion: Here, again, is your Friday Afternoon Challenge, DUers! Today: “Backstory Redux.”* [View all]countryjake
(8,554 posts)42. Aha, found it! Putting on the Ritz in Paris!
PARIS The Hôtel Ritz Paris, famous for its bar, its swimming pool and its assignations, had a treasure hiding in plain sight, an exceptional painting that had been hanging on a wall for decades without anyone paying it the least attention.
With the hotel shut for renovation, the auction house Christies announced this week that art experts had decided that the long-ignored canvas was by Charles Le Brun, one of the masters of 17th-century French painting, and that it would be put it up for auction.
The painting, called Le Sacrifice de Polyxène (The sacrifice of Polyxena), dates from 1647. It hung above a desk in the hotel suite where Coco Chanel lived for more than 30 years, and was only discovered to be important last summer, when the hotel shut for a 27-month renovation in the face of stiff competition from newer hotels.
The painting depicts the killing of Polyxena, the youngest daughter of King Priam of Troy, who according to myth revealed the weakness of Achilles heel and thus led to his death. It will be shown at Christies in New York from Jan. 26 to 29 and auctioned on April 15.
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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/25/a-17th-century-masterpiece-discovered-at-the-ritz-in-paris/
With the hotel shut for renovation, the auction house Christies announced this week that art experts had decided that the long-ignored canvas was by Charles Le Brun, one of the masters of 17th-century French painting, and that it would be put it up for auction.
The painting, called Le Sacrifice de Polyxène (The sacrifice of Polyxena), dates from 1647. It hung above a desk in the hotel suite where Coco Chanel lived for more than 30 years, and was only discovered to be important last summer, when the hotel shut for a 27-month renovation in the face of stiff competition from newer hotels.
The painting depicts the killing of Polyxena, the youngest daughter of King Priam of Troy, who according to myth revealed the weakness of Achilles heel and thus led to his death. It will be shown at Christies in New York from Jan. 26 to 29 and auctioned on April 15.
read more...
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/25/a-17th-century-masterpiece-discovered-at-the-ritz-in-paris/
I finally found it googling "classical painting in the news", duh! (That's after researching every greek goddess known to man, the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid...ask me anything.)
Pretty neat that the painting has been hiding right under everyone's noses for who knows how long!
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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