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In reply to the discussion: DU darlings! Welcome to your Friday Afternoon Challenge. Today: “Hey, what’s Going On?” [View all]entanglement
(3,615 posts)66. Made sure to check this today. #4
#4 is from the "Ambassadors" by Hans Holbein the Younger. The white thing in the center is an anamorphically distorted image of a human skull. The undistorted image may be recovered using a cylindrical mirror of the correct radius.
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DU darlings! Welcome to your Friday Afternoon Challenge. Today: “Hey, what’s Going On?” [View all]
CTyankee
Feb 2013
OP
Oh, no, when I say cheat I mean the trick we can all do. I don't mean research on Google.
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#13
I've seen The Pieta in real life, think it was when we went to a World's Fair when I was a kid
Rhiannon12866
Feb 2013
#76
I've forgotten when that was, but I remember being grateful that I saw it intact
Rhiannon12866
Feb 2013
#79
whoa, Pinboy! Go back and google the Mantegna and then look again at what I posted.
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#14
Mantegna was considered a master of "foreshortening" which is done in abundance with those
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#96
good, good...but where I am getting is what is or has gone on with this particular work of art?
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#19
I saw it called "anapomorphosis." But it is a famous work of art in addition to that...
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#23
where do you see this in urban and architectural places? I'd love to research that!!!
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#24
It is Hogarthl I have found a different title, however...with an explanation as to what it means..
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#27
This IS an early map certainly, but it appears in a painting by a non-Hispanic genius who was
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#37
Nice! And it looks like the story behind this one is the 'Golden Rectangle.'
pinboy3niner
Feb 2013
#46
Remember the Vermeer with the globe, The Astronomer, I think it's called...
countryjake
Feb 2013
#52
I'm thinking they all have tricks of perspective but don't understand the Madonna at all.
Shrike47
Feb 2013
#35
No, there is not one overarching theme here. Just individual stories about them...
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#40
OK, here's the thing. It doesn't have to be just ONE trick of anything...it was meant to
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#51
Then it has to be the copy placed in the San Zeno, done by a Louvre copyist
pinboy3niner
Feb 2013
#55
thereyou go, Pinboy! You can tell there is an Impressionist afoot in the execution of his copy.
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#70
I learned about Degas doing this in an essay I mentioned during the Challenge two weeks ago...
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#94
HINT on #5: It is part of one of the most famous works of art in Western Europe.
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#57
Oh, I am so glad you like this stuff. I am a hard core case so it's hopeless with me!
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#108
there is a copy on the main floor of St. Bavo's and the real deal is in a basement room where
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#71