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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-10 03:39 PM
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17. Were you an art major or did you remember it from travelling there?
I didn't know about it until I started readingup on Renaissance art recently...this one fascinates me...I love that Donatello did the sculpted relief around the balcony and its architect was Michelozzi...
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  -Here is your Friday afternoon challenge! Will you be the first to identify what this is? CTyankee  Mar-26-10 03:00 PM   #0 
  - Its the Pope Hut, Keeps Bird Shit Off His Ugly Head  we can do it   Mar-26-10 03:01 PM   #1 
  - Excellent, albeit wrong, answer.  CTyankee   Mar-26-10 03:02 PM   #2 
  - The stone looks like it's an Italian Renaissance duomo  FBaggins   Mar-26-10 03:05 PM   #3 
  - You are VERY close....  CTyankee   Mar-26-10 03:07 PM   #4 
  - San Lorenzo of Genoa, but I don't know the specs of this little balcony.  Brickbat   Mar-26-10 03:10 PM   #5 
  - Not San Lorenzo of Genoa. Here is a HUGE hint:  CTyankee   Mar-26-10 03:12 PM   #6 
     - Turin? Shroud?  Brickbat   Mar-26-10 03:13 PM   #7 
     - The first sham wow! no The Shroud of Turin....! OK I don't know. nt  Guy Whitey Corngood   Mar-26-10 03:14 PM   #9 
     - And here is the duomo of Genoa for comparison  CTyankee   Mar-26-10 03:17 PM   #10 
  - Duomo di Prato - Prato, Italy - it's the pulpit for public ceremonies  BR_Parkway   Mar-26-10 03:13 PM   #8 
  - ding, ding, ding! A winner! What about the piece of cloth?  CTyankee   Mar-26-10 03:18 PM   #11 
  - So you weren't kidding when you said "close"  FBaggins   Mar-26-10 03:21 PM   #12 
  - It's the sacred cintola, girdle (or sash) of the Virgin that she threw to St. Thomas  CTyankee   Mar-26-10 03:34 PM   #14 
  - Forget the name, but wasn't it something 'proving' Mary's virginhood?  BR_Parkway   Mar-26-10 03:27 PM   #13 
     - Not this one. Maybe another one...nt  CTyankee   Mar-26-10 03:36 PM   #15 
  - Were you an art major or did you remember it from travelling there?  CTyankee   Mar-26-10 03:39 PM   #17 
     - Architecture geek  BR_Parkway   Mar-26-10 04:12 PM   #20 
        - So do you classify this as Gothic architecture. I mean, the stripes and all which are so  CTyankee   Mar-26-10 05:33 PM   #25 
  - that handkerchiefie thingie that wiped off veronica's (or what's-her-names) face and had an image..  Ysabel   Mar-26-10 03:37 PM   #16 
  - I don't know about Veronica but I think you are referring to the shroud of Turin.  CTyankee   Mar-26-10 03:42 PM   #18 
     - it is a beautiful building...  Ysabel   Mar-26-10 04:04 PM   #19 
     - I've got some other art challenges. Ya up for that maybe next week?  CTyankee   Mar-26-10 05:35 PM   #26 
        - yes if i'm here and i see the thread...  Ysabel   Mar-26-10 05:49 PM   #31 
     - the "green sash"...  Ysabel   Mar-26-10 04:17 PM   #22 
        - Hey, I didn't know it was GREEN!  CTyankee   Mar-26-10 05:37 PM   #28 
           - i didn't know before posting that it was green...  Ysabel   Mar-26-10 05:53 PM   #32 
              - Well, I totally missed that reference! LOL.  CTyankee   Mar-26-10 06:42 PM   #33 
                 - a trip to florence sounds great...  Ysabel   Mar-27-10 02:29 AM   #35 
                    - I'm trying to get members of my travelling party last year, the Six Broads Abroad, on board  CTyankee   Mar-27-10 07:08 AM   #36 
                       - the six broads abroad i like that...  Ysabel   Mar-27-10 11:27 AM   #39 
  - Either a Militia bunker or a Pope Stand...  AnArmyVeteran   Mar-26-10 04:12 PM   #21 
  - He can stand there and sprinkle "holy water" on the masses.  alfredo   Mar-26-10 04:20 PM   #23 
  - Eerie, the reference to the tower in Texas.  CTyankee   Mar-26-10 06:58 PM   #34 
     - CTyankee, great insight...  AnArmyVeteran   Mar-27-10 12:22 PM   #40 
        - Funny you should mention that. So many palazzi in Florence look like fortresses  CTyankee   Mar-27-10 04:27 PM   #41 
  - A really really nice ornate outdoor patio heater?  zonkers   Mar-26-10 04:27 PM   #24 
  - "I got this really nice Donatello patio heater on the back porch...wanna see it?" LOL!!!  CTyankee   Mar-26-10 05:41 PM   #30 
  - "Journey to Atlantis" flume ride at Sea World, Orlando.  Touchdown   Mar-26-10 05:35 PM   #27 
  - Wow, I didn't know this thing was "reinvented as a ride at Sea World!"  CTyankee   Mar-26-10 05:39 PM   #29 
  - Uhhhhhhh, it's a windowbox with a giant 'shroom growing in it.  Wizard777   Mar-27-10 07:21 AM   #37 
     - It sure is purdy tho! Wish I had one on my house....nt  CTyankee   Mar-27-10 07:48 AM   #38 
 

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