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In reply to the discussion: Hello, my little pretties! Time for your Friday Afternoon Challenge: “Wild Manners of Fantasy and [View all]horseshoecrab
(944 posts)34. #4
#4 is Jupiter and Io aka Zeus and Io, by Correggio.
Found by google image search on "woman embraced by cloud."
Hiya CTYankee. Tough challenge! Tough is good though.
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Hello, my little pretties! Time for your Friday Afternoon Challenge: “Wild Manners of Fantasy and [View all]
CTyankee
Dec 2012
OP
Hmm, You know I thought it was more shrouded in mystery than that! Glad to hear the
CTyankee
Dec 2012
#9
thanks, but some of these are a little weird...I wonder about that era in art...
CTyankee
Dec 2012
#15
Thanks. Actually, the theme of the painting you commented on is quite a popular one
CTyankee
Dec 2012
#16
Well the artist who did this St. Michael also did another, more famous, one and it was
CTyankee
Dec 2012
#25
Wow,you know your St. Michaels! Both of those are fabulous, but this isn't one of them.
CTyankee
Dec 2012
#32
It refers to a legend about the Holy Family's house that dates back to the 13th
CTyankee
Dec 2012
#31
Thanks, I hadn't seen the Gatti work, which treats the subject with more typical
CTyankee
Dec 2012
#40
perhaps! Mannerist turbulence here...what you can't see is the lower edgeof the
CTyankee
Dec 2012
#67
HINT: the period of time covered with all of these paintings except for #3 is between
CTyankee
Dec 2012
#33
thanks. this particular era isn't very popular and it didn't last long. Its rejection of
CTyankee
Dec 2012
#35
Now you see where I got the name for my Challenge! (I love stealing this stuff).
CTyankee
Dec 2012
#42
referenced in leonard cohen's 'hallelujah' i think... wait, no delilah & bathsheba...
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#59
AHA! #3: Annibale Carracci - Translation of the Holy House (aka Madonna of Loreto)
pinboy3niner
Dec 2012
#51
I actually designed an Independent Study in grad school just on Caravaggio but it
CTyankee
Dec 2012
#68