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DevonRex

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40. So, that one's Matisse. Tea.

Sat Feb 2, 2013, 02:47 AM

Feb 2013

But I've found different versions of the title. Tea In The Garden. Tea For Three.

I recognized the dog but could never have placed it without your hint. I was thinking more expressionist than modern for some reason. Maybe because the dog's face looks like a portrait, with spare but strong brush strokes. Or maybe it's just because I love the Expressionists.

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Hello, DUers! Your Friday Afternoon Challenge awaits with “The Masterful Details.” [View all] CTyankee Feb 2013 OP

Kick this one. Kingofalldems Feb 2013 #1

from a few hundred years ago...! CTyankee Feb 2013 #2

Geez, I love these threads, but..... blue neen Feb 2013 #3

Not Michelangelo...but I can see why you thought it... CTyankee Feb 2013 #5

I'm thinking the columns are from St. Peter's Basilica. Squinch Feb 2013 #4

ahhh, no, not van gogh... CTyankee Feb 2013 #6

Oh, shoot. But I tried. Squinch Feb 2013 #7

OK, but think harder about your first guess...do you have a name, title, ?? CTyankee Feb 2013 #8

For the columns in the Basilica? I don't. Squinch Feb 2013 #10

Bernini's Baldachinno democrat in Tallahassee Feb 2013 #11

Hey! Terrific and many thanks to Squinch who got the locale! CTyankee Feb 2013 #12

I saw them (the columns) in 2008 ... oldhippie Feb 2013 #16

wasn't it fabulous, though? CTyankee Feb 2013 #20

Rats, I'm late reteachinwi Feb 2013 #23

I teach Humanities democrat in Tallahassee Feb 2013 #17

When I saw it in 2006 I just stood there, blinking...couldn't believe it...so massive... CTyankee Feb 2013 #18

So you'd prolly know the bees were a reference to the Barbieri family of which the pope was CTyankee Feb 2013 #19

was it the acanthus or the bees? CTyankee Feb 2013 #14

A wild guess on 6... joeybee12 Feb 2013 #9

Looks like Renoir, doesn't it...but no... CTyankee Feb 2013 #13

I can see him putting in that kind of detail...nt joeybee12 Feb 2013 #15

MAJOR HINT: The museum that owns painting #6 is on the west coast of the U.S. CTyankee Feb 2013 #21

So, that one's Matisse. Tea. DevonRex Feb 2013 #40

It does look like a portrait! Funny, how it takes on a different "look" when it is CTyankee Feb 2013 #43

Oh, drat! pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #22

#1 is reteachinwi Feb 2013 #24

That painting is absolutely gorgeous. DevonRex Feb 2013 #25

I wonder why Crivelli isn't better known, his work is so rich in detail and, of course, CTyankee Feb 2013 #36

yep, he enunciated the annunciate! CTyankee Feb 2013 #28

It's not a UFO. In honor of "details", let's take a closer look. greyl Feb 2013 #31

Of course. Funny how this did get interpreted in recent times, but we can see how CTyankee Feb 2013 #33

I love this stuff reteachinwi Feb 2013 #51

No. 3 is definitely From X-Men first class! pkdu Feb 2013 #26

#4 Sandro Botticelli DevonRex Feb 2013 #27

One of the finer peacocks in painting! CTyankee Feb 2013 #29

Nope. DevonRex Feb 2013 #37

Have you been to Florence? CTyankee Feb 2013 #39

No. But my DevonRex Feb 2013 #42

I found it easy to walk everywhere in Florence. CTyankee Feb 2013 #44

I love Florence! pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #46

Once you know something about the art in Florence, you want to see it all...and that CTyankee Feb 2013 #48

I was assaulted by art everywhere I turned there pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #52

My stop in Orvieto was brief and marred by lots of rain and dark skies. CTyankee Feb 2013 #54

Clueless on these, nevertheless, R&K so I can see responses. longship Feb 2013 #30

Well, #6 isn't Spitz Dog, ca. 1765, by Thomas Gainsborough pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #32

Want to guess on the little guy in #5? CTyankee Feb 2013 #35

No pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #41

Aww, and he's so cute! CTyankee Feb 2013 #45

He looks like an angel pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #47

This Challenge makes me want to... pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #34

Oh, no! CTyankee Feb 2013 #38

#5 is that little cherub holding up a mirror to Venus? Kurovski Feb 2013 #49

Sure. CTyankee Feb 2013 #50

Velázquez, Rokeby Venus Kurovski Feb 2013 #53

Art critics have all kinds of fits over the left leg of that cupid... CTyankee Feb 2013 #55

Dammit!!!! I had got around to Roman gods/goddesses DevonRex Feb 2013 #66

HINT for the remaining image, #2... CTyankee Feb 2013 #56

Is he going to be baptized? Kurovski Feb 2013 #57

Yup... CTyankee Feb 2013 #59

Does he work at Chippendales? Kurovski Feb 2013 #58

No, he couldn't dance so they wouldn't take him... CTyankee Feb 2013 #60

He can't dance, so don't ask him. Kurovski Feb 2013 #61

#2 Pierro della francesco (sp)? Kurovski Feb 2013 #62

Art critics are nuts over Piero. CTyankee Feb 2013 #64

#2's title "The Baptism of Christ". Kurovski Feb 2013 #63

If I go to London in May I will definitely see this one at the National Gallery. CTyankee Feb 2013 #65