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101. That's not the altar piece

Reply to pinboy3niner (Reply #100)

Sat Aug 17, 2013, 02:33 AM

Aug 2013

It's the painting to the left. I did get the altarpiece too.

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The Friday Afternoon Challenge for your beautiful minds: The Art of the Altarpiece! Part I. [View all] CTyankee Aug 2013 OP

Glorious, all of them! CaliforniaPeggy Aug 2013 #1

You are so welcome! I'm so glad I can share these discoveries with folks here... CTyankee Aug 2013 #5

Oh, sure. NOW you post it, just when I'm ready for naptime. pinboy3niner Aug 2013 #2

#6 looks early. longship Aug 2013 #3

These altarpieces range over 3 centuries... CTyankee Aug 2013 #4

#1 - Church of the Holy Helmet jberryhill Aug 2013 #6

"If it ain't Baroque, don't fix it." pinboy3niner Aug 2013 #8

If you look closely jberryhill Aug 2013 #9

a true art connoisseur BainsBane Aug 2013 #11

I put the "sewer" in "connoisseur" jberryhill Aug 2013 #12

We need someone to class up the joint BainsBane Aug 2013 #14

Roccoco Raccoon is a DUzy, lol! pinboy3niner Aug 2013 #34

This whole damn sequence is a DUzy!!! calimary Aug 2013 #140

#4 - Exchange of the Gifts of the Magi jberryhill Aug 2013 #7

I'm going to guess countries BainsBane Aug 2013 #10

You have #2 exactly right! It resides in Rome! CTyankee Aug 2013 #15

That's sad. I even googled BainsBane Aug 2013 #16

It looks so much like it, doesn't it? CTyankee Aug 2013 #19

I tell you, googling alter piece gets me no where BainsBane Aug 2013 #21

I know. You have to look at style and era... CTyankee Aug 2013 #22

This is all above my pay grade BainsBane Aug 2013 #24

There are a number of depictions of black individuals in paintings done outside of Spain in the 16th CTyankee Aug 2013 #25

I stayed with the better known painters of altarpieces back in that day... CTyankee Aug 2013 #26

well, the same ones keep turning up BainsBane Aug 2013 #32

#1 looks like the crowning of Mary as Queen of Heaven Kingofalldems Aug 2013 #13

I don't know if that is the exact title, but it is the subject, certainly... CTyankee Aug 2013 #18

Beautiful and Mystical. bvar22 Aug 2013 #17

I'm guessing #4 Aerows Aug 2013 #20

#4 is different from the others, as you can see. And in a different country whose style was quite CTyankee Aug 2013 #23

It seems a lot more detailed Aerows Aug 2013 #27

well, being from a different culture accounts for that. I think it is also a lot "earthier" and less CTyankee Aug 2013 #28

Thanks for posting it Aerows Aug 2013 #40

I'm sorely lacking in Art Education, CTYankee Aerows Aug 2013 #41

Thanks. You are very sweet... CTyankee Aug 2013 #63

is 4 German? BainsBane Aug 2013 #29

One of the guys is wearing spurs Aerows Aug 2013 #42

It's the three kings, BainsBane Aug 2013 #43

Also it's not in Italy BainsBane Aug 2013 #44

I thought Spain Aerows Aug 2013 #46

I guessed that too. I was wrong. I just found it BainsBane Aug 2013 #47

Not in Italy for certain Aerows Aug 2013 #49

The weird thing about #3 jberryhill Aug 2013 #30

It's the Pope and the college of cardinals in the top panel BainsBane Aug 2013 #45

Yeah, but why on an altar piece? jberryhill Aug 2013 #51

Because the Vatican commissioned the work BainsBane Aug 2013 #59

"Salvation, brought to you by Carl's Jr." jberryhill Aug 2013 #60

The scene with the picnic table is 'Resurrection of a Boy' pinboy3niner Aug 2013 #52

And again, why? jberryhill Aug 2013 #53

... pinboy3niner Aug 2013 #64

Win! jberryhill Aug 2013 #67

More on the courtroom scene... pinboy3niner Aug 2013 #54

Which St. Francis jberryhill Aug 2013 #55

I've gotten a few bits of info by searching pinboy3niner Aug 2013 #56

Well I've gotten all my information from you jberryhill Aug 2013 #57

Heh heh pinboy3niner Aug 2013 #58

Excellent! BainsBane Aug 2013 #118

OK, here's the deal, jberryhill. This altarpiece was not created in Rome. Rome was prominent in this CTyankee Aug 2013 #70

Okay, but what's the deal with the resurrected boy? jberryhill Aug 2013 #73

You have to put this work by Piero in the context of the Black Death. Piero was an early Italain CTyankee Aug 2013 #77

I know 6, in Tuscany, Piero della Francesca BainsBane Aug 2013 #31

Did any of my hints help? CTyankee Aug 2013 #74

Yes because I never heard of a polyptych before you mentioned it BainsBane Aug 2013 #76

sorry. Here. CTyankee Aug 2013 #79

Who is the guy in the blue cloak that's in everything? BainsBane Aug 2013 #80

I think it's "that Dutch guy" pinboy3niner Aug 2013 #87

No, I told you that I locked all of them in the basement for this thread and they're pretty mad CTyankee Aug 2013 #114

A German got out though BainsBane Aug 2013 #123

The Dutch didn't want him there anyway... CTyankee Aug 2013 #124

My guess is you are referring to Bernardino of Siena, who was who was canonized five years afer this CTyankee Aug 2013 #88

They all paint him identically BainsBane Aug 2013 #89

No, I think it's Saint Peter BainsBane Aug 2013 #91

Yes! Especially considering the subject of the painting to the LEFT of the altarpiece in 2. CTyankee Aug 2013 #93

It's very difficult to see BainsBane Aug 2013 #95

Caravaggio. Even I have heard of him BainsBane Aug 2013 #96

Beat me to it. I missed it by that much... pinboy3niner Aug 2013 #100

That's not the altar piece BainsBane Aug 2013 #101

I know pinboy3niner Aug 2013 #102

I knew it didn't make sense it was some later saint BainsBane Aug 2013 #104

Yep. My bad! I meant that the painting to the left could lead one to the Carracci since Caravaggio CTyankee Aug 2013 #111

You're good at this art history thing! CTyankee Aug 2013 #106

No, I never studied art history BainsBane Aug 2013 #115

You have an excellent eye for art. You seem to "get" the essence of the picture... CTyankee Aug 2013 #117

This is the first time I've done one of your challenges BainsBane Aug 2013 #119

Glad you're here... CTyankee Aug 2013 #120

First time? Wow! You did great work tracking these down. pinboy3niner Aug 2013 #121

Thanks BainsBane Aug 2013 #122

Got it! Carracci, the Assumption, number 2 BainsBane Aug 2013 #97

This message was self-deleted by its author CTyankee Aug 2013 #107

There you go! Wonderful scouting... CTyankee Aug 2013 #108

#1: Giotto di Bondone - Baroncelli Polyptych (1334) pinboy3niner Aug 2013 #33

So it is BainsBane Aug 2013 #35

Good job on #6, btw pinboy3niner Aug 2013 #36

You too BainsBane Aug 2013 #38

many former Cathlolics remember scenes such as these from childhood depictions. I was brought CTyankee Aug 2013 #92

One of the Madonna and child I keep running across was on my grandma's wall BainsBane Aug 2013 #94

A copy of this Raphael was in my grandma's living room BainsBane Aug 2013 #99

I wonder if she had any idea that his model for the Madonna was his mistress, Margharita CTyankee Aug 2013 #112

I'm pretty sure she did not. BainsBane Aug 2013 #116

in Florence BainsBane Aug 2013 #39

I chose it for its "knockout" quality and effect! CTyankee Aug 2013 #83

That is beautiful BainsBane Aug 2013 #86

Funny you picked up on that...but, no, technically he is High Renaissance. However, that era CTyankee Aug 2013 #90

The rope parts are interesting. suffragette Aug 2013 #98

it's damaged. I wonder how...but it IS 500 years old... CTyankee Aug 2013 #109

I wonder if the damage is accidental or not suffragette Aug 2013 #132

Actually, I DID do a preliminary search for analysis on that work but came up with nada. CTyankee Aug 2013 #138

#5 Assumption Filippo Lippi suffragette Aug 2013 #103

Nice! pinboy3niner Aug 2013 #105

Actually, no. It is by his son, Filippino, and Lucrezia Buti... CTyankee Aug 2013 #110

Ah well, all in the family! suffragette Aug 2013 #131

It's Lucrezia Buti, his mistress and mother of Filippino pinboy3niner Aug 2013 #133

Thanks! I missed that one. suffragette Aug 2013 #134

No, I phrased it poorly and I can see why you mistook it... CTyankee Aug 2013 #136

Another thing about those "floating bodies"... CTyankee Aug 2013 #113

Yep. In the Church of Santa Croce in Florence. CTyankee Aug 2013 #81

I got nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. The big goose egg. Brother Buzz Aug 2013 #37

4. Adoration of the Magi, Albrecht Durer, 1504 BainsBane Aug 2013 #48

#3: Ghirlandaio - Capella Sassetti. nt pinboy3niner Aug 2013 #50

well done! BainsBane Aug 2013 #61

Yes! It is in the Santa Trinita Church in Florence. It stopped me dead in my tracks when I CTyankee Aug 2013 #68

Searching the title led to an interesting page on artists including themselves in their works pinboy3niner Aug 2013 #127

Thanks, most of them aren't that hot looking except for Ghirlandaio and he was really hot! CTyankee Aug 2013 #130

2. Raphael, The Altar of Transfiguration, Rome. BainsBane Aug 2013 #62

Way to go! pinboy3niner Aug 2013 #65

No. It is not the Transfiguration by Raphael. It is of the same general era, however, so they are CTyankee Aug 2013 #66

Rickrolled again! pinboy3niner Aug 2013 #69

That guy is the blue cloak is in everything BainsBane Aug 2013 #75

I've been fooled more than once! :) pinboy3niner Aug 2013 #78

No way BainsBane Aug 2013 #71

Are my other two right? BainsBane Aug 2013 #72

YEP! Congrats! CTyankee Aug 2013 #82

You definitely did not pick the most common ones BainsBane Aug 2013 #85

Dupe of BainsBane's solution to #4 in Post #48 pinboy3niner Aug 2013 #84

Don't feel bad BainsBane Aug 2013 #125

The story of my Friday life, lol. nt pinboy3niner Aug 2013 #126

Dayum, I love this shit! calimary Aug 2013 #128

Are you still an artist? CTyankee Aug 2013 #129

Don't draw the elaborate holy stuff anymore with the flying cherubs and goo-gaws calimary Aug 2013 #135

I'm envious. I could never do art, even tho I tried. CTyankee Aug 2013 #137

Oh yeah??? Baloney! You just haven't taken the right art class yet! calimary Aug 2013 #139