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Tansy_Gold

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9. #1 Entry of the Laocoon into Paris

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Fri Jan 20, 2012, 06:24 PM

Jan 2012

The entry into Paris of Laocoon, Apollo Belvedere, and other statues was celebrated on this famous Sèvres vase. Between 1798 and 1815 many more northern Europeans could see the Most Beautiful Statues in Paris than had ever been able to see them in Italy by engaging in a lengthy and expensive Grand Tour.

http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/sculpture/plastercasts/napoleon.htm

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Hello, your Friday Afternoon Challenge again with: The Art of the Loot! [View all] CTyankee Jan 2012 OP

Let me just say.... joeybee12 Jan 2012 #1

take a guess? CTyankee Jan 2012 #2

Let me ponder one and six and get back to you... joeybee12 Jan 2012 #4

Is 4 the Baghdad Museum? jannyk Jan 2012 #3

No, you are RIGHT! CTyankee Jan 2012 #10

David, Dellacroix, Freud, and Monet. K&R (nt) T S Justly Jan 2012 #5

#3 Mz Pip Jan 2012 #13

Great! How do you know this work? It's been stolen for quite some time... CTyankee Jan 2012 #16

I was at the Met in NYC Mz Pip Jan 2012 #18

I didn't know it had been found! Do you know how this happened? CTyankee Jan 2012 #19

It hasn't been found Mz Pip Jan 2012 #23

Wanted poster: pinboy3niner Jan 2012 #30

Mmmmm... Bacon! jberryhill Jan 2012 #32

My favorite art piece... pinboy3niner Jan 2012 #33

Speck! CTyankee Jan 2012 #36

OMG, someone STOLE #6 elleng Jan 2012 #6

No they didn't Mz Pip Jan 2012 #8

It wasn't YOU? CTyankee Jan 2012 #11

#2 looks like some Bonaparte, elleng Jan 2012 #7

#1 Entry of the Laocoon into Paris Tansy_Gold Jan 2012 #9

Correct, Tansy! Antoine Beranger was the artist. Note the position of the statue's right arm... CTyankee Jan 2012 #14

#2 Wellington Tansy_Gold Jan 2012 #12

Yup. Do you know this painting? CTyankee Jan 2012 #15

Not the painting specifically. Tansy_Gold Jan 2012 #17

that is interesting. I just wonder how you knew it was him... CTyankee Jan 2012 #20

To tell you the truth, I'm not sure! Tansy_Gold Jan 2012 #21

wow, what is the title of your novel? CTyankee Jan 2012 #22

Ah,but then I'd have to reveal who i really am Tansy_Gold Jan 2012 #26

In this thread it's 'a Vermeer of anonymity' pinboy3niner Jan 2012 #27

Anything to do with the Art of the Steal and the Barnes Museum? JDPriestly Jan 2012 #24

#6 Monet's San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk. "stolen" in a movie pinboy3niner Jan 2012 #25

Sure enough. It was stolen only in a movie. It didn't really happen! CTyankee Jan 2012 #29

What? The Lucien Freud painting is NOT Rodney Dangerfield??? Manifestor_of_Light Jan 2012 #28

Number five is . . . Staph Jan 2012 #31

Nice work! pinboy3niner Jan 2012 #34

I was considering using that photo! It's so revealing about European lack of sensitivity to looting CTyankee Jan 2012 #35