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44. I found it easy to walk everywhere in Florence.

Sat Feb 2, 2013, 02:58 AM

Feb 2013

It seems like you can't turn around without encountering a masterpiece. I marvel at that city. There are so many fabulous things to see that most American tourists don't know about...they go to the Accademia to see the David and walk around the Duomo and miss some great stuff...Orcagna's tabernacle at the Orsanmichele, for instance, and the huge fresco by bonauto in the Spanish Chapel of Santa Maria Novella church. And I think the Pitti Palace is a waste of time spent in the Oltrarno, myself...go to the Brancacci Chapel instead...

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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

Vel�zquez, 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