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In reply to the discussion: Hello my DU friends! Our wonderful Friday Afternoon Challenge today: The Venerable Genre of the ‘Nud [View all]CTyankee
(63,892 posts)41. ANSWERS to Friday's Afternoon Challege!
1. Whistler, Annabel Lee
2. Annibale Carracci, Allegory of River
3. Wm. Merrit Chase, Back of a Nude
4. Eakins, William Rush Carving his Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River
5. Constable, Male Nude study
6. Yves Klein, Anthropometrie.
thanks for joining in, everybody! See you next Friday!
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Hello my DU friends! Our wonderful Friday Afternoon Challenge today: The Venerable Genre of the ‘Nud [View all]
CTyankee
Feb 2013
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Sargent did nude studies, nice ones. Chase had the misfortune to paint at the same time
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#17
HINT: of the five remaining, one is British, one is French, one is Italian and 2 are American
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#18
I love the fact that critics found this work to be indecent because the nude wasn't
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#43
Rosso da Fiorentino's two angels "discussing" a book is lovely, but take a look at the rest of
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#48
It's a variation (!) of the "sacra conversazione" theme of the Madonna, Child and Saints that
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#50
Oh, yes, the light on her corset! Maybe it was Eakins secret fetish...who knows?
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#46