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Tansy_Gold

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49. Oh, most definitely worth it!

Fri Feb 3, 2012, 10:06 PM

Feb 2012

I'm currently reading a "biography" of Chicago, research related to a novel I'm thinking about. Stanford White designed a number of Gilded Age mansions in Chicago, and McKim, Mead and White was one of the firms engaged to design the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. So the research for today's Challenge gave me an extra bit of insight, even though ultimately nothing I picked up today may end up in the novel.

(then again, the novel may never get written if I don't quit foolin' around on DU!)

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Hello, DU! Here�s your Friday Afternoon Challenge: Double Take! [View all] CTyankee Feb 2012 OP

First two Chagall? Lochloosa Feb 2012 #1

Looks like Cezanne? kentuck Feb 2012 #4

I think so too...maybe the second is Renoir? joeybee12 Feb 2012 #9

no cezanne here... CTyankee Feb 2012 #13

not Chagall... CTyankee Feb 2012 #7

what am i supposed to look for?? what's a 'double take'? n/t NMDemDist2 Feb 2012 #2

You and me, both... nt WheelWalker Feb 2012 #3

Please see my explanation at #5. my apologies for not being clearer... CTyankee Feb 2012 #6

Two interpretations of the same thing, or Tansy_Gold Feb 2012 #20

yes to both interpretations and copies... CTyankee Feb 2012 #22

sorry. I meant when you see one of the two it looks a lot like the other! CTyankee Feb 2012 #5

Thanks, yank! elleng Feb 2012 #8

love to! But home for the duration of hubby's post op recuperation... CTyankee Feb 2012 #12

OK, OK, whatever you say!!! elleng Feb 2012 #17

I'll email you! stay tuned! CTyankee Feb 2012 #18

TUNED! elleng Feb 2012 #24

Ones: Renoir and Cezanne? librechik Feb 2012 #10

keep going. you're not there...yet... CTyankee Feb 2012 #11

ones: Renoir and Monet librechik Feb 2012 #14

in that order? CTyankee Feb 2012 #16

yes librechik Feb 2012 #19

and you know why? (simple actually)... CTyankee Feb 2012 #21

what's the trick? librechik Feb 2012 #25

Look at the water...I think (not sure) that that is the difference... CTyankee Feb 2012 #28

1a and 1b look like something from one of the "net" twins... catnhatnh Feb 2012 #15

who are they? CTyankee Feb 2012 #23

3a -- A church in the US, possibly Anglican/Episcopalian based on the flags???? Tansy_Gold Feb 2012 #26

You are getting there, but the words are not the key to what is the "double" of the CTyankee Feb 2012 #30

I thought the words might have some specific denominational or historical meaning Tansy_Gold Feb 2012 #31

what language were they in? English? CTyankee Feb 2012 #32

yep, clear as day when you zoom in! Tansy_Gold Feb 2012 #34

AHA! Tansy_Gold Feb 2012 #33

Tansy, I don't know how to zoom in on lettering like that. Can you clue me in? CTyankee Feb 2012 #36

zooming and Santiago de Compostela Tansy_Gold Feb 2012 #43

Wow, I have no idea Aerows Feb 2012 #27

you are a sweetheart, aerows! CTyankee Feb 2012 #29

Is one of these Trinity Church in Boston? Generic Other Feb 2012 #35

No, it has been guessed as St. Bartholomew's in New York City. CTyankee Feb 2012 #38

Both are Romanesque, right? Generic Other Feb 2012 #41

Oh, yes! St. Gilles du Gard in Nimes! Good for you! CTyankee Feb 2012 #45

Wait a minute! I didn't "guess"! Tansy_Gold Feb 2012 #51

Of course, you are right! My apologies. I love that you did the research. CTyankee Feb 2012 #56

This is GD subject matter? Belongs in The Lounge. trof Feb 2012 #37

well, that has been up to the people who make these decisions and they have approved this in GD. CTyankee Feb 2012 #39

Yeah, true. I think they're on a coffee break. trof Feb 2012 #40

We have been doing these in GD forever! Generic Other Feb 2012 #42

Locking. "spoil sport" posts belong in the Sports group. trof Feb 2012 #57

OK, so we have 2a and 2b not guessed! What? CTyankee Feb 2012 #44

I already donated my afternoon to the cause of 3a and 3b. Tansy_Gold Feb 2012 #46

Naw, I never do that! But I DO thank you for your effort. Was it worth it? CTyankee Feb 2012 #47

Oh, most definitely worth it! Tansy_Gold Feb 2012 #49

OK, hint on 2a and 2b: A Queen wanted one of these copied for her own country. CTyankee Feb 2012 #48

This one has been driving me mad all evening. Iterate Feb 2012 #50

Oh, go ahead and take a guess--just like Tansy pinboy3niner Feb 2012 #52

Well hey der. Iterate Feb 2012 #53

Ok, I see now where my assumtions were wrong, completely wrong. Iterate Feb 2012 #54

Good for you! I can't wait to read what you have to say! CTyankee Feb 2012 #55

2a and 2b are... Iterate Feb 2012 #58

wonderful explanation! CTyankee Feb 2012 #59

Fantastic explanation Aerows Feb 2012 #60

So do I, as you can tell from that story... CTyankee Feb 2012 #61

Well, sooner or later your are going to infect me Aerows Feb 2012 #62

thanks for your story. It's the "real" reason I run the Challenge. CTyankee Feb 2012 #63

Art is my gentle place Aerows Feb 2012 #64

Any great art can humble you, IMO, whether it be the written word, the concerto, the ballet or CTyankee Feb 2012 #67

1a) looks like a Renoir entanglement Feb 2012 #65

It IS Renoir! CTyankee Feb 2012 #66

Yay entanglement Feb 2012 #68

I LOVE "boating party"! CTyankee Feb 2012 #69