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32. I was 16 when my mother took me to Paris and I too didn't want to go!

Fri May 18, 2012, 07:38 PM

May 2012

Winged Victory nearly knocked me off my feet! I was not expecting that!

I didn't see Coronation on that trip (or didn't remember it) but I did see it a year ago in my second trip to Paris. Impressive work.

I am hoping to go with my teenaged granddaughter to Spain next March and visit some great works in the Prado and Reina Sofia in Madrid. She will resist, but "resistance is futile" I will tell her...at LEAST she will see Las Meninas by Velazquez, the 3rd of May by Goya and Guernica by Picasso...shees...

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The DU Friday Afternoon Challenge for your beautiful minds: A Face in the Crowd! [View all] CTyankee May 2012 OP

Does "some Hapsburg half-wit" qualify for #3? lapislzi May 2012 #1

#3??? CTyankee May 2012 #7

It's "The Hapsburg Nose"... DCKit May 2012 #8

Rubens is present in this Challenge... CTyankee May 2012 #39

Damn, I know I recognize at least a couple of these! CaliforniaPeggy May 2012 #2

You're almost there with the correct answer, Peggy! Leave it to you to know CTyankee May 2012 #4

The Third-Class Carriage by Daumier Angry Dragon May 2012 #5

Is number 6 by Modigliani? n/t CaliforniaPeggy May 2012 #3

You know, it DOES resemble Modigliani, but it is not. Several centuries separate this work CTyankee May 2012 #6

#3 is "Self portrait" by Mitt Romney. OffWithTheirHeads May 2012 #9

No. 3 answer is... Brickbat May 2012 #10

Do you not love this painting? How terrific is it! Yes! It is from that painting! CTyankee May 2012 #14

Truly, a masterpiece. Brickbat May 2012 #19

Have you seen this painting? CTyankee May 2012 #28

Many years ago, on a trip to Paris. Brickbat May 2012 #31

I was 16 when my mother took me to Paris and I too didn't want to go! CTyankee May 2012 #32

Same thing. OffWithTheirHeads May 2012 #15

KInd of over the top stuff! But, man, do you really NOT want to see what it was like? CTyankee May 2012 #20

Oh hell yeah! But the liklyhood that I will ever get to see the Louvre is slim to none. OffWithTheirHeads May 2012 #35

I think I've seen it before Liberal_in_LA May 2012 #33

Jimmy Hendricks HopeHoops May 2012 #11

No. 4 answer is... Brickbat May 2012 #12

Yes! Sad, tho. CTyankee May 2012 #16

Yes, it was the eyes that did it for me. Brickbat May 2012 #18

I described the eyes of a "woman of Algiers" as being "black as figs" in a paper I wrote on that CTyankee May 2012 #22

I thought I recognized that face hfojvt May 2012 #36

#6 .. hedda_foil May 2012 #13

There is that resemblance but it isn't El Greco. I can't quite understand it... CTyankee May 2012 #17

1 is by Mantegna kenny blankenship May 2012 #21

Yes, it is the Gonzaga family and its retinue by Montegna, a famous 15th century work. CTyankee May 2012 #24

Number two: Rembrandt's Olive Garden? Brother Buzz May 2012 #23

It's by a French painter of the mid 19th century, named Daumier. He felt very strongly for CTyankee May 2012 #25

I almost thought it was of Van Gogh's early works IcyPeas May 2012 #27

You know, it was an era between the Romantics and the post Impressionists like Van Gogh. CTyankee May 2012 #29

I thought the same. lapislzi May 2012 #43

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is phenomenal. It is vast. CTyankee May 2012 #48

Damn! I was stumped again. panader0 May 2012 #26

Were you an art history major? I'd be interested to know where your background is from. CTyankee May 2012 #30

Wild Ass Guess ellisonz May 2012 #34

Thank you, ellisonz! But it is not a Michelangelo... CTyankee May 2012 #38

K&R burrowowl May 2012 #37

Well, folks, #5 and #6 have yet to be guessed... CTyankee May 2012 #40

Hmm...early Renaissance, you say? lapislzi May 2012 #41

I looked up his dates. He lived in the second half of the 15th and early 16th century but is CTyankee May 2012 #44

#5: Rubens, The Consequences of War pinboy3niner May 2012 #42

You got it! Good on ya! CTyankee May 2012 #45

I keep getting to these threads late lately suffragette May 2012 #46

I'm glad you make them. You have contributed a LOT to them in the past! CTyankee May 2012 #47

Lovely to see you and from your hints #6 Botticelli Barnaba altarpiece suffragette May 2012 #49

I'd love to see an analysis of this painting to understand why St. John looks so pained in it. CTyankee May 2012 #50

Sounds like you're going in a likely direction to me, suffragette May 2012 #51

I wouldn't doubt that Modigliani studied the Early Renaissance artists. It sounds logical that CTyankee May 2012 #52