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19. Laocoön

Fri Jun 15, 2012, 05:45 PM

Jun 2012

(If I had googled the spelling it would have brought up a picture of this, and that would be cheating... hence the appalling spelling. Having looked up the name of this picture I probably know know which painting you want, but via cheating, and will not speak to that.)

I was thinking of this one bacuse I've seen it so often (in the National Gallery) and it's famous for using Toledo as the backdrop for a classical subject, but I assume it's a different el Greco, that matches the photo, since this Toledo isn't lined up the same way

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Oh, hi there! Welcome back to your Friday Afternoon Challenge: Scene Stealers! [View all] CTyankee Jun 2012 OP

#2 reminds me of rocktivity Jun 2012 #1

well, whaddya know! It does me too! CTyankee Jun 2012 #2

#6 View of Toledo -- 1570s? -- Domenikos Theotokopolous "El Greco" Tansy_Gold Jun 2012 #14

Sure is. What a lovely town! El Greco did it no favors in that painting. CTyankee Jun 2012 #17

Was there in '57, with family, elleng Jun 2012 #40

I'll bet Spain was incredible in 1957! CTyankee Jun 2012 #44

Went in October and don't recall crowds, but it was a WHILE ago! elleng Jun 2012 #45

I know little bits of all of them, but no lock on any of them lapislzi Jun 2012 #3

no on 4,5, and 6 but what painting is #1? CTyankee Jun 2012 #4

Is #1 Starry Night over something?... SidDithers Jun 2012 #5

well... CTyankee Jun 2012 #7

The Van Gogh is easy. The tree-filled park was cthulu2016 Jun 2012 #6

No. CTyankee Jun 2012 #8

Well... cthulu2016 Jun 2012 #10

Never saw that before! Interesting... CTyankee Jun 2012 #13

Not Bierstadt. CTyankee Jun 2012 #11

Laocoön cthulu2016 Jun 2012 #19

Yep. I was thinking (wrongly) of the original... CTyankee Jun 2012 #20

re: Bierstadt cthulu2016 Jun 2012 #21

In the Cafe, Agostina Segatori in Le Tambourin, Vincent van Gogh, 1887 Tansy_Gold Jun 2012 #9

I think #1 is Cafe De Nuit by Van Gogh a year later pinboy3niner Jun 2012 #12

Of course! CTyankee Jun 2012 #15

OH, you're probably right! Tansy_Gold Jun 2012 #16

No, you had the right place--just a different perspective pinboy3niner Jun 2012 #18

#5 Is DEFINITELY that Dutch Guy! jberryhill Jun 2012 #22

I never heard of him... CTyankee Jun 2012 #23

You posted before my edit jberryhill Jun 2012 #24

Yup. CTyankee Jun 2012 #25

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Did you see the painting in the Hague? CTyankee Jun 2012 #27

Naw... the tribunal wouldn't take off my leg irons jberryhill Jun 2012 #28

Oh, so THAT's why your poor wife was there! CTyankee Jun 2012 #31

#3 jberryhill Jun 2012 #29

Lawdy, Miss Clawdy! CTyankee Jun 2012 #32

#3: Cezanne's Mount Sainte-Victoire pinboy3niner Jun 2012 #30

Pick your version, he did a bunch of them... CTyankee Jun 2012 #33

I wouldn't have gotten it if lapislzi hadn't identified the artist pinboy3niner Jun 2012 #35

This one doesn't really have a "correct" version but it was a close as I could find. CTyankee Jun 2012 #36

We are left with the painter/title of the mystery painting #4. CTyankee Jun 2012 #34

I'm not sure I get the point of that one jberryhill Jun 2012 #37

You have to know the picture to get the man-ner... CTyankee Jun 2012 #42

#4 is the Tuileries Garden? Iterate Jun 2012 #38

You are correct. Good for you! CTyankee Jun 2012 #39

I wonder if being "in concert" puns in French as well. Iterate Jun 2012 #41

Vuillard! Les Nabis! CTyankee Jun 2012 #43

I've not seen the book. Iterate Jun 2012 #46

I see the progression in the Adelfelt work! Esp. the woman arranging CTyankee Jun 2012 #47