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27. Did you see the painting in the Hague?

Fri Jun 15, 2012, 06:36 PM

Jun 2012

I will tell you that I completely understand why Salvador Dali sank to his knees in front of this work! It is nothing like the reproductions you see in photos. What you see is the "glistening" of the scene. Then you realize that there has just been a sudden shower...

Unfortunately, the Mauritshuis is now closed for renovation until 2014. "Girl with Pearl Earring" will be at the Frick in NYC in 2013. "View" and "Girl" are currently in another museum in The Hague.

Did you happen to ever read the essay entitled "Vermeer in Bosnia" by Lawrence Wechsler? He interviewed the Italian judge at the trial in the World Court of a war criminal in that war. He asked the judge how he managed to keep it all together after hearing day after day about war atrocities that were committed. The judge said he would just walk over the the Mauritshuis and "sit with the Vermeers." Wechsler's point was that to Vermeer, all of Europe was Bosnia and he made his own "peace" with "Girl"...

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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

Laoco�n 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

. jberryhill Jun 2012 #26

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