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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHello, DUers! Your Friday Afternoon Challenge awaits with “The Masterful Details.”
Identify these incomparable works that are made so beautiful by their detail and style...
And without cheating, please...
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Kingofalldems
(38,468 posts)Even though I haven't a clue.
#1 looks like a UFO zapping a building.
That's all I have.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)blue neen
(12,327 posts)......always afraid to guess!
Is #2 something by Michelangelo?
Also, I have no idea what #3 is, but it is absolutely amazing.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)#3 IS pretty amazing...it's one of things that just makes your jaw drop...
glad you like the Challenge! And I'm glad you are here!
Squinch
(50,989 posts)Is the dog Van Gogh? And a wild stab that the peacock is from some thing by DaVinci.
That's all I got. Such as it is.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)and the peacock is from another artist, not Leonardo...
Squinch
(50,989 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Squinch
(50,989 posts)democrat in Tallahassee
(3,531 posts)The columns are Bernini's at St. Peter's Basilica
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Man, that thing is something! Have you seen it?
oldhippie
(3,249 posts)... but I didn't know what I was looking at at the time. That happened a lot!
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)reteachinwi
(579 posts)Mom and I watched Christmas service from EWTN one Christmas. She's been to the Vatican and remarked how she thought the pillars were too weird, and didn't like them. The music was good however.
democrat in Tallahassee
(3,531 posts)So maybe that is cheating. I saw the enormous thing and the fact that it doesn't even look that large inside St. Peter's is a testament to the enormity of the Basilica. The baldacchino is 92 feet tall and sits under Michelangelo's dome; it is just about my favorite piece of sculpture.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)one, Maffei Barbieri...
I don't think being a Humanities professor makes you a cheater! There is a way to really cheat, but I just ask people not to. I hope they don't. The real fun is chasing this stuff down and learning new things along the way...
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Renoir?
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Good luck!
DevonRex
(22,541 posts)But I've found different versions of the title. Tea In The Garden. Tea For Three.
I recognized the dog but could never have placed it without your hint. I was thinking more expressionist than modern for some reason. Maybe because the dog's face looks like a portrait, with spare but strong brush strokes. Or maybe it's just because I love the Expressionists.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)in such closeup.
I do find "Tea in the Garden" to be un-Matisse-y!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I dozed off and got here late to the party. Give me time to catch up...
reteachinwi
(579 posts)The Enunciation of St. Emidus, Carlos Crivelli, 1486. The UFO made it kind of too easy.
http://www.ufopicture.org/ufos_in_art.html
DevonRex
(22,541 posts)I could spend hours on it, sections at a time just marveling at all the detail. It's beautiful.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)COLOR, the signature of the Veneto Renaissance.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Love the UFO...
greyl
(22,990 posts)The first impression is that at the basis of these web sites lies a very simplistic methodology, being any historical or artistic knowledge carefully avoided. The standard practice seems to be: first taking a book concerning art, better if dealing with art works of the 17th or previous centuries; then looking for any strange detail, above all saucer-like objects of any kind. Thats it. This way, obviously, it is easy both to detect strange elements and to declare them alien or unidentified in respect to the environment or the period in which they appear.
Unbelievable as it may be, those who publish this stuff really seem to have never entered a museum. If so, they would notice that there is a vast amount of Annunciations in which a ray descends from the sky reaching the Madonna. Furthermore, as far as the Crivelli painting is concerned, they would notice that the object in the sky is formed by a circle of clouds inside which there are two circles of small angels.
It is a very common way of representing the divinity, visible in so many works of sacred art.
more...
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Last edited Sat Feb 2, 2013, 02:30 AM - Edit history (1)
easy it is for folks to make THAT connection.
reteachinwi
(579 posts)Thanks
pkdu
(3,977 posts)Sorry , couldnt resist.
DevonRex
(22,541 posts)Adoration of the Magi.
Good Lord. I knew it but couldn't remember why I knew it was Botticelli. Spent forever finding the name. Has something to do with teenage mutant ninja turtles. Don't ask.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Did you know this from an art history class?
I knew it because I made my boys learn a few things about painters other than those whose names were used by the ninja turtles. We actually have a statue in Florence called by our last name as a nickname. Most of them have nicks. So it was kind of an easy way to get them interested. At the time I was teaching the gifted & talented program at their school and I used whatever I could.
From there I went to Gaudi and architecture and let them go crazy as long as their work was structurally sound. They had a blast.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)It's been called a museum of itself, which I think is a good description.
Now, Gaudi is another thing...kind of a head trip...I went through his house in Barcelona and I swear that guy was smoking something...
DevonRex
(22,541 posts)husband's family came from there and still had stories to tell. One day we'll go since there are lots of cousins there. Make a family trip of it.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)It seems like you can't turn around without encountering a masterpiece. I marvel at that city. There are so many fabulous things to see that most American tourists don't know about...they go to the Accademia to see the David and walk around the Duomo and miss some great stuff...Orcagna's tabernacle at the Orsanmichele, for instance, and the huge fresco by bonauto in the Spanish Chapel of Santa Maria Novella church. And I think the Pitti Palace is a waste of time spent in the Oltrarno, myself...go to the Brancacci Chapel instead...
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Went once, decades ago, and had a wonderful time. It is impressive even for us who are "art-challenged."
Orvieto, too, I'll never forget. I brought home a case or two of the wine the monks made there--and I wish I had more!
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)is murder. Or suicide. But you just can't help it. Better to allow yourself lots of time, make a list and not plan on going crazy in one visit to the Uffizi (which is not very user friendly to begin with, so you need to beware and prioritize).
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)And I mean that in a good way.
You're right--you'll want to plan on spending a lot of time there. It's a glorious experience. And don't forget to stop by Orvieto...the monks there are VERY talented.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)I doubt if I had any of the wine since it was a daytime stop. I guess you have to give up something...
longship
(40,416 posts)Been looking for a few weeks. Fun stuff, even if I am no art expert.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Close, but no cigar.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)But he has the devil in him. Kinda reminds me of someone...
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Kurovski
(34,655 posts)I don't remember the name, but if it's the one I'm thinking of, it was once a "paint by number" offering!
It's not Ingres, is it? The brush strokes are too choppy. Not Bottecelli? Am I allowed to look it up when I have these clues, or no?
This appears to be a popular meme in painting...lots of cupids holding up mirrors to Venus. this one is prolly one of the most famous.
Kurovski
(34,655 posts)It goes by a number of names.
The Rokeby Venus (also known as The Toilet of Venus, Venus at her Mirror, Venus and Cupid, or La Venus del espejo)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rokeby_Venus
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)its sketchiness shocks them...
DevonRex
(22,541 posts)and was even looking through the National Gallery Collection when I just couldn't stay awake any longer. I knew that wasn't an angel in the Christian sense.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)why is that guy taking off his shirt?
Kurovski
(34,655 posts)Kurovski
(34,655 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Kurovski
(34,655 posts)Kurovski
(34,655 posts)My computer has gone haywire, is that how you spell the artist's name? Just looked up the world's most popular baptiserizer, and found the image WAYYYy down. It doesn't seem to be all over the place, tho many religious sites use it without attribution. (for shame)
What's the story on this one, CT? any juicy details to impart?
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)della Francesca is an early Renaissance painter. There is actually such a thing as the "della Francesca trail" in Italy, where you can follow his stuff around from one hilltop town to another and I actually know someone who did just that (my ex-husband and a bit of an art snob). It's "fashionable" to do the trail. Here's an interesting short description from slowtravel:http://www.slowtrav.com/italy/art/pk_arttrails.htm
My favorite work by him is the one with the large egg suspended over a "sacra conversazione,"
and featuring one of his oddly oversized madonne. Art historians haggle over the meaning of "the egg," as they call it. It's actually called the Brera Altarpiece and is in Milan.
Here is a Wikipedia entry on "baptism" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baptism_of_Christ_%28Piero_della_Francesca%29
Masaccio also painting such baptisms depicting young men readying themselves for baptism: http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/masaccio/baptism-of-the-neophytes-1427
"The Flagellation of Christ" is prolly his most famous painting and it is a bit of a mystery. I am not that fond of his overly white figures but his work with the Brera piece is one of extraordinary beauty:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brera_Madonna (even with the egg and the duke in gleaming armor looking a little silly...).
You might just get hooked on this artist. He IS interesting, but he is not my big favorite. I'm just not fashionable enough, I guess...
Kurovski
(34,655 posts)by Piero della Francesca, for the fully correct spelling.
Thanks, CTYankee, you're the tops!
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Who knows, I may become a big fan of his after I experience this firsthand. But I'm a little too old to be putting around to hilltop towns in Tuscany...