Hello DUers! Another Friday Afternoon Challenge, for your beautiful minds: “Mister Wonderful!”

[CTyankee]

Have a little fun today identifying these "misters wonderful" in art...

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[frazzled]

1. No. 6, Goya, a portrait of his grandson

Sweet.

[CTyankee]

2. Yes, isn't it? I love the hat...

[cthulu2016]

3. 1 looks like a Sargeant sketch of Whistler

[CTyankee]

4. No...

Nice to see you here!

[Generic Other]

18. I thought it was Whistler too

I wonder why we think that.

[CTyankee]

20. I love the glass lens in the right eye...what a nice touch...

[demwing]

31. It is Whistler, but the artist is

Boldini

[joeybee12]

5. I know that 3 is not Carrvagaio...because of the style, but the look on the face

made me immediately think of a self-portrait of his.

[CTyankee]

6. no Caravaggio here...

[joeybee12]

8. I know...it's just such a smug, self-important look that he always gave himself...nt

[CTyankee]

11. yep, that happens...

[entanglement]

7. #2 and #5

#2 is the "Family of Darius before Alexander" by Paolo Veronese. Darius's family is outside the frame, kneeling.
#5 is surely Plato and Aristotle, from the magnificent "The School of Athens" by Raphael.
#1 looks like Mark Twain

[joeybee12]

9. Actually, I think #1 is Samuel Clemens...

Hee-hee

[entanglement]

10. I always get them mixed up

In fact, I have this theory that Mark Twains and Sam Clemens were one and the same person.

[joeybee12]

12. Probably cousins that looked alike!

[CTyankee]

13. Of course, you sure know #2 and #5, two of the absolute greats of the High

Renaissance art in the Veneto.

#1 is not a portrait of Mark Twain...

[elleng]

14. Oh yank, I've been in love with #3 for 30+ years,

and I can't remember his name! What's a senior to do???

[CTyankee]

15. I know. It gets harder and harder...ACK...that guy is pretty damn good looking...

[ananda]

16. #5 Scuola di Atena

by Rafaello

[CTyankee]

17. Yes, of course. It was identified above, but what a great "moment" that is in art!

[ananda]

19. Agree

Fantastic!

[pinboy3niner]

21. #3: Andrea del Sarto - Portrait of a Young Man (1517)

The sitter in has not been securely identified. He was formerly thought to represent a sculptor, holding a block of stone, but the object in his hands is much more likely to be a book. It has been suggested on the basis of the provenance that it might be a portrait of Giovan Battista Puccini (born 1463), who is known to have been a patron of Andrea del Sarto on other occasions. However, Puccini would have been 54 in 1517, and the sitter appears to be a younger man. More recently he has tentatively been identified as Paolo da Terrarossa, another patron of Sarto, whose family was involved in the manufacture of bricks (a novel identification of the object held by this man).

The portrait is likely to date from around 1517 when Sarto was the leading painter in Florence.

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/andrea-del-sarto-portrait-of-a-young-man

[CTyankee]

22. handsome guy. Love his cheekbones...good job, pinboy!

what gave it away for you?

[pinboy3niner]

23. What helped was narrowing my search to Italian Renaissance portraits

I must be learning something in spite of myself, thanks to your Challenges.

[entanglement]

27. Great answer!

I guessed the artist's name began with an 'A' because of the monogram in the painting, but couldn't get any further.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

45. Aaaah, thank you, that one was driving me nuts.

I wasn't picking up on paper, not stone.

[CTyankee]

24. MAJOR HINT on #1:

This man was also painted by another artist in his time. The other artist's work was the more famous and familiar.

[entanglement]

25. I see a resemblance to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. but this looks like someone from an earlier era

Gotta think a bit harder.

[CTyankee]

28. no, not Holmes.

[pinto]

26. Oscar Wilde?

[CTyankee]

29. no...

[CTyankee]

30. OK, folks, another HINT for #1:

The subject of this work is an artist himself and was a contemporary, altho more famous today...

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

32. Winslow Homer?

[CTyankee]

34. No, but he was an American. He just didn't live here...

[WillyT]

36. Kind Of Looks Like Salvador Dali... But He Was Spanish, No ???

[CTyankee]

37. Yes, Dali was Spanish.

[pinboy3niner]

38. demwing got #1: Boldini - James McNeill Whistler (detail)

The answer is in #31.

[CTyankee]

41. OY, my mistake...I was off napping...

[demosincebirth]

33. #5 looks like a Michelangelo

[CTyankee]

35. That work was guessed. The two pictured are Sophocles and Aristotle in a work

by Raphael entitled "The School of Athens."

[pinboy3niner]

39. #4: Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin - Boy Building a House of Cards (detail)

The artist did four variations on this theme.

[CTyankee]

40. great, Pinboy...how did you get there?

I love these paintings by Chardin. I love his still lifes but these are so sweet.

But I am amazed how you did this without the cards on the table...

[pinboy3niner]

42. This was a tough one

It obviously was a detail, but from an individual or group portrait? Is the boy reading a book? It took a lot of searching, constantly tweaking the search terms. I thought I'd found it at one point until I looked at this painting more closely:


Joseph Marcellin Combette - Portrait of a Family, 1800-01

One of Chardin's variations finally turned up in a search for a renaissance painting with a profile of a boy reading.

[CTyankee]

43. wow, good scouting buddy! But it is not Renaissance...it is 18th century...

[entanglement]

44. Thanks, CTyankee

This was a great round (as usual).


BTW, pinboy3niner is amazing. #4 was a toughie

[CTyankee]

46. I am plotting my next "round" even as we speak!

See you Friday, I hope!