Happy Friday Afternoon Challenge, DUers! Today: Castles and their “Stories”!

[CTyankee]

Some are true...

Each castle image is grouped with its hint, to help you along, so you can name the castle and the story!

Remember, everybody, no cheating ...
1a.
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1b.
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2a.
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2b.
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3a.
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4a.
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4b.
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[Lucky Luciano]

1. Guesses

4. Chateau D'If? Count of Montecristo?
3. Looks like a painting I saw in the Met? Lady Jane Grey vaguely comes to mind.

[CTyankee]

3. hey, there's a right guess! keep going with 3...

[Bluerthanblue]

2. I know number 4-

from my H.S. english days.
Chateau D'If?
Dante's Count of MC?

Don't know who the artist is-

[CTyankee]

4. Yep. that was fast and good for you!

[haele]

5. 3a -

Windsor castle. interior right near the main gate from town.
(Visited there in 1981)

Haele
(edited so I don't put the answer in the title)

[aquamarina]

6. Wow, I actually know a couple of these

3a - Tower of London
3b - Lady Jane Grey

[aquamarina]

8. Opps Should have added

3b - Lady Jane Grey also known as the Nine Day Queen of England

[CTyankee]

9. Yep, sure is!

do you know who did the painting of Grey?

[aquamarina]

12. According to my pals at the google it is:

Paul Delaroche

[CTyankee]

17. Yer pals are right! She's kinda purty...

[joeybee12]

7. Three is in...

Amsterdamn...can't recall its name...if I were home I'd cheat and pull out my old photos!

[CTyankee]

10. no, 3 has been correctly identified as Tower of London or Tower Green to be more

specific...

[joeybee12]

11. IT CAN'T BE!!!

I gotta dig up my photos and prove it!!!!!!!!!

[CTyankee]

14. where in Amsterdam would you say this is? I was there last October and it didn't look like

this. In fact, the tudor style buildings give it away

Of course, I was traveling on a little barge thru the canals so I had a different perspective...

[jannyk]

23. The soldier in the 'busby' is a pretty strong clue too!

[suffragette]

45. Are you thinking of the Begijnhof?

The layout has a similar feeling, though the buildings themselves reflect the styles of their respective countries.
I remember the first time I was there and how astounding was the serenity of that courtyard, located just steps from the clamor of the shopping street.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begijnhof,_Amsterdam

[pinboy3niner]

13. Damn you, CTyankee!

Just another episode of the Friday Afternoon Torture!1!!

[CTyankee]

15. I told you so! Now you get castle torture!

I'm always thinking of you, Pinboy!

[pinboy3niner]

20. I love you, CTyankee...even as you put us through these tortures

Thankyou for the Challenges. You're the best!

[CTyankee]

22. the feeling is mutual! Love ya!

[uppityperson]

16. #1 Hahahaha, finally I know one. Maybe? ed to remove from subject line

Chateau de Fougeres?
I was there last spring, beautiful and very interesting history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foug%C3%A8res

[CTyankee]

18. Gorgeous! But no...not Fougeres, but isn't it wonderful...

there are LOTS of castles all over Europe...and lots of them look alike! Which is why I gave a specific hint...

[uppityperson]

19. darn. I don't get the hints. Are they stories to go with the castle?

[CTyankee]

21. Yes, each individual castle has an accompanying story hint...

[jannyk]

24. Are they Cathars in the clue for #1

[jannyk]

25. Ah what the hell - is it Castlenaud?

[jannyk]

27. or Carcassone?

I've been to so many - they all look alike.

[CTyankee]

30. yep

[CTyankee]

33. Yes. Where is this image captured?

[Throd]

26. Is #1 Carcasonne? Is #2 in Switzerland?

..............

[CTyankee]

31. absolutement!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

28. I think #1 is Carcassonne.

I think I remember seeing the painting in #1b, and IRC it's the Cathars being driven from Carcassonne. (Or was it Beziers?)

[CTyankee]

32. Have you seen 1b? I have no idea in what form it is...but you are correct in your history!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

34. I haven't seen it in person but saw a picture of it somewhere.

I was doing some research on the Cathars and the Albigensian Heresy and came across that pic.

[CTyankee]

36. hooray for the albigensian heresy! Now there's a topic...

Is your background in Medieval History? I'm crazy about it, but never had the chance to do more in the era other than a paper I did in grad school on Hildegard of Bingen...she was so cool...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

38. Just curious. I read a novel called "Labyrinth"

(Kate Mosse) that had a lot of material about the Cathars and how they were persecuted in the 13th century. It was so interesting that I tried to find out more about that period, which is how I discovered the illustration. Hildegard von Bingen was also quite amazing - I have a recording of some of her music. She would have been interesting paper topic, definitely.

[CTyankee]

39. I actually used her as a "twofer." I used her as a mystic in a course in Mysticism and then as

a composer in an essay of my Final Project.

In the Mysticism course, I called the Yale Divinity School Librarian about research books they had on her. He said they had lots of books on her and while I couldn't take the books out I was welcome to use them in the Library. I was so excited. Ran right down. Found the stacks where her books were....in GERMAN! ACK!

Well, they weren't all in German, but I got a big laugh out of it anyway....I used Yale's Music School Library for research on her compositions for my later essay. It was a terrific resource!

[pinboy3niner]

29. I got nothin...but this...

[suffragette]

35. 2a, 2b Castle of Chillon so that must be Prisoner of Chillon

Been there years ago. More familiar with Byron's poem than the painting.

[CTyankee]

37. About that painting: a very famous Romantic era artist painted it. Can you guess who?

It is very much in his style, if you have studied some of his works...

I'd love to hear more about your visit to the castle of Chillon...were you studying abroad then?

[suffragette]

40. I was visiting a friend in Zurich

and she recommended I take a side trip to Montreux.

I had seen Chillon from a distance years before when on a boat on the lake.

So seeing it from Montreux on a beautiful day and walked there to finally visit it.
Such a breathtaking setting with the mountains rising straight out of Lake Geneva and palm trees and tropical flowers along the shore walk.

Chillon's fascinating inside and out. The dungeon holds the sad history of its prisoners, now surrounded by graffiti through the years, including by Byron, while the rough rock and vaulted ceiling form a a stunning contrast.

There are amazing rooms inside, some still showing frescoes (one enhances the faded images with projections) and one that's almost 60s psychedelic in its bright colors and patterns. And each window and opening reveals another breathtaking view of the lake and scenery.

(Also saw the most interesting door in a town nearby, a double door with two monks - one pointing upward and one downward (and yes there were corresponding stairs, but I did not venture in).

I looked up the artist - Delacroix - I should have known

[CTyankee]

41. thanks for your description. Now I have to go to Switzerland and go there!

It will have to be added to my bucket list which already contains southern Spain, the Amalfi region of Italy (which I missed b/c of illness back in 07, dammit), a Budapest/Vienna, Prague sojourn, and a very quick 6 days in Belgium hopefully coming up in October of this year. I love the thought that I am so close to JFK I could just pack a bag and go...

To me, what just screams Delacroix in this painting is the face of the other prisoner, which is reminiscent to me of "Women of Algiers," mostly the treatment of the eyes. Delacroix was good at those "haunting" looks...and when you think of it, the eyes of the women "imprisoned" in a harem and this dungeon prisoner's have much of the artist's same technique in common...

[suffragette]

44. I see what you say about expression of the eyes being similar, that haunted inward look

Found a site that has a few better than usual photos of some of the rooms, be sure to look at the bottom pic with the bestiary paintings:
http://mc2photography.com/?p=185

This site also has more than most, including a taste of the brightly painted room, look for walls and ceilings:
http://mmc.nict.go.jp/people/parham/perfr_photos_SuisseAug03_p2.html

[CTyankee]

46. Those are incredible photos. The sense of the time, of how it must have been to live within

those walls, why the boards on the wall were painted green...a surprise...

[CTyankee]

47. Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius (Kill them all. For the Lord knoweth them that are His

Did you know this was the original "Kill 'em all and let God sort them out"?

from Wikipedia: Arnaud (or Arnau) Amalric (died 1225) was a Cistercian church leader who took a prominent role in the Albigensian Crusade. He is remembered for allegedly giving advice to a soldier wondering how to distinguish the Catholic friendlies from the Cathar enemies to just "Kill them all. For the Lord knows them that are His."

Funny, the trivia you pick up here and there!

[suffragette]

52. Was this a response for someone else in the thread?

Asking since it seems about the Cathers and Carcassone.

Fascinating reading about this upthread.

Especially since I actually have been there. Well passed through but did not explore any of it. Wish I had done that, though instead I have wonderful memories from ages ago of a young man named Remy in a tiny town named Campagne-sur-Aude near there, which is where I stayed.

[CTyankee]

53. sorry if I confused you. It was in the context of the discussion about Cathers and Carcassone but

I must have gotten a little mixed up to whom I was responding. I just thought the trivia was funny.

Oh well...but I'm glad this brought back a wonderful memory...sounds like it was a lovely romance...or whatever!

[suffragette]

54. It did bring back a lovely memory

of a sweet romance

[CTyankee]

55. Now I'm jealous...

[suffragette]

56. Ah, we never know what's still waiting around the corner for us

There's life; there are possibilities.

You gave me a smile for a day, right when I badly needed it, to remember that summer romance and the three years of letters we wrote to each other in our respective languages.

Thank you for that.

[CTyankee]

57. oh, thanks. That's nice!

[NutmegYankee]

42. 3b looks like the painting by Paul Delaroche

The Execution of Lady Jane Grey in the Tower of London.

[CTyankee]

43. Sure is...

[jpgray]

48. #4

a. Chateau d'If b. the Comte famous for inventing a tasty sandwich, reposing in the detox suite along with his polymathic priest sidekick.

[jpgray]

49. Whoops, already guessed upthread.

[entanglement]

50. Aaargh - I missed this one. (4) has already been guessed, but here is an interesting detail

Of course, (4) is Abbe Faria and Edmond Dantes in the Chateau d'If. However, we can say more.
Faria is discussing the secret of the treasure of the Spadas hidden in the Island of Monte Cristo. Notice the parchment in his left hand - the writing on half of it is missing, because Faria burned one half by mistake, and then painstakingly reconstructed it from the second half using his intelligence.

/edit: Made a fool of myself.

[CTyankee]

51. I didn't see the remake of this movie (or the original come to think of it) and haven't read

the novel. I just knew the title!