Ready for this week's DU Friday afternoon challenge?

CTyankee

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Fri Apr-23-10 03:54 PM
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Ready for this week's DU Friday afternoon challenge?

"Why can't this guy EVER leave me alone?"

Identify these people.

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notesdev

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Fri Apr-23-10 04:00 PM
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1. I know the one on the left

That's Mr. Red X, I'd know him anywhere

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CTyankee

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Fri Apr-23-10 04:02 PM
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2. Naw, Mr. Red X doesn't look like THAT!

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Uncle Joe

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Fri Apr-23-10 04:06 PM
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3. Satan and Barbara Bush posed for this long lost sculpture to recapture their moment.

Few people know it, most of all H.W. but he's not Bush's daddy.

Thanks for the thread, CTyankee.

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CTyankee

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Fri Apr-23-10 04:08 PM
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4. Not a bad guess, Joe...

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Sal Minella

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Fri Apr-23-10 04:25 PM
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5. Looks too rough to be Eros and Psyche . . .

Perhaps a Sabine woman and a guy she wishes she hadn't met???

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CTyankee

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Fri Apr-23-10 04:27 PM
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6. Right church but wrong pew....

Uncle Joe had something of a point there...

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elleng

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Fri Apr-23-10 04:30 PM
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7. No, No, DON'T STOP!!!

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CTyankee

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Fri Apr-23-10 04:34 PM
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8. Hi, Ellen!

Thought you'd like this!

Kinda cool...

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elleng

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Fri Apr-23-10 04:54 PM
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9. Thinking of looking at such, close up and personal, yank!

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CTyankee

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Fri Apr-23-10 04:57 PM
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10. Hint: look at it from a different angle...

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KittyWampus

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Fri Apr-23-10 04:58 PM
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11. Pluto and Prosperpina

Edited on Fri Apr-23-10 05:03 PM by KittyWampus

It's the Rape of Prosperpina by Bernini.

He was ahead of his time. It's so real you can see dimples in her flesh.

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CTyankee

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Fri Apr-23-10 05:06 PM
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12. Can't fool you Kitty!

I thought the tilted photo would throw things off a bit, but Bernini's execution (that touch of Pluto' fingers in her flesh) is a BIG tipoff...

fabulous sculpture...saw it in the Borghese Museum in Rome in 2006... great sculpture...

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elleng

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Fri Apr-23-10 05:06 PM
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13. WHERE ARE THEY?

Gotta see!

:bounce:

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CTyankee

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Fri Apr-23-10 05:11 PM
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15. Borghese in Rome! It's a great museum...not little but not huge.

Bernini was a Rome sculptor in the era of Caravaggio. There is a fabulous segment of Simon Schama's "The Power of Art" that you can play on youtube. Or you can get it in dvd or there is a book! I recommend it highly...wonderful survey of artists from the 17th to the 20th century...

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elleng

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Fri Apr-23-10 05:18 PM
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16. I know the guy! Never made it beyond the gardens!

Edited on Fri Apr-23-10 05:33 PM by elleng

On my list!!!!

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CTyankee

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Fri Apr-23-10 05:37 PM
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21. That and there's the Caracci ceiling in the Farnese Palazzo which is the French Embassy in Rome.

Is that Baroque, or what?

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CTyankee

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Fri Apr-23-10 05:55 PM
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24. The French Embassy has a tour a couple of times a week but the catch is

it is only conducted in French or Italian. At this point my Italian is better than my French but still...

And you have to make a reservation..."allo, bonjour..." Heh, I can see it now...

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elleng

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Fri Apr-23-10 08:24 PM
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31. Yank, I can surely see it now!

IF the guides have sense of humor! Could have SO MUCH FUN with my favorite 2 tongues!!!!

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elleng

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Sat Apr-24-10 01:31 PM
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34. Just discovered that on this day 26 years ago,

we had dinner at a restaurant, Passetto, at the Piaza Navona! (honeymoon)

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CTyankee

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Sat Apr-24-10 05:20 PM
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35. The really big fountain in the Piazza was under "restauro" when I was there!

All kinds of ugly iron bars around the statues...just my luck. However, we walked over to the Trevi Fountain and it was such a surprise! It was MUCH larger than I thought it would be...pretty amazing...

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elleng

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Sat Apr-24-10 06:53 PM
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36. Si, Fontana di Trevi VERY large,

big enough to swim in!

First night of h'moon, had dinner around the corner from Trevi. Next day, headed out to explore Italia!

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CTyankee

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Sat Apr-24-10 06:56 PM
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37. C'e magnifico! Grazie...(nessun testo).

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KittyWampus

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Fri Apr-23-10 05:25 PM
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17. Can you imagine being able to fully walk around this masterpiece?

-swoon-

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CTyankee

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Fri Apr-23-10 05:30 PM
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18. It was such a wonderful experience.

Edited on Fri Apr-23-10 05:32 PM by CTyankee

Here is another Bernini masterpiece in the Borghese:

Those fingers of Daphne turning to leaves as she slowly turns into a tree...how the hell did he get THAT...

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elleng

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Fri Apr-23-10 05:34 PM
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19. With great care!

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CTyankee

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Fri Apr-23-10 07:10 PM
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26. I read that one of Bernini's assistants bitched that he did that delicate hand work

and got no credit...such is the art world, ever then as now!

I don't really care...it is a masterpiece of concept and creation...

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KittyWampus

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Fri Apr-23-10 05:36 PM
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20. a friend and I were in the Met last weekend and he was wondering who has this sort of skill today.

The depth of knowledge and talent. The practice. There just aren't the patrons the way there once was to the degree someone could achieve this today.

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CTyankee

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Fri Apr-23-10 05:43 PM
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22. Reading books on the Italian Renaissance and having done an independent study on Caravaggio

in grad school, I can say that MONEY fueled this art to a great degree. There was talent, there was genius, but money did it. In Florence, it was the Medicis, in Rome it was the ascendency of the Vatican and the Popes which was also funded by massive wealth from the New World and Spain's colonization...it's an interesting question, but I believe money attracted the best talent and that's that...

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CTyankee

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Fri Apr-23-10 07:01 PM
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25. Kitty, you gotta go to see this stuff...I mean, really, if you haven't

I'm sure you have, tho...

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KittyWampus

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Fri Apr-23-10 07:12 PM
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27. No, my trip to Germany was very short. At this point in my life I'm more likely to go to a museum

within the metro area because there's a particular exhibit I want to see.

The Met just had "Playing With Pictures" about Victorian collage scrapbooks. IT WAS OUTSTANDING!

Here's the image they used for the poster:

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CTyankee

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Fri Apr-23-10 07:15 PM
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28. Great poster! I love it. But do tell me whether you have been able to make it to Florence

and Rome? You really should...what wonders are there!

Let me know...

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KittyWampus

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Fri Apr-23-10 07:18 PM
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29. Not yet. And at this point, it's more likely I'll be moving to Milford CT in a few years so-

Edited on Fri Apr-23-10 07:18 PM by KittyWampus

you can tell me what great museums to visit in CT :)

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CTyankee

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Fri Apr-23-10 07:28 PM
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30. Kitty, we have a great group in New Haven that loves art in Europe!

Contact me. We travel to Europe and our next trip is to Florence in September! If you are interested, PM me...

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malaise

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Fri Apr-23-10 05:09 PM
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14. It's beautiful

:applause:

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CTyankee

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Fri Apr-23-10 05:51 PM
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23. Bernini was kind of a bastard but this is amazing...

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Sal Minella

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Sat Apr-24-10 09:18 AM
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32. Saturday morning thanks

for the Friday afternoon challenge. What an interesting thread!

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CTyankee

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Sat Apr-24-10 11:01 AM
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33. Why, thank you Sal! Be sure to join in next Friday!

I have another puzzler you can take a crack at...

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elleng

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Sat Apr-24-10 07:00 PM
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38. We DO enjoy ourselves here!

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CTyankee

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Sat Apr-24-10 07:40 PM
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39. I know, Ellen. How cool is that? nt (nessun testo).

Edited on Sat Apr-24-10 07:41 PM by CTyankee

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