The Friday Afternoon Challenge Returns...again! Today’s puzzler: What’s going on here?
Your task is to come up with what is significant about these works of art...
and without cheating, please!
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Now I'll look. 
I had just seen it before.
Checking in. I am, as usual, flumoxed.
thanks, again...you are the best! 
And several infamous trials, too.
The rare painted marble Greek sculpture of griffins attacking a doe, 325–300 BC, was turned over by the Getty to Italy after evidence emerged that it was plundered from a tomb in southern Italy in the 1970s.
What Went Wrong at the Getty
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jun/23/what-went-wrong-getty/?pagination=false
( The J. Paul Getty Trust, Villa Collection, Malibu, California )
Two Griffins Attacking a Fallen Doe, from about 325 - 300 BC, is among antiquities that Italy and the J. Paul Getty Museum have arguing over. The museum has come under pressure over allegations of acquiring ancient art pieces illegally.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-getty_gm_01293101,0,5294755.photo#ixzz2sh3bRIlT
"Kiss my butt" and this is the literal version.
I cannot think of this picture in any pornographic way, but who knows, my generation didn't try everything
Ain't this what they call "mooning"?
And there used to be a copy in every doctor's office 
Why Anthony van Dyck was Britain's first art star
The National Portrait Gallery is trying to drum up millions to buy a Van Dyck self-portrait. So why is this Belgian artist so important to British art history?
£12.5m for a self-portrait by Anthony van Dyck? That's what the National Portrait Gallery and the Art Fund are trying to raise in an appeal launched today. Is it worth it?
Absolutely. I think this is one of the most worthwhile campaigns in years to "save" a work of art for the nation. Van Dyck's Self-Portrait would make a spectacular addition to the National Portrait Gallery. Quite frankly, it could make the place. It would give a gallery stuffed with pictures of primarily historical interest a true artistic masterpiece, by the man from Antwerp who gave birth to British art.
Van Dyck was fascinated by the English face. His paintings are full of pale faces, with quirky physiognomies and flaccid skin – the faces of the English upper class in the reign of Charles I. You can see how intrigued he was by this northern island just by looking at his portrait of the art collector George Gage doing business in Italy. Van Dyck shows this elegant art lover as a quintessential Englishman abroad, his long white hands and face looking raw and even sickly in the light of Rome.
Charles I ruled over an art-loving court and Van Dyck, a painter who could and did work all over Europe, came to Britain to get paid for portraits. His images of Stuart ladies and gentlemen have immense panache and cavalier style. They are at once real and down to earth – those pasty faces – yet magnificent in their silken garments and rich settings.
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http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2013/nov/25/van-dyck-national-portrait-gallery
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Not all monuments were men...relating to the recovery and return of millions of works of art that were plundered by the Nazis during WWII. The woman in your photo is Ardelia Ripley Hall, who, along with other women such as Rose Valland (portrayed by Cate Blanchett in the new movie "The Monuments Men"
, worked tirelessly as members of the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section to find, identify, and return priceless treasures after the war.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/arts/design/not-all-monuments-men-were-men.html?ref=design
and Hall was just as persistent as with the Germans in getting the painting returned...I love that story!
BTW, how did you track that down? I'm guessing the way she was dressed just looked SO early 1950s...