The Friday Afternoon Challenge Question has returned!

[CTyankee]

Over several centuries European artists portrayed themselves in the works they produced -- as an autobiographical gesture, an ego trip to put themselves in the center of the action or as a comment on their state of mind. Can you name the artists who are self-portrayed here and the title of the work?

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[Duer 157099]

1. Yay! I'm here early!

Haven't even read the question yet but I wanted to try to post first! LOL

[CTyankee]

7. Oh, bless you! Hope you get them all!

[mdmc]

35. ..

:)

[Inuca]

2. WOW! I shamelessly

thought of myself as being quite good at this kind of thing, but I cannot name even one for sure. I have a couple of guesses, but no real answer :blush:

[gateley]

3. Oooh! I think I finally got one!

Is #6 Pete Townshend? :bounce:

[CTyankee]

4. I didn't think Townshend was THAT old! nt

[Pathwalker]

5. Thank you, CTyankee! I love these threads, and look for them every Friday.

Don't know the answer, but I just love to learn something new.
Thanks, again.

[CTyankee]

6. Aww, make a stab at it...you never can tell...

[Pathwalker]

8. Did you see this? Link:

:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101001/ap_on_hi_te/eu_italy_digital_masterpieces

I figure you probably have, but immediately thought of you when I saw it.

:hi:

[CTyankee]

9. Aaagh...I'm glad I spotted it...one of the things it mentioned was my "extra credit" question...

so I had to can it, because I knew that art lovers would have read that post and known what I was showing...

[Pathwalker]

11. Is #2 Michelangelo?

I know I "should" know that one, but I'm not sure why?

[CTyankee]

13. It's a sculpture, but not him...

[CTyankee]

15. Oops, you said "#2" which is a painting...but it is not Michelangelo, either...sorry.

[CTyankee]

10. HINT: they are all world famous works.

[TriMera]

12. Do we have to name them all?

I know one of them, but I don't want to spoil it if you want someone to name them all.

[CTyankee]

14. PM me and I'll let you know if you are right ...that way it won't matter to others...

let's just see how many will identified...the person guessing the most would "win". That seems to be a fair way, I think...

[BurtWorm]

16. #4

The artist, i think, is Bernini, right? Don't know what the work is.

[CTyankee]

Why do you think that?

[BurtWorm]

18. The alabaster, the expressiveness, the mastery of the technique,

[CTyankee]

19. Wow, you know your art terms! It is Bernini...I think you can get this work's title...

nt

[CTyankee]

29. If you know this sculpture, you are going to be so freaked not to know #1!!!

And you DO know it...just from another view...

[Uncle Joe]

17. No 4 is Glenn Beck's daddy,

this image was captured when he first laid eyes on his freshly hatched spawn.

Shortly after the photo was made from which this statue was modeled, he cut off his own penis.

Thanks for the thread, CTyankee.

[CTyankee]

21. When you find out the name of this work, you'll be CONVINCED it's Beck's daddy!

nt

[CTyankee]

28. It's probably apt. Bernini was freaked out by his own freaking out...

it's just that Beck doesn't have his talent...not by a few hundred miles, but he was pretty freaked out as it was, anyway...he just did quality work and Beck, well, not so much...

[horseshoecrab]

31. #4

is titled "Damned Soul." (Bernini)

[CTyankee]

39. Yep. Good for you! nt

[LiberalAndProud]

23. ... and I'm still laughing ...

:rofl:

[Occulus]

30. Nope.

It's one of the Weeping Angels.

;)

[WinkyDink]

20. #6; Veronese, "Marriage at Cana."

[CTyankee]

22. Magnifico, Winky! How do you know Veronese?

[Ichingcarpenter]

38. That's the only one I knew too

Only because my study and travels to Venice.

[CTyankee]

24. HINT: #1 and #2 have details that are hints to their artists...

[WinkyDink]

25. Same way I know #2: Ghirlandaio~~ "Adoration of the Shepherds".

I'm a natchel-born detective!

(That's Titian on the other stringed instrument, #2!)

[CTyankee]

26. I love it! You are the best...do you just happen to know where this Ghirlandaio is?

(I was there just last week!)...

[WinkyDink]

33. "The altarpiece from the Sassetti chapel, the Adoration of the Shepherds, is now in the Florentine

Academy." Wikipedia
It's even easier when the artist is known! ;-)

I might have seen it, too, but my memeories of Florence are increasingly receding!

[CTyankee]

37. Wikipedia is wrong. I just saw it in the Sassetti Chapel last week!

And I assure you it was really there, in front of my face!

[WinkyDink]

41. Hee! I'm always tickled when wiki is wrong!

[CTyankee]

42. I don't even know what they mean by "Florence Academy." Is it the Accademia?

If that's what they mean, I can say without reservation that the Ghirlandaio is not there either, at least not since last Thursday. My Trinity College small study group would have heard the news from one of our professors...

[CTyankee]

27. How about #1, #3, and #5?, my sweet? Care to guess?

[smalll]

32. Whoa, these are always hard!

2 random guesses --

1) Benvenuto Cellini

2) Mantega?

Also, 5) looks a lot like Spencer Pratt (of Spencer and Heidi.)

[CTyankee]

36. Good for you on Cellini! It was hard since it was on the back of Perseus's helmet

No on Mantegna or Pratt...

[WinkyDink]

40. See above for answer to #2. :-)

[mdmc]

34. sad to say - couldn't get one

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