The Friday Afternoon has returned! This week, as promised: Glam Guys!

[CTyankee]

This week, some cool guys for you to I.D. And/or their artists...

And please folks, no cheatin’....

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[CTyankee]

1. Any guesses? questions?

[cbayer]

3. Only the last one seems familiar to me, and I can't put my finger on it. But these

are some great images overall.

BTW, I love your Friday afternoon challenge. I am just really bad at it.

[CTyankee]

8. wow, you are good! That's not an easy one...

[librechik]

2. Miles Davis by Avedon (or Penn) ?

[CTyankee]

4. Hey, librechik, you nailed it! It is Davis and Penn is the photographer!

Hooray! You know your photographers (and your jazz musicians, too!)...

[librechik]

6. Hah! I'm better in the 20th century in general.

I love these puzzles, even tho they remind me of how much I've forgotten.

[librechik]

5. Is that Lord Byron or David by David?

I'm guessing this week--also very weak on British Romantics--that looks like a David

[CTyankee]

7. No David at all (artist or subject) here. Which one did you intend? 2 or 3?

Any guess on #1? He was a pretty famous guy, even as a kid...

[librechik]

13. not on subject, although it's clearly 15th century

I'm bad at the European stuff

[CTyankee]

15. Yup, 15th century. That narrows the field...

[librechik]

14. ok, if David isn't involved, I guess maybe Byron is still in the running (as subject)

but who painted it?

[CTyankee]

16. sorry, but no byron...kinda looks like it MIGHT be him, but...

[pinboy3niner]

9. Welcome back, CTyankee!

We missed you!

[CTyankee]

11. thanks, honey. I missed you guys too!

nt

[ananda]

10. #2 is Chopin..

.. but I don't know the artist. Anyone?

No, I found it. It's Delacroix. I recognized Chopin's face, so then I cheated and used Google images (sorry).

[CTyankee]

12. good for you, ananda! great that you recognized Chopin's mug. I wouldn't have...

evidently, he was quite the guy with the ladies...So glam fits him pretty well!

[CTyankee]

17. So now we have #s1, 3, 4 and 6!

Hint: #4 is the only American artist left...

[msanthrope]

18. The first one is a detail, is it not? It's from the Gozzoli Magi frescoes in the Palazzo Medici.

It's the youngest Magi, Caspar, thought to be the young face of Lorenzo Medici.

I recommend visiting.

[CTyankee]

19. whoa, you must have seen this!

So did I. Did you see it after it was restored?

I saw it in 2010 after the restoration. Man, was that one hot room it is in! They had a little fan going but I came close to passing out....September in Florence can be brutal and it was in a small room...

[msanthrope]

23. I saw it before and after...an amazing difference, and same damn fan. nt

[CTyankee]

30. how lame is that? You'd think with the restoration and all they'd get a clue and get a bigger

fan...

[ananda]

20. Here's the whole picture for #1..

.. Gozzoli's Procession of the Magi where Lorenzo de Medici is depicted as Caspar.

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[CTyankee]

21. as restored, it is quite magnificent. It takes up the entire room (which is small) since it is a

fresco.

Quite a tour de force...

[ananda]

22. And a good example of vanishing point?

nt

[CTyankee]

27. yep, a great 15th century RE-discovery (sorry Brunelleschi)...

[CTyankee]

24. Hinty-poo. the two in #6 are related...

[ananda]

25. Another hottie I saw in person at the Kimball in Fort Worth.

You can probably guess who.

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[CTyankee]

29. Love the Kimball (terrific museum!), but no, I cannot guess him...do tell...

[ananda]

31. It's Pedro Romero by Goya..

.. the greatest bullfighter of all time, methinks.. or at least the hottest.

It's so easy to picture the Pedro Romero in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises now.....

[CTyankee]

32. Oh, yes! He is beautiful. Goya, why did I not guess that...

Spanish men can be so gorgeous...

[ananda]

33. Yup

I just stood there staring like a fool. He just exudes that perfect
combination of tension and grace that no bull (or woman I bet)
could withstand.

[CTyankee]

34. Where is this? sorry, you just told us, duh!

Edited to keep from making a fool of myself!

It is nice that it is at the Kimball. That museum is so wonderful. I am curious about its leadership because it has a great collection and never fails to surprise and delight me...

[lunatica]

26. Is the last one Rogers and Hammerstein?

[CTyankee]

28. No, sorry...but same era...I love those suits!

[horseshoecrab]

37. #6

Is this George and Ira Gershwin?

Not familiar with this photo of them, if so.

Love those suits too!

[CTyankee]

42. great guess, but it is not them...

[horseshoecrab]

51. #6

Joseph and Stewart Alsop -- two brothers who wrote political columns for the NY Herald Tribune and for magazines back in the 1950s and 60s -- as seen through the lens of French photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Thanks for the clue CTyankee and, of course, Welcome Back!


horseshoecrab

[cthulu2016]

35. 2. Alan Rickman 3. Elvis 5. Miles Davis

[CTyankee]

36. hey, cthulu, where the hell you been?

I was looking for you! Who is Alan Rickman?

#3 DOES look a bit like Elvis (only handsomer). Who on earth would paint that guy? Esp. since he was so great at painting women?

#5 was guessed already and you are right. Irving Penn did that fabulous photo...

Got any ideas about #4? How about #6? (I love the look on the faces of those two guys...)

[cthulu2016]

39. Alan Rickman

He's an actor.


Welcome back.


I did a faux-challenge while you were gone, notable primarily for the inclusion of perhaps my favorite piece of painting—the study for Madame X. Painted studies are almost always better.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002880332

[CTyankee]

44. I love studies. These were great and I have a few in my picture file.

Ironically, the artist of one in your collection of studies is one of the artists in this Challenge.

Your challenge was wonderful, btw. Bravo!

I am flattered beyond belief...

[pinboy3niner]

40. If you saw 'Die Hard,' Rickman was deliciously bad as the bad guy

Another work of art.

[Brickbat]

38. No. 3 is...

...on the cover of my copy of The Count of Monte Cristo. And it's not Dumas (pere ou fils), and one week ago I looked at the back to see what the painting is, and I don't remember.

Also, it's reversed on the book.

[CTyankee]

43. No, it is not the fictional Count of Monte Cristo. I can't figure out why this painting would be

used for the Dumas novel. He was a contemporary of the artist...

[Brickbat]

50. No, I know it's not meant to be the CMC. It's a portrait of a real person, but every time I see the

painting, I think of the book.

[Brickbat]

41. Also, nice to see you back! The last two Fridays have been boring without you.

[CTyankee]

45. I was on the Vineyard with my family. Great time but mobbed as hell.

[burrowowl]

46. Love your posts!

[CTyankee]

47. why, thanks! I like doing them...so that makes two of us...

[CTyankee]

48. I'm going out to tutor my ESL class but will return later this morning and will post the

answers.

Here's more hints (if you can stand it): #3 and 6 are French (in #6 the artist is French but the two subjects are Americans). #4 is a 20th century American artist.

[blaze]

49. Yay! You're back!!

No guesses.

Just love this weekly thread!!!

[CTyankee]

52. You are so nice! Thank you!

[suffragette]

53. No clue on #3, but quite the spectacular sideburns

18th century?

[pinboy3niner]

54. Looks like Nostradamus' painting of Elvis

[CTyankee]

57. The guy was actually a sculptor who never made it in Paris. The painter who did his portrait is

quite famous, however.

[CTyankee]

56. No, 19th. The reason you don't know him is because his painter is famous for his

rather voluptuous women and one nude who seems to have too long a spine...

[CTyankee]

55. The answers are here http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=947193

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