Hey, folks! Another Friday Afternoon Challenge comes your way: Don’t Mess with Me!

[CTyankee]

Below are action figures from the Bible, as imagined by six artists. Identify the action figure. Extra credit for identifying the artists (some are a little difficult)!
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[CTyankee]

1. No guesses?

It's all Old Testament, ya know, some real exciting stuff!

[elleng]

18. VERYexciting! Think I should READ that book, yank???

:rofl:

[CTyankee]

23. A little scary, too!

[elleng]

27. Yes, there are several reasons for agnosticism, ya know!

[CTyankee]

28. Yes, and that's a good one!

[Staph]

2. I have no clue on the artists...

but 1) John the Baptist
3) Abraham (and Isaac)
4) David and Bathsheba (?)

ETA 2) Judith (?)

[CTyankee]

4. No New Testament here so it's not John the Baptist.

#3 is not Abraham and Isaac. I see why you went to David and Bathsheba on #4 but it is not.

No Judith...

You might want to think about the Book of Judges on at least one of these...

Lotsa wars in the Old Testament!

[Staph]

7. Wow, I'm 0 for 4....

I'm obviously not Barry Bonds!

Let me reach back to all of those years of Sunday School and try again later.

[CTyankee]

12. Yep. Vacation Bible School would help too!

I obviously got a LOT out of the few summers I spent in Vacation Bible School at the Presbyterian Church in Brownwood, TX that my uncle and aunt belonged to!

Funny how this kinda stuff gets back into your life much later on!

[Scuba]

3. They guy with the small penis might be Barry Bonds. n/t

[CTyankee]

5. Hmmm...I dunno.

[Bluerthanblue]

6. I think I know who #2 is-

Deborah?
didn't she pound a tent post in someones head?

Don't know the artist.

And # 1 has got to be John the Baptist's head on a platter that was requested by ...Solome..?

[Staph]

11. Two action figures

Deborah and Jael.

Deborah was the Judge who led the Israelites to victory over the Canaanites. After the battle Jael killed the Canaanite general Sisera by driving a tent peg into his head. You go, girls!

[CTyankee]

13. There you go! I knew that hammer and tent spike would do it for somebody!

She DOES look pretty mean...

[CTyankee]

15. Deborah, yep. You sure didn't mess with her!

Nope on John the Baptist...

[suffragette]

8. Is #1 David & Goliath?

[CTyankee]

10. Yes! Do you know the artist?

[suffragette]

29. No, but I see someone's guess and the answer below

I would have made the same guess of Donatello.

Looked it up and here's a page with them side by side - fascinating:

http://www.museumsinflorence.com/musei/museum_of_bargello.html

Yet another museum I didn't make it to on my all too brief trip to Florence many years ago.

[CTyankee]

38. (sigh) So many Americans don't know about the Bargello!

It's all David at the Accademia, the Duomo, and off to the Uffizi for two Botticelli...and that's it!

The Bargello, the San Marco Convent (Fra Angelico), the Brancacci Chapel (Massacio and Masolino), the Santa Maria Novella Church (Massacchio, Ghirlandaio and Brunelleschi) have so much to offer...

[suffragette]

57. There's sooo much to see in Florence

We were there so briefly and actually stayed at a hotel in Fiesole (how we ended up doing that is a story in itself).

Fiesole has its own charms and treasures and I'm glad we wound up there to experience that.

We had half-board at the hotel so would take the bus back up the hill and enjoy the brief walk in the village atmosphere (and much cooler temperature) to our hotel. It was a small family owned place. The dining room was on the top floor with windows all around and a spectacular view of Florence. The food was traditional home style northern Italian. It was a wonderful place to re-center after a hectic day and stretch out and fully appreciate the beauty of where we were.

And it was fascinating when I later watched "Room with a View" and recognized Fiesole when they showed it in the film.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

9. #1 is David and Goliath?

That looks like the Donatello where David wears a party hat with flowers.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

14. 1. David (and Goliath's head) Verrocchio

[CTyankee]

16. Verocchio it is! Good for you!

[Bluerthanblue]

17. ahhh. OT- I've got #3 then

I think Sampson killing the philistine.

don't know the artist again though. :(

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

22. self-delete

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

19. 5. Joseph and Potiphar's Wife, Bartolome Esteban Murillo

[CTyankee]

24. Hey, were you an art major? How did you know this?

I really like Murillo...

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

31. .lol! Google and luck! He reminds me of Rembrandt and I started from there. I do love art though. :)

[WinkyDink]

20. #3 = "Samson Slaying a Philistine" ----Giambologna

It was carved in 1560 by Giambologna, as a fountain centrepiece for a Medici herb garden in Florence,.... http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/dec/01/vanda-sculpture-samson-giambologna

[CTyankee]

25. Have you seen it? I did and I think it was in the Bargello...

[WinkyDink]

30. I'm pretty sure not!

[CTyankee]

34. It's probably pretty well known anyway. I really love it...

[gratuitous]

21. Number 5

Joseph and Potiphar's wife.

[CTyankee]

26. Yup...#4 and #6 await, unguessed...

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

32. Wild guesses... #4 Moses #6 Joshua and the battle of Jericho.

[CTyankee]

35. How did you come to those 2 conclusions?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

37. When Moses came down from Sinai he was a "little disturbed" at what became of his people, and

although Joshua was during an earlier era, I could see an artist envisioning Roman-like soldiers.

[Staph]

39. #6 is Joshua

but not at Jericho. It's the victory of Joshua over the Amorite kings (same war, different battle).

I figured it out from the moon and sun. Joshua asked God to stop the moon and the sun so that he could finish the battle in daylight. The painting is by Nicolas Poussin, and it's in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.

(I knew those years of Sunday School and VBS would pay off!)

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

40. Cool!

[CTyankee]

41. Glad to hear it wasn't Android! Thanks!

[horseshoecrab]

46. I hate to sound goofy but...

what is Android and why is it so bad? Is it a phone or a browser or ... what?

horseshoecrab

[CTyankee]

47. It's a device that allows people to take a picture of what is online and then find it.

So it enables people who have Android to simply take a photo (I guess by cell phone) of a picture on the Internet and find out what it is and who did it.

[horseshoecrab]

52. Oh dear...

Ok, I get it. I am so far behind in my technology skills that I thought maybe just a phone or operating system for a small device. But, whoa this makes the art challenge a lot different.

It would be nice if all agreed to put their androids down, for the Art Challenge, if they have one!

Thanks CTyankee. Like everybody else, I so appreciate what you bring to us each Friday.


horseshoecrab

[CTyankee]

54. thank you, dear heart! Oh well, if android technology takes over, so what?

I wish they wouldn't but I can't say they don't.

Oh well, some of us like to play this little quiz. If you love art and what it brings into your life, this Android thing won't harm that...

[horseshoecrab]

55. You're right...

the important thing is what we get out of it. As near as I can tell, many of us love chasing info all over for the right answer and love what we learn in the process! :-)

Thank you my friend.


horseshoecrab

[CTyankee]

56. I hope it is fun and rewarding at the same time!

I love the stories of people who saw the images and knew them from some distant past reference and had dredged that up!

We all come to art with our own minds and memories. How often doesn't art play into that mind and tinker with it! I really agree with John Armstrong who reminds us that contemplation helps us "get" to the gist of art...

[WinkyDink]

33. (Oops! Forgot the "Bible" part!)

[CTyankee]

36. It's all Bible not Greek history...

[CTyankee]

42. The pic with Moses has not been guessed, folks!

Why was he fighting so hard in this painting?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

43. It is Moses? lol!

[horseshoecrab]

45. The painting is titled:

"Moses Defending the Daughters of Jethro" and the artist is Rosso Fiorentino, an Italian Mannerist painter.


horseshoecrab

edited to change jericho to jethro! my mistake...

[CTyankee]

48. Hey, tell me how you found this painting! Rosso de Fiorentino was such a crazy guy

(he lived with a baboon for a time in Florence!), it is hard to believe that he prospered in the Mannerist era...but this painting is something of wonder. All those bodies floating around in space, the total chaos of the painting, the anger...I just recoil, but I can see how some could like this. It IS energetic and galvanizing, if it weren't for the "candy mint" colors of the basic painting itself! It lacks the basis of reality that the early baroque, such as Caravaggio, gave to his paintings.

I don't want to disparage it entirely. It is a classic example of Mannerism, in many ways. Bodeis floating in space, a highly charged emotional atmosphere...

[horseshoecrab]

50. hahaha! a baboon! omg...

I looked at it and thought it was Mannerist by the colors -- almost washed out -- compared to my BFF Caravaggio. The tortuous bodily positions. The "floating" feeling of the figures. Looked up Mannerist Moses and battle and there it was.

Will have to check out Rosso de Fiorentino and his baboon roomie a bit more


Thanks as always for a good challenge CTyankee!

horseshoecrab

[CTyankee]

51. Yeah, he sure is a weirdo!

Good fun, as always!

[WinkyDink]

44. Okay, NM again! :-)

[CTyankee]

49. Uh, what? Don't know what you are asking?.....

[WinkyDink]

53. I posted a wrong guess AFTER you mentioned Moses! :-)

[Generic Other]

58. All Biblical battles and I didn't guess a one!!

This was a fun one.

[CTyankee]

59. come back next week and you may have better luck.

It's gonna be fun, too...