The Friday Challenge Question...on Thursday this week!

[CTyankee]

Two ceilings, exactly 7 centuries apart. Who did them and where are they?

[blogslut]

1. I know the second one

But I don't wanna say so early in the game!

[Solly Mack]

2. Louvre, Cy Twombly, Paris, France

Scrovegni Chapel - Padua,Italy, Giotto (di Bondone)

[blogslut]

3. Well, shoot

You went ahead and told!

[Solly Mack]

4. Oops

Guess they'll have to be Friday one now :)

[blogslut]

5. Well, at least I can take my nap now

I was putting it off searching through teh Google. :hi:

[Solly Mack]

8. I get a flyer from the Louvre and saw the Twombly. I was in Venice

not all that long ago and everyone said I needed to go see Scrovegni Chapel in person...I'd seen pictures of it.
So...I suppose I should have disqualified myself.

[CTyankee]

13. No, of course not! You are wonderful!

I tried like hell to get to Padua when I was in Venice in 08, but we all got sick and were sidelined for a lot of our stay in northern Italy...bummer...

I've loved Twombly for years...his "Ah, the peonies" is terrific...saw it at the Guggenheim in Bilbao in late 08...what an experience...

[Solly Mack]

15. We're planning a 3 day trip to Paris before the end of the year...

just to spend time at the Louvre....so I'll get to see the Twombly ceiling in person. (fingers crossed)

There's just so much to see here and I feel as if I'll never have the time.

[CTyankee]

17. Well, I'm off to another trip to Florence on Sept. 18th for an 8 day intensive art study...

You need about a year in Florence before you really see everything that needs to be seen...

There's a trip to Paris and down the Seine on the path of the Impressionists that I want to take...it's expensive so that is a problem...but oh, so tempting...4 days in Paris, 5 days on a barge on the Seine...Honfleur, St. Wandrille...ahh

[Solly Mack]

22. Have a safe and pleasurable study trip!!

Thank you for providing us with the weekly challenge! People really do look forward to them and it means a lot to us!

[CTyankee]

24. Fun, isn't it? I love doing it...tune in next week for something completely different! nt

[CTyankee]

7. Dahling, you're FABULOUS!

I figured the Giotto would get immediate right answers but not so sure about the Twombly...are you an artist or were you an art major?

I love the Twombly, just love it. And I love the way it "recalls" the Giotto. But, then, lots of ceilings have the roundel things...I had actually thought about using the della Robbia ceiling in the San Miniato al Monte, but didn't at the last minute...prolly should have...

Congrats, Solly, how many Challenges here have you won?

[Solly Mack]

11. This is my first. I was gonna answer last week but kept putting it off.

I was once President of small town Arts Council...but what I don't know about art could fill the Louvre several times over. I've just been fortunate to live across the pond and to get some traveling in...

[CTyankee]

23. You knew the Bonaiuti fresco? Wow! That was pretty obscure....nt

[Solly Mack]

25. Yes....and I knew the "joke"...but I waited until it was too late.

[CTyankee]

27. How did you know the joke? I wonder, because it is so odd...

I happened to be reading Michael Levey's wonderful "Florence: A Portrait." He goes into it nicely that I immediately wanted to look it up and found all kinds of great things about this painting...tell me how you found it...

[Solly Mack]

29. I knew the dogs of God/ Dominicans connection from history (reading)

and how it was a play on the name of the order.

As for the fresco - it was discussed in a class I took on religious/political art in Europe. Just a 1 day class that didn't cover a lot but it did cover the Bonaiuto fresco.

I've mainly just lucked out because the last two challenges have been works I've had some form of exposure to in the not too distant past....for one reason or another.

Next week will be something I have no clue about.

[CTyankee]

30. I don't know about that! It could be... I just haven't decided yet what to do...

we'll see...

[CTyankee]

28. How did YOU know? Really interested in finding this out! nt

[Sheepshank]

6. Are you guys naturally this brilliant

or just good at looking stuff up?

[blogslut]

9. Solly Mack is brilliant

I'm just good at looking things up. :)

[CTyankee]

10. Kinda hard to look stuff up if you don't know who did it...which is why I use the pics.

To my knowledge, there's no way to google a picture all by itself...but if you know your art, you keep on things...the Twombly opened April 1, 2010, big art news if you read the art section. I do, but I am retired and I have a lot of time on my hands!

I give a lot of credit to the wonderful art folks here at DU...the "wisdom of crowds" proves true!

[blogslut]

12. I totally looked it up

I Google image-searched: celestial ceiling church. It took me 23 pages but I found it. :hi:

[CTyankee]

14. Wow, 23 pages...did you find both or just one?

there's lots of celestial ceilings (or at least I thought there was!). As I said above, I almost used a della Robbia ceiling. Would you have guessed it correctly?

[blogslut]

16. I found a buttload of celestial ceilings

But this was the magic image:



The page it came from didn't directly display the image:

http://www.contempaesthetics.org/newvolume/pages/article.php?articleID=281

But the image name gave it away.

I went for the older ceiling first because I figured it would be harder to find and the newer one would be a snap.

EDIT ADD: With the alternate ceiling you just posted, I probably would have started out with keywords like: angel ceiling

[CTyankee]

18. The Giotto is really unique...all that blue! Did you find the Twombly there, too? nt

[blogslut]

19. I didn't find the Twombly

But I wasn't looking for it.

I'm off to take my nap now. This was fun! :)

[CTyankee]

21. Thanks for staying up for this! Have a nice nap! I need to make dinner now! nt

[CTyankee]

20. Well, I'm far from brilliant, I just have a lot of time on my hands since I'm retired.

I love art and reading about art, because I can't actually create art (wish I could). So it's a luxury...I go to the library and get books...cheap thrill for me! I get really into it...just my thing. I figure it's harmless...

[Sheepshank]

26. Ahh...my library browsing

tends towards the next Pentergast character event.

[Phentex]

31. The pictures are always interesting

even if I can't figure them out!

:thumbsup:

[CTyankee]

32. Thank you for the "thumbs up"! I really enjoy doing this.

I figure it keeps my brain active...gotta keep those neurons doing their thing, ya know...

Next Friday, something completely different!