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Get To Know Your Art

Saturday, Jess and I took a friend up to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art for one of her class assignments. It was a beautiful day, and I thought perhaps I'd help you through your dull day by giving you some educational distraction.

Let's play Name That Artwork!, a game where I take pictures of rare, beautiful artwork, forget to write down the title or artist, and then you all get to guess all of the details! Whoever gets the most right (right=title and artist correct) in five days gets a free PlasticMind shirt. (See, I'm a patron of the arts.) Leave your answers in the comments here. There are 25 pictures in all, so good luck!

Art Quiz

To see the entire Met photoset, stop by my Flickr page.

posted on 30 April 2007
by Jesse

Comments (12)
in the chapter, "Eyes"

InterAction:

30 April 20071. xpressionccr:

ok...these are the one's I knew...a couple of the other's are really familiar, but I can't figure them out:

#6 A bust of Caesar???

# 7 One of a series of still-lifes including Lemons and that Goblet by William Claesz. Heda (Mid 1600's)

# 8 Rembrandt, Aristotle with a Bust of Homer (mid 1600's)

#9 Pannini's Rome Gallery (mid 1700's)

#11 Its 14th century, its Madonna and Child with Saints, or something similar...maybe Duccio???

#12 Rafael, Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints (early 1500's)

#14 Gentileschi, Esther before Ahasuerus (early 1600's)

#15 Caravaggio's, the Lute Player (1590's) uh...it's a lute.

#19 That is Salvador Dali, but I don't know the name of the piece...but it would be 1950'sish.

# 21and #23 (it's repeated) Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates (Late 1700's)

30 April 20072. crystal:

I'm not going to try to guess. I just want to say that I'm extremely jealous.

1 May 20073. xpressionccr:

on #22...were there people in the painting? The fabric looks like something that Carlo Dolci would have painted (he was amazing with details like that). If it is Dolci then it would be Mid 1600's, but I am taking a shot in the dark there.

And, #24 looks like El Greco...which would place it around the late 1500's, but I'm not sure. It has that dark and grayish-ness to it, and the long line, but it isn't as graphic in style as I think it should be. Arg.

As, you can tell, you have hit an OCD nerve with me here.

1 May 20074. xpressionccr:

Ok...so I must really want this T-shirt.

I looked in a coffee table art book that I have at home. I knew it had # 18 in there. That is Portrait of Guillaum Bude by Clouet (Early to Mid 1500's).

1 May 20075. xpressionccr:

Ok...these I used google to find:

#1 Madonna and Child; Saint Benedict; Saint Silvester Gozzolini, part of a polyptych, 1320s
Segna di Buonaventura (Italian, Sienese, active by 1298, died 1326/31)

#2 Francesco Sassetti (1421-1490) and His Son Teodoro, ca. 1487?
Domenico Ghirlandaio

#3 and #5 dont have names but are both landscapes by
Francesco Guardi (Italian, Venetian, 1712-1793)

#4 Piazza San Marco, possibly late 1720s
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) (Italian, Venetian, 1697-1768)

#10 Obviously Saint Catherine but this particular on is Saint Catherine of Alexandria in Prison, ca. 1580-85
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) (Italian, Venetian, 1528-1588)

#11...I was wrong about the artist but basically right about the title and dates. This is Madonna and Child with Six Saints, late 1440s
Pesellino (Francesco di Stefano) (Italian, Florentine, born about 1422, died 1457)

#13 I knew who it was when I read your hint but the title is, Salvator Mundi
Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528)

#16 The Immaculate Conception, 1627
Guido Reni (Italian, Bolognese, 1575-1642)

#17 How are you going to ask for an unknown artist! Portrait of a Monk in Prayer
French Painter, about 1500

#20 I cannot find this anywhere. I am pretty sure that it is The Birth of th Virgin and it is probably around 1500, but I don't know who.

#22 Yeah...you were just playing dirty with that one! You didn't put her head in there to give the time period you jerk! It's Self-portrait with a Harp
Rose Adélaïde Ducreux (French, 1761-1802)

#24 You cheated...the angle of the photo made for an El Greco line. THPPPT. It is not nearly that elongated in reality. The Crucifixion. Workshop of Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish, 1598-1664)

#25 At first I thought this one might be Rubens (it's bloody enough) But it's not. This is Pietà, probably 1657-60
Juan de Valdés Leal (Spanish, 1622-1690)

Yeah...so take that photo man!

1 May 20076. Chuck:

Well only because you said the first to post, but I wanted to have them all. more to come

#1 Madonna and Child with Saints, polyptych, 1454Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) (Italian, Sienese, active by 1417, died 1482)
The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931 (32.100.76)

#3 Fantastic Landscape
Francesco Guardi (Italian, Venetian, 1712-1793)

#4 Piazza San Marco, possibly late 1720s
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) (Italian, Venetian, 1697-1768)

#5 Fantastic Landscape, probably 1760s
Francesco Guardi (Italian, Venetian, 1712-1793)

#7 Pieter Claesz (Dutch, 1597/98-1660)
Still Life with Lemons, Venetian Goblet, and Roemer, 1629

#8 Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, 1653
Rembrandt (Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn) (Dutch, 1606-1669)
Oil on canvas; 56 1/2 x 53 3/4 in. (143.5 x 136.5 cm)

# 9 Ancient Rome, 1757
Giovanni Paolo Panini (Italian, Roman, 1691-1765)

#10 Saint Catherine of Alexandria in Prison, ca. 1580-85
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) (Italian, Venetian, 1528-1588)

#11 Madonna and Child with Six Saints, late 1440s
Pesellino (Francesco di Stefano) (Italian, Florentine, born about 1422, died 1457)
Tempera on wood, gold ground; 8 7/8 x 8 in. (22.5 x 20.3 cm)

#12 Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, altarpiece, ca. 1504
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Marchigian, 1483-1520)

# 13 Salvator Mundi
Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528)

#14 Esther before Ahasuerus
Artemisia Gentileschi (Italian, Roman, 1593-1651/53)
Oil on canvas; 82 x 107 3/4 in. (208.3 x 273.7 cm)

#15 the Lute Player, 1596 by Caravaggio (1573-1610)

#16 The Immaculate Conception, 1627
Guido Reni (Italian, Bolognese, 1575-1642)
Oil on canvas; 105 1/2 x 73 in. (268 x 185.4 cm)

#17 Portrait of a Monk in Prayer
French Painter, about 1500

#18 Guillaume Budé (1467-1540), ca. 1536
Jean Clouet (French, active by 1516, died 1540/41)

#19 Christ's Descent into Hell
Style of Hieronymus Bosch (Netherlandish, about 1550-60)

#20 The Birth and Naming of Saint John the Baptist; (verso) Trompe-l'oeil with Painting of The Man of Sorrows, 1510-20
Attributed to Bernaert van Orley (Netherlandish, ca. 1488-1541/42)
Oil on wood; 25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm)

#21 (No the real one. see the flickr stream) The Penitence of Saint Jerome, triptych, ca. 1518
Joachim Patinir (Netherlandish, active by 1515, died 1524)
He is flailing himself? he's doing penance

#23 The Death of Socrates, 1787
Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748-1825)
Oil on canvas; 51 x 77 1/4 in. (129.5 x 196.2 cm)

# 24 The Crucifixion
Workshop of Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish, 1598-1664)

1 May 20077. Chuck:

Hey Chris we can split the shirt? wanna combine and get em all?

1 May 20078. Chuck:

My updated list
#1 Madonna and Child with Saints, polyptych, 1454Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) (Italian, Sienese, active by 1417, died 1482)
The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931 (32.100.76)

#2 Francesco Sassetti (1421-1490) and His Son Teodoro, ca. 1487?
Domenico Ghirlandaio (Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi) (Italian, Florentine, 1449-1494)
Tempera on wood; Overall 33 1/4 x 25 1/8 in. (84.5 x 63.8 cm); painted surface 29 7/8 x 20 7/8 in. (75.9 x 53 cm)