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Am I deceased yet?---Nicolas Poussin
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Honest question, are some of these too difficult? I’m trying to choose the more popular famous artists... but maybe I don’t give enough information? Let me know. It seems that in a few of these, you members caught on quite quickly! We really have a knowledgeable group!
Well if he is asking that question he can´t be dead yet.
Geoffrey wrote: "Well if he is asking that question he can´t be dead yet."Are you being facetious (I know you're witty)? Baroque was obviously before the 20th century, we all know that. I think I'm getting it, but I can be dense sometimes.
I prefer to think I was being witty but you´re right.
Franz Hals? yes, there aren`t enough clues.
Geoffrey wrote: "Franz Hals? yes, there aren`t enough clues."Thank you for the feedback, Geoffrey.
I'll try to make them a little more obvious and give better and more clues.
Clue: often described as the polar opposite of Caravaggio. As spontaneous, violent, and radical as the young painter of the Italian Baroque was, ________ was temperate, stoic, and philosophical in equal measure
Clue: Subjects of his paintings--figures, landscapes, scenery
Clues so far: -French
-Baroque
-opposite personality of Caravaggio
-Subjects of his paintings--figures, landscapes, scenery
Clue: In the mid 1620s, ___________ also made the acquaintance of the powerful Cardinal Francesco Barberini, who gave the painter one of his first Roman commissions.
Clue: Initials are N.P.
I would have said had the most profound impact on landscape painting as a subject. Nicolas Poussin
Michel wrote: "I would have said had the most profound impact on landscape painting as a subject. Nicolas Poussin"Awesome, Michel! Are you new? We haven't heard from you yet, have we? Maybe I missed it, but thank you for the answer--you got it! And thanks for participating!
The beautiful, hilly region in which ________was born...must have profoundly impacted ___ young mind, and influenced the artist's love of landscapes in ___ later career.
As befits a child of ___ rank, __________ was educated in Latin, letters and the sciences, scholarly interests that ___ would pursue for the rest of ___ life...one version of ___ biography says that ___________'s teacher used to scold ___ terribly for drawing in the margins of ___ books, instead of doing ___ schoolwork.
__________ seems to have quickly tired of the small-town life...
It was ________ who finally pushed _______ to make the obligatory artistic pilgrimage to Rome...the rather introverted, serious ________ had a hard time making ___ mark... ___ lived a seemingly ambulatory existence in Rome.
________ did not necessarily get along too well with ___ fellow Academy members. Although contemporary reports suggest ________ had a relatively calm, sober character that allowed ___ to cultivate many important personal relationships (despite ___ occasionally fierce temper), other artists in the Academy had a problem with ________'s style...Some artists may have taken ________'s paintings the wrong way, but that didn't keep ___ from growing in popularity.
_______ was notoriously controlling about ___ work, and despised being subject to the demands of ___ patrons and having to direct workshop assistants.
_______ reluctantly returned to _____.
_______ deceived the king by asking for temporary leave to return to Italy in order to fetch ___ [companion].
In ___ later years... unlike many other painters of the _______ [movement]... _______did not employ workshop assistants, and in fact rarely allowed anyone to even enter ___ workshop.
_______'s last paintings reflect the artist's stoic endurance of ___ illness and ___ preoccupation with death. The artist was deeply affected by the death of his [companion] by which time ___ was already completely ravaged by ___ mysterious illness and even, some say, partially paralyzed.
Typical to the severe, stoic philosophy the painter adhered to in life, in ___ will ________ stipulated that a big fuss not be made over ___ funeral, and that ___ should be buried with a minimum of expense.
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