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repin sweep!

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SET FOURTEEN - ROUND ONE - MATCH SEVEN

"Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks" (1880–1891 - Ilya Repin) / "Garden of Earthly Delights" (1490-1510 - Hieronymus Bosch)

REPLY OF THE ZAPOROZHIAN COSSACKS: Uuuuuuooo I’m pretty sure somebody has submitted the world famous Repin with the fella holding his dead son, and yeah that one is truly harrowing and I think it should be in the final bracket cause it would sweep but Repin has such a range and it’s all very deeply felt and sensitive stuff. For this one he did a couple of versions - you could pick either because they’re both rich in a really immediate sense of humanity. Again on the technical side this is a truly bonkers piece of work because he stitched its elements together from countless studies of people he knew and the result is still somehow a Realist masterpiece rather than the patchwork amalgamation you’d expect.

And each figure isn’t just irresistibly human - he gives all of them so much tangible warmth (the riotous laughter! The attention paid to detail in their clothes! The irritated dog in the bottom left corner) and the fact that theyre all his friends and colleagues is really charming. Dunno if its like “molten lava” kind of evocation of emotion but it certainly makes me feel something. ( @idiotpalespiral )

GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS: think it's one of the greatest odes to human imagination and it's insane that it was painted around 1500. it's hard to overstate how innovate and unique bosch's art is. besides, he probably hadn't even ever taken acid in his life, so i don't know how he did that (@cuties-in-codices)

(The "Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks" is an oil on canvas painting by Ukranian born Russian artist Ilya Repin. A large number of the "Cossacks" are modelled after either friends of Repin or people he saw around him, including the bald head belonging to the Grand Chamberlain of the court of the Russian Emperor who declined to be added and Repin painted in anyway. This painting measures 203 cm × 358 cm (80 in × 141 in) and is located at the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg. The submitter originally submitted the preliminary version of the piece.

"The Garden of Earthly Delights" is a triptych oil painting by Hieronymus Bosch. It measures 205.5 cm × 384.9 cm (81 in × 152 in) and is located in the Museo del Prado, Madrid.)

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* at least 4 lines; not a song (or not learned as a song); can be an excerpt which holds up as a standalone piece; any theme, type and source (children's poems, memes, bits from novels and plays in verse, etc.)

** will remember with 95%+ accuracy if u have the time to think about it, but no looking up

for extra credit share your first language or nationality with the answer. if you consider your number to be high compared to your irl circle, would love to know what you think the reason behind that is.

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prev post Im holding you by the shoulders vote salvator mundi Felix gonzalez-torres has 2 more works in the bracket please salvator mundi sweep look in His eyes and learn fear

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SET THREE - ROUND ONE - MATCH EIGHT

“Salvator Mundi (Savior of the World)” (c.1499-1510/2006-07 - Leonardo da Vinci) / “Untitled (billboard of an empty unmade bed)” (1991 - Félix González-Torres)

SALVATOR MUNDI: It is absolutely captivating to me. The gaze comes straight through the broken up surface. (@skeppsbrott)

UNTITLED (BILLBOARD OF AN EMPTY UNMADE BED): this piece has stuck with me for years, the most out of all of his work, which is saying a lot. this statement of grief through the private made public, and not just the private made public but that which society wanted so badly to be hidden and eliminated put into the open, just fucks me up so much. There is grief and love here, yes, but defiance also. It is a refusal to keep this suffering quiet, and certainly a refusal to keep this behind closed doors. beyond that, the fact that it is their bed, that you can see where their heads were lain the night before, yet the absence is palpable- it’s such a devastating and accurate portrait of grief, of absence where before there was presence. (@hineinihineini)

("Salvator Mundi" (Savior of the World) is a oil on walnut panel painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, but possibly by another artist. The submitter specifically requested the post cleaning and pre-restoration version of this painting. This painting measures 45.4 by 65.6 cm (25.8 by 19.2 in) and is privately held.

"Untitled (billboard of an empty unmade bed)" is a 1991 work by Cuban-American gay artist Félix González-Torres. This work was exhibited on over two dozen billboards throughout Manhattan.)

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Saint of Patience

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The X-Files 3.22 | Quagmire

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happy early ides, have a scandal!

per artnews, it's looking pretty certain that this "eid mar" coin (originally minted by Brutus to celebrate Julius Caesar's assassination), which sold at auction in 2020 for a record-breaking $4.2 million, was looted. at the very least, its provenance (the record of who has bought, sold, and owned a work throughout its history) was falsified, and in 2015 owner Richard Beale was telling potential buyers that it came from "an old Swiss collection," (love that) which is apparently known code that something's provenance is dubious.

it's unknown at this time why a manufactured provenance was necessary, but the scheme was uncovered following the discovery that 5 coins Beale attempted to sell last year were looted from Gaza.

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Bonus Rematch

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julien baker the woman that you are

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just because i killed your son and violently desecrated his corpse, does not mean you are not guilty of creating a culture that makes it easy for me to kill your son