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mrkelley23
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by mrkelley23 » Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:11 pm
$125,000
In January 2008, German researchers made public that the identity of the model for this painting's subject had been definitively identified:
A. Whistler's Mother
B. Pieta
C. Mona Lisa
D. The Scream
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danielh41
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by danielh41 » Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:13 pm
mrkelley23 wrote:$125,000
In January 2008, German researchers made public that the identity of the model for this painting's subject had been definitively identified:
A. Whistler's Mother
B. Pieta
C. Mona Lisa
D. The Scream
Mona Lisa
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VAdame
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by VAdame » Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:22 pm
B, Mona Lisa, final answer
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mrkelley23
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by mrkelley23 » Tue Feb 05, 2008 2:17 pm
mrkelley23 wrote:$125,000
In January 2008, German researchers made public that the identity of the model for this painting's subject had been definitively identified:
A. Whistler's Mother
B. Pieta
C. Mona Lisa
D. The Scream
C. The Mona Lisa. Art historians were pretty sure already, but a book surfaced recently which apparently had some marginal notes which definitively identified the culprit, and also eliminated the idea that several people had posed over time.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. -- Richard Feynman
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ulysses5019
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by ulysses5019 » Tue Feb 05, 2008 2:19 pm
dang.....I was sure it was hermillion.....I see her in her avatar all the time....
I believe in the usefulness of useless information.
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silvercamaro
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by silvercamaro » Tue Feb 05, 2008 3:30 pm
mrkelley23 wrote:$125,000
In January 2008, German researchers made public that the identity of the model for this painting's subject had been definitively identified:
A. Whistler's Mother
B. Pieta
C. Mona Lisa
D. The Scream
C. Mona Lisa. Of course, I have long since left the studio and I'm drowning my sorrows in a neighborhood bar.
