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Museum Quiz
#1
Since the old quiz appears to have come to a dead end, here's a new quiz: museum objects. Here's the first photo: which famous work of art is this and in what museum can you see it?
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Jona Lendering
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#2
Not sure how this game is played, however: Laocoon, possibly by Polydoros, Agesandros, Athenodoros. Its in the Musei Vaticani (Cortile delle Statue) in Rome/Vatican City.

Virgil Aeneis II.199-249 is still so much better though.
Jass
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#3
Your turn Jass. It's indeed the Laocoon Group.
Jona Lendering
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#4
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I could not resist this handsome devil, though the image quality is poor.
Jass
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#5
Augustus Primaporta. Vatican Museum.
Christian K.

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#6
Quote:... though the image quality is poor.
The image link was a bit of a giveaway for anyone who doesn't recognize the sculpture! :wink: But I am grateful for the splendid link to the Vatican online collections.
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#7
Quote:Not sure how this game is played,
Perhaps unnecessary, but it's now your privilige to say - if you think that Christian is right - that it's now his turn. Knowing our Augsburgian friend, he will love to put online something terribly difficult from an obscure museum in the Allgäu.
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#8
Ha well something else Vatican somehow seemed appropriate, unfortunately when I was there I couldn't see that statue for...well anyone who has been knows exactly how...ahem..."well" the musei are ran...

But of course, said poster is correct. I did admittedly have a funnier one but I didn't recall where it is. Ah well.
Jass
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#9
Thanks :-)
In which museum can you find these anatomically quite exact votives?



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Christian K.

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#10
The first museum that comes to mind is, of course, Augsburg.
Jona Lendering
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#11
No. It´s further away from Augsburg. :-)
Christian K.

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#12
Quote:In which museum can you find these anatomically quite exact votives?
Are these the ones in Naples Archaeological Museum?
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caiusbeerquitius post=344395 Wrote:In which museum can you find these anatomically quite exact votives?
Are these the ones in Naples Archaeological Museum?

I was thinking they came from Pompeii but I didn't know where the museum was at.
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#14
Nope, not Pompeii.
Christian K.

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#15
Italy.
Christian K.

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