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Title: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: bijou on March 17, 2009, 12:03:35 PM: Quote
This extraordinary painting depicting 103 figures from world history in striking detail has become the latest internet hit.

Message boards have erupted with contests to identify all those featured, who range from instantly recognisable figures like Gandhi to some more obscure figures such as Liu Xiang, the Chinese hurdler who limped out of the Beijing Olympics in the summer.

An element of mystery also surrounds that origins of the picture, which appears to have drawn inspiration from Raphael's Renaissance fresco The School of Athens.

While the figures in Raphael's painting were all ancient philosophers, there appears little to connect the characters in the recent work which finds room for historical greats like Napoleon as well as Bill Gates, the bespectacled face of modern success.

But eagle-eyed observers have spotted clues to the painting's provenance in some of those depicted. ...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5001462/103-famous-faces-in-one-painting.html

How many can you name?

Servonaut numbered the people. So we can compare answers.

(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f85/Servonaut/painting1.jpg)

(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f85/Servonaut/painting2.jpg)

(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f85/Servonaut/painting3.jpg)
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: Flame on March 17, 2009, 12:13:13 PM: On my first scan through I got 33....
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: Wineslob on March 17, 2009, 12:13:40 PM: Too many scumbags in it for me to bother.
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: Lord Undies on March 17, 2009, 12:28:46 PM: I don't know how they got them all together to sit for the painting. Amazing.
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: bijou on March 17, 2009, 12:29:01 PM: Quote from: Flame on March 17, 2009, 12:13:13 PM
On my first scan through I got 33....
Well done I got about 30 and a couple I recognised but couldn't name.
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: Toastedturningtidelegs on March 17, 2009, 12:58:07 PM: Quote from: bijou on March 17, 2009, 12:03:35 PM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5001462/103-famous-faces-in-one-painting.html

(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01367/famous-faces-big_1367237a.jpg)

How many can you name?
What the hell is Clinton holding in his hand? A bag of weed?
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: Flame on March 17, 2009, 01:38:08 PM: Quote from: Toastedturningtidelegs on March 17, 2009, 12:58:07 PM
What the hell is Clinton holding in his hand? A bag of weed?

Looks like a handful of hair or candy canes to me...LOL.
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: MarshallLaw on March 17, 2009, 01:47:46 PM: Quote from: Flame on March 17, 2009, 01:38:08 PM
Looks like a handful of hair or candy canes to me...LOL.

I thought she had dark hair.
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: Servonaut on March 18, 2009, 03:38:51 PM: I numbered the pic for easier naming, but the biggest photobucket will let me post the pic is this.

(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f85/Servonaut/famous-faces-big_1367237a.jpg)

Is there a better place to host it at full size ?
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: bijou on March 18, 2009, 03:45:03 PM: Quote from: Servonaut on March 18, 2009, 03:38:51 PM
I numbered the pic for easier naming, but the biggest photobucket will let me post the pic is this.

Is there a better place to host it at full size ?
That's great, thanks Servo. Why not post it full size here and I will move it to the OP.
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: Servonaut on March 18, 2009, 03:51:05 PM: Quote from: bijou on March 18, 2009, 03:45:03 PM
That's great, thanks Servo. Why not post it full size here and I will move it to the OP.

Can you tell me how to do that bijou ?
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: bijou on March 18, 2009, 04:05:07 PM: Quote from: Servonaut on March 18, 2009, 03:51:05 PM
Can you tell me how to do that bijou ?

Sorry did I misunderstand? I thought you had a full size version that you could post in the thread and then I could modify my OP.
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: Servonaut on March 18, 2009, 04:18:34 PM: Quote from: bijou on March 18, 2009, 04:05:07 PM
Sorry did I misunderstand? I thought you had a full size version that you could post in the thread and then I could modify my OP.

I'm sorry bijou, I do have a full size version of the picture numbered, but photobucket only allows pictures a certain
size. Is the another picture hosting site that will let me post the picture full size ?
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: bijou on March 18, 2009, 04:19:10 PM: Unfortunately I only have photobucket too and that is about as big as I could get it too.
Maybe someone who uses a different service can help.
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: Servonaut on March 18, 2009, 04:31:58 PM: Quote from: bijou on March 18, 2009, 04:19:10 PM
Unfortunately I only have photobucket too and that is about as big as I could get it too.
Maybe someone who uses a different service can help.

Dangit, Oh well when I was numbering the picture I came up with 104 instead of 103 famous faces.

No barn animals were included. :-)
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: debk on March 18, 2009, 05:09:17 PM: Is there a way to split it into sections and then upload it?
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: Miss Mia on March 18, 2009, 06:30:56 PM: I got 30 when I looked at it.
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: Black Swan on March 19, 2009, 12:18:29 AM: Nice picture.

I got a really good look--does that count?
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: JohnnyReb on March 19, 2009, 04:33:33 AM: 33......wonder if it's the same 33 that someone else got?

.....and Airy-fats ugly mug makes 34.
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: Servonaut on March 19, 2009, 02:07:05 PM: Quote from: debk on March 18, 2009, 05:09:17 PM
Is there a way to split it into sections and then upload it?

I cut it in 3 places and re-numbered it. For some reason I only came up with 101 this time.

(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f85/Servonaut/painting1.jpg)

(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f85/Servonaut/painting2.jpg)

(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f85/Servonaut/painting3.jpg)

On edit: Damn, the pictures are still too big for photobucket.
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: dutch508 on March 19, 2009, 02:28:02 PM: did you count the dogs and gaots last time?
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: Servonaut on March 19, 2009, 02:37:04 PM: Quote from: dutch508 on March 19, 2009, 02:28:02 PM
did you count the dogs and gaots last time?

Nope, from a previous post

Quote
No barn animals were included. :-)
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: dutch508 on March 19, 2009, 02:40:02 PM: roger.

I'm going to have to print it out on the plotter at one to one scale...
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: bijou on March 19, 2009, 03:38:30 PM: Thanks so much Servo, I have put those in the OP, hopefully we can now name all 103!

4 - Lenin

6 Bill Clinton

8 - Winston Churchill

16 - Margaret Thatcher

21 - Pele

22 - Audrey Hepburn

40 - Charlie Chaplin

41 - Mike Tyson
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: Mike220 on March 19, 2009, 04:14:07 PM: 20. Adolf Hitler

25. Saddam Hussein

30. Queen Elizabeth II

34. Kim Il Sung

38. Vladimir Putin

42. Oliver Cromwell

43. William Shakespeare

45. Chengiz Khan

46. Napoleon Bonaparte

47. Che Guevara

48. Fidel Castro

49. Marlon Brando (as Don Vito Corleone)

50. Yasser Arafat

60. Karl Marx

62. Abraham Lincoln

63. Mao Zedong

70. Albert Einstein

71. Mahatma Gandhi

92. Qin Shi Huang

95. Michael Jordan

99. Pablo Picasso

Josef Stalin is in there too, right below 11, but I don't see a number for him.
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: bijou on March 19, 2009, 04:26:02 PM: 100 -Toulouse Lautrec

101 - Vincent Van Gogh
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: Servonaut on March 19, 2009, 04:38:28 PM: 10 - Robert Oppenheimer

7 - Bruce Lee

32 - Shirley Temple ?

1 - Bill Gates

79 - GWB

64 - Eisenhower ?
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: debk on March 19, 2009, 04:42:40 PM: 11- Elvis Presley

12- Ernest Hemingway

15- Al Hirt

19- Genghis Khan

23- Beethovan

52- Marilyn Monroe

76-Plato

81- Salvadore Dali

83- Prince Charles

86- Mother Theresa
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: Servonaut on March 19, 2009, 04:53:33 PM: 17 - Charles de Gaulle

73 - O. Bin Laden
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: Mike220 on March 19, 2009, 09:36:18 PM: 24. Benito Mussolini

36. Sigmund Freud

80. Luciano Pavarotti

85. Mikhail Gorbachev

96. Hideki Tojo
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: Black Swan on March 21, 2009, 09:11:58 PM: There is a dark haired guy in front of #12 that is not numbered. ~~Neville Chamberlain (?)~~ Lu Xun

35. ~~Sir Laurence Olivier (?)~~ Dr. Kevorkian

39. Henry Ford ~~(?) Will Rogers (?)~~

44. Mozart

58. Steven Spielberg

61. ~~Galileo (?)~~ DaVinci

72. ~~Humphrey Bogart or William Holden (?)~~ General MacArthur

84. Kofi Annan

94. Ariel Sharon

Does anyone have the answers to this great picture?

Corrected based on answers. Thanks for the answers. :)
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: bijou on March 22, 2009, 03:15:08 AM: Quote from: Black Swan on March 21, 2009, 09:11:58 PM
There is a dark haired guy in front of #12 that is not numbered. Neville Chamberlain (?)

35. Sir Laurence Olivier (?)

39. Henry Ford (?) Will Rogers (?)

44. Mozart (?)

58. Steven Spielberg (?)

61. Galileo (?)

72. Humphrey Bogart or William Holden (?)

84. Kofi Annan (?)

94. Ariel Sharon (?)

Does anyone have the answers to this great picture?
It has probably been worked out somewhere on the net by now, but it didn't come with answers.
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: Mike220 on March 22, 2009, 04:17:36 AM: I found one, but I don't know if I should post it in case someone else wants to try and guess.
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: Black Swan on March 22, 2009, 03:16:03 PM: Quote from: Mike220 on March 22, 2009, 04:17:36 AM
I found one, but I don't know if I should post it in case someone else wants to try and guess.

Can you post a link?
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: bijou on March 22, 2009, 03:52:12 PM: Quote from: Mike220 on March 22, 2009, 04:17:36 AM
I found one, but I don't know if I should post it in case someone else wants to try and guess.

Please do, I think enough time has passed for everyone to have a stab at it.
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: Mike220 on March 22, 2009, 04:50:35 PM: Answers (http://cliptank.com/PeopleofInfluencePainting.htm)

Put your cursor over the person you want to know and it pops up.

So far I've gotten 3 wrong, but haven't gone through them all yet.
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: Black Swan on March 22, 2009, 06:24:22 PM: Bijou, what great fun that was. Thank you Mike for the Answers--I would never have gotten anywhere near all of them. Now I can go look up their great influence on history. LOL
Title: Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
Post by: Lord Undies on March 22, 2009, 06:26:19 PM: Quote from: Mike220 on March 22, 2009, 04:50:35 PM
Answers (http://cliptank.com/PeopleofInfluencePainting.htm)

Put your cursor over the person you want to know and it pops up.

So far I've gotten 3 wrong, but haven't gone through them all yet.

Charles Darwin OR Noah??? I think there's room for errors.