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Offline bijou

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103 famous faces in one painting
« on: March 17, 2009, 12:03:35 PM »
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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.






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Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2009, 12:13:13 PM »
On my first scan through I got 33....
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Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2009, 12:13:40 PM »
Too many scumbags in it for me to bother.
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Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2009, 12:28:46 PM »
I don't know how they got them all together to sit for the painting.  Amazing.
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Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
« Reply #4 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.
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Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2009, 12:58:07 PM »
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Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
« Reply #6 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.
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Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
« Reply #7 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.
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Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
« Reply #8 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 ? 
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Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
« Reply #9 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.
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Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
« Reply #10 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 ?
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Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
« Reply #11 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.
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Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
« Reply #12 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 ? 
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Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
« Reply #13 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.
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Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
« Reply #14 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.   :-)   
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Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
« Reply #15 on: March 18, 2009, 05:09:17 PM »
Is there a way to split it into sections and then upload it?
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Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
« Reply #16 on: March 18, 2009, 06:30:56 PM »
I got 30 when I looked at it.
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Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
« Reply #17 on: March 19, 2009, 12:18:29 AM »
Nice picture.






I got a really good look--does that count? 
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Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
« Reply #18 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.
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Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
« Reply #19 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.

 





On edit: Damn, the pictures are still too big for photobucket.
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Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
« Reply #20 on: March 19, 2009, 02:28:02 PM »
did you count the dogs and gaots last time?
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Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
« Reply #21 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

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Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
« Reply #22 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...
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Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
« Reply #23 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
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Re: 103 famous faces in one painting
« Reply #24 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.
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