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Contest #569: Lake O’Hara, British Columbia, Canada

This beautiful location isn’t far from the crowds who visit Lake Louise, but much less busy as Parks Canada restricts the number of visitors to 42 per day.

Lake O’Hara was made famous in a painting by JEH MacDonald, one of Canada’s Group of Seven who painted at different locations across Canada.

Looking for more on this amazing group: http://www.group-of-seven.org

Found with ease, like the swipe of a brush:

  • Glenmorren
  • Phil Ower
  • Abcdefg Hijkl
  • Luís Filipe Miguel
  • Yakubi Dergahi
  • Garfield
  • hhgygy
  • Martin de Bock
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Contest #568: Pointe Gobbo, Bobbio, Italy

In 1472, the Trebbia river flooded, partially destroying a bridge at the northern Italian town of Bobbio.

Art Historian Carla Glori is convinced that minute details included by Leonardo da Vinci in the background of the Mona Lisa are a reference to that event, and therefore the mysterious background, including a bridge that resembles Pointe Gobbo, is Bobbio.

Mona Lisa, by Leonardo da Vinci, from C2RMF retouched.jpg
The bridge is right above her left shoulder

The Devil's Bridge, Bobbio, Italy.jpg
The bridge as it looks today – by AnnieGreenSprings

Now, of course, there are many, many other theories of the location of the painting, including that it was all in The Master’s head, but I liked this one because it made for a good contest!!

Those who found it before the hint included:

  • Walter_V_R
  • Garfield
  • Martin de Bock
  • Phil Ower
  • hhgygy
  • Abcdefg Hijkl

And after the hint:

  • Lance Finney
  • Yakubi Dergahi
  • Ashwini Agrawal
  • Paul Voestermans
  • Sarah G.
  • Hilde Lambeir
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Contest #568 Hint

This one is a bit speculative, but some guy claims he found evidence that the master memorialized the destruction of a bridge in this really, really famous painting. Other folks disagree and put it somewhere else, but this spot is the one suggested by the first guy.

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Contest #567: Ekeberg, Oslo, Norway

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By Edvard Munch – WebMuseum at ibiblio

This week’s contest takes us to Norway to visit the location that inspired Edvard Munch to create his most iconic work.

Known popularly and collectively as “The Scream”, Munch actually titled his work “Der Schrei der Natur”, German for “The Scream of Nature”. He produced 4 versions of the image, 2 in paint and 2 in pastel, between 1893 and 1910. He also did about 45 monochrome lithographs in 1895. You can see all of them in the gallery in the Wikipedia entry

That page full is of theories and conjectures on Munch’s inspiration and process but it also includes 2 very similar quotes from the painter — this one from is from his contemporary diary:

I was walking along the road with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence – there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city – my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety – and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature

Those stood there trembling with anxiety:

  • Walter_V_R
  • Garfield
  • Phil Ower
  • Wista
  • Abcdefg Hijkl
  • hhgygy

And those who walked on and found this place after the hint:

  • Paul Voestermans
  • Gillian B
  • Martin de Bock
  • David Kozina
  • LawnBoy
  • Rob de Wolff
  • gscrp
  • Hilde Lambeir
  • Jason Hattermann