Who am I (New Challenge)

[Colin Southern]

I took this a few days ago - lets see who's the first to work out who it's a statue of. I'll answer any questions, but only with "yes" / "no" answers.

Winner gets bragging rights for the rest of the week!

Cheers,

Colin - pbase.com/cjsouthern

[David]

Colin - You can't beat the power of Google. Near birthplace of Rutherford (the great chemist) there is a statue of a schoolboy. Whether it is meant to be Rutherford or not I do not know.

David

[Colin Southern]

Hmmm - guess I'd have to give you that one! It's Sir Ernest Lord Rutherford of Nelson - taken at his birthplace, about a hundred yards from where I live.

Darn - I googled it myself, but didn't think it would be quite that easy!

Anyway, congratulations :) - I'll have to think of something harder for next time. Perhaps you'd like to put up one for the rest of us to have a crack at?.

Cheers,

Colin

[The Blue Boy]

I think a new rule should be set. NO USING GOOGLE!

[Colin Southern]

Excellent idea Mark - this is probably my payback for using Google to answer a previous "Moby Dick" question!

An excellent testiment to the power of Google though - it would have to be the worlds largest bank of information - and none of it is "backed up" per sec (apart from the fact that they have a LOT of redundancy). I read the other day that a typical google search can easily involve 1000 servers - bit more than my small mind can handle!

Cheers,

Colin - pbase.com/cjsouthern

[David]

Colin - I accept the challenge: who is this?



It's a dead give-away if you know your art history.

David

[crisscross]

Was it St Neville who invented sliced bread?

[David]

Chris - You've got me worried that the "mystery man" is who I think he is!!!. That's not sliced bread he's carrying (I hope), but maybe the appendages to his head might help.

Cheers

David

PS Looks like we've got Colin stumped.

[rc53]

Is it Moses?

[Daniel Salazar]

I also think that is Moses, however to know where could be also interesting.

[crisscross]

maybe the appendages to his head might help.

There was a Bad King in the OT who had one tent peg bashed into his head, but I think the effect was terminal. I certainly wouldn't wear that outfit in the Siniai desert and have always imagined the tablets on which the 10 commandments were presented a bit less delicate, sort of good for thumping people over the head with without falling to bits.

[David]

OK Guys - Moses it is. According to my records I took the shot at Salisbury Cathedral a few years ago. Not everybody knows about Moses and the horns. For those that don't the explanation is that, according to Exodus, after Moses had been speaking to God in the mountains he came back to proclaim the Ten Commandments and his face shone with the light of God. When artists in the Middle Ages came to depict this scene they interpreted it as rays of light emanating from his head. From rays of light, on sculptures, it was a short step to horns. Note that Charlton Heston did not have horns in the film.

Cheers

David

[rc53]

Another view of Moses, this time he's in front of the Munster in Bern, Switzerland. He's pointing to the 2nd commandment -- the one about not having graven images, not of course that this is a graven image...he's got sort-of-horns here, too.

[rc53]

Meanwhile, who's this then? -- the clue is in the 'dreadlocks'



[Scanned from an APS negative taken years ago, but she's still there.]

[atvinnys]

for some reason, I thought about Hercules...?

[crisscross]

they are probably snakes, in which case Medusa
(take no responsibility for fashions arising)

[rc53]

they are probably snakes, in which case Medusa
(take no responsibility for fashions arising)

Yes Medusa with the snakes in her hair -- clearly, far too easy! -- just be careful not to look too closely

Taken at Didyma, Turkey.

[crisscross]

Yes Medusa with the snakes in her hair -- clearly, far too easy! -- just be careful not to look too closely

Taken at Didyma, Turkey.

For UK residents there is a set of about 10 panels of the legend by Burne-Jones in Southampton art gallery. Andromeda is a 'dish' well worth rescuing, which Perseus does by using a part of his armour as a mirror thus avoiding looking at Medusa - which got one turned to stone.

[crisscross]

a slightly different type, the post held by the guy being arrested and an explanation
There is a photography connection. More specific, more score. My own pic & I never erase exif.

[Dave Humphries]

Well that takes me back to my childhood; my Dad's uniform was that sort of vintage, or maybe a little later.

Didn't have cars like that though!