Jacob Jordaens
1593 - 1678
Dutch
- Beat living artist Allen Jones after a tough fight in Round 1.
- Lost to Frida Kahlo in Round 2.
- Beat Jasper Johns in the Left Bracket Second Round by a two-vote swing. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
- Beat Gwen John in Left Bracket Second Round Elimination by a two-vote swing. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
1790 - 1867
French
- Beat Victorian painter William Holman Hunt by a two-vote swing in Round 1. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
- Crushed Alexander Ivanov in Round 2.
- Lost to Edward Hopper in Round 3.
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12 comments:
There's something very serene about Ingres, even if he seems to add extra vertebrae.
Ingres.
Jordaens, by a sheep's nose.
Jordaens
There's a split vote on the Facebook feed, one vote apiece.
Ingres
Ingres
Ingres
I thought I might feel conflicted about this one, but one look and I'm all for Jordaens.
Susan votes for Jordaens.
Jordaens.
Well, Ingres looked poised to run away with it for a while there, but then Jordaens claimed the last three in a row to lock it all up in a six-six tie. And this all happened two years ago, so I'm going to officially declare this contest closed so we can move on to some exciting tie-break action!
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