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Games: Details competition No 429

Tom Lubbock
Saturday 17 April 1999 23:02 BST
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In which picture by which painter could you find this view? Answers on a postcard, to arrive by Monday 26 April: DETAILS 429, IoS, 1 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5DL. Three winners will each receive a bottle of Champagne

Details 427 came from Hendrick ter Brugghen's revolting picture of St Sebastian Tended by St Irene (1625). You have to admire the highly death-like rigour and texture of the martyr's corpse (especially the left hand, greyed and withered from cut-off circulation, the thong biting deep into the wrist). But, as for realism, that's hardly the way to extract a deeply embedded arrow from someone's side - and nobody's anatomy joins up properly in this picture. Ter Brugghen's impossible vocation was human flesh without human beings: lovingly rendered body parts, delicate morsels lapped in gorgeous cloths; cannibal still lives. Ahead of his time. This is in the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio.

The first three correct entries came from: M Milwright, Ely; Malcolm Smith, London SE5; and B Gibson, Suffolk

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