Bobby Valentine and Edouard Manet

Food for thought. Or something. - promoted by david

Sunday morning diversion.

Does anyone else pick up a resemblance between Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine and Edouard Manet’s `Olympia’ ? Am I crazy, am I seeing things here? Is it the pose, or that long look into an uncertain future? Actually, I would say Olympia seems more determined and self-assured in her gaze…

Mash-up: Detail from Edouard Manet's `Olympia;' Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine in the dugout ,Thursday, Aug. 9. (AP photo)




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  1. OK, now I can't unsee that

    Thanks a lot. Let me know when he starts wearing flowered bonnets.

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  2. Olympia

    was a “take-off” on Venus of Urbino. Try this:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Venus_of_Urbino.jpg

  3. Ahhhh, EXCUSE ME But.....

    you now how I hate to display my intellectual superiority among BMGers but it’s spelled M-O-N-E-T. Rhymes with bonnet.

    eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii   @   Mon 13 Aug 12:22 PM
  4. Right the first time.

    It really is MANET, but even Wikipedia cautions against confusing him with Claude Monet.

  5. Optics

    Doppleganger!

  6. No respect

    Give that man a Monet tote bag!

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