Faces of History - how many can you name?

[Yoyoma1910]

You're right, then Hell does have clouds?

Or maybe the artist doesn't come from a religious or philosophical background that recognizes the Christian idea of Hell.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Or maybe the artist doesn't come from a religious or philosophical background that recognizes the Christian idea of Hell.

The artists are Chinese, which explains why Tojo is kneeling/supplicating before Qin Shi Huang.

Also, the one you have listed as Valasquez is actually Peter The Great. My guess is that the Pharoah is Rameses II, but could also be Tut.

[Yoyoma1910]

The artists are Chinese, which explains why Tojo is kneeling/supplicating before Qin Shi Huang.

Also, the one you have listed as Valasquez is actually Peter The Great. My guess is that the Pharoah is Rameses II, but could also be Tut.

You're right about Peter...


I was looking at the site you linked, and I'm not sure about some of the choices they themselves have speculated on.

[Quintus.JC]

The artists are Chinese, which explains why Tojo is kneeling/supplicating before Qin Shi Huang.

So I've noticed, there's an unusual large amount of Chinese figures present. Not saying that they are unimportant in history but most Westerners have little ideas about people like Laozi and Empress Dowger Ci Xi. Not to mention the sportsmen and the balcony fellows.

[Hosakawa Tito]

You're right about Peter...


I was looking at the site you linked, and I'm not sure about some of the choices they themselves have speculated on.

Yeah, I'm not either. They're just speculating/educated guessing same as us. Part of the key, however, is to think/see things through the Chinese artist's eyes. Didn't someone else here speculate that the artist was Asian? If so they were spot on.

I can't believe that Michaelangelo or Darwin aren't in this picture. I'm speculating that the guy in the robe *with a chisel?* on the right of Cao Cao is Michaelangelo.

My wife claims the man between Gandhi & Van Gogh is the French sculptor Rodin.

[Quintus.JC]

Yeah, I'm not either. They're just speculating/educated guessing same as us. Part of the key, however, is to think/see things through the Chinese artist's eyes. Didn't someone else here speculate that the artist was Asian? If so they were spot on.

I can't believe that Michaelangelo or Darwin aren't in this picture. I'm speculating that the guy in the robe *with a chisel?* on the right of Cao Cao is Michaelangelo.

Where's Cao Cao?

Who's the guy holding the food above Mao?

Edit: just noticed the godfather... lol.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Here you go, Quintus.

Another Update Thanks everyone for helping!!!



So, this is where I'm at with it right now..

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Let me know if I have anything wrong so far. I'll try and finish up tomorrow.

[Yoyoma1910]

Sorry double post instead of edit... argh.

[Yoyoma1910]

Yeah, I'm not either. They're just speculating/educated guessing same as us. Part of the key, however, is to think/see things through the Chinese artist's eyes. Didn't someone else here speculate that the artist was Asian? If so they were spot on.

I can't believe that Michaelangelo or Darwin aren't in this picture. I'm speculating that the guy in the robe *with a chisel?* on the right of Cao Cao is Michaelangelo.

I think that might be right... I'm trying to find the image its based off of to confirm though.

My wife claims the man between Gandhi & Van Gogh is the French sculptor Rodin.

I've been debating with myself whether it were he or Donatello.

[Quintus.JC]

Another Update Thanks everyone for helping!!!



So, this is where I'm at with it right now..

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Let me know if I have anything wrong so far. I'll try and finish up tomorrow.

Nice one Yoyoma.

Here's my thoughts...

Not sure about Picasso, the fellow next to Steinbeck looks rather like Picasso to me. Although the Picasso you labelled did have a Picasso’s picture with him.
Also not sure about Cao Cao, the Chinese normally portrayal him as an intellectual, instead of a military man. He could be Sun Tzu, but the armour seems too advanced for his age.
I’m sure the Valasquez fellow is actually Peter the great of Russia.
The man above Einstein is positively Leo Tolstory.
The old man next to Qin 1st is either Mozi, Zhuangzi, or Wenzi, all of whom are famous Chinese philosophers in the Spring-Autum/Warring states period of China.
The horseman beside Napoleon doesn’t look like Genghis Khan to me, although that’s just personal opinion, plus the armour looks like Han-period armour rather than 12th century Mongol armour.

The following two finding I own to my mother:
The fellow with glasses on the left side of Freud is Norman Bethune, a Canadian physicist famous for his contributions in the Spanish civil war and more famously the Sino-Japanese and Chinese civil war.
The Pol Pot guy is actually madam Soong Ching-ling (according to the mom), the wife of Sun Yat-sen.

List of people I desperately want to know:
The guy holding the food above Mao, he looks like an Roman/Greek slave type of guy.
The man under the table beside Putin, who is he?
The Chinese fellow having the drink and having a fit, who is he?
Who the heck are the balcony Asians?

[cmacq]

Or maybe the artist doesn't come from a religious or philosophical background that recognizes the Christian idea of Hell.

Tell me again why they called it, 'Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante?'



CmacQ

[drone]

I'm somewhat disappointed that the artists didn't paint Waldo in there.

[Hosakawa Tito]

The man under the table beside Putin, who is he?

I'm going to guess... Lewis Carroll

[Yoyoma1910]

I'm going to reupdate the image when I get home tonight. He's a couple I'm not convinced on though:

The following two finding I own to my mother:
The fellow with glasses on the left side of Freud is Norman Bethune, a Canadian physicist famous for his contributions in the Spanish civil war and more famously the Sino-Japanese and Chinese civil war.

I've never seen an image of Bethune wearing glasses, so that makes me believe it isn't him.


Edit: Found one!

I'm going to guess... Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll always looks really really sad in ever photo of him I've ever seen.

For some reason, I think that's an actor that I just can't place, possibly from the silent movie era... But I know I've seen that face before.

[naut]

Is that Freud standing next to Tyson.

Looks like Mussolini next to Saddam.

If I'm not mistaken Henry Ford is next to Charlie Chaplin.

I love how Marlon Brando is just chilling with Che and Fidel. Hehe.

[Jolt]

Also not sure about Cao Cao, the Chinese normally portrayal him as an intellectual, instead of a military man. He could be Sun Tzu, but the armour seems too advanced for his age.

That would definetly be Sun Tzu. Cao Cao is rather unknown outside China, whereas Sun Tzu is known everywhere. Guan Yu has been a major diety of China since the Ming (Or was it Tang?), so it's normal he's in there. I have sincere doubts about that being Cao Cao.

[Quirinus]

Who on earth is that Chinese bloke throwing his head back having a fit?

[Celtic_Punk]

Is that maggie thatcher?! oh what I would have given to have been that security guard when she dropped at that speech... just to have gotten a few quick ones in you know? for those 200 lads.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Who on earth is that Chinese bloke throwing his head back having a fit?

According to one blog I've read he's a Chinese philosopher named Mozi.

The same blog speculates that the one behind Lincoln giving that three fingered sign is Steven Spielberg, and the one sitting at the table to Freud's left is B.F. Skinner.

No one seems to have any idea who the man with the stethoscope standing at the table next to Freud is. *Edit* Another speculator states the man with the stethoscope is Canadian physician Norman Bethune