I am trying to identify a painting. Around 1988 or 1989, I visited the
Uffizi museum in Florence, Italy. My memory is somewhat fuzzy, but I
know that I saw a painting of a (I think) reclining woman with a baby.
My strong recollection is that this painting was a Caravaggio. I've
looked on the Uffizi web site. It is not listed. (At least not under
Caravaggio.) The painting was striking because of the expression on
the face of the baby or toddler. Odd though it may sound, "lascivious"
would not be far off in describing the child's expression. I've been
searching Caravaggio web sites and cannot find this painting. Is my
age getting to me? Have I got the artist wrong? Another problem is
that, while I know that this painting was depicting specific
individuals, I cannot say who they were. Eros and Aphrodite? Madonna
and child? I just don't know. Anyway, I am hoping that this will ring
a bell with someone. I would also appreciate a link to a site with
this painting. Thanks.

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Request for Question Clarification by markj-ga on 28 Aug 2004 18:35 PDT

What about this?

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/T/titian/titian_partridge.jpg.html

markj-ga

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Clarification of Question by alexandraroman-ga on 28 Aug 2004 18:57 PDT

To: markj-ga 
No, it's not the Titian. Very different style. And the Titian baby
looks more horrified than anything. The baby I'm thinking of looked
more like a pint-sized version of Caravaggio's Bacchus. Of course, it
was a long time ago... But thanks anyway!

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Clarification of Question by alexandraroman-ga on 31 Aug 2004 00:10 PDT

To marie4-ga:
Honestly, I don't think that this is it, although I'm starting to
doubt my memory. It is a LOT closer, though. It's so close that maybe
I'm wrong. My memory (unreliable) is that the baby figure was toward
the right of the painting with the woman more to the left. But, again,
I'm starting to doubt myself. Thanks a lot.

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Clarification of Question by alexandraroman-ga on 31 Aug 2004 06:58 PDT

To marie4-ga:
You know, I've reached the conclusion that you have the answer. What
finally decided me was that I was able, armed with artist name
(Annibale Carracci)you provided, to check out the Uffizi web site more
profitably. (Of course, I should have thought of going by rooms to
begin with.) It seems that the painting by Annibale Carracci hangs in
room 43 of the Uffizi. This room is called the Caravaggio room. It
contains two works by Caravaggio. One is the Bacchus painting. It also
contains Venus with a Satyr and Cupids by Carracci. Memory is a
strange thing. I must have viewed the two paintings within seconds of
each other & somehow conflated the experiences. Then there is the name
of the room too. So, thanks very much. I am contacting the powers that
be at google answers to let them know that I consider you to have
answered my question.

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Clarification of Question by alexandraroman-ga on 31 Aug 2004 10:51 PDT

To marie4-ga:
The powers that be inform me that there is no charge for your comment.
Since you've answered my question with your comment, I don't see why
you shouldn't receive the fee (small though it is). Please feel free
to post your comment as an answer & I'll put through the payment.

Hello

You may want to search this website for your painting.  Just enter
"mother and child" in the search box.

Good luck,

C.

Prefer the words cupid, venus, cupidon, aphrodite,...
This one?
http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/c/carracci/annibale/1/venus_sc.html

alexandraroman-ga,

The comment by marie4-ga cannot be posted as an answer, since
marie4-ga is not a Google Answers Researcher. One of the most
interesting features of Google Answers is that sometimes you may
receive information free of charge from a helpful site user.

If you consider the question answered, you may want to cancel it
(click the grey button that says "Cancel Question").

To tell Google Answers Researchers from other users, examine the way
the username is displayed. A Google Answer Researcher's username is
highlighted in blue and is "clickable." All other usernames are
standard bold text.

Please, forgive me, alexandraroman, but your question aroused a lot of
questioning inside myself and I'd like to introduce myself and, after,
ask for pinkfreud's opinion:
I'm in Brazil. I love art and I'm a searching fanatic, probably
because my sun sign is Scorpio, that astrologers say are fit for
research. Also, because I speak Portuguese (a latin language) for me
it is easy to search web pages written in French, Spanish and Italian.
Your question interested me but I wasn't able to find any answer.
And I found terrific the way marie4 had the insight (or luck or hard
work) on what you were looking for (because what is really hard is to
search for something that even the askers don't know much about it or
what they're really looking for) and more terrific was the way you
recognized her effort and kindness, because as pinkfreud stated marie4
is not a clickable blue lighted answerer.
Now, for pinkfreud, and I hope he/she sees this comment (and that's
what my questioning is all about):
I'm not a google answer researcher, but maybe a few times I got it right.
These following two are questions I have answered and I got a feedback
from the asker:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=356268
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=391825
These two I'm quite sure I have found the answer but I don't have any
way to know even if the asker read my comment:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=388852
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=304656
And this quetion, in which I helped and the value the ga researcher
added to my help was to translate the pages and give information on
the painter's (probably) major interest that is playing chess, and
receive $50.
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=394076
So, pinkfreud, as one of the most active ga reseachers, don't you
think that assertive commenters should, for the least, get their
effort recognized in any way?
Probably, a way of rewarding correct answers for expired questions,
giving the chance for gar's to try to answer it.
Or, as I said, a recognition that the efforts were not in vain.
For you, garesearchers, it is easy to get a feedback because the asker
is charged for the answer.
We, not gar's, can not apply to be one of you (admissions closed),
and, I'm sure, Google Answers, like Google, will be everywhere and in
every language.
So, that's my questioning, and it will continue because I don't know
if pinkfreud will read this comment.
Thanks, alexandraroman
luntes

>> So, pinkfreud, as one of the most active ga reseachers, 
>> don't you think that assertive commenters should, for the 
>> least, get their effort recognized in any way?

When I first arrived at Google Answers, the doors were closed to new
Researchers. After a few months, during which I posted several hundred
comments which I hope were useful, I was brought into consideration as
a potential Google Answers Researcher; I was accepted, and became a
full-fledged GAR. At least two of my colleagues have become GARs by
the same route.

It is my sincere hope that the efforts of our more insightful
commenters will be noticed by the Google Answers staff, and that the
best of the commenters will be given the opportunity to become
Researchers, if they so desire.

Unfortunately, the decision is not mine. 

~pinkfreud

Excuse me again, alexandraroman, for invading your space, but this is
again for pinkfreud:
Thanks, pinkfreud. I admire you.
What I think is unfair is that you, GARs get instant feedback, maybe
because money is involved?, and we, not GARs, don't get the same
feedback.
If comments are free and don't have the same status of an answer, who
knows expired answers would be a great way to screen insightable
reseachers that get there, that find what GARs didn't.
I believe you may have access and be listened by GA staff, so, if you
think it is something to consider, ask them to carefully analyse
comments and think about answering expired questions as a way to
improve business and to improve relationship with potential GAs, and
also, as is my case, to think of Brazil's "Google Responde" (I believe
the staff has already thought of that)and not to forget me when it
becomes true.
Thanks, alexandraroman and pinkfreud.
luntes

luntes,

It is very flattering to be thought influential, but I have no special
status and no inside access to the GA staff. I have never met a Google
Answers Editor in person; I know none of their names, and I doubt that
they know mine. I am, like all the other Researchers, a contractor,
not an employee of Google.

The policies of Google Answers are not set by Google Answers
Researchers, and we GARs do not have knowledge of policy decisions
until after the decisions have been made.

~pinkfreud