As both the puzzles have been cracked, posting the answers Name the epic work#1 : osoiruF odnalrO Name the person/art#2: erutplucs "snos sih dna nöocoaL" /nöocoaL
I have been stewing on a few ideas, but putting them together takes so much time that my lazy neurons almost always have their way. I will have something up soon. Pinky promise, okay?
The sculpture is Art History 101, but I do not know the 'Darwin connection'. Haven't read Ariosto, but know of the book.
Ok, no salt in the gruel. No straw, it's the bed of nails starting now. Too many deadlines, I expect to be a quiescent neurite for a week or or two!
The image represents a historic journey involving both sides of the pond. Which one? *Excuse the patchwork, the re-sizing issues make me want to Witsend. Ignore the farm background, couldn't stand white background today. **I am trying to insert a useless factoid into your brains - so one of the clues is tricky.
Too many unscrambled and "pure" visual and textual clues in there! Why you being a Soka now? Loved your at five remove style of quizzing ..:mrgreen:
Sorry, I did not elucidate the clues for cartoony puzzle. Textual Clues Flanked by the pictorial clues in the form of horse and snake, gifted to hint Wiki: Laocoön warned his fellow Trojans against the wooden horse presented to the city by the Greeks. In the Aeneid, Virgil gives Laocoön the famous line "Equō nē crēdite, Teucrī / Quidquid id est, timeō Danaōs et dōna ferentēs", or "Do not trust the Horse, Trojans / Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts." This line is the source of the saying: "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts." Wiki: The suffering is shown through the contorted expressions of the faces (Charles Darwin pointed out that Laocoön's bulging eyebrows are physiologically impossible), which are matched by the struggling bodies, especially that of Laocoön himself, with every part of his body straining. Explanation of the Darwin connection in the second clue of the puzzle. Charles Darwin - Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals Pictorial clues Horse (Trojan Horse) Snake (Sea serpent constricting Laocoön ) P.S: Pardon, running out of time, had to copy textual content from wiki.