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  1. smadgos

    smadgos Well-Known Member

    Hello guys,
    for some reason this character looks familiar but i cant tell who that is.
    Any thoughts?

    Thanks!
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  2. buyingtime777

    buyingtime777 Well-Known Member

    Just a WAG but maybe Rasputin? Edit: I just Googled Rasputin and he had a full head of hair. So much for that thought.
     
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  3. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    A holy figure, I'd think. How about St. John the Baptist?

    Debora

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  4. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

  5. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    Wouldn't hurt to do a Google Images search. Might be a copy.

    Debora
     
  6. aaroncab

    aaroncab in veritate victoria

    Tried..nada. cropped and tried again...nuthin.
     
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  7. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    Have you opened up the back of frame? No harm in doing so, I'd think.

    Debora
     
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  8. aaroncab

    aaroncab in veritate victoria

    Maybe the inspiration for "Brain" from the "Pinky and the Brain" cartoon?

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  9. Lennyt

    Lennyt Well-Known Member

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    Sorry..
    Couldn't resist.
     
  10. BaseballGames

    BaseballGames Well-Known Member

    Our knee-jerk impression was that it was Lao Tzu. But yes, it's almost certainly meant to depict some Christian saint. Which one? Your choice. Another story:

    Many years ago, a deeply religious friend asked one of us if he could do some art restoration work on an icon at our friend's Eastern Orthodox church. Might be a little out of his wheelhouse, he told our friend, wouldn't want to mess up some sacred relic, but I'll take a look at it. The friend brought over an oil portrait on a wooden panel, about 18x12", the saint's name in inch-high Cyrillic letters across the bottom. All he wanted done was to have the name of a different saint lettered there. Waitaminnit -- you can't have a portrait of this guy that your congregation prays to and just say Saint Eusebius is now Saint Nektarios, can you? Oh sure, no problem, he replies -- nobody knows what he really looked like anyway, he can be anybody.
     
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  11. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    That is probably a Franciscan monk. John the Baptist died in his 30s.:confused:
     
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  12. Natasha

    Natasha Well-Known Member

    Not Rasputin for sure. This is Rasputin
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  13. Figtree3

    Figtree3 What would you do if you weren't afraid?

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  14. mmarco102

    mmarco102 Well-Known Member

    Last edited: Sep 4, 2018
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  15. Jivvy

    Jivvy the research is my favorite

    Google is on a roll.

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