[itachi-san]

The following verses each have an individual answer. They are all also related. What does each verse represent and what is the common theme?

1) Standing tall, old and proud

Symbolic of Hades' prickly shroud

2) The bright stand out and clearly show

A wind above the town below

3) Raised in Italy, brought to France

Now almost everywhere I dance

On pendants and patches

Uniforms and Flags

Artistically, I am thusly enhanced

4) Though not as wicked as death

I bare the same name

We do both end lives

Our tools are the same

5) Now that the sun has dipped below the horizon

There's an eatery of sorts, that I've got my eyes on

With a patio and chairs I can sit outside on

[Guest]

http://www.overstockart.com/roadwitcypan.html ????

This is really just from the painting clue, I still haven't figured it all out if this is actually it.

[itachi-san]

http://www.overstockart.com/roadwitcypan.html ????

This is really just from the painting clue, I still haven't figured it all out if this is actually it.

I think you got it, but can you put in words? Numbers 2,4, and 5 have yet to be solved as well.

[Guest]

2 is the stars? they show the clouds moving?

4 is winter? or the night?

5 I am still clueless

[onetruth]

Starry Night? Van Gogh paintings? Why didn't I post my original thought? lol

[onetruth]

I had to look these up...

1. Cypress Trees

2. Starry Night

3. Bell Lilies in a Copper Vase

4. Reaper with a Sickle (or Peasant with a Sickle)

5. Cafe Terrace at Night

[itachi-san]

I had to look these up...

1. Cypress Trees

2. Starry Night

3. Bell Lilies in a Copper Vase

4. Reaper with a Sickle (or Peasant with a Sickle)

5. Cafe Terrace at Night

Congrats onetruth! You get all the e-kudos! And then a couple taken away and given to steve10 because you procrastinated your answer so long and the link he posted really hit the mark

[onetruth]

lol

Okay. I'm sad. I looked up Van Gogh and Monet paintings last week, but I just didn't have time to research them, and I'm art-illiterate. Oh well. I'll be happy again soon.

[Guest]

Am sad about it too, VG is my favorite, monet 2nd

and i fancied it to be a statue or something huge, museum took me off track but gallery would have been a killer

5*s

[itachi-san]

Thanks! For you Van Gogh fans, and everyone else of course, I have a great must-see suggestion. One of the best short films I have ever seen is by Akira Kurosawa and it is called "Crows". It is part of a collection of his short films called Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (it's one DVD with 8 short films on it). In "Crows" a man looking at some Van Gogh paintings finds himself entering the world of each painting and walking about within them. He even meets Van Gogh there who is played really well by Martin Scorsese. It's really outstanding.

[Guest]

Huh, I know Starry Night so I might have come up with that one to go along with my cypress, but the others were way out of my reach.

Great puzzle though, simple yet kept us going for 6 pages despite lots of hints and directions.

[Brandonb]

Bravo, that puzzle was excellent.

[Guest]

Akira Kurosawa's Dreams

Have noted that thanks, NB would have been nice to see the Great Wave or any wave by Hokusai (giving a manga artist a plug), but then the list is endless and so is Hokussai's work.