Friday, January 23, 2009

Question - 167

Identify this beautiful painting, the painter and a term that the event depicted gave rise to.

Answer: The painting is The incredulity of Saint Thomas by Caravaggio and the term is "Doubting Thomas" in reference to people skeptical of something. Arvind, Manix, Iam, Swapnaa, Rajesh, Hirak and an anon got it. Well done.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

caravaggio's doubting thomas.

Anonymous said...

The Incredulity of Saint Thomas Caravaggio
My Lord

Anonymous said...

Doubting Thomas?

Anonymous said...

Doubting Thomas (The Incredulity of Saint Thomas)
by Caravaggio

Made famous by a spectacular Quiz club performance of the ever kinky duo: Rao & Iam

swapnaa said...

The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Caravaggio. The term might be "incredulity", but I'm not sure...

swapnaa said...

You might want to see this too:

"Still doubting" by John Granville Gregory
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~swapnaa/JohnGranvilleGregory.jpg

Anonymous said...

The incredulity of Saint Thomas, Michelangelo Caravaggio, Doubting Thomas/Thomas the Believer

hirak said...

The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Caravaggio.

hirak said...

The phrase being of course: Doubting Thomas.