Posted on 28 February 2010 by admin
When the Emperor Frederick II built this castle near Bari in the 13th century, he imbued it with symbolic significance, as reflected in the location, the mathematical and astronomical precision of the layout and the perfectly regular shape. A unique piece of medieval military architecture, Castel del Monte is a successful blend of elements from classical antiquity, the Islamic Orient and north European Cistercian Gothic.
Posted on 27 February 2010 by admin
The idea for “Swimming Pool” by Leandro Erlich was first conceived in 1998 while the artist was in residence in Houston as part of the Core program. Since then, it was featured at the Venice Biennale and has found a home as part of the permanent collection at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan.
Posted on 26 February 2010 by admin
Man has always sought in the sky and tried to implement this vision in many ways. An Austrian Anna Rubin , for example, more than ten years engaged in the creation of the kites and at the same time asserts that when its creation is flying in the sky, it seems as if it flies itself.
Posted on 25 February 2010 by admin
Nick Veasey is a British photographer and filmmaker working primarily within the medium of X-ray imaging. Born in London in 1962, he worked in the advertising and design industries and pursued work in conventional still photography before making the serendipitous discovery of applying X-ray imaging to everyday objects and skeletons after being asked to X-ray a cola can for a television show. Veasey also X-rayed the shoes he was wearing on the day and upon showing the finished image to an art director, was galvanised by the response it provoked.
Posted on 24 February 2010 by admin
Archaeological finds trace the tradition of paper cutting back to 6th century China. Works were commonly buried with the dead, burned at the funeral ceremonies or used as sacrificial offerings to the ancestors and gods. Today paper cut art is used primarily for decoration. Modern paper cut artists use either laser cutting equipment or scissors and scalpels to create their works and these can vary from simple silhouettes to incredibly intricate designs.
Posted on 23 February 2010 by admin
At the word “hotel” most people have the same association – a cozy, warm room with TV, shower and other necessary attributes. In most cases, there are hotels and such. But there is mad exception – the project «Million Donkey Hotel» is a completely non-standard bed …
Posted on 23 February 2010 by admin
Canadian artist Chris Dorosz transforms the traditional painting, betraying her new functions and forms, reaching into his works, the illusion of depth. Chris Dorosz creates intricate sculptures, using a lattice of acrylic plates, thread, or plastic plates, which are covered with tiny droplets of ink to reproduce the effects of three-dimensional paintings.
Posted on 22 February 2010 by admin
Hair preserved in permafrost for 4,000 years has shed light on a tribe of Stone Age hunters who crossed from Siberia to Greenland in an unsung odyssey of migration, scientists said on Wednesday.
Unearthed at a site in western Greenland, the hair provides a vivid portrait of a man who died four millennia ago and overturns a mainstream theory about how humans colonised the Arctic New World, they said.
Greenland’s first known settlers were not Inuit or Native Americans as widely believed, but the direct descendants of Siberians who somehow crossed the Bering Strait to Alaska and then headed east, according to their report, published by Nature.
The tuft of hair and four pieces of bone, uncovered at Qeqertasussuk, are the only human remains ever found of Saqqaq culture, an enigmatic coastal-dwelling community that lived in western Greenland for some 1,700 years.
Posted on 22 February 2010 by admin
The most amazing thing is that cutting out scenes of daily life inside the roll, Elias leaves intact its outer part. Individual elements are placed inside such a way that gives the sculpture of structure and depth. This is achieved through light, which passes through the roll, highlights some figures and leaves in the shadow of others. Anastasia photographing his sculptures from different angles, resulting in the viewer is always open, only one definite piece of work.
Posted on 19 February 2010 by admin
This traditional portrait of Athanasius Kircher gives his age as 76. The engraver has emphasized the energy in Kircher’s inquiring eyes. A professor of eloquence in Rome added the flowery inscription: “The painter or poet would declare only in error: ‘This is the man.’ But the farthest Antipodes know his name and face.”
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