National Gallery creates its first show designed for mobile phones. Polaroids of Desire: Architect Carlo Mollino’s secret stash of erotica (NSFW) Polaroids of Desire: Architect Carlo Mollino’s secret stash of erotica (NSFW) The architect and designer Carlo Mollino had a secret life—one that only came to light after his death in 1973.
Born in Turin in 1905, Mollino first established himself as an architect designing a house in Forte dei Marmi–a seaside resort and commune enjoyed by Thomas Mann and Aldous Huxley. An Italian Playboy and His Villa Full of Women – ‘Carlo Mollino: Polaroids’ by Damiani (2014) – AMERICAN SUBURB X. By Owen Campbell Carlo Mollino was a stunt-pilot, race-car driver, writer, celebrated architect, designer and a playboy bachelor with two apartments, a studio and a villa, all in the northern Italian city of Turin.
Carlo Mollino. The Life and Works of Raphael, Renaissance Master. Renaissance Italy was a time of ruthlessness in politics and exquisite sensibility in art and culture, two extremes that shaped the life and art of Raffaello Sanzio, better known to the world today as Raphael.
Younger than Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, whose influences he absorbed—and then matched—Raphael was a great Renaissance artist of harmony, proportion, and grace. The Birth of Baroque (Art History Documentary) Was Abstract Art Actually Invented by a Mid-19th-Century Spiritualist? There’s almost nothing more that art historians love to do (besides looking at art) than to argue about art and artists.
It plays out at every university and conference worldwide: who was the so‑called father of modern art, Gustave Courbet or Édouard Manet? Georgiana Houghton. Raphael Frescoes & Chigi Tomb Show Artist's Decorative Side. Konstantin razumov - Recherche Google. A mind-blowing 8K holographic display makes 3D look awesome again. For a generation of kids, Back to the Future Part II defined how they, well, thought about the future.
From flying cars and hoverboards to self-lacing shoes and dog-walking drones, the movie sparked tens of thousands of dreams about how the coming decades would play out. One of the kids watching the movie was a young Shawn Frayne. The most appealing scene to the 8-year-old Frayne was the one in which a snapping holographic shark (an advertisement for Jaws 19) tries to swallow Marty McFly as his walks past a “Holomax” movie theater. By his own admission, from that point on Frayne was “obsessed” with holograms. A decade after Back to the Future Part II was released, Frayne was studying physics at MIT. Jump forward a few years, and Frayne decided to change that. The company has now announced that it is bringing to market the world’s first 8K holographic display: an astonishing 33.2 million pixel beast with a billion-count color depth.
28 Art Shows Worth Traveling For. PARIS The world’s most popular museum is officially too popular: The Musée du Louvre, facing unprecedented summer crowds on several days in August, had to close its doors to thousands of Mona Lisa lovers.
Yet if you think the lines are long now at the old Parisian palace, already on course to break last year’s record attendance of 10 million visitors, prepare for Oct. 24. An Authentic Man – STOIC ANSWERS. Authenticity, great value, isn’t it?
Who doesn’t want to be authentic? What is authenticity anyway? But most important, what does it imply? How Leonardo da Vinci, ‘Master of Water’, explored the power and beauty of its flow. How Leonardo da Vinci, 'Master of Water', explored the power and beauty of its flow. On the 500th anniversary of his death, our series Leonardo da Vinci Revisited brings together scholars from different disciplines to re-examine his work, legacy and myth.
The artist and polymath Leonardo da Vinci was once famously named a “Master of Water” in the records of the Florentine government. In this role, he explored diverting the river Arno away from Pisa so as to cut access to the city, then Florence’s enemy, from the sea. The Cultural Reinvention of Persephone. Because so many original written sources have been lost and because of the oral nature of myths, there are often varied versions of major stories.
That, combined with our modern interpretation, has led the gods of many mythologies to mean whatever the current climate needs them to mean. Christianity, feminism, paganism, Percy Jackson, have all changed the way we have viewed the Greek Gods. Elven characteristics. Last Elf by Piotr Wysocki "The Elves have their own labours and their own sorrows, and they are little concerned with the ways of hobbits, or of any other creatures upon earth.
" ― Gildor Inglorion[1] The Elves were the fairest creatures in Arda, a far more beautiful race than Men, and generally tall (about six feet). [source?] Lost and still not found: Artworks that went missing in the last century. When Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi (Saviour of the World) came under the hammer at a Christie’s sale in November 2017 for a whopping $450 million — becoming the most expensive artwork ever sold at an auction — it raised eyebrows. Though considered one of the last known Da Vinci paintings in private hands, its authenticity was reportedly questionable. Sold to Saudi Prince Bader bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Farhan Al-Saud, the Louvre Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, a licensed partner of the Louvre Museum in Paris, announced that the work will be exhibited at the museum in September 2018 but the unveiling was cancelled.
Leonardo Da Vinci’s 'Salvator Mundi' Painting Has Disappeared. In November 2017, a portrait of Jesus Christ by Leonardi da Vinci entitled Salvator Mundi sold at a Christie’s New York auction for a whopping $450,312,500 USD; a monumental sale price that makes it the world’s most expensive painting. The anonymous bidder of the artwork was later discovered to be the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed Bin Salman. A month after the auction, the Abu Dhabi culture department made a public statement expressing that it had acquired the painting to display it in the Louvre Museum.
Remembering Leonardo da Vinci, a curious soul. For art lovers – this year is a special time to visit Italy. Art. Only Surviving Leonardo da Vinci Sculpture Was Just Unveiled. < Go to Homepage Legendary artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci has been rumored to have dabbled in sculptures, but until now, there has been no solid three-dimensional artwork to back up this claim. A sculpture formerly attributed to Antonio Rossellino has been correctly identified as one of da Vinci’s works of art. Francesco Caglioti is curating the exhibit where the sculpture is on display and says there are telltale signs that this work is a da Vinci and not one of Rossellino.
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