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David
Michelangelo's David -
ArtistMichelangelo
Yearc. 1501 – June 8, 1504
MediumMarble sculpture
SubjectBiblical David
Dimensions517 cm × 199 cm (17 ft × 6.5 ft)
LocationGalleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy
Preceded byPietà
Followed byMadonna of Bruges
David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture, created between 1501 and 1504 by the Italian artist Michelangelo. With a height of 5.17-metre (17 ft 0 in) the David was the first colossal marble statue after antiquity, a precedent for the 16th century and beyond. David was originally commissioned as one of a series of statues of prophets to be positioned along the roofline of the east end of Florence Cathedral, but was instead placed in the public square in front of the Palazzo della Signoria, the seat of civic government in Florence, where it was unveiled on 8 September 1504. In 1873, the statue was moved to the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, and in 1910 replaced at the original location by a replica.
The biblical figure David was a favoured subject in the art of Florence.[1] Because of the nature of the figure it represented, the statue soon came to symbolize the defence of civil liberties embodied in the Republic of Florence, an independent city-state threatened on all sides by more powerful rival states and by the hegemony of the Medici family.
History
Commission
The history of the statue begins before Michelangelo's work on it from 1501 to 1504.[2] Prior to Michelangelo's involvement, the Overseers of the Office of Works of Florence Cathedral, consisting mostly of members of the influential woolen cloth guild, the Arte della Lana, had plans to commission a series of twelve large sculptures for the buttresses of the cathedral.[3] In 1410, Donatello made the first of the statues, a figure of Joshua in terracotta. A figure of Hercules, also in terracotta, was commissioned from the Florentine sculptor Agostino di Duccio in 1463 and was made perhaps under Donatello's direction.[4] Eager to continue their project, in 1464, the operai contracted Agostino[5] to create a sculpture of David.
A block of marble was provided from a quarry in Carrara, a town in the Apuan Alps in northern Tuscany. Agostino only got as far as beginning to shape the legs, feet, torso, roughing out some drapery, and probably gouging a hole between the legs. His association with the project ceased, for reasons unknown, with the death of Donatello in 1466, and ten years later Antonio Rossellino was commissioned to take up where Agostino had left off. Rossellino's contract was terminated soon thereafter, and the block of marble remained neglected for 26 years, all the while exposed to the elements in the yard of the cathedral workshop. This was of great concern to the opera authorities, as such a large piece of marble was not only costly, but represented a large amount of labour and difficulty in its transportation to Florence.
In 1500, an inventory of the cathedral workshops described the piece as "a certain figure of marble called David, badly blocked out and supine."[6] A year later, documents showed that the operai were determined to find an artist who could take this large piece of marble and turn it into a finished work of art. They ordered the block of stone, which they called 'the giant',[7] "raised on its feet" so that a master experienced in this kind of work might examine it and express an opinion. Though Leonardo da Vinci among others were consulted, and Andrea Sansovino was also keen to get the commission, it was Michelangelo, at 26 years of age, who convinced the operai that he deserved the commission.[8] On 16 August 1501, Michelangelo was given the official contract to undertake this challenging new task. It said:
"... the Consuls of the Arte della Lana and the Lords Overseers being met Overseers, have chosen as sculptor to the said Cathedral the worthy master, Michelangelo, the son of Lodovico Buonarrotti, a citizen of Florence, to the end that he may make, finish and bring to perfection the male figure known as the Giant, nine braccia in height, already blocked out in marble by Maestro Agostino grande, of Florence, and badly blocked; and now stored in the workshops of the Cathedral. The work shall be completed within the period and term of two years next ensuing, beginning from the first day of September..."[5]
We don't know the exact age of Ms Minnie (Minster, Minnifred, and so on). We got her in March 2006, so she's over sixteen. We think she was born around October or November the previous year, but the first veterinary doctor who examined her thought she was already a year old; we didn't believe him.
She needs regular medicine these days -- old-cat stuff. But she's still in good cheer, so we are too.
Dedicated with all my love to my darling wife Theresa Jane Brown who is in Nottingham, England as a ROYAL ACADEMY OF DANCE EXAMINER (from November 9 - December 3, 2018).
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Summer vacation with my wife Theresa Jane Brown in Messinia - Μεσσηνία, Peloponnese, Southern Greece.
Taken on July 26, 2018.
Methoni has been identified as the city of Pedasus, which Homer mentions under the name "ampeloessa" (of vine leaves), as the last of the seven cities that Agamemnon offers Achilles in order to subdue his rage. Along with the rest of Messenia, the town gained its independence from the Spartans in 369 BC.
During the Byzantine years Methoni retained its remarkable harbor and remained one of the most important cities of the Peloponnese.
The castle of Methoni is a medieval fortification which occupies the whole area of the cape and the southwestern coast to the small islet that has also been fortified with an octagonal tower and is protected by the sea on its three sides. The Venetians built on the ancient battlements and added on and repaired it during both periods that they occupied the castle.
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This spectacular image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures the spiral galaxy NGC 105, which lies roughly 215 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces. While it looks like NGC 105 is plunging edge-on into a neighboring galaxy, this is just a circumstance of perspective. NGC 105’s elongated neighbor is actually far more distant. Such visual associations are the result of our Earthly perspective and they occur frequently in astronomy. A good example of this are the constellations. The stars that form constellations are at vastly different distances from Earth. To us they appear to form these patterns because they are aligned along the same sightline, while an observer in another part of the galaxy would see different patterns.
Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 observations in this image are from a vast collection of Hubble measurements examining nearby galaxies that contain two fascinating astronomical phenomena – Cepheid variable stars and cataclysmic supernova explosions. While these two phenomena may appear unrelated – one is a peculiar class of pulsating stars and the other is the explosion caused by the catastrophic death of a massive star – astronomers use both to measure the vast distances to astronomical objects. Both Cepheids and supernovae have very predictable luminosities. Astronomers use these so-called “standard candles” to determine distances by comparing how bright these objects appear from Earth to their actual brightness. NGC 105 contains both supernovae and Cepheid variables, giving astronomers the opportunity to calibrate the two distance measurement techniques against one another.
Astronomers recently analyzed the distances to a sample of galaxies including NGC 105 and their velocities to measure how fast the universe is expanding – a value known as the Hubble constant. Their results don’t agree with predictions made by the most widely accepted cosmological model, and their analysis shows that there is only a 1-in-a-million chance that this discrepancy is the result of measurement errors. The difference between galaxy measurements and cosmological predictions is a long-standing source of consternation for astronomers, and these recent findings provide credible new evidence that something is either wrong or lacking in our standard model of cosmology.
Text credit: European Space Agency (ESA)
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Jones, A. Riess et al.; Acknowledgment: R. Colombari
For more information: www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2002/hubble-sees-cosmi...
Visitors examine a wall of wooden file drawers at the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, Poland. Each drawer represents a massacre site in occupied Poland, such as Paterek, where over 200 Polish civilians—including teachers, priests, and community leaders—were executed by Nazi forces in 1939. Another, Las Szpęgawski, was the site of mass killings of more than 7,000 people, including patients from mental hospitals and members of the local intelligentsia. The installation—evocative of archives and absences—invites reflection on the scale of Nazi crimes during the early occupation. Overhead, drawers extend eerily from the wall, as if memory itself were breaking loose from the past.
Part of the Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum in Warrnambool, Victoria
Processed with Topaz Studio 2
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Upon examining the briefcase recovered during the capture of two high value individuals (HVIs) in Europe, it revealed the location of a weapons cache/hideout of another Cobalt's lieutenant in Africa. Signals intelligence collected by Project Nadir also confirmed activities at the location in question. The National Command authorized a kinetic operation to capture individuals and collect further intelligence on the whereabouts of the arms dealer Cobalt.
The team from the Special Mission Unit patrolled to the target under the cover of darkness. Just before dawn, the team reached the target. After the sniper neutralized the sentry, the team quickly move towards the target buildings. What will the team uncover?
To be continued...
Dr. John Mather, senior project scientist of the James Webb Space Telescope, examines fossils that DePalma's team brought to the colloquium.
Paleontologist Robert DePalma speaks about the fossil evidence discovered which support the impact event believed to have wiped out most of the dinosaurs almost 66 million years ago at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Bldg 28. Photo Credit: NASA/Taylor Mickal
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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This is an experiment with a photo from the flood in Spring of 06. I've always wondered how people get that aged look to there photos. I used a couple of layers of the photoshop "Render"-Fibers filter, but if anyone knows a better way to achieve this I am all ears!
SNOWPANDA HOUSE – THE HOME OF THE NORTHERN PANDAS
The Snowpanda House of Ähtäri Zoo is an impressive complex. Upon examining the complex in November 2017, the top experts of China’s State Forestry Administration’s panda centre stated that the building and the outside enclosures are the best outside of China. The Snowpanda House includes a viewing space where the public can see the pandas spending time in their outdoor and indoor enclosures. This is the best Panda-house, what i have seen..
Thelicing conditions for pandas are so clean, good, homeys,modern,,,simle the best.
Lumi(Snow, female) is so wild, playful, all the time full speed. Playing all the time, running and rolling round in snow. Pyry(Snowfall, male), is so peachful, like to eat all the time, walking slowly and is like Gentleman. Nice and cutes. The panda-house has so nice atmosfere, so modern, and you can see so easy to see pandas inside or outside, i like it.
I Briefly Examine The Tree Planting Services On My Private Property... I say "Hi" To My Personal Concierge Consiergies Staff
This model is based on the 1989 cinematic appearance of the Batmobile. I see it as a kind of go-kart version of the Batmobile, with its tiny wheels. I tried to make it snubby, but it no longer became recognizable as the Furst Batmobile without the long hood-line.
I tried to put in distinctive details, like the turbine engine inlet, the side scoops, the pinched waist-line, the curved visor-like windshield, etc. to invoke the Furst Batmobile, and not make it look like just another Batmobile.
Because my photography skills are so poor, here's a download link to a LEGO Digital Designer file so you can examine the model more closely, and make/modify one for yourself. I thought it was funny how inefficiently I got the jet engine in there upside down; It's not obvious from the photograph, but 1/10 of the car is built upside down.
My book – Howling at a Slutwalk Moon, a collection of previous blog posts:
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The Carrotinians - Exhibit Catalog. Item A.4.1..22aaz (aka 1)
The recent discovery of a startling wealth of artifacts related to the Carrotinian Empire has prompted scholars to examine this hitherto ignored period in history. This image, newly cleaned and reframed, shows the ancestral home of the pre-Carrot pre-Carrotinians.
The Mountain Carrot period, which dates from -01010 to -0101111 (or sort of thereabouts) was an era in which tribes of lipid-soluble compounds began moving into caves above an arid plateau. These Lipids (so called) survived solely on β-carotene which enabled them to see in the dark. The Lipids living in the highest caves developed conically; those nearer the plateau napiformly. These differences in structural geometry ultimately led to internecine strife (i.e. the Carrot/Turnip Wars).
Scholars have determined that the few surviving examples of art from the Mountain Carrot period were merely biosynthesized from geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate and thus were very primitive, but we think they're nifty.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
Robert Cubbison examines a model of the Lockheed YF-12 Blackbird in the test section of the 10- by 10-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel at the NASA Lewis Research Center. The YF-12 was an experimental fighter version of Lockheed’s A-12 reconnaissance aircraft which had been developed into the renowned SR-71 Blackbird. NASA possessed two YF-12s at its Dryden Flight Research Center which could be used by researchers at all the NASA centers. During its nine-year life, the Dryden’s YF-12 research program logged 297 flights with approximately 450 flight hours. Lewis researchers were studying the YF-12’s inlet airflow in the 10- by 10-foot wind tunnel in late 1977. The advanced supersonic cruise aircraft of the time used mixed-compression inlets. These types of inlets were prone to flameout during atmospheric disturbances. Researchers at Lewis and Dryden developed a program to study these flameouts by artificially introducing flow disturbances. Testing at Dryden with a specially-equipped YF-12 aircraft yielded limited results. Lewis’ tests in the 10- by 10 were unsuccessful at inducing upstream disturbances. The researchers used two methods—a falling plate and a servo-driven wing.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: C-1977-04657
Date: December 21, 1977
A new image not processed before! Great fun! I had to darken the background to bring out the old man looking so carefully at the beautiful old Khanjar.
You can see more of my Images and the new PhotoBook of Omanis at :-
www.flickr.com/photos/flavius200/albums
My new album is titled "The People of OMAN"
The collection is intended to record the people and the way of life in the Souks, of these traditional inhabitants, the Omanis and the Tribal Bedu.
As in many cultures, this aspect is under threat as the older people pass on and are not replaced by the young, who often move to the towns and cities in search of a more prosperous, modern life style.
The Bereans are a good example to follow, as sometimes, even well-meaning people may lead you astray as they themselves may have an incorrect understanding of the Scriptures. It's always a good idea to search the Scriptures for yourself.
A.I. generated image.
I examined it as one of the base of the photowalk of November here. Because I would plan a new plan, I decided to show this shot.
On September 15, 2012 in Hokoku-ji Temple, Kamakura.
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ここは11月のフォトウォークの拠点のひとつとして検討していた場所ですが、別のプランを立てることになったので、公開することにしました。
10/8に再度下見してきますので、来週にはコースをお知らせできる見込みです。
2012年9月15日、鎌倉報国寺にて。