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Look at Mother Nature on the run in the 2020s.
Shot at the Faro Municipal Museum in the old Convent of Our Lady of The Assumption.
(Apologies to the sculptor - I missed photgraphing the exhibit details tag).
"Wind Sculptures in Motion", the Kinetic Art of Lyman Whitaker. A current exhibit continues through July 31st at the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden. Over 122 sculptures are on display throughout the garden.
Casa Milà (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈkazə miˈɫa]), better known as La Pedrera (pronounced: [ɫə pəˈðɾeɾə], meaning the 'The Quarry'), is a building designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built during the years 1905–1910, being considered officially completed in 1912. It is located at 92, Passeig de Gràcia (passeig is Catalan for promenade) in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
It was a controversial design at the time for the bold forms of the undulating stone facade and wrought iron decoration of the balconies and windows, designed largely by Josep Maria Jujol, who also created some of the plaster ceilings.
Architecturally it is considered an innovative work for its steel structure and curtain walls – the façade is self-supporting. Other innovative elements were the construction of underground car parking and separate lifts and stairs for the owners and their servants.
In 1984, it was declared World Heritage by UNESCO. The building is made open to the public by the CatalunyaCaixa Foundation, which manages the various exhibitions and activities and visits to the interior and roof.
The roof is on several levels and has six staircase entrances, all encased in sculptural "houses." Ventilator shafts and chimneys are sculptural forms. Gaudí treated rooftop elements as striking sculpture in both Casa Batlló and Palau Güell but here they are generally monochromatic whereas both forms and color were dramatic in earlier works.
Casa Milà roof architecture, chimneys known as espanta bruixes (witch scarers).
Barcelona. Spain.
Casa Milà (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈkazə miˈɫa]), better known as La Pedrera (pronounced: [ɫə pəˈðɾeɾə], meaning the 'The Quarry'), is a building designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built during the years 1905–1910, being considered officially completed in 1912. It is located at 92, Passeig de Gràcia (passeig is Catalan for promenade) in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
It was a controversial design at the time for the bold forms of the undulating stone facade and wrought iron decoration of the balconies and windows, designed largely by Josep Maria Jujol, who also created some of the plaster ceilings.
Architecturally it is considered an innovative work for its steel structure and curtain walls – the façade is self-supporting. Other innovative elements were the construction of underground car parking and separate lifts and stairs for the owners and their servants.
In 1984, it was declared World Heritage by UNESCO. The building is made open to the public by the CatalunyaCaixa Foundation, which manages the various exhibitions and activities and visits to the interior and roof.
The roof is on several levels and has six staircase entrances, all encased in sculptural "houses." Ventilator shafts and chimneys are sculptural forms. Gaudí treated rooftop elements as striking sculpture in both Casa Batlló and Palau Güell but here they are generally monochromatic whereas both forms and color were dramatic in earlier works.
Casa Milà roof architecture, chimneys known as espanta bruixes (witch scarers). Barcelona. Spain.
Casa Milà (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈkazə miˈɫa]), better known as La Pedrera (pronounced: [ɫə pəˈðɾeɾə], meaning the 'The Quarry'), is a building designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built during the years 1905–1910, being considered officially completed in 1912. It is located at 92, Passeig de Gràcia (passeig is Catalan for promenade) in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
It was a controversial design at the time for the bold forms of the undulating stone facade and wrought iron decoration of the balconies and windows, designed largely by Josep Maria Jujol, who also created some of the plaster ceilings.
Architecturally it is considered an innovative work for its steel structure and curtain walls – the façade is self-supporting. Other innovative elements were the construction of underground car parking and separate lifts and stairs for the owners and their servants.
In 1984, it was declared World Heritage by UNESCO. The building is made open to the public by the CatalunyaCaixa Foundation, which manages the various exhibitions and activities and visits to the interior and roof.
The roof is on several levels and has six staircase entrances, all encased in sculptural "houses." Ventilator shafts and chimneys are sculptural forms. Gaudí treated rooftop elements as striking sculpture in both Casa Batlló and Palau Güell but here they are generally monochromatic whereas both forms and color were dramatic in earlier works.
Casa Milà roof architecture, chimneys known as espanta bruixes (witch scarers).
Barcelona. Spain.
University College, Oxford
The Shelley Memorial
"Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of Eternity."
Shelley, "Adonais".
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in 1792 in Sussex and came from a prominent family being the son of the MP for Horsham.
The Shelley memorial was erected at University College in 1892-3 it lies in the west front quad of the college under a dome painted with stars and is close to The High Street, yet it seems another world. The domed memorial was intended for the Protestant Cemetery in Rome. Curiously Shelley’s memorial is placed in the college from which he was sent down from in 1811 for publishing a “scandalous” document “The Necessity of Atheism”, this had be co-written with his friend Jefferson Hogg. Lady Shelley presented the memorial to University College, who by 1894 had undoubtedly forgiven Shelley’s earlier misdemeanour. Following the disgrace of the pamphlet Shelley eloped with sixteen year old Harriet Westbrook to Scotland, this marriage like Shelley’s tempestuous life was doomed, and Harriet drowned herself in the Serpentine (Hyde Park.) Drowning was to be the romantic poet’s own fate eleven years later when he too was lost, his yacht was sunk in a storm in the Bay of Lerici following a visit to Lord Byron . Onslow Ford’s monument is very “fin de siècle” it was designed to appear as if the muse of poetry and two lions support the drowned poet on a slab of Conemara marble as if floating on an invisible sea. The cold marble of his naked body contrasts with the heavy bronze of its support. The whole edifice is behind a grille and is locked so one usually observes it from eye level. The monument and its architectural surround was described by Pevsner as “extremely lush.” (P.211 Oxfordshire The Buildings of England , Yale Press) The memorial is an intriguing piece of work and is not generally open to public view. Basil Champneys (1842-1920) who was the architect was also responsible for Newham College Cambridge and Mansfield College Oxford. His work is often cited as late gothic, however in this case his influences appear more classical in keeping with the mausoleum.
It is worth comparing the University College monument with Weekes’ 1854 one of Shelley (In Christchurch Abbey). This monument was intended for St Peter’s Bournemouth where the poet’s heart is buried. (NT)
There’s a hush here that feels almost sacred. Standing between these towering columns, surrounded by urns and trees, you become aware of every subtle sound—the distant flutter of wings, the rustle of leaves, your own breath. The architecture doesn’t overwhelm; it cradles. Light falls gently through the trees and onto the path, softening the classical forms into something intimate and calming. You can feel the energy shift as you move through this space—an unspoken invitation to slow down, notice the details, and connect with the present. In a city known for its motion, this moment offers a rare pause.
The Age of Bronze (L'age d'airain) is a bronze statue by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. The figure is of a life-size nude male. When first exhibited at the 1877 Salon in Paris, Rodin was criticized for having made the statue by casting a living model, a false charge that was vigorously denied. This charge actually benefited Rodin though, because people were so eager to see this for themselves. Copies of the Age of Bronze can be found in several museums around the world, including the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin, The Rodin Museum in Philadelphia, The Fine Arts Museum in Budapest, Hungary, The Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio, and the V&A in London.
Auguste Rodin (born François-Auguste-René Rodin; 12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917) was a French artist, most famous as a sculptor. He was the preeminent French sculptor of his time, and remains one of the few sculptors widely recognized outside the visual arts community.
Some experiments to work out what nets or developments give rise to spiral forms such as seashells or snail shells.
Founded in 1683, The Ashmolean re-opened on Saturday 7th November 2009. Their new display approach is "crossing culture crossing time." It was my first glimpse today, the much loved older museum is still here, but now enormously extended and plenty more to enjoy.
Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Ashmolean is currently undergoing a £61 million redevelopment. Award-winning architect Rick Mather has designed a new building to replace all but the Grade I listed Cockerell building. His design will double the existing gallery space, allow environmental control, and create a dedicated Education Centre and conservation facilities.
I've tried to show something of the atmosphere and texture of the museum in many of the photos, I also wanted to convey the sense of movement and people's interaction with the art objects, therefore razor sharp clarity (were I to achieve that) was not my number one objective. This set will grow as I explore the new galleries, I hope you'll forgive me if I do not tag or describe everything right away as there is so much to take in!
Martin Beek Oxford, November 2009
Suspended in stillness yet brimming with energy, this wire sculpture by Ruth Asawa feels like it might exhale at any moment. Its radiating loops, painstakingly formed by hand, seem to pulse outward like the branches of a tree, the filaments of a seed pod, or even the alveoli of lungs. Up close, you can sense the hours of labor woven into every twist. Step back, and the piece transforms into a kind of mandala—delicate, fierce, and quietly monumental. It’s a work that doesn’t shout but lingers, inviting you to slow down, breathe, and simply be with its beautiful complexity.
Casa Milà (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈkazə miˈɫa]), better known as La Pedrera (pronounced: [ɫə pəˈðɾeɾə], meaning the 'The Quarry'), is a building designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built during the years 1905–1910, being considered officially completed in 1912. It is located at 92, Passeig de Gràcia (passeig is Catalan for promenade) in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
It was a controversial design at the time for the bold forms of the undulating stone facade and wrought iron decoration of the balconies and windows, designed largely by Josep Maria Jujol, who also created some of the plaster ceilings.
Architecturally it is considered an innovative work for its steel structure and curtain walls – the façade is self-supporting. Other innovative elements were the construction of underground car parking and separate lifts and stairs for the owners and their servants.
In 1984, it was declared World Heritage by UNESCO. The building is made open to the public by the CatalunyaCaixa Foundation, which manages the various exhibitions and activities and visits to the interior and roof.
The roof is on several levels and has six staircase entrances, all encased in sculptural "houses." Ventilator shafts and chimneys are sculptural forms. Gaudí treated rooftop elements as striking sculpture in both Casa Batlló and Palau Güell but here they are generally monochromatic whereas both forms and color were dramatic in earlier works.
Casa Milà roof architecture, chimneys known as espanta bruixes (witch scarers). Barcelona. Spain.
Mime Artist Playlet (the silent figure in whiteface on street): Artistic Market Square, Entertainment World in the Historic Marketplace during the Land Days. Is this meant to be a gag? Mime acts are often comical, but some can be very serious.
"Museum vour Schone Kunsten"
The Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Antwerp (Dutch: Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten van Antwerpen), founded in 1810, houses a collection of paintings, sculptures and drawings from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries. This collection is representative of the artistic production and the taste of art enthusiasts in Antwerp, Belgium and the Northern and Southern Netherlands since the fifteenth century.
The neoclassical building housing the collection is one of the primary landmarks of the Zuid district of Antwerp, and stands in gardens bounded by the Leopold de Waalplaats, the Schildersstraat, the Plaatsnijdersstraat, and the Beeldhouwersstraat. It was completed in 1894.
I sometimes make something that I fall in love with, (until it's abandoned for my next favorite item) and this ring is one of those things.
Lucius Septimius Severus (or rarely Severus I) (April 11, 145 - February 4, 211) was a Roman general, and Roman Emperor from April 14, 193 to 211. He was born in what is now the Libyan part of Rome's historic Africa Province Lepcis Magna, making him the first emperor to be born in the Roman province of Africa.
In Greek mythology, a Charis (Χάρις) is one of several Charites (Χάριτες; Greek: "Graces"), goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility. They ordinarily numbered three, from youngest to oldest: Aglaea ("Beauty"), Euphrosyne ("Mirth"), and Thalia ("Good Cheer"). In Roman mythology they were known as the Gratiae, the "Graces."
The Charites were usually considered the daughters of Zeus and Eurynome, though they were also said to be daughters of Dionysus and Aphrodite or of Helios and the naiad Aegle. Homer wrote that they were part of the retinue of Aphrodite. The Charites were also associated with the underworld and the Eleusinian Mysteries.
The river Cephissus near Delphi was sacred to them.
Walking into this gallery feels like entering a dream made of wire and light. Ruth Asawa’s delicate sculptures float in space, casting ephemeral shadows that feel just as intentional as the forms themselves. Each looped structure—handwoven from common wire—is suspended midair, weightless and alive, like jellyfish or seed pods drifting in a current. The room hums with quiet reverence. Her sculptures don’t dominate the space—they activate it, creating a kind of silent choreography between material, negative space, and light. You feel her presence in every twist, every curl. It’s not just sculpture. It’s breath made visible.
The Ashmolean guide states that "The Museum of Eastern Art was formed in 1949 as a subdivision of the Department of Fine Art, housed in the old Indian Institute, which had maintained its own museum of Indian art since 1897. The transfer of these combined collections to the Museum's own building to form the Department of Eastern Art provided large new opportunities. A series of generous benefactions provided roughly nine-tenths of the Department's original holdings. The collections encompass art from the Islamic World, the Indian sub-continent, South-East Asia, China, Japan and Korea, and include ceramics, sculpture, metalwork, paintings, prints and other arts."
The Ashmolean Museum is Britain's oldest public museum has one of the finest collections of paintings and antiquities outside of London. Hand-held photography is permitted in many of its galleries, these photos are what I've come up with. All were taken at a high ISO and are therefore not quite as sharp as I'd do if I had studio light conditions. Anyway I hope this set gives people who do not have access to this wonderful museum a taste of some of its riches.
The museum has now re-opened and has expanded, I hope to cover some of the new aspects of the collection in this set.
This rippling bronze sculpture by Ruth Asawa feels alive, like it’s caught mid-breath. Its form, built from repeating looped structures, twists and arches in space with a weightless grace that defies its heavy material. Cast from a handwoven original, it preserves every tactile impression—each gesture encoded in metal. You can feel Asawa’s fingers in every undulation. It’s quiet but powerful, both organic and otherworldly, like coral or lace suspended in motion. Seeing it in person is like discovering a secret—something ancient, intuitive, and handmade, now frozen in bronze but humming with energy.
The Ashmolean guide states that "The Museum of Eastern Art was formed in 1949 as a subdivision of the Department of Fine Art, housed in the old Indian Institute, which had maintained its own museum of Indian art since 1897. The transfer of these combined collections to the Museum's own building to form the Department of Eastern Art provided large new opportunities. A series of generous benefactions provided roughly nine-tenths of the Department's original holdings. The collections encompass art from the Islamic World, the Indian sub-continent, South-East Asia, China, Japan and Korea, and include ceramics, sculpture, metalwork, paintings, prints and other arts."
The Ashmolean Museum is Britain's oldest public museum has one of the finest collections of paintings and antiquities outside of London. Hand-held photography is permitted in many of its galleries, these photos are what I've come up with. All were taken at a high ISO and are therefore not quite as sharp as I'd do if I had studio light conditions. Anyway I hope this set gives people who do not have access to this wonderful museum a taste of some of its riches.
The museum has now re-opened and has expanded, I hope to cover some of the new aspects of the collection in this set.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841–December 3, 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau"
It was interesting in the light of this comment to view this work in the city of Rubens and many great C17 painters. It seems too often we limit the impressionists to landscape and the fleeting nature of light, it seems to me that Renoir's vision was very different to that of Monet or Sisley.
Sculpture by Pompeo Marchesi (1783-1858); Milan 1832'. In the lobby hall of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Penitent Magdalene.
Students in Jamie Rourke's Sculptural Forms Class installed their life size plaster figures at different campus locations including the Calagione Fitness Center, the Bookstore and Alumni Hall, May 13, 2022. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
Students in Mona Seno's Sculptural Forms Class painted and then installed their life size plaster figures at different locations inside the Rhodes Center for the Arts, May 10, 2022. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
Students in Jamie Rourke's Sculptural Forms class at work on their small scale stone carving projects, April 9, 2021. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
When does the Hong Kong skyline leap from the pages of a book in the NMH Schauffler Library? Or, more concerningly perhaps, a white wolf? Students in Mona Seno's Sculptural Forms class wove their artistic magic for their spring semester final projects to give 3D form to the words within a chosen book. Visit the library to view how an altered book gives birth to a white wolf, or a lighthouse, or our solar system. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
Charles II (29 May 1630 OS – 6 February 1685) was the King of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
His father King Charles I was executed at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War. The English Parliament did not proclaim Charles II king at this time, passing instead a statute making such a proclamation unlawful. England entered the period known to history as the English Interregnum or the English Commonwealth and the country was a de facto republic, led by Oliver Cromwell. On the other hand, Scotland was then still a separate kingdom and the Parliament of Scotland proclaimed Charles II King of Scots on 5 February 1649 in Edinburgh. He was crowned King of Scots at Scone on 1 January 1651. Following his defeat by Cromwell at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651, Charles fled to the continent and spent the next nine years in exile in France, the United Provinces and the Spanish Netherlands.
A political crisis following the death of Cromwell in 1658 resulted in Charles being invited to return and assume the thrones in what became known as the Restoration. Charles II arrived on English soil on 25 May 1660 and entered London on his 30th birthday, 29 May 1660. After 1660, all legal documents were dated as if Charles had succeeded his father in 1649. Charles was crowned King of England and Ireland at Westminster Abbey on 23 April 1661.
Charles's English parliament enacted anti-Puritan laws known as the Clarendon Code, designed to shore up the position of the re-established Church of England. Charles acquiesced to the Clarendon Code even though he himself favoured a policy of religious tolerance. The major foreign policy issue of Charles's early reign was the Second Anglo-Dutch War. In 1670, Charles entered into the secret treaty of Dover, an alliance with his first cousin King Louis XIV of France under the terms of which Louis agreed to aid Charles in the Third Anglo-Dutch War and pay Charles a pension, and Charles promised to convert to Roman Catholicism at an unspecified future date. Charles attempted to introduce religious freedom for Catholics and Protestant dissenters with his 1672 Royal Declaration of Indulgence, but the English Parliament forced him to withdraw it. In 1679, Titus Oates's revelations of a supposed "Popish Plot" sparked the Exclusion Crisis when it was revealed that Charles's brother and heir (James, Duke of York) was a Roman Catholic. This crisis saw the birth of the pro-exclusion Whig and anti-exclusion Tory parties. Charles sided with the Tories, and, following the discovery of the Rye House Plot to murder Charles and James in 1683, some Whig leaders were killed or forced into exile.
Charles dissolved the English Parliament in 1679, and ruled alone until his death on 6 February 1685. He converted to Roman Catholicism on his deathbed.
The Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Antwerp (Dutch: Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten van Antwerpen), founded in 1810, houses a collection of paintings, sculptures and drawings from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries. This collection is representative of the artistic production and the taste of art enthusiasts in Antwerp, Belgium and the Northern and Southern Netherlands since the fifteenth century.
The neoclassical building housing the collection is one of the primary landmarks of the Zuid district of Antwerp, and stands in gardens bounded by the Leopold de Waalplaats, the Schildersstraat, the Plaatsnijdersstraat, and the Beeldhouwersstraat. It was completed in 1894.
Thomas Johnes (1 September 1748 – 23 April 1816), born in Ludlow, Shropshire, England was a Member of Parliament, landscape architect, farmer, printer, writer and social benefactor. He is best known for his development of the Hafod Estate in Wales. Upon moving from his family home at Croft Castle to an isolated area near Cwmystwyth, Cardiganshire, Wales Johnes began his life works by building a church for the local tenants, a school, and magnificent gardens, walks and bridges. He undertook experiments in sheep and cattle breeding together with the growing of new crops and a thriving dairy was established. Trees were planted in great quantities on land considered unsuitable for crops; Johnes obtained the Royal Society of Arts medal five times for planting trees. He encouraged his tenants to improve their farming practices when in 1800 he published A Cardiganshire Landlord's Advice to his Tenants, with a Welsh translation and offered prizes for good crops. He was also one of the chief supporters of the Cardiganshire Agricultural Society, founded in 1784. Johnes devoted his entire life fortune to improving Hafod Estate
Sir Francis Chantrey. Chantrey was a notable sculptor in the early C19, and did many dramatic "romantic" sculptures for church monuments that can be found all over Britain.
Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey (April 7, 1782–November 25, 1841), was an English sculptor of the Georgian era.
He was born at Norton near Sheffield, where his father, a carpenter, had a small farm. His father died when he was eight; and his mother remarried, leaving him without a profession. At fifteen, he was on the point of being apprenticed to a grocer in Sheffield, when, having seen some wood-carving in a shop-window, he requested to be made a carver instead, and was placed with a Mr Ramsey, woodcarver, in Sheffield. In this situation he became acquainted with Raphael Smith, a distinguished draughtsman in crayon, who gave him lessons in painting; and Chantrey, eager to become an artist, procured the cancelling of his indentures, and went to try his fortune in Dublin and Edinburgh, and finally (1802) in London.
Here he first obtained employment as an assistant wood-carver, but at the same time devoted himself to portrait-painting, bust-sculpture, and modelling in clay. He exhibited pictures at the Royal Academy for some years from 1804, but from 1807 onwards devoted himself mainly to sculpture. The sculptor Joseph Nollekens showed recognition of his merits. In 1807 he married his cousin, Miss Ann Wale, who had some property of her own. His first imaginative work in sculpture was the model of the head of Satan, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1808. He afterwards executed for Greenwich Hospital four colossal busts of the admirals Duncan, Howe, Vincent and Nelson; and so rapidly did his reputation spread that the next bust which he executed, that of John Horne Tooke, procured him commissions to the value of £2,000.
From this period he was almost uninterruptedly engaged in professional labour. In 1819 he visited Italy, and became acquainted with the most distinguished sculptors of Florence and Rome. He was chosen an associate (1815) and afterwards a member (1818) of the Royal Academy, received the degree of M.A. from Cambridge, and that of D.C.L. from Oxford, and in 1835 was knighted. He died after an illness of only two hours' duration, having for some years suffered from disease of the heart, and was buried in a tomb constructed by himself in the church of his native village.
Chantrey's works are extremely numerous. The principal are the statues of George Washington in the State-house at Boston, Massachusetts; of George III in the Guildhall, London; of George IV at Brighton; of William Pitt the Younger in Hanover Square, London; of James Watt in Westminster Abbey and in Glasgow (also a bust, plus one of William Murdoch, at St. Mary's Church, Handsworth); of William Roscoe and George Canning in Liverpool; of John Dalton in Manchester Town Hall; of Lord President Blair and Lord Melville in Edinburgh, etc. Of his equestrian statues the most famous are those of Sir Thomas Munro in Calcutta, and the Duke of Wellington in front of the London Exchange.
The Ashmolean guide states that "The Museum of Eastern Art was formed in 1949 as a subdivision of the Department of Fine Art, housed in the old Indian Institute, which had maintained its own museum of Indian art since 1897. The transfer of these combined collections to the Museum's own building to form the Department of Eastern Art provided large new opportunities. A series of generous benefactions provided roughly nine-tenths of the Department's original holdings. The collections encompass art from the Islamic World, the Indian sub-continent, South-East Asia, China, Japan and Korea, and include ceramics, sculpture, metalwork, paintings, prints and other arts."
The Ashmolean Museum is Britain's oldest public museum has one of the finest collections of paintings and antiquities outside of London. Hand-held photography is permitted in many of its galleries, these photos are what I've come up with. All were taken at a high ISO and are therefore not quite as sharp as I'd do if I had studio light conditions. Anyway I hope this set gives people who do not have access to this wonderful museum a taste of some of its riches.
The museum has now re-opened and has expanded, I hope to cover some of the new aspects of the collection in this set.
Leptis Magna (Arabic: لبدة), also known as Lectis Magna (or Lepcis Magna as it is sometimes spelled), also called Lpqy or Neapolis, was a prominent city of the Roman Empire. Its ruins are located in Al Khums, Libya, 130 km east of Tripoli, on the coast where the Wadi Lebda meets the sea. The site is one of the most spectacular and unspoilt Roman ruins in the Mediterranean.
The Ashmolean guide states that "The Museum of Eastern Art was formed in 1949 as a subdivision of the Department of Fine Art, housed in the old Indian Institute, which had maintained its own museum of Indian art since 1897. The transfer of these combined collections to the Museum's own building to form the Department of Eastern Art provided large new opportunities. A series of generous benefactions provided roughly nine-tenths of the Department's original holdings. The collections encompass art from the Islamic World, the Indian sub-continent, South-East Asia, China, Japan and Korea, and include ceramics, sculpture, metalwork, paintings, prints and other arts."
The Ashmolean Museum is Britain's oldest public museum has one of the finest collections of paintings and antiquities outside of London. Hand-held photography is permitted in many of its galleries, these photos are what I've come up with. All were taken at a high ISO and are therefore not quite as sharp as I'd do if I had studio light conditions. Anyway I hope this set gives people who do not have access to this wonderful museum a taste of some of its riches.
The museum has now re-opened and has expanded, I hope to cover some of the new aspects of the collection in this set.
Students in Mona Seno's Sculptural Forms Class painted and then installed their life size plaster figures at different locations inside the Rhodes Center for the Arts, May 10, 2022. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
The Ashmolean guide states that "The Museum of Eastern Art was formed in 1949 as a subdivision of the Department of Fine Art, housed in the old Indian Institute, which had maintained its own museum of Indian art since 1897. The transfer of these combined collections to the Museum's own building to form the Department of Eastern Art provided large new opportunities. A series of generous benefactions provided roughly nine-tenths of the Department's original holdings. The collections encompass art from the Islamic World, the Indian sub-continent, South-East Asia, China, Japan and Korea, and include ceramics, sculpture, metalwork, paintings, prints and other arts."
The Ashmolean Museum is Britain's oldest public museum has one of the finest collections of paintings and antiquities outside of London. Hand-held photography is permitted in many of its galleries, these photos are what I've come up with. All were taken at a high ISO and are therefore not quite as sharp as I'd do if I had studio light conditions. Anyway I hope this set gives people who do not have access to this wonderful museum a taste of some of its riches.
The museum has now re-opened and has expanded, I hope to cover some of the new aspects of the collection in this set.
The Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Antwerp (Dutch: Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten van Antwerpen), founded in 1810, houses a collection of paintings, sculptures and drawings from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries. This collection is representative of the artistic production and the taste of art enthusiasts in Antwerp, Belgium and the Northern and Southern Netherlands since the fifteenth century.
The neoclassical building housing the collection is one of the primary landmarks of the Zuid district of Antwerp, and stands in gardens bounded by the Leopold de Waalplaats, the Schildersstraat, the Plaatsnijdersstraat, and the Beeldhouwersstraat. It was completed in 1894.
The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book, included in the Septuagint and in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible, but excluded by Rabbinical Jews and Protestants. It has been said that the book contains numerous historical anachronisms,[citation needed] which is why many scholars now accept it as unreliable history — it has been considered a parable or perhaps the first historical novel.
The name Judith (Hebrew: יְהוּדִית, Standard Yəhudit Tiberian Yəhûḏîṯ ; "Praised" or "Jewess") is the feminine form of Judah.
The Book of Judith has a tragic setting that appealed to Jewish patriots and it warned of the urgency of adhering to Mosaic Law, generally speaking, but what accounted for its enduring appeal was the drama of its narrative.
The story revolves around Judith, a daring and beautiful widow, who is upset with her Jewish countrymen for being unwilling to engage their foreign conquerors. She goes with her loyal if reluctant maid Abra to the camp of the enemy general, Holofernes, to whom she slowly ingratiates herself, promising him both sexual favors and information on the Israelites. Gaining his trust (though not having delivered on either promise), she is allowed access to his tent one night as he lays in a drunken stupor. She decapitates him, then takes his head back to her fearful countrymen. The Assyrians, having lost their leader, disperse, and Israel is saved by the hand of a woman. Though she is courted by many, she remains unmarried and pure for the rest of her life.
In the second part of the book (chapters 8-16), the pious and beautiful widow Judith (Hebrew, "Jewess") volunteers to deliver the Israelites after rebuking them for losing faith in God when under siege. She goes to the Assyrian camp, pretending to be an informer against her people, and charms Holofernes, who invites her to a banquet in his tent. At the banquet, Holofernes becomes drunk and falls asleep. Judith seizes a sword, beheads him, wraps the severed head in a bag, and returns with it to her people. The jubilant Israelites then attack the leaderless Assyrians, who flee in panic. Judith leads the people in a song of celebration and praise, and then all go to Jerusalem to offer thanksgiving.