melsarthistorynotes: Alhambra: Patio de los Leones (Courtyard...
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Palestinian rivals Fatah and Hamas 'agree to end rift'
Palestinian rivals Fatah and Hamas 'agree to end rift':
The Fatah party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas, which governs Gaza, have agreed a reconciliation deal, officials say.
Under the Egyptian-brokered deal, an interim government will be formed and a date fixed for elections.
The factions have been divided for more than four years, with Hamas in power in Gaza and Fatah running the West Bank.
Palestinian and Egyptian spokesmen told news agencies of the deal but a formal announcement has not yet been made.
Thousands of Palestinians protested in Gaza this month, calling for reconciliation.
The protests were inspired by uprisings elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa.
The split between the two factions occurred when violence erupted a year after Hamas won Palestinian elections in 2006.
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fuckyeah-arthistory: Minotaur - Dali, 1936
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centuriespast: FORMENT, DamianMain Altar (detail)c....
FORMENT, Damian
Main Altar (detail)
c. 1540
Marble
Santo Domingo de la Calzada, Saragossa
Damià Forment (1480 - 1540) was a Spanish architect and sculptor, considered the most important Spanish sculptor of the 16th century.[1]
Forment studied in Rome and Florence before returning to his native town of Valencia.[2] He worked there from 1500-09, and then moved to Zaragoza, where he kept his studio for the rest of his life.
Forment’s earliest major work was the alabaster Gothic-Renaissance altar of the Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar (1509-12), which was preserved when the 15th-century basilica was destroyed and was installed in the present 17th-century structure. He is also known for the altarpieces of the churches of San Miguel de los Navarros and San Pablo, both in Zaragoza, of the cathedral of Huesca (1520-24), done in the Mannerist style; the altar of the Poblet Monastery (1527), his first work entirely in the Renaissance style[3]; and for his last work, the Renaissance altar of the Cathedral of Santo Domingo de la Calzada (1537-40).
He died at Santo Domingo de la Calzada in 1540.
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centuriespast: BARYE, Antoine-LouisTheseus Slaying the...
BARYE, Antoine-Louis
Theseus Slaying the Minotaur
1840
Bronze, height 48 cm
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
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worldpaintings: John William Waterhouse Detail of Hylas and the...
John William Waterhouse
Detail of Hylas and the Nymphs, 1896, oil on canvas, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester.
The myth behind this painting has an unhappy ending. When the ship of the Argonauts reached the island of Cios, Hylas, the young and handsome companion of Hercules, was sent ashore in search of water. He discovered a fountain, but the nymphs of the place were so enchanted by his beauty that they pulled him to the depths of their watery abode, and in spite of the cries of Hercules which made the shores reverberate with the name Hylas, the young man was never seen again.
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Egypt FM: Gaza border crossing to be permanently opened
Egypt FM: Gaza border crossing to be permanently opened:
Egyptian FM tells Al-Jazeera that preparations are already underway to permanently open Rafah border crossing, which would allow goods and people in and out of Gaza with no Israeli supervision.
Egypt’s foreign minister said in an interview with Al-Jazeera on Thursday that preparations were underway to open the Rafah border crossing with Gaza on a permanent basis.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil al-Arabi told Al-Jazeera that within seven to 10 days, steps will be taken in order to alleviate the “blockade and suffering of the Palestinian nation.”
Click the link to read more.
About bloody time! Too long have the Egyptians been held hostage to politics imposed on them by “US Aid Money” and Mobarak’s spineless cowering to imperialistic overtures.
It’s time they regained their dignity and backbone, like they once so valiantly fought an died for the Palestinian cause as the leaders of the region, in an era bygone. No one expects that from them in today’s climate, but they least they can do is not co-operate and facilitate the occupation - like Mobarak and his cronies had done… from making Gaza an open-air concentration camp during cast lead, to plundering their resources for personal financial gain at a loss to the Egyptian public.
Obviously I remain a bit sceptical given Egypt’s recent track record, but if this happens it fills me with much hope for the future… The revolution has a long way to go, but certain recent steps are promising with more representative politics in regards to Egyptian sentiments regarding the Palestinian plight - such as brokering the recent reconciliation.
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jahsonic: In Praise of the Backside (2002) by Hans-Jürgen Döpp...
In Praise of the Backside (2002) by Hans-Jürgen Döpp is a book on the buttocks in art and literature.
It is a good pornosophical work by this oldest living erotomane. Highlights include:
- Vintage photograph of a nude woman and vegetables[1]
- Banquet of Chestnuts of the Borgia
- The story of Thryallis and Myrrhina in the matter of buttocks
- Cul de Paris Caricature on bustles[2]. Print c. 1700, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, see bustle. Here[3] is another amusing one, from Punch.
- Mozart’s scatology
- Rousseau “haunted dark alleys and hidden retreats”
- Lou Andreas-Salomé in Imago[4], anal stage:
- “it is characteristic for animals that anal and genital orientations go together completely,”
- “it is no accident that the genital apparatus remains so closely connected to the anus (and in woman is merely rented from it).”
- The Despisers of the Body by Nietzsche
- Love-hate for the body colors the whole of modern culture. The body is scorned and rejected as something inferior, enslaved, and at the same time is desired as forbidden, reified, estranged. Only culture treats the body as a thing that can be owned, only in culture has it been distinguished from mind, the quintessence of power and command, as the object, the dead thing, the corpus. In humanity’s self-abasement to the corpus nature takes its revenge for the debasement of the human being to an object of power, to raw material. —”Dialectic of Enlightenment”
- Francesco Hayez, Venere che scherza con due colombe (Ritratto della ballerina Carlotta Chabert)[5]
- Gastrosophy
- “Against the Blazoners of Body Parts” from Gilles Corrozet’s. Domestic Blazons (Paris: Giles Corrozet, 1539).
- “Our arses shall be the symbol of our peacemaking! ” Mozart’s Letters
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iamjapanese: Head of Krishna for a mural depicting the Rasalila...
Head of Krishna for a mural depicting the Rasalila (Circle dance of Krishna and the gopis), ca. 1800
Ink and watercolor on paper
Attributed to Sahib Ram
Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
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andyouhavetogivethemhope: “The greatest crimes in the world are...
“The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages”
— Banksy
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walkingliberty: Jewish theologian and prophet (lower case)...
Jewish theologian and prophet (lower case) Nathan of Gaza, a forerunner of Sabbatai Levi, depicted here in a 17th century German broadsheet leading the Tribes of Israel from exile to the Holy Land.
“forerunner” slightly misleading….
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mindsigh: Ando Hiroshige, unknown Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重?,...
Ando Hiroshige, unknown
Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重, 1797 – October 12, 1858) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, and one of the last great artists in that tradition. He was also referred to as Andō Hiroshige (安藤広重) (an irregular combination of family name and art name)[1] and by the art name of Ichiyūsai Hiroshige (long wikipedia article.).
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fuckyeah-arthistory: Disaster of War - Goya, c. 1810-15
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fuckyeah-arthistory: Time - Goya, 1810-12
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Ah crap...what's misleading about it? Because he predicted the Messiah in general, not Levi specifically? If so I see your point. I was trying to convey that he came before Levi in the general wave of 17th century Jewish Messianism. It's hard sometimes when you're trying to get all the information into as short and pithy a paragraph as possible. :)
sory if I sounded unintentionally and unduly critical— it was a minor and prosaic point really- to the effect that Nathan survived Zevi by some years and hence that the “precedied” is somewhat misleading… (not a topic on which I am particularly knowledgable, so if I in my turn have been misleading, sorry about that too).
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PETER GEORGE ELSON 1947-1998
PETER GEORGE ELSON 1947-1998
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Would anyone know the provenance (date, whereabouts etc) of this...
Would anyone know the provenance (date, whereabouts etc) of this image?
(representing the three teachers: Confucius, Buddha and Lao Tzu)
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missfolly: Medical Alchemist by Frans Christoph Janneck
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Mario Sironi (May 12, 1885 – August 13, 1961) Futurist head...
Futurist head (1913) Sironi was a grand follower of Futurism, who produced some of the most somber works of the movement, echoing his own human condition, which from his early years often dipped into deep depressions. During the rise of Mussolini, Sironi was a strong supporter of the dictator and Fascism, so, with little surprise, following the end of World War II, Sironi’s reputation was mostly destroyed, sending him into obscurity for the rest of his life. In his later years, he produced wonderful Expressionist pieces, whose reputations are smaller than what is due to them. Mario Sironi (May 12, 1885 – August 13, 1961)
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