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Cherubino Alberti (Italian, 1553-1615)
after Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475-1564)Saint Jerome in the Desert, c. 1575”
This is the information given at the Art Institute of Chicago, but the landscape couldn’t possibly be by Michelangelo? Could it?
A tomb painting that shows craftsmen in the workshop of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III. A scribe uses a bronze bull’s head to weigh rings of gold. To his right, artisans create djed pillars, which signify endurance and stability. Such pillars were covered with inscriptions before being placed in a shrine or buried with the dead. Below, other craftsmen create an inlaid box, a vase, and a sphinx. To their left, two men present finished goods for inspection, including a djed pillar and a round collar. This painting is from the tomb of Nebamun at Thebes and dates to circa 1400 B.C.E.
A Marble Group of Three Satyrs Fighting a Serpent, Roman Imperial, circa 1st Century A.D.
Ares-Mars represents Tuesday in a mosaic depicting the seven days of the week. He sits on a throne, armed with shield, helm and spear, and is attended by his son Phobos (Fear), and the winged goddess Nike (Victory).
Floor Mosaic, ca 3rd AD, Villa at Orbe-Bosceaz, Orbe, Switzerland.
CODDE, Pieter
Young Scholar in His Study: Melancholy
c. 1630
Oil on panel, 46 x 34 cm
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille
Key Gompa (also spelled Ki, Kye or Kee) is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery located on top of a hill at an altitude of 4,166 metres (13,668 ft) above sea level, close to the Spiti River, in the Spiti Valley of Himachal Pradesh, Lahaul and Spiti district, India . Kibar village below the monastery is said to be one of the highest village in India It is the biggest monastery of Spiti Valley and a religious training centre for Lamas. It reportedly had 100 monks in 1855. In the architectural definitions given to various monasteries, Ki falls in the ‘Pasada’ style which is characterised by more stories than one and often plays the role of a fort-monastery.
a little Indo-Himalayan border village; Achinathang in Ladakh
The pillar set by Asoka at the birthplace of Buddha (Rummindei)…. taken by an unknown photographer for the Archaeological Survey of India Collections: Northern Circle (North-Western Provinces and Oudh) in 1896-97.
CRANACH, Lucas the Elder
Lucretia
1525-30
Oil and tempera on limewood, 42 x 28 cm
Staatliche Museen, Kassel
Wang Shimin (1592-1680) From Scenes Described in Poems of Du Fu, 1666. One of twelve album leaves, ink and colour on paper. 38.8 x 25.6 cm. The Palace Museum, Beijing
Night-Shining White
Han Gan (active 742-783 A.D.) Tang Dynasty
Just a random image and a queote from a FOrbes magazine of a few yeras ago:
“For decades Orientalism was an art market backwater. Paintings by a cadre of Western artists, including, most famously, Delacroix, Renoir and Matisse (who gained acclaim mainly for their non-Orientalist subjects), portrayed exotic or eroticized scenes of Middle Eastern life: scantily clad nubile women, bare-bottomed snake charmers and stoned-out turbaned men splayed around hookahs.
But over the last few years the art world has done an about-face, with collectors, largely from the Middle East, driving up prices and prompting scholars to take a second look. The King of Morocco, the Sultan of Oman and the Qatari Emir all have substantial Orientalist collections. To these new collectors, the works constitute their heritage, a living history captured by respectful, awed travelers. In 2008 Orientalist works grossed $70 million at auction worldwide, an eightfold increase from 2004, partly a reflection of the auction houses’ decision to add more sales to the calendar. In March Sotheby’s ( BID - news - people ) introduced its first Orientalist sale in Doha, Qatar. Last May an Orientalist session at Sotheby’s in London brought in $16 million for 90 works, setting records for ten artists.” What do you think will happent to market for orientalist art works after the Tunisia, Tahrir and related incidents in the middle-east?
“ Ludwig Deutsch, a German painter of incredible skill is much more appreciated now than he was in his own lifetime. He studied first in Vienna and then in Paris, eventually becoming a citizen of France. He made numerous trips to the Middle East and spent some time in Cairo. He painted scenes of both ordinary and religious life and this image attests to his beautiful color palette and attention to detail.
The setting is a tomb within the Blue Mosque in Cairo, dating back to 1346. As with many of the Orientalists Deutsch recorded the beautiful architecture of the Middle East.”
‘An Almeh’ by Jean-Leon Gerome, French. Oil, 1882.Almeh (Arabic عالمة `ālma, plural awālim, from علم ”to know, be learned”) was the name of a class of courtesans or female entertainers in Arab Egypt, women educated to sing and recite classical poetry and to discourse wittily, connected by musician Alain Weber (1997) to the qayna slave singers of pre-Islamic Arabia.[1] They were educated girls of good social standing, trained in dancing, singing and poetry, present at festivals and entertainments, and hired as mourners at funerals. (wikipedia)
In Islamic tradition, the awalim were linked to Aisha, wife of the prophet Muhammad, and to Aisha bint Talhah, who conversed with learned men at the court of Damascus, and who was nick-named “the flower of literature” because the poetry she authored. In the 19th century, almeh came to be used as a synonym of ghawazi, the erotic dancers of Dom ethnicity whose performances were banned in 1834 by Muhammad Ali of Egypt. As a result of the ban, the ghawazi dancers were forced to pretend that they were in fact awalim. Transliterated into French as almée, the term came to be synonymous with “belly dancer” in European Orientalism of the 19th century.[edit]
Jorge Santo— an Angola painter who had to relocate in the States in 1982
How seriously are we supposed to take this?
Secret Russian Scalar Weapons Can Kill Millions, claims Top Russian Politician - threatens to annex Georgia entirely if it interferes with its WTO bid, boasts end of US dominance and touts a resurgent Russia.
A top Duma political leader caused shock waves in a recent television interview when he warned that Russia could deploy an arsenal of new technology to “destroy any part of the planet” and kill over a hundred million people using secret weather weapons if the United States, the UN or Georgia tried to stop Russia’s entry into the WTO.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky is Vice-Chairman of the Russian State Duma and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), the first officially sanctioned opposition party after the fall of communism. The LDPR has deep links with the former KGB and Communist Party and has become a significant force in Russian politics, despite Zhirinovsky himself being branded as a militant neo-fascist.
According to a translation provided by a Russian speaker, during the interview Zhirinovsky went off on a bizarre tangent after he was asked how Russia should treat countries like Georgia and the United States who try and block Russia’s entry into the World Trade Organization.
Saying that the American government in Washington DC had “no future” and would “collapse,” Zhirinovsky cited Russia’s supremacy in space and stated that the country had, “Lots of money, resources, and new weapons that no one knows about.”
“With them we will destroy any part of the planet within 15 minutes,” he sensationally warned.
“Not an explosion, not a ray burst, not some kind of laser, not lightning, but a quiet and peaceful weapon,” added Zhirinovsky, warning that “whole continents will be put to sleep forever” and that “120 million will die” if anyone interfered with Russia’s claim on the Kuril Islands, which are the subject of a territorial dispute with Japan…
Zhirinovsky made reference to the recent tsunami in Japan, suggesting that the “new weapons” to which he refers are related to weather control technology, which has been intensely studied by both the U.S. and Russia since the 1950′s and is commonly used today.
Threatening to annex Georgia completely, Zhirinovsky warned, making it the Turkish-Russian border, “And then there will be another tsunami, on the other side of the planet, in the Caucasus. Zhirinovsky’s reference to the Kuril Islands in connection with the devastating tsunami that hit Japan in March is a not so subtle suggestion that Russia had something to do with causing the natural disaster that killed thousands, led to the Fukushima crisis and threatened to derail Japan’s economic recovery…
Zhirinovsky also warned of a coming “third world war” emerging from the current turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa that would lead to the collapse of current global institutions like the EU and the WTO and the rise of a new international order led by Russia.
Moscow has routinely employed the weather control technology of “cloud seeding” for decades to ensure sunny skies when military parades are taking place on national holidays, but turning the weather into a devastating weapon to be used in warfare is a frightening new prospect.
However, as the revelations of weather modification expert Ben Livingston, a former Navy Physicist who briefed President Lyndon B. Johnson on the effectiveness of weather control back in the 1960′s during the Vietnam era, have documented, as far back as the early 1950′s the United States was funneling money into programs aimed at using the weather as a weapon during the cold war. It would be naive to think that the Russians weren’t engaged in similar research…
For many years, suspicions have circulated around the purpose of the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), an ionospheric research program jointly funded by the US Air Force, the US Navy, the University of Alaska and DARPA. In his underground bestseller Angels Don’t Play This HAARP, author Nick Begich summarizes the evidence that suggests HAARP is involved in weather control for nefarious purposes…
Zhirinovsky’s comments have been no less controversial in the past. He once advocated dropping nuclear bombs over the Atlantic Ocean to flood Great Britain.
What are we to make of these remarkable comments? Is Zhirinovsky just a crank, or has he truly spilled the beans on Russia’s intention to unleash an arsenal of new weather warfare technology in its bid to dominate the globe?
Read Whole: Infowars.com
this is a work by Nicolas whose blog is introduced with the following statement:
“Hi, I am a volontaire and take care of Nicolas who is mental ill. A form of therapy for him is painting. It makes him free from his phobias and nightmares. We both decided to publish his work cos’ maybe someone will be interested of them. I hope you enjoy it!”
‘St. Sebastian is seeing the specter of his death’
