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centuriespast:   Lingodhbhavamurti (Shiva Manifesting within the...

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centuriespast:

  Lingodhbhavamurti (Shiva Manifesting within the Linga of Flames)
  Tamil Nadu, South India,
  Chola dynasty (300 BC-AD 1279), About 1150
  

According to legend, Vishnu and Brahma were quarrelling in the absence of time between two eons when they were interrupted by the radiance of a pillar of fire that arose from the ocean in the dark flood of the cosmic night. The two gods rushed to see the flame, which was infinite in length. Overwhelmed by the presence of the pillar, the two gods sought its beginning and its end. Brahma, shown as a goose in the upper left, flew upwards but could not see the end of the column. However, he lied to Vishnu saying he saw a garland of flowers at the top of the column. Vishnu, as the boar in the lower right, dived down for 1,000 years but could not discover the foundation of the pillar. Returning to where they started, the two bewildered gods witnessed the pillar split open to reveal Shiva inside in all his glory. The primal sound OHM thundered forth from the pillar, and Vishnu and Brahma bowed in the presence of Shiva, as represented by the fire pillar.

Birmingham Museum of Art


sovietpostcards: State Emblem and State Flag of the Turkmenian...

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sovietpostcards:

State Emblem and State Flag of the Turkmenian Soviet Socialistic Republic (1977)

artemisdreaming: Mural of a Bodhisattva. China, 10th...

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artemisdreaming:

Mural of a Bodhisattva. China, 10th century

Chinese mural of a bodhisattva, ink and color on plaster, c. 952, dated to the Later Zhou Period.

Marcel Duchamp, Vierge, No. 1 [Virgin], 1912

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Marcel Duchamp, ViergeNo. 1 [Virgin], 1912

mediumaevum: MAITANI, Lorenzo Fourth Pillar (detail)...

Detail of Averroes in Raphael’s School of Athens….

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Detail of Averroes in Raphael’s School of Athens….

artemisdreaming: Gathering of Bodhisattvas, China, 6th...

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artemisdreaming:

Gathering of Bodhisattvas, China, 6th century

Cave mural of Worshiping Bodhisattva, Wei Dynasty (535-556 A.D.)

There are evidences that the modern cards were introduced to...

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There are evidences that the modern cards were introduced to Europe by the traders from the Mamelukes of Egypt in the late 1300s. The Mameluke deck contained 52 cards comprising four “suits”: polo sticks, coins, swords, and cups. Each suit contained ten “spot” cards (cards identified by the number of suit symbols or “pips” they show) and three “court” cards named malik (King), na’ib malik (Viceroy or Deputy King), and thani na’ib (Second or Under-Deputy). The Mameluke court cards showed abstract designs not depicting persons There are some evidence to suggest that earlier Chinese cards brought to Europe may have pass through Persia, and subsequently influenced the Mameluke cards.


This set of cards is designed by the graphic designers of Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt. c. 1500. According to a passage in Ibn Taghri Birdi’s HISTORY OF EGYPT, 1382-1469 A.D., the future sultan al-Malik al-Mu’ayyad won a large sum of money in a game of cards 5. In these playing cards the suits were coins, cups, swords, and polo sticks.


After the development of the printing industry at the end of...

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After the development of the printing industry at the end of the 15th century, Rouen became an important centre for card-making whose influence extended far afield. Packs of playing cards reached England from Rouen, indeed, many were smuggled via the Isle of Wight.

A pack of cards made by Pierre Marechalc.1567 preserved in the museum at Rouen is undoubtedly the model from which our English pack subsequently evolved. The style of the costumes on English playing cards is late medieval, being descended from the Rouen models.

text from :

http://www.wopc.co.uk/mounthood/mareschal.html

Playing cards were introduced to Japan by the Portuguese sailors...

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Playing cards were introduced to Japan by the Portuguese sailors whose ship entered the port of Kagoshima (southern Japan) on August 15th, 1549. Incidentally, among the ship passengers was a Jesuit priest by the name Francisco Xavier, who later became Saint Francis Xavier. He was traveling to the Far East to proselytize for Christianity. The crew brought on land a deck of Spanish playing cards. This is perhaps the reason for why the Japanese cards resemble the European cards more than they do to the Chinese ones.
The new, karuta, the Japanese version of the Portuguese word carta or “card” represented the “cards of the southern barbarians”, i.e. the Europeans, which became a fad and spread throughout the country. It is interesting however that how Japanese Artists adopted the cards into their own cultural icons.


I found the picture in Tarot-pedia, on the article on Giuseppe...

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I found the picture in Tarot-pedia, on the article on Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, but can’t find any info on the occasion for the picture or the symbolism or political references involved. Any ideas?

This is a modification of the Flammarion Woodcut is an enigmatic...

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This is a modification of the Flammarion Woodcut is an enigmatic woodcut by an unknown artist. It is referred to as the Flammarion Woodcut because its first documented appearance is in page 163 of Camille Flammarion’s L’atmosphère: météorologie populaire (Paris, 1888), a work on meteorology for a general audience.

Note. The Text “Urbi et orbi” does not appear in the original Flammarian woodcut. SteveMcCluskey 23:13, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
The text “Urbi et Orbi” appears on this image because it is the cover design for the punk album Urbi Et Orbi (EP). As such, it is inappropriate as an illustration for anything except articles about that album.76.204.93.188 14:39, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

This image with Urbi et Orbi, is pure manipulation and unlogic in this context. There is no religion on the image, therefore the afterwards added description is just fictioning - stealing the idea of nature for their instrumentlizing moral. And in the same time the take the focus of the astonishing fact, that there is an universum out there and it does not need any religious explanation. Therfor the pope decided to give this his Urbi et Orbi / again he manipulates the fact that there is no church in the image, but now it is. For the user it should be more obvious AND both version should be alowed. But the original is the one which a wikipedia should support, as peopel come to wikipedia, because of the logic and not for manipulated views and stolen ideas! —Tales23 (talk) 11:40, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Please note the two wheels on the left: obviously they are not stars; it seems to be a hint to the wheels of the throne of God, described by en:Ezekiel. Even though this very nice picture is subtly derogatory and POV, as it attributes to a church missionary, opinions derived from fairy tales about reaching the base of a rainbow (see picture) and false information on medieval science, still it was prepared by an artist with stronger biblic information than shown in the above comment. Pinea

This coloring is not particularly good, compared to the many others that exist. The tree, for example, is miscolored — the lower branch appears transparent. The lake in the lower right is filled in green instead of blue, the entire “landscape” is flat green, with no attention to detail. If a page is going to be redundant enough to contain both a black-and-white and a colored version of the same file, it seems worthwhile to at least have a “good” colored version. Many are available. -71.218.10.216 23:21, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Who is it that persists on using this colorization instead of the black & white original? Quite aside from the fact that it’s not faithful to the drawing and that it contains an extraneous Latin text, it’s simply not the original illustration, but rather a manipulation of it (a rather ugly one, in my opinion) by an anonymous person. It’s not even one of the colorizations that has appeared in print outside of Wikipedia. -

text at 
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestand:Universum.jpg

Düüreer Hands

Gutenberg?

moonsiren: From Tarot Art Nouveau by Antonella Castelli. Click...

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moonsiren:

From Tarot Art Nouveau by Antonella Castelli. Click for high quality.


centuriespast: TITLE  Last Judgment  Leandro dal Ponte, called...

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centuriespast:

TITLE  Last Judgment
  Leandro dal Ponte, called Leandro Bassano, Italy, (1557 - 1622)
  oil on copper
  About 1595/6 - 1605


  

The figures in this highly detailed masterpiece are carefully organized according to celestial hierarchy, which allows the viewer to identify a great number of them by their positions and by the iconographic attributes they hold. The support for this painting is copper. The smoothness of the thin copper sheet allows the artist to apply the oil paint with virtually no visible brushstrokes, which permits a crispness of detail and endows the meticulously finished surface with a luminous quality.

Birmingham Museum of Art

oneblackline: Family and Rainstorm (1955)Alex Colville David...

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oneblackline:

Family and Rainstorm (1955)
Alex Colville

David Alexander ColvillePCCCONS (born August 24, 1920 in TorontoOntario) is a Canadian painter.

Colville’s family moved from Toronto to AmherstNova Scotia in 1929. He attended Mount Allison University from 1938–1942, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Colville married Rhoda Wright that year and enlisted in the Canadian Army under the War Artist Program. During his four-year deployment to the European Theatre, he worked as one of Canada’s most famous war artists, famously painting troops landing at Juno Beach on D-Day.

Colville returned to New Brunswick after the war and became a faculty member with the Fine Arts Department at Mount Allison University where he taught from 1946 - 1963. Colville left teaching to devote himself to painting and print-making full-time from a studio in his home on York Street; this building is now named Colville House.

In 1973, he moved his family to his wife’s hometown of WolfvilleNova Scotia where they lived in the house that her father had built and in which she was born. The Colvilles have three sons and a daughter along with eight grandchildren.

2and1-2color: The Carnival of Venice (Italian: Carnevale di...

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2and1-2color:

The Carnival of Venice (Italian: Carnevale di Venezia) is an annual festival, held in Venice, Italy. Carnival started as a time for celebration and expression throughout the classes, as wearing masks hid any form of identity between social classes.

Venetian masks can be made in leather or with the original glass technique. The original masks were rather simple in design and decoration and often had a symbolic and practical function  . Nowadays, most of them are made with the application of gesso and gold leaf and are all hand-painted using natural feathers and gems to decorate.

  • Bauta is the whole face, with a stubborn chin line, no mouth, and lots of gilding”.
  • The moretta is an oval mask of black velvet that was usually worn by women visiting convents.
  • The “Volto” was the more common mask used in Venice for centuries. Volto means “face” to design that is was the most common, simplest mask.

The Carnival starts around two weeks before Ash Wednesday and ends on Shrove Tuesday (Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras), the day before Ash Wednesday.

Leyendecker 1923… Couldn’t find more information.

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Leyendecker 1923… Couldn’t find more information.

How We Know - Freeman Dyson

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The consequences of the information flood are not all bad. One of the creative enterprises made possible by the flood is Wikipedia, started ten years ago by Jimmy Wales. Among my friends and acquaintances, everybody distrusts Wikipedia and everybody uses it. Distrust and productive use are not incompatible. Wikipedia is the ultimate open source repository of information. Everyone is free to read it and everyone is free to write it. It contains articles in 262 languages written by several million authors. The information that it contains is totally unreliable and surprisingly accurate. It is often unreliable because many of the authors are ignorant or careless. It is often accurate because the articles are edited and corrected by readers who are better informed than the authors.

Jimmy Wales hoped when he started Wikipedia that the combination of enthusiastic volunteer writers with open source information technology would cause a revolution in human access to knowledge. The rate of growth of Wikipedia exceeded his wildest dreams. Within ten years it has become the biggest storehouse of information on the planet and the noisiest battleground of conflicting opinions. It illustrates Shannon’s law of reliable communication. Shannon’s law says that accurate transmission of information is possible in a communication system with a high level of noise. Even in the noisiest system, errors can be reliably corrected and accurate information transmitted, provided that the transmission is sufficiently redundant. That is, in a nutshell, how Wikipedia works.

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