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”Italian authorities recently announced that...

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Italian authorities recently announced that they had almost certainly identified the remains of the artist Caravaggio (1571 - 1610), ending a 400-year-old mystery concerning the final whereabouts of the master Baroque painter. (Pictured: Caravaggio’s great 1597 painting, 

Bacchus.) A towering artist, Caravaggio was also a notorious brawler and drunkard. Rome exiled him in 1606 for killing a man in a fight, and the circumstances of his death four years later in the Tuscan coastal town of Porto Ecole have long been unclear. Theories about the cause of his death range from syphilis or malaria to revenge killing by one of his many enemies. His bones, found in a crypt in Porto Ecole, were identified by DNA samples from living descendants of his family line. Still — while Caravaggio’s bones have been found, there remain plenty of famous people out there for whom that sort of finality remains elusive. In other words: No one knows where the bodies are — or if they do, they ain’t talking.” (http://www.life.com/gallery/44811/famous-people-who-simply-vanished?xid=picsofwk#index/0)

Does anyone have further info on th e above story?


mediumaevum: In the early Middle Ages, time was first marked...

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mediumaevum:

In the early Middle Ages, time was first marked down the length of a candle in hourly increments. Next came large hour glasses, which were only good for an hour…or two.

Then, Brother Gerbert, who later became Pope Sylvester II, invented a simple mechanism in 966 that rang bells at regular intervals throughout the day to call his brethren to prayer. It was the beginning of mechanical clocks as we know them today.

image: Treaty on the geometry of Pope Sylvester II, Bavaria 12th century. Schoenberg collection.

Honorius on the consular diptych of Anicius Petronius...

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Honorius on the consular diptych of Anicius Petronius Probus (406)Reign23 January 393 – 15 August 423 (30 years, 204 days)Full nameFlavius Honorius (from birth to accession);
Flavius Honorius Augustus (as emperor)

100artistsbook: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes - The Little...

limmynem: jacques prevert collage 4

windypoplarsroom: Max Klinger “Deseo”

loquaciousconnoisseur: Henry Fuseli Odysseus in front of Scylla...

poboh: Three Ballet Dancers, One with Dark Crimson Waist, ...

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poboh:

Three Ballet Dancers, One with Dark Crimson Waist, Edgar Degas.


Sabina Weiss.

centuriespast: Woman Holding Wrist of Man with a Hood over His...

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centuriespast:

Woman Holding Wrist of Man with a Hood over His Head and Face

  • Japanese, Edo period
  • Suzuki Harunobu, Japanese, 1725–1770
  • Museum of Fine Arts Boston

loquaciousconnoisseur: Pablo Picasso Portrait of Olga...

23silence: Lev Chistovsky (1902-1969) - Femme nue alanguie

cavetocanvas: Couple Riding - Wassily Kandinsky, 1907

Mario Gerth tuareg nomad / mali

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Mario Gerth

tuareg nomad / mali

OBIA, THE THIRD: The Great American (Male) Nude


from Remy Yacouub at twitter

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from Remy Yacouub at twitter

yama-bato: Eva Besnyö  [+] Amsterdam 1951 © Eva Besnyö/Maria...

yama-bato: Eva Besnyö   [+] Berlin 1931 © Eva Besnyö/Maria...

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yama-bato:

Eva Besnyö   [+]
Berlin 1931
© Eva Besnyö/Maria Austria Instituut Amsterdam

 photogravures. 57,8 x 47,5 cm (85,4 x 77 cm). 57 x...

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 photogravures. 57,8 x 47,5 cm (85,4 x 77 cm). 57 x 47,8 cm (76 x 85,5 cm). Printed name of the photographers and printer ‘Héliog. & Imp. Fillon & Heuse, Paris’, date, title and scientific and technical specifications printed in the margin.From “Atlas photographique de la lune”, Paris (Imprimerie Nationale) 1896 - 1910Provenance: Private collection, southern GermanyLiterature: Martin Parr, Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, vol. I, London 2004, ill. pp. 54/55

FRANZ FIEDLER, Untitled

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FRANZ FIEDLER, Untitled

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