”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,
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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 Probus (406)Reign23 January 393 – 15 August 423 (30 years, 204 days)Full nameFlavius Honorius (from birth to accession);
Flavius Honorius Augustus (as emperor)
Sabina Weiss.
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
by Lilly Wei
ARTnews
12/01/10In thinking about women’s prospects in the arts over the past half century, I realize we’ve indeed come a long way from the stereotype of the active male artist and the passive female muse—men looking at women and women looking at themselves being looked…
from Remy Yacouub at twitter
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
