GHEYN, Jacob de II
(b. 1565, Antwerp, d. 1629, The Hague)
Four Studies of a Woman
1602-03
Chalk on paper, 261 x 322 mm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
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centuriespast: GIJSBRECHTS, Cornelius (b. ca. 1630, Antwerpen,...
GIJSBRECHTS, Cornelius
(b. ca. 1630, Antwerpen, d. after 1675, K?benhavn)
Quodlibet
1675
Oil on canvas
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne
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Alex Ross
Alex Ross
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poboh: Photo, Horse and Girl, Irina Abramova Can’t find...
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The Hereford Mappa Mundi is unique in Britain’s heritage; an...
The Hereford Mappa Mundi is unique in Britain’s heritage; an outstanding treasure of the medieval world, it records how thirteenth-century scholars interpreted the world in spiritual as well as geographical terms.
The map bears the name of its author ‘Richard of Haldingham or Lafford’ (Holdingham and Sleaford in Lincolnshire). Recent research suggests a date of about 1300 for the creation of the map.
Mappa Mundi is drawn on a single sheet of vellum (calf skin) measuring 64” by 52” (1.58 x 1.33 metres), tapering towards the top with a rounded apex. The geographical material of the map is contained within a circle measuring 52” in diameter and reflects the thinking of the medieval church with Jerusalem at the centre of the world.
Superimposed on to the continents are drawings of the history of humankind and the marvels of the natural world. These 500 or so drawings include of around 420 cities and towns, 15 Biblical events, 33 plants, animals, birds and strange creatures, 32 images of the peoples of the world and 8 pictures from classical mythology.
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unknown artist, wonderful site….
unknown artist, wonderful site….
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fuckyeahgustavklimt: Water Snakes Date: 1904-1907
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This picture is making the rounds in tumblr. Does anyone know...
This picture is making the rounds in tumblr. Does anyone know who it is by, the date and other useful info?
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Muslim Body Wants World Action on Syria | OnIslam.net
Muslim Body Wants World Action on Syria | OnIslam.net:
By OnIslam & News Agencies
Monday, January 30, 2012
DAMASCUS - The world’s largest Islamic body urged the international community on Monday, January 30, to take “necessary measures” to stop bloodshed in Syria, as street battles raged on the doorstep of the capital Damascus between President Bashar al-Assad’s troops and rebel fighters.
“I renew my calls to the international community, especially the UN Security Council, to take up its responsibilities in protecting civilians and taking all measures to end bloodshed in Syria,” Ekmeledin Ihsanoglu, the secretary general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), said, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported.
The OIC chief slammed the “continuous killing of dozens of innocent civilians every day.”
“This is unacceptable and it is impossible to remain silent on it.”
He appealed to world countries to find “a solution that would ensure security and stability and prevent foreign intervention” in Syria.
Syria has been hit by popular protests in March, inspired by uprising in the Arab world, for an end to Assad’s 11-year rule.
More than 6,000 people have been killed in the crackdown on protestors, according to the United Nations.
Syrian authorities blame foreign-backed armed groups for the violence, saying they have killed 2,000 soldiers and police.
Ihsanoglu’s call followed earlier comments by UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Sunday that Assad must end the killings in his country.
“First and foremost, he must stop immediately the bloodshed,” Ban told reporters.
“The Syrian leadership should take a decisive action at this time to stop this violence. All the violence must stop.”
Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby arrived in New York Monday where he will brief representatives of the UN Security Council on the Syrian on Tuesday to seek support for an Arab peace plan to end bloodshed in the country.
He will be joined by Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, whose country heads the League’s committee charged with overseeing the Syrian crisis.
Street Battles
Meanwhile, street battles raged on Monday on the doorstep of Damascus as Assad’s troops tried to consolidate their grip on suburbs taken from opposition fighters.
“Street fighting has been raging since dawn,” a Syrian activist told Reuters.
“The sound of gunfire is everywhere.”
At least 15 people had been killed as opposition fighters pulled back in Saqba and Kfar Batna, while other activist groups estimated the death toll at several dozen in three days of fighting in the districts.
The escalating bloodshed prompted the Arab League to suspend the work of its monitors on Saturday.
Arab foreign ministers, who have urged Assad to step down and make way for a government of national unity, will discuss the crisis on February 5.
Yet, Russia seemed determined on supporting Assad as its Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov Moscow expressed will to hear directly from the Arab League; a move likely to delay any vote.
“It would be logical, considering the complexity of this issue, for Security Council members to be able to study the recommendations and conclusions of the observer mission in detail,” the Interfax news agency quoted Gatilov as saying on Monday.
“Only after that would it be possible to count on a substantive discussion of this issue in the Security Council.”
The Syrian regime was also supported by Syria’s key ally, Iran, saying Assad must be given time to implement reforms.
“They have to have a free election, they have to have the right constitution, they have to allow different political parties to have their activities freely in the country. And this is what he has promised,” Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said.
“We think that Syria has to be given the choice of time so that by (that) time they can do the reforms.”
Copyright © 2012 OnIslam.net. All rights reserved.
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centuriespast: Kikugawa EizanJapanese (1787 - 1867) Courtesans...
Kikugawa Eizan
Japanese (1787 - 1867)
Courtesans Matsushima of the Matsubaya and Yashio of the Ogiya…, Late Edo period, c. early-mid 19th century
Edo period, Late, 1789-1868
One of two prints from an ukiyo-e woodblock printed ôban triptych; ink and color on paper
Signed: (printed) Kikugawa Eizan hitsu
Creation Place: Japan
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
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comicbooks: BEFORE WATCHMEN has been officially announced today...
BEFORE WATCHMEN has been officially announced today from DC Entertainment. The project, which has been brewing for some time now under the code name Panic Room, has the blessing of co-creator Dave Gibbons, while estranged co-creator Alan Moore told The New York Times this morning the project was “completely shameless.” The series’ first-issue cover art are posted above, while below are the creative teams for new titles:
Silk Spectre by Darwyn Cooke and Amanda Conner
Rorschach by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo
Comedian by Brian Azzarello and J.G. Jones
Doctor Manhattan by J. Michael Straczynski and Adam Hughes
Nite Owl by J. Michael Strazynski, Andy and Joe Kubert
Ozymandias by Len Wein and Jae Lee
Curse of the Crimson Corsair by Len Wein and John Higgins will be a two-page back story running at the end of every Before Watchmen comic published.
…are you excited?
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allaboutmary: Today it is the feast of Candlemas, or the...
Today it is the feast of Candlemas, or the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple.
It marks both Jesus’ first visit to the temple in Jerusalem and Mary’s purification, 40 days after the birth of her son. The latter was an ancient Jewish custom.
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Amnesty urges release of S. Korean Twitter user
Amnesty urges release of S. Korean Twitter user:
AFP - Rights group Amnesty International Thursday urged the release of a South Korean activist accused of helping the “enemy” by re-tweeting messages from North Korea’s official Twitter account.
Park Jeong-Geun, a Socialist Party activist, was arrested last month for re-tweeting messages such as “Long Live General Kim Jong-Il”.
The 24-year-old says his re-tweets were meant to ridicule North Korea’s leaders rather than support them.
He has been in custody since January 11 and could face up to seven years in jail under the strict National Security Law (NSL).
“This is not a national security case, it’s a sad case of the South Korean authorities’ complete failure to understand sarcasm,” Sam Zarifi, Amnesty International’s Asia-Pacific director, said in a statement.
“Imprisoning anyone for peaceful expression of their opinions violates international law but in this case, the charges against Park Jeong-Geun are simply ludicrous and should be dropped immediately,” he said.
Amnesty said the party to which Park belongs has frequently criticised North Korea for exploiting its labour force and opposes its father-to-son succession.
Park has told journalists that his intention was to lampoon North Korea’s leaders and its rigid Stalinist system.
Zarifi said the NSL has a “chilling effect” on freedom of expression.
“It is used not to address threats to national security, but instead to intimidate people and limit their rights to free speech. It should be reformed in line with human rights law, and if the government cannot do this, it must be abolished,” he said.
Amnesty International said that despite the end of military rule in South Korea decades ago, “authorities have increasingly used the NSL to harass critics of the government’s North Korea policies since 2008”.
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male nun
male nun
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Kandinsky, Wassily (1866-1944) - 1909 Arabs I (Hamburg...
Kandinsky, Wassily (1866-1944) - 1909 Arabs I (Hamburg Kunsthalle, Germany) Oil on card; 71.5 x 98 cm. Born in Moscow in 1866, Kandinsky spent his early childhood in Odessa. His parents played the piano and the zither and Kandinsky himself learned the piano and cello at an early age. The influence of music in his paintings cannot be overstated, down to the names of his paintings Improvisations, Impressions, and Compositions. In 1886, he enrolled at the University of Moscow, chose to study law and economics, and after passing his examinations, lectured at the Moscow Faculty of Law. He enjoyed success not only as a teacher but also wrote extensively on spirituality, a subject that remained of great interest and ultimately exerted substantial influence in his work. In 1895 Kandinsky attended a French Impressionist exhibition where he saw Monet’s Haystacks at Giverny. He stated, “It was from the catalog I learned this was a haystack. I was upset I had not recognized it. I also thought the painter had no right to paint in such an imprecise fashion. Dimly I was aware too that the object did not appear in the picture…” Soon thereafter, at the age of thirty, Kandinsky left Moscow and went to Munich to study life-drawing, sketching and anatomy, regarded then as basic for an artistic education. Ironically, Kandinsky’s work moved in a direction that was of much greater abstraction than that which was pioneered by the Impressionists. It was not long before his talent surpassed the constraints of art school and he began exploring his own ideas of painting - “I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife and I made them sing with all the intensity I could…” Now considered to be the founder of abstract art, his work was exhibited throughout Europe from 1903 onwards, and often caused controversy among the public, the art critics, and his contemporaries. An active participant in several of the most influential and controversial art movements of the 20th century, among them the Blue Rider which he founded along with Franz Marc and the Bauhaus which also attracted Klee, Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956), and Schonberg, Kandinsky continued to further express and define his form of art, both on canvas and in his theoretical writings. His reputation became firmly established in the United State s through numerous exhbitions and his work was introduced to Solomon Guggenheim, who became one of his most enthusiastic supporters. In 1933, Kandinsky left Germany and settled near Paris, in Neuilly. The paintings from these later years were again the subject of controversy. Though out of favor with many of the patriarchs of Paris’s artistic community, younger artists admired Kandinsky. His studio was visited regularly by Miro, Arp, Magnelli and Sophie Tauber. Kandinsky continued painting almost until his death in June, 1944. his unrelenting quest for new forms which carried him to the very extremes of geometric abstraction have provided us with an unparalleled collection of abstract art.
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missfolly: “The real Mona Lisa? Prado museum finds Leonardo da...
“The real Mona Lisa? Prado museum finds Leonardo da Vinci pupil’s take Prado says pupil painted remarkable portrait alongside Leonardo da Vinci, affording insight into how Mona Lisa actually looked …
A gallery spokeswoman confirmed it had what is the earliest copy and that its true origins were only recently discovered. “The work has been in restoration for several months in preparation for an exhibition at the Louvre [entitled Leonardo’s Last Masterpiece: The Sainte Anne]. The conservation process has not been finished. We are going to present the finished painting at the Prado in about three weeks.”
At a press conference in Madrid on Wednesday Gabriele Finaldi, the Prado’s deputy director collections, said: “It is as if we were in the same studio, standing at the next easel. You can imagine that this is what the Mona Lisa looked like back in the 16th century.”“
Source: The Guardian
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Turkey opens its doors to all Syrians fleeing regime
Turkey opens its doors to all Syrians fleeing regime:
Reacting to the Russian and Chinese veto to a United Nations Security Council resolution to stop the killings of civilians by Syrian security sources, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said Turkey’s doors were “open to all Syrians who want to flee from oppression.”
“We are ready to host them in our homes if necessary,” Davutoğlu added as part of a new stage to step up pressure on the Bashar al-Assad regime.
The move is interesting since Turkey has announced that there could be only two conditions for Turkish involvement in military action in the Syrian situation; a U.N. Security Council decision based on humanitarian reasoning or a massive flood of refugees into Turkey.Yet the Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a written statement yesterday categorically denying media reports that Turkey and the United States had agreed on a military action plan on Syria in Feb. 4’s meeting in Munich between Davutoğlu and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Davutoğlu made no comment on U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman’s statement after he said that his country might consider providing weapons to a Free Syrian Army consisting of defectors from Syrian army and forming the military wing of the Istanbul-based Syrian National Council.
With this move of welcoming Syrian regime opponents in need, Turkey wants to trigger a new balance, as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has planned a visit to Damascus to convince al-Assad to stop the violence against his own people. “We don’t want to lose our hopes and we don’t want to let the Syrian people down,” Davutoğlu said, “But Lavrov should have done this months ago.”
The Turkish top diplomat explains the latest move as follows: “Syrian people should not be victimized by a power game between the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council. The U.N. resolution, which was proposed by the Arab League and Turkey who are affected by the Syrian crisis, were vetoed by those who are not directly related with it; it’s an ethical and legalistic weakness regarding international politics. But [even] if the international community prefers to remain silent before this human tragedy, Turkey continues to do whatever is necessary.”
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