Archive for the 'Art' Category
Ancient Greek coins for auction
Published December 13, 2012 Alexander the Great , Ancient Greece , Archeology , Art , Beauty , Design , Emblems , History , Symbols , Western Civilization , Western Paradigm 1 CommentTags: coins
Myths and Heroes
Published October 12, 2012 Ancient Greece , Anglo-Saxons , Archeology , Art , Celts , Classics , Culture , Europe , History , Interesting , Western Civilization 1 CommentTags: Argonauts, Jason and the Argonauts, King Arthur
From the pbs.org website:
Host Michael Wood takes an epic journey, following in the path of the Queen of Sheba, searching for Shangri-La in Tibet, untangling the tales of King Arthur’s Celtic Brittan and tracing the trek of Jason who sought the Golden Fleece.
More info here.
Wagner’s Ring Cycle
Published September 11, 2012 Art , Europe , Germany , Tradition , Western Civilization , Western Paradigm Leave a CommentTags: Opera, Richard Wagner
From pbs.org:
Robert Lepage’s acclaimed new production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, will air on Great Performances at the Met, September 11-14 in primetime each night on PBS stations, as a major television event.
The operas – Das Rheingold, Die Walkűre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung — will be preceded on Monday, September 10 at 9 p.m. by the airing of award-winning filmmaker Susan Froemke’s documentary Wagner’s Dream, which chronicles the backstage story of the creation of this ambitious new staging.
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
Published September 6, 2012 Art , Classics , Culture , Design , Emblems , Engineering , Europe , History , Italy , Masterpiece , Military , Military History , Renaissance , Science , Symbols , Technology , Tradition , Warfare , Western Civilization , Western Paradigm Leave a CommentTags: Medici
Malmaison Virtual Tour
Published August 14, 2012 Art , Culture , Design , Emblems , Europe , France , History , Military History , Napoleon , Tradition , Western Civilization , Western Paradigm Leave a CommentTags: Malmaison
Roger Scruton – Why Beauty Matters
Published June 11, 2012 Art , Beauty , Culture , Design , Europe , Interesting , Music , Society , Technology , Tradition , United States , Unusual , Western Civilization , Western Paradigm Leave a CommentRodin – The Gates of Hell
Published March 16, 2012 Art , Beauty , Culture , Europe , History , Interesting , Symbols , Tradition , Western Civilization , Western Paradigm Leave a Comment
From Amazon.com:
In 1880, Auguste Rodin was commissioned to create a set of bronze doors for a proposed museum in Paris. The museum was never built, but The Gates of Hell became Rodin’s most ambitious endeavor, taking over twenty years to complete.
During Rodin’s lifetime, The Gates was exhibited only once, in plaster. In 1977, Rodin’s intention of casting the plaster in bronze was fulfilled when American art collector and financier B. Gerald Cantor and his wife, Iris, commissioned a casting of the monumental work using the traditional and painstaking lost-wax process. When finished, it stood nearly 21 feet high and had taken more than three years to complete. This cast of The Gates of Hell was the first time in more than a century that such a large-scale lost wax bronze pouring had been attempted.
This DVD documents the triumphs and difficulties encountered during the casting of this eight-ton work and chronicles the life and work of Rodin –from the challengers of his early career to his later years of success and fame.
Raphael’s tapestries unveiled
Published September 27, 2010 Art , Beauty , Europe , History , Interesting , Masterpiece , Renaissance , Symbols , Tradition , Western Civilization , Western Paradigm Leave a Comment
Exercises to build the body of a Greek God
Published June 24, 2010 Ancient Greece , Ancient Rome , Art , Beauty , Health , Interesting , Masterpiece , Physical Training , Western Paradigm Leave a Comment
The Doryphorus displays the canonic proportions of the male torso established by Polykleitos and it was the model for the Hellenistic and Roman heroic cuirass, a fine example being the Augustus of Prima Porta.
From listverse.com:
Height (78 inches, 198.1)
Neck (19 inches; 48.26)
Biceps (16.5 inches; 41.9)
Chest (52 inches; 36.8cm)
Forearms (14.5 inches; 36.8cm)
Buttocks (47.5 inches; 120.6cm)
Calves (19 inches; 48.26cm)
Waist (40.5 inches; 102.8cm)
Thighs (26.5 inches; 67.3cm)
Read about the exercises here.
