When the crew of the Virginia scallop trawler Cinmar hauled a mastodon tusk onto the deck in 1970, another oddity dropped out of the net: a dark, tapered stone blade, nearly eight inches long and still sharp.
Sunday, 23 December 2012
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Saturday, 11 August 2012
Sketch by artist Linda Huber - Middleburgh, New York-based
"What at first glance looks like a photograph of a broken bulb turns out to be a Robert Longo-like, hyper-realistic drawing produced over the course of 35 hours by Middleburgh, New York-based artist Linda Huber (even in close up it’s hard to tell its a drawing)." -ARTINFO
Friday, 10 August 2012
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Saturday, 30 June 2012
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Friday, 22 June 2012
Sarah Jane Szikora
http://sarah-janeszikora.com/the-artist/
Sarah-Jane Szikora is an artist; living and working in North Shields, United Kingdom.
In life, we are lucky if we find our passion, something we love to do. Sarah-Jane discovered this thing in hospital aged four. Eyes bandaged from surgery, there was a crayon in her hand and despite the obvious handicap she was drawing pictures. Many years later this passion is thriving.
Encouraged by both her English mother and Hungarian father, Sarah-Jane always had creative tendencies and, on leaving school at sixteen, she attended Harrogate and Cleveland Art Colleges, specialising in illustration.
Tuesday, 12 June 2012
Thursday, 7 June 2012
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Monday, 28 May 2012
Researchers conclude that climate change led to collapse of ancient Indus civilization
A new study combining the latest archaeological evidence with state-of-the-art geoscience technologies provides evidence that climate change was a key ingredient in the collapse of the great Indus or Harappan Civilization almost 4000 years ago. The study also resolves a long-standing debate over the source and fate of the Sarasvati, the sacred river of Hindu mythology.
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-climate-collapse-ancient-indus-civilization.html
Sunday, 27 May 2012
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Newly Discovered Fragment, First Evidence Outside The Bible That Bethlehem Existed.
A newly discovered clay fragment is the first evidence outside the Bible that Bethlehem existed as a city at the time of the First Temple in Jerusalem, archaeologists say
http://www.timesofisrael.com/ancient-shard-offers-archaeologys-first-mention-of-bethlehem/#.T70t4chI8B0.facebook
Saturday, 28 April 2012
Friday, 27 April 2012
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Monday, 23 April 2012
Sunday, 22 April 2012
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Sunday, 15 April 2012
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Wednesday, 11 April 2012
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Saturday, 31 March 2012
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
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Thursday, 22 March 2012
Lumbye was a danish composer, almost forgotten. He was also known as the Danish Johann Strauss.
Hans Christian Lumbye was a danish composer who is - unfortunately - almost forgotten. He was also known as the Danish Johann Strauss.
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Canadian archeologists unearth rare wooden statue of pharaoh
Canadian archeologists unearth rare wooden statue of pharaoh
Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Monday, 5 March 2012
Sunday, 4 March 2012
Old Oak Plank Coffer
17th Century Oak Plank Coffer
Title:
17th Century Oak Plank Coffer
Dated:
c1580 - c1620
Lambing Chairs - 1750 to 1850
Wikipedia:
"The lambing chair is a wood boxed form of winged arm chair rarely having upholstery. Storage under the seat is common as a drawer or compartment.
The historic lambing chair is an example of regional vernacular furniture prevalent in the Lancashire and Yorkshire Dales in England, c. 1750-1850. The name derived from the prevalence of sheep farming in the region where the chair was used by shepherds at lambing time.
The great variety of individual designs found in this group of chairs suggests that they were made by cabinet makers or carpenters for an individual order, rather than working in the tradition of the turner who made many chairs in the same design."
17th Century 'Dugout' Chair
A 17th Century 'Dugout' chair, a whole trunk is used to in the construction of this chair and literally 'dug out', carved out of a whole trunk.
http://www.periodoakantiques.co.uk/product.php?id=353
Friday, 2 March 2012
Thursday, 1 March 2012
Wednesday, 29 February 2012
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Oetzi the Iceman's nuclear genome gives new insights
New clues have emerged in what could be described as the world's oldest murder case: that of Oetzi the "Iceman", whose 5,300-year-old body was discovered frozen in the Italian Alps in 1991.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17191398#TWEET88543
Neolithic Art - Art History 101 Basics ca. 8000-3000 BC
After the rather ho-hum art of the Mesolithic era, art in the Neolithic (literally: "new stone") age represents a spree of hellzapoppin' innovation. Humans were settling themselves down into agrarian societies, which left them enough spare time to explore some key concepts of civilization - namely, religion, measurement, the rudiments of architecture and writing and, yes, art.
http://arthistory.about.com/od/neolithicart/a/neolithic.htm
http://arthistory.about.com/od/neolithicart/a/neolithic.htm
Mesolithic Art - Art History 101 Basics ca. 10,000-8,000 BC
Otherwise known as "Middle Stone Age", the Mesolithic period covered a brief span of around 2,000 years. While it served as an important bridge between the Upper Paleolithic and Neolithic ages, the art of this period was, well, sort of boring. From this distance, it's not nearly as fascinating as the discovery of (and innovations in) the art of the preceding era. And the art of the subsequent Neolithic era is exponentially diverse, besides being more well-preserved and offering us thousands of examples of itself, instead of a "handful". Still, let's briefly cover the artistic events of the Mesolithic because, after all, it's a distinct era from any other.
http://arthistory.about.com/cs/arthistory10one/a/mesolithic.htm
http://arthistory.about.com/cs/arthistory10one/a/mesolithic.htm
Paleolithic Art - Art History 101 Basics
The Paleolithic (literally: "Old Stone Age") period covered between two and one-half to three million years, dependent upon which scientist has done the calculations. For the purposes of Art History, though, when we refer to "Paleolithic" art, we're talking about theLate Upper Paleolithic period. This began roughly around 40,000 years ago and lasted through the Pleistocene ice age, the end of which is commonly thought to have occurred near 8,000 B.C. (give or take a few centuries). This period was marked by the rise ofHomo sapiens sapiens and its ever-developing ability to create tools and weapons.
http://arthistory.about.com/cs/arthistory10one/a/paleolithic.htm
Monday, 27 February 2012
Oldest Instrument is dug up in Skye cave
Oldest instrument is dug up in Skye cave
THE remains of what could be the oldest stringed instrument to be found in Europe have been discovered in a remote cave on Skye.
http://www.scotsman.com/scotland-on-sunday/scotland/oldest_instrument_is_dug_up_in_skye_cave_1_2139726
Sunday, 26 February 2012
Women Artists of the Renaissance
Levina Teerlinc
Flemish painter, ca.1510-1576
Flemish painter, ca.1510-1576
Use top right 'next' button to scroll through the Women Artists of the Renaissance - enjoy :-)
Stage Designs Laura Thatcher on the illusion of theatre
Almost everything an audience sees on stage is illusion, and the biggest and most expensive illusion of all is the scenery.
For hundreds of years painted cloths and even people have been flown on lengths of rope, and scenery has been pushed and turned by stage crew. Nowadays sets are moved by computer, and metal wires are used instead of rope, but the illusions and theatrical trickery involved are the same as those employed and created three hundred - even four hundred years ago by architects, engineers and set designers whose work is depicted in this selection of drawings.
Glyn Philpot: Artist at the Crossroads
Glyn Philpot: Artist at the Crossroads
In the first of a two part story Grace Brockington examines two British artists characterised by outward controversy and inner conflict: Glyn Philpot and Eric Gill
The Sacred Grove of Bomarzo
http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/insight/stonard_bomarzo.html?ixsid=y7z9fTRwOK3
Saturday, 25 February 2012
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