Friday, 14 September 2012
Medieval Illumination
Medieval Illumination
The "Making Illuminated Medieval Books: An Exhibit of Technology and Application" exhibit by Artist and Medieval Book Arts researcher Randy Asplund is a display of the various tools, raw materials, and techniques of the complex process of making medieval books and illuminated manuscript pages. In these cases you will find the tools and materials used to make parchment, inks, paints, to gild, to write, to illustrate, and to bind medieval books. The tools are reproductions made by the artist. The raw materials include minerals, plants, rare insects like Kermes, and alchemical types such as lead colors and verdigris. On the walls behind these objects are photographs of the artist at work making all of these things. There are also single page works of art, and two full books, including a 15th c. style Gothic bound 3" high "Life of Jeanne d'Arc" and a 14th-16th c. type Limp Leather bound book.
All of these materials and photographs are part of the vast amount of material Randy Asplund has been assembling for inclusion in the book he is writing about how Medieval Illuminated Books were made.
Medieval Illumination
Medieval Illumination
Medieval Illumination
Medieval Illumination
Medieval Illumination
Medieval Illumination
Medieval Illumination
Medieval Illumination
Medieval Illumination
Suetonius Augustus
Suetonius Augustus
Suetonius was a waspish commentator. He knew how to put the dagger in, even into Julius Caesar himself, telling us he was anguished by his receding hairline and constantly grooming what few hairs remained. This first of the Caesars wielded so much power that he was able to overrule the Senate and defeat the Armies of the Republic. In the year of his murder in 44 BC he took a new name - ‘Dictator’ - and was eventually deified.His successor, Augustus, could do no wrong in Suetonius’s eyes.It was a time of peace and plenty and became the historian’s benchmark, to which the Caesars who followed could never aspire.Suetonius portrayed Augustus as a pillar of rectitude, living respectably with his wife Livia, appalled when he heard their daughter Julia had been offering herself as a tart to passers-by in Rome.He expelled his only child to a volcanic island for life.The third Caesar, Livia’s son Tiberius, supposedly had unusually large eyes and could see in the dark - making it easier to spot assassins. He spent nine years of his Imperium living in his palace in Capri - accessible only by one small beach - and attended by astrologers and ladies of the night. Hostile sources muttered darkly about vile obscenities taking place, and of transgressors ‘who after long and exquisite tortures were hurled into the sea . . . while Tiberius looked on’.More likely, Tiberius wanted a quiet life far from Rome and from his family, particularly as he had been forced by Augustus to divorce his own wife and marry ‘a sneering harlot’. He became morose, suspicious and increasingly paranoid as younger family members fought among themselves to succeed him.Meanwhile in Rome, he created the first Water Board and expediently solved the city’s financial crisis by printing money and distributing it in loans: 1st century AD quantitative easing.
Suetonius Augustus
Suetonius Augustus
Suetonius Augustus
Suetonius Augustus
Suetonius Augustus
Suetonius Augustus
Suetonius Augustus
Suetonius Augustus
Suetonius Augustus
Ifla 2012
Ifla 2012
The International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), which represents the worldwide profession of landscape architecture, announced today that Mihály Möcsényi is the winner of the Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award – the International Federation of Landscape Architects’ premier award – for 2012.The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) is pleased to announce the launch of The Landscape Architect’s Guide to Washington, D.C. This online, mobile-friendly guide will help visitors and locals discover more than 75 historic, modern and contemporary landscapes in Washington, D.C. and Arlington, Va. Expert commentary and more than 800 photos are provided by 20 landscape architects.tur(i)ntogreenis an International design competition launched by the Research and Documentation Centre in Technology, Architecture and City in Developing Countries(CRD-PVS) at the Politecnico di Torino(Italy).
With a distinguished jury and sponsored by the UN-HABITAT within the “I’m a City Changer” campaign, it is open to University students from around the world. Participants are invited to apply their creative talents in developing new multidisciplinary solutions for sustainable and inclusive cities reflecting on new forms of urban management and regeneration through agro – housing and urban – farming models.
Ifla 2012
Ifla 2012
Ifla 2012
Ifla 2012
Ifla 2012
Ifla 2012
Ifla 2012
Ifla 2012
Ifla 2012
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Latin for "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy", often referred to as simply the Principia, is a work in three books by Sir Isaac Newton, first published 5 July 1687. After annotating and correcting his personal copy of the first edition, Newton also published two further editions, in 1713 and 1726 The Principia states Newton's laws of motion, forming the foundation of classical mechanics, also Newton's law of universal gravitation, and a derivation of Kepler's laws of planetary motion (which Kepler first obtained empirically). The Principia is "justly regarded as one of the most important works in the history of science" In British institutions such as the Royal Society of London, representations of Isaac Newton and his work changed significantly in the century after his death, reflecting the shifting interests of elite natural philosophers and men of science. His international fame and the continuing relevance of the world system he and his followers erected meant that he was always used as a triumphant figurehead, but according to the intellectual circumstances subtly different aspects of Newtonianism were appropriated.
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
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Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Carlotta Valdez
Carlotta Valdez
Time is evoked numerous times in Vertigo. In his shipyard building office, old prints of San Francisco hang on the walls. Gavin Elster tells Scottie of his preference for yesteryears. "The things that spell San Francisco to me are disappearing fast... I should have liked to have lived here then— color, excitement, power, freedom." Elster's wife Madeleine is obsessed with the past too, wandering to Golden Gate Park to the Portals of the Past. She visits Mission Dolores graveyard to her great-grandmother Carlotta Valdez's tombstone (1831-1857). She goes to the Legion of Honor and sits at the portrait of Carlotta Valdez staring back into time, buying a nosegay of roses identical to those she's holding. She also mimicks Carlotta's hairstyle down to her spiral bun. In their trip to Big Basin's redwoods , they look at the cross section of a Coastal Redwood that is over a thousand years old . Madeleine points her finger at the outer rings and says "Somewhere in here I was born... and there I died.
Carlotta Valdez
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Carlotta Valdez
Carlotta Valdez
Carlotta Valdez
Carlotta Valdez
Carlotta Valdez
Carlotta Valdez
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Carlotta Valdez
Carlotta Valdez
Principia Mathematica Newton
Principia Mathematica Newton
NEWTON, Sir Isaac. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. Edition tertia aucta et emendate. Edited by Henry Pemberton. London: William & John Innys, 1726.4o (242 x 188 mm). Half-title, privilege leaf, title-page printed in red and black. Engraved portrait frontispiece by George Vertue after Vanderbank, engraved illustration on page 506, woodcut diagrams throughout. Contemporary speckled (rebacked, old spine laid down). Provenance: R. Grassmann (name in ink on front free endpaper); Stettin, Stadtbibliothek (early ink stamp on verso of title).Third edition, the last published in the author's lifetime, and THE BASIS FOR ALL SUBSEQUENT EDITIONS. "Pemberton was invited to superintend the editing of the third edition of the Principia... Pemberton was then about thirty years old and was rightly flattered to get the opportunity to work so closely with the great eighty-year-old Newton. However, Newton often ignored Pemberton's editorial suggestions. Pemberton wrote A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy, which he had partly read to the dying Newton. It made no great mark but could at least be recommended as being propaedeutic" (DNB). Including Newton's Prefaces to previous editions and his new one mentioning Halley's comet, and many alterations "the most important being the scholium on fluxions, in which Leibnitz had been mentioned by name. This had been considered an acknowledgement of Leibnitz's independent discovery of the calculus. In omitting Leibnitz's name in this edition, Newton was criticised as taking advantage of an opponent whose death had prevented any reply" (Babson). "Newton's Principia (1687) integrates hundreds of physics diagrams so as to fall properly in the text.
Principia Mathematica Newton
Principia Mathematica Newton
Principia Mathematica Newton
Principia Mathematica Newton
Principia Mathematica Newton
Principia Mathematica Newton
Principia Mathematica Newton
Principia Mathematica Newton
Principia Mathematica Newton
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