Turning to the themes and style of the late Roman mosaics within the Villa del Casale, it is impossible not to note the main components of the corpus of these images. The plot part was for the most part presented as a separately worked out structure of images and meanings: the course of images was primitive and did not present any difficulty for the viewer to process information. The conceptual co... » Continue Reading
Turning to the plot component of this work, which is one of the artist’s first works from the “Landscapes..” series, where he refers to classical mythical plots and images, it is worth noting the ideological and narrative significance of this famous myth in the work of other Baroque artists, opposing them compositionally an artistic solution to the result that the landscape painter came up with, p... » Continue Reading
The history of the Oriental Museum dates back to the establishment of the institution itself in 1918 as one of the first oriental centers in the country. Already in the 1930s, the first exhibitions were held, the main collections of art objects of East and West Asia were gradually supplemented and formed from the eastern collections of the National Museum Fund, antique shops, as well as nationaliz... » Continue Reading
The bust of the Duchess Dorothea of Prussia is a round sculpture made of alabaster. Technique - carving. A characteristic feature of medieval alabaster, expressively emphasizing the plot component of this type of late Renaissance portrait, is the ability to polish the material like marble, while creating special positions for shadow and light, brilliance and transparency. The softness of the trans... » Continue Reading
The book miniature of the Komnenian period, in which the tendencies of the Comnenian mannerism further arose and developed, is notable for its particular expressiveness and decorativeness. This range of manuscripts includes the manuscripts of the Homilia of James of Kokiinovath, in which the original properties of this stylistic decision played a huge role in the formation and execution of subsequ... » Continue Reading
Distinguished by its exquisite carpet and ornamental decorativeness, the Book of Kells undoubtedly represents for us a new type of ambivalent manuscript, emphasizing the ideological differences between the doctrinal teachings of the early Irish church and the Romanesque-Petrine tradition of scriptural interpretation. This compilation is of great interest in the study as a subject of medieval art, ... » Continue Reading
“The object as a witness can convey to us the knowledge that it contains if we can ask it the right questions,” writes Jean Gabus (Gabus, 1965), referring us to one of the introductory practices of museology, where the logic of the object and its model are considered further develop within the framework of certain scientific disciplines, often losing their original meaning, design. It is easy to s... » Continue Reading
i start to believe that the older i get the less i understand on what to expect from people and events that surround and built your every day experience. i know so little about life and what to do with this amount of work and responsibility ahead of me. but i’m not scared rather annoyed with this realization that keeps me from doing what i might actually want to do. to craft and sense and be there... » Continue Reading
you know how often i just dream about leaving this town and moving back to the village my parents originally came from. all of my ancestors lived in that area, it’s a beautiful place, truly magnificent in summer time. but i can’t just live up recalling few of memories left from the last trip to there i had almost ten years ago. i want to be away from all of this. i want a simpler life. i want to b... » Continue Reading
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