The head of Leiden "restored" using the Chiaramonti Caesar.
On the left, the head of Leiden as it is, on the right, the face restored using that of the Tusculum bust (Turin).
See please the new post
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Monday, June 25, 2018
Taurasia
When Hannibal arrived in the plan near Torino, he found Taurasia with its gates closed. Taurasia was pro-Rome. After a battle of three days, Hannibal destroyed completely Taurasia and also the Celtic people of Taurini. He did it so well that, today, we have no idea where Taurasia was. What happened? The people of Taurini survived only in the name of Torino or are here in our DNA? I think that they are here in DNA. But Taurini disappeared from history, and we know them only from the name of the town, Julia Augusta Taurinorum, in honor of the alliance with Rome.
The emblem of Torino is the bull (toro), but the name of the people, Taurini, had its origin in a Celtic word meaning "gate", "tower". That is, the people of the Gate of the Alps.
The emblem of Torino is the bull (toro), but the name of the people, Taurini, had its origin in a Celtic word meaning "gate", "tower". That is, the people of the Gate of the Alps.
Digital restoration of a Julius Caesar's marble head in Leiden
My digital restoration of one of the two marble heads of Caesar at http://www.rmo.nl/onderwijs/museumkennis/klassieke-wereld/romeinen/de-voorwerpen/julius-caesar
The Rijksmuseum van Oudheden is the national archaeological museum of the Netherlands. It is located in Leiden.
Sunday, June 24, 2018
My restoration of the Leiden bust of Caesar
This is my "digital restoration" (on the right) of the Leiden bust of Caesar (on the left). Actually, this is one of two marble heads of Caesar that we can see at the page http://www.rmo.nl/onderwijs/museumkennis/klassieke-wereld/romeinen/de-voorwerpen/julius-caesar . The Rijksmuseum van Oudheden is the national archaeological museum of the Netherlands. It is located in Leiden.
For the restoration of the face I used that of the Tusculum bust.
Actually "rectangles" are coherent (see the discussion in this post)
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
The Pantheon, eye of Rome, and its glimpse of the sky
The Pantheon, eye of Rome, and its glimpse of the sky: The only natural light source of the Pantheon in Rome is its Oculus, a large opening at the top of the vault. Some literature proposed that the rays of the sun, passing through the Oculus, were actng as they could do in a huge sundial. The sun has been also imagined as being involved during some rituals made by the Roman emperors in the temple, to emphasize the celebratons of the foundaton of Rome. Besides to the sun, the temple could also have been linked to the heavens and the stars passing close to the Zenith. Inside this temple, which we could imagine as a huge eye, the gods were guarding the moton of the universe, Mundus, of which the city, Caput Mundi, was the head. In fact, a possibility exists that the architect who planned the temple had been inspired by the form of the human eye to create a building representatve of the link between Rome and the heavens, exactly in the place where Romulus ascended to them. In this artcle, besides proposing this idea, we give also some simulatons made by means of the sofware planetarium Stellarium, of the night sky and the stars visible through the Oculus at the tme of the Emperor Hadrian, who built the temple that we see today.
Saturday, June 16, 2018
Wardrobe of Curiosities
Domenico Remps (1620–1699): Cabinet of Curiosities wikidata:Q19939108
Current location Opificio delle pietre dure , Firenze
The monk, the polyhedrons and the wardrobe
Fra Giovanni da Verona. Tarsia raffigurante un armadio con poliedri. Courtesy Laurom di Wikipedia in italiano.
Fra Giovanni da Verona (1457 circa – 1525) è stato un intarsiatore, miniatore, scultore nonché architetto italiano, attivo tra la fine del XV secolo e l'inizio del XVI secolo. Artista poliedrico, è ricordato in particolare per la maestria nell'intarsio e nella prospettiva.
Sfere cinesi (puzzle spheres)
Sfera cinese, in avorio, fatta di diverse sfere concentriche (British Museum. Original photograph from Ged Carroll)
Wikipedia dice che questo tipo di lavori è diventato popolare in Europa grazie alla produzione Cinese del XIX secolo. Ma la creazione di questi rompicapo ha origini ben più lontane. Antikitera.net ci informa che i primi esemplari fecero la loro comparsa durante la Dinastia Song, intorno all'anno 1000 d.C.
Pierre MEYER and the puzzle dodecahedron
Pierre Meyer is an artist who works with ivory.
Great his puzzle dodecahedron!
