XI-XII Century, Palazzo Madama, Torino
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Friday, March 1, 2013
Karazuri - A ghost
Nishiki-e print with Karazuri; a work by Utagawa Toyokuni II (Toyoshige), 1825-1830, representing a ghost, Museo di Arte Orientale, Torino.
On Karazuri, read please
The Japanese art of using an inkless printing
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2747878
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Leonardo da Vinci and Amboise
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Château_d'Amboise
"The royal Château at Amboise is a château located in Amboise, in the Indre-et-Loire département of the Loire Valley in France. Confiscated by the monarchy in the 15th century, it became a favoured royal residence and was extensively rebuilt.
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King Francis I was raised at Amboise, which belonged to his mother, Louise of Savoy, and during the first few years of his reign the château reached the pinnacle of its glory. As a guest of the King, Leonardo da Vinci came to Château Amboise in December 1515 and lived and worked in the nearby Clos Lucé, connected to the château by an underground passage."
In 1516, Francis I invited Leonardo da Vinci to Amboise and hosted him in the Clos Lucé, then called Château de Cloux. Leonardo arrived in Amboise with three of his famous paintings: Mona Lisa, Sainte Anne, and Saint Jean Baptiste. Leonardo lived at the Clos Lucé for the last three years of his life. He died there on 2 May 1519.
Image processing from a picture of the modern statue in Amboise of Leonardo in the pose of a river god.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Leonardo_IMG_1759.JPG
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Dodecahedral die
"In modern role-playing games, the dodecahedron is often used as a twelve-sided die, one of the more common polyhedral dice" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodecahedron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dice#Non-cubical_dice
Even in the past, the dodecahedron was used for dice.
Here an example form the site archéologique de la Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Genève
http://www.site-archeologique.ch/contenu.php?id-node=25&id-img=84
Copie d'un dé romain, en forme du dodécaèdre, datant du IVe siècle
Even older are the Etruscan dodecahedra:
More on the etruscan dodecahedron at sites:
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
CALCULI, COMPAS, DODECAEDRE
Very interesting page at http://www.alienor.org/Articles/ecriture/instrument3.htm
telling that "Les Gallo-Romains possédaient également différents instruments destinés aux disciplines scientifiques Pour compter, on utilisait des petits cailloux appelés calculi qui étaient placés dans des cases. On disposait aussi de compas se rapportant à la géométrie mais aussi au traçage des lignes d’écriture. ... Aujourd’hui, les avis convergent pour interpréter les dodécaèdres en bronze, creux, comme des instruments de géomètre."
Musée de Poitiers. Visit the site!
telling that "Les Gallo-Romains possédaient également différents instruments destinés aux disciplines scientifiques Pour compter, on utilisait des petits cailloux appelés calculi qui étaient placés dans des cases. On disposait aussi de compas se rapportant à la géométrie mais aussi au traçage des lignes d’écriture. ... Aujourd’hui, les avis convergent pour interpréter les dodécaèdres en bronze, creux, comme des instruments de géomètre."
Musée de Poitiers. Visit the site!
