Category: Art
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Earth seen from space
A web site with many cool images of Earth as seen from space.
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Marvelous libraries
A library is not only a marvelous location to read books, but it may also be -simply- a marvelous location. This is the case with the collection of cultural culmination points that are offered to our eyes at Curious Expeditions. Handelingenkamer Tweede Kamer Der Staten-Generaal Den Haag, the Hague, Netherlands
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Insects engravings
John Obadiah Westwood (1805-1893), after obtaining a law degree, fell in love with entomology and archeology. Thanks to the Oxford Digital Library, volumes 1 & 2 of his ‘Arcana Entomologica‘ are now witnesses of his passion-filled activity (both scientific and artistic). Source: BiblioOdyssey.
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Manuscript decoration
I have always a little in love with old manuscript decorations. They form a nice example of a tightly codified elegance and of a technique serving art purposes. Thanks to BibliOdyssey, we can see a very nice sample of it. Source: Plimpton MS 296 from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University (in…
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Leonardo’s last supper in high-definition
Italian firm HAL9000 has a neat technology to shoot very high definition images. They apply it to antique art masterworks like Leonardo’s major painting “The last supper” (of recent cinematographic fame): An incredible 16 gigapixel resolution to get down to the finest cracks in the paint. Another previous work from HaltaDefinizione (with only 8.6 billion…
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Hiroshige: One hundred famous views of Edo
A masterpiece of Japanese painting is now available online since the Brooklyn Museum published brilliant reproductions of these exceptionnal prints that deeply impressed the European impressionists. Brooklyn Museum – One hundred famous views of Edo
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Durian
Graphic animation to be seen at least once. link
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52 photos that warped our collective minds
Year after year, there are a few photo images that wrote History. LukeProg found 52 of them. The choice is always subjective, but most of them really hit the public.
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Martin Forget, natural photos
Martin Forget has a photographic eye I envy. His animal and natural wildlife photos are simply delicious, vivid, surprising like this one: You will certainnly want to stop by his web site. But if you only have a minute, I invite you to a shortcut to his images on photo.net and you will see that…