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The Secrets of Michelangelo
Published September 23, 2011
When Michelangelo carved his masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture, do you think he was saying that David had some big balls to do what he did, or am I just extremely well endowed? The statue of David is a 17 foot marble statue and was created between 1501 and 1504. It represents the Biblical hero David and was originally commissioned as one of a series of statues of prophets to be positioned along the roofline of the east end of Florence Cathedral.
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The Rat Pack
Published September 16, 2011
We salute the Rat Pack, a group of actors and musicians originally centered on Humphrey Bogart. In the mid-1960s it was the name used by the press and the general public to refer to a later group of entertainers after Bogart's death. They called themselves several different names and centered around Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop. They often appeared together on stage and in films in the early-1960s, including the movie Ocean's 11. Sinatra, Martin and Davis were regarded as the group's lead members.Continue reading
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Leave a commentThe Course of Empire
Published June 27, 2011
The Course of Empire is a five-part series of paintings created by Thomas Cole in the years 1833-36. It is notable in part for reflecting popular American sentiments of the times, when many saw pastoralism as the ideal phase of human civilization, fearing that empire would lead to gluttony and inevitable decay.Continue reading
Renaissance Man
Published March 4, 2011
Leonardo da Vinci is probably most known for his famous paintings of the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. But painting is only one of his many amazing abilities. Born in 1452, Leonardo was a polymathic person skilled in painting, sculpture, architecture, music, science, math, engineering, anatomy, geology, cartography, botany and writing. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man.
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Published January 7, 2011
The Helix Nebula is a trillion-mile-long cloud of hot gases." At its center is dying star which has ejected masses of dust and gas to form tentacle-like filaments stretching toward an outer rim composed of the same material. Our own sun may look like this in several billion years.
Taking pictures with the Hubble Space Telescope is much more complex than taking pictures with a traditional camera. Hubble's cameras record light from the universe with special electronic detectors. These detectors produce images of the cosmos not in color, but in shades of black and white.
Continue readingSeven Wonders of Ancient Greece
Published November 19, 2010
Ancient Greece was a land of breathtaking beauty where science, math and art combined to produce some of the world’s greatest marvels of architecture and design. From prehistoric palaces to bold symbols of victory, the seven wonders of ancient Greece still stir hold us in awe to this day.
Impressionism
Published October 2, 2010
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence in the 1870s and 1880s. The name of the movement is derived from the title of a Claude Monet work, Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a satiric review published in Le Charivari.
1981 Collector Plate Tosca in the La Scala Grand Opera series
Published September 18, 2005
Tosca is set in Rome at the end of the 18th century. Love and jealousy drive the story to its inevitable, tragic end. Tosca, an actress, kills her tormentor, Scarpia, and rushes to save her lover, Mario. Continue reading
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