So-called “Peplos Scene” from the east Parthenon frieze (panels E31-35). The scene may depict the peplos garment being folded by a child (perhaps a weaver) and a chief priest. Mansfield believes that this image depicts the smaller peplos/robe of the annual Lesser Panathenaia. By Dr. Monica Bowen / 06.28.2017 Professor of Art History Seattle University A few weeks[…]
Robert Lowell, American Poet By Robin Lindley / 11.10.2017 I believe that mania and genius not uncommonly exist together, that suffering can be brought to some good, that the fast swither of mania can fire ambition, steel the nerve, and give high wind to imagination. If checked by discipline, and made flesh and blood by[…]
Otto Dix, Assault Troops Advance under Gas (Sturmtruppe geht unter Gas vor). 1924. Tate Liverpool. The paintings of Otto Dix are an imperishable reminder that the best possible bulwark against becoming “machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts’ – in Chaplin’s phrase – is in not thinking like a machine. By Adam Barnett /[…]
Lead archaeologist Lyudmil Vagalinski shows the last of the total of four ancient shrines discovered after every three stores in the city of Heraclea Sintica. Photo: TV grab from BNT By Ivan Dikov / 11.05.2017 Archaeology in Bulgaria Shrines located within the stores lining the main square of the Ancient Thracian, Greek, and Roman city of[…]
The Beauty of Palmyra, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek By Judith Weingarten / 09.02.2015 Archaeologist The Beauty of Palmyra When the Danish archaeologist Harald Ingholt was just beginning his third season of digging at Palmyra in 1928, someone offered to sell him this stunning portrait of a woman – and, in accordance with the practices of the time,[…]
This khipu, which was made before the Spanish conquest of the Incas, was probably used for accounting, as indicated by the knots in the cords. / Brendan Smialowski, Getty Images Andean cultures developed a mysterious form of writing that has never been deciphered. Scientists are teaming with locals to solve the enigma. By Dr. Sabine Hyland[…]