by Art of Counting | Cross Training
Researchers at Carlos III University in Madrid have announced that many Roman mosaics include references to women as the cause of wars and other evils. The roles of women in the mosaic can be broken into three broad groups: familial (wife, mother, daughter),...
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Officials at the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi announced that a wry demonic profile was located in the clouds of a 13th century Giotto fresco. Art restorers have discovered the figure of a devil hidden in the clouds of one of the most famous frescos...
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Awesome digital reconstruction of the Ramesseum developed by CyArk, a project dedicated to creating a digital archive of World Heritage sites. Using a large archive of photographs and a wide array of other data, the CyArk Ancient Thebes project provides 3-D point...
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Science Daily reports on the work of Thomas DeFanti, a research scientist and data visualization expert at the University of California, San Diego. DeFanti is currently engaged in capturing 3-D images of many of Luxor’s ancient monuments utilizing awesome new...
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Sarah Parcak, an Egyptologist at the University of Birmingham, has been using infra-red and satellite imagery for many years to map Egypt. As discussed by the BBC, Dr. Parcak has also used these technologies to reveal a large number of archaeological sites, including...
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Check out this amazing new Google application called Art Project that provides a walk-through exploration of a number of major museums (including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Uffizi in Florence, The Hermitage, and the Tate in London). Many pieces...
