The Emperor as Aesthete
As patron and collector, the long-reigning Qianlong emperor put his mark on Chinese art. By Dana Micucci Tucked behind the massive walls of the Forbidden City in Beijing, the onetime seat of China’s emperors is Juanqinzhai, the Studio of Exhaustion from Diligent Service. A jewel among the many yellow-tile roofed buildings that comprise the royal precinct...
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A School for Mural Art
The opening of a school of mural art in France promises to unleash a new generation of mural artists out into the world. By Chris Colman As an educational institution with a mission to monitor and encourage the development of mural art throughout the world, the IOF were intrigued to read about the opening of the world’s first school focusing exclusively on mural art. The EcohlCite School of Mural Art,...
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The Lost Da Vinci
It is one of the greatest mysteries in art history. A gathering body of evidence suggests it may soon be solved. By Chris Colman Researchers in Florence, Italy believe they may have found a long lost mural by Leonardo Da Vinci, hidden behind another 16th century masterpiece. “The Battle of Anghiari” was painted in 1503 by Da Vinci to...
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How to copyright Michelangelo
From the Borgia´s to Bill Gates By Charles Eicher Some of the world’s greatest artworks are turning into copyrighted properties. Five hundred years ago, Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Today, those images are copyrighted. How can ancient cultural icons become commercial properties, centuries after they fall into the public domain? How...
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Michelangelo’s Secret Brain
Michelangelo’s secret message in the Sistine Chapel: A juxtaposition of God and the human brain by R. Douglas Fields At the age of 17 he began dissecting corpses from the church graveyard. Between the years 1508 and 1512 he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Michelangelo Buonarroti—known by his first name the world over as the...
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A Taoist Treasure in a Chicken Coop
The story of the sensational discovery of a unique Taoist mural By Maya Delano Recently an ancient fresco was discovered by accident in the ruins of a Taoist temple in Xuzhou in east China’s Jiangsu province. Located southwest of Caishan village in Tongshan district of Xuzhou, Jiangsu province the “Nainai Temple” is one of the few surviving...
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Brunelleschi’s Peepshow and the invention of Perspective
“The masters of the subtle schools are controversial, polymath.” T.S.Eliot, from “Mr. Elior’s Sunday Morning Service,” 1920 (Eliot,1963 p. 58) By Michel Kubovy t least a decade before Alberti’s theoretical work, Filippo di Ser Brunellesco (1377-1446) painted two panels in the course of an experiment that according to Edgerton “marked an...
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The Emperor as Aesthete
As patron and collector, the long-reigning Qianlong emperor put his mark on Chinese art. By Dana Micucci Tucked behind the massive walls of the Forbidden City in...
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Rainer Maria Latzke speaks at the Rotary Club, Shanghai
On Tuesday 22nd January, Rainer Maria Latzke spoke before an audience at the Rotary Club, Shanghai. He spoke about his career and how it has led him to be in China today. He then went on to tell of his...
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Prof. Rainer Maria Latzke meets with the curators of the Smithsonian National Design Museum, New York
On Thursday 11th January 2013, as guest of the curator of the wall covering...
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A School for Mural Art
The opening of a school of mural art in France promises to unleash a new...
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