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Past Times and Present Tensions: Important new example of British early Celtic art. 1. Introduction and metal analysis
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Past Times and Present Tensions. Wednesday, 28 August 2013. Important new example of British early Celtic art. 1. Introduction and metal analysis. Nlike the other series of blog entries here, this one will run consecutively as a convenience to students of the subject. Permission is given to use the information herein, provided that the source is cited. He rarest of all of the styles of early Celtic art is Jacobsthal's. Was from the Department of Tarn in France. He finder sold it to TimeLine Originals.
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Past Times and Present Tensions: The seal of Alexander the Great -- part three
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Past Times and Present Tensions. Thursday, 8 August 2013. The seal of Alexander the Great - part three. He most puzzling part of the research into the seal of Alexander the Great was the epigraphy. In particular, the Greek letter xi ( Ξ. The form I give here is the one most familiar to collectors of the coins of Alexander. Coin in the name of Alexander. By Ptolemy as Satrap. Classical Numismatic Group Inc. N the seal, the middle horizontal line is absent. And this makes it look like a form of the Greek.
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Past Times and Present Tensions: Viewpoints 5: meanings
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Past Times and Present Tensions. Tuesday, 4 August 2015. N his study of the development of Celtic art. Erhaps I am the only Celtic numismatist whom Allen did not scare off in that topic. Tomorrow, how to avoid the "crankish" in Celtic coin imagery interpretations. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Important new example of British early Celtic art. 4. Oblique anamorphosis. Living with a coyote hybrid (Coydog). The seal of Alexander the Great - part three. British Celtic anthropomorphic sword pommel.
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Past Times and Present Tensions: Viewpoints 1: elements and motifs
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Past Times and Present Tensions. Wednesday, 29 July 2015. Viewpoints 1: elements and motifs. E are taught to read at a young age and soon become familiar with such terms as "vocabulary" and "grammar". If and when we gain an intellectual interest in art, we tend to look for similar structures in its understanding because, although stressing literacy, no one has ever taught us how to look. Et words are nothing more than a map of a viewpoint; a description of a reality as seen or imagined. Someone. Importan...
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Past Times and Present Tensions: Viewpoints 6: Seeing is believing
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Past Times and Present Tensions. Wednesday, 5 August 2015. Viewpoints 6: Seeing is believing. He familiar optical illusion of two faces in profile forming the sides of a chalice finds no better expository depiction than this public domain image by "John smithson 2007". Ake a few moments to read The Problem with Eyewitness Testimony, a talk by Barbara Tversky, Professor of Psychology and George Fisher, Professor of Law. Omorrow, skating on the thin ice of Celtic iconography. First day running free at the ...
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Past Times and Present Tensions: Viewpoints 2: classification decisions
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Past Times and Present Tensions. Thursday, 30 July 2015. Viewpoints 2: classification decisions. Was a little concerned with the subject matter of yesterday's post because I had just located, purchased and downloaded a PhD thesis I had been looking for for quite a while. It is David Richard Castriota's. Continuity and Innovation in Celtic and Mediterranean Ornament. A Grammatical-syntactic Analysis of the Processes of. Reception and Transformation in the Decorative Arts of Antiquity,. The illustration on...
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Past Times and Present Tensions: Viewpoints: introduction
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Past Times and Present Tensions. Tuesday, 28 July 2015. Had intended to do something on Steampunk but after reading Peter S Wells, How Ancient Europeans saw the World: Vision, Patterns, and the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times. N this series I will discuss the vocabularies and grammars of decorative art focusing on the Celtic but drawing from other cultures as well. It is related. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Important new example of British early Celtic art. 4. Oblique anamorphosis. Dean ...
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Past Times and Present Tensions: Viewpoints 4: deduction vs. induction
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Past Times and Present Tensions. Monday, 3 August 2015. Viewpoints 4: deduction vs. induction. That the problem starts as soon as you neatly arrange school desks in rows and have an authority figure standing in front of them: a space is created which will direct thought thereafter. It also reflects the Apollonian and Dionysian. Other pertinent dichotomies include Mythos and Logos. And the Jungian conscious and unconscious where the latter acts in a compensatory manner to the former. The illustration on t...
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Past Times and Present Tensions: British Celtic anthropomorphic sword pommel
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Past Times and Present Tensions. Tuesday, 5 November 2013. British Celtic anthropomorphic sword pommel. British Celtic anthropomorphic sword pommel,. Ca late 2nd cent BC. height 23 mm. front view. He elaborate securing mechanisms were needed because the Celts could neither solder nor weld and swords frequently lost their pommels through accident. The effort was to no avail, of course, it was still lost from its sword. The development of the. 169; Trustees of the British Museum. Dean Crawford — Livi...
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Past Times and Present Tensions: Kassander's tomb?
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Past Times and Present Tensions. Friday, 15 August 2014. The Lion of Amphipolis. Ate last night, my friend Robert phoned me from Toronto to tell me about the discovery of the undisturbed entrance to the enormous tomb at Amphipolis. We both own an example), which depict a walking lion and the name of Alexander. Ypical of the media, the reports quote expert's opinions without giving much in the way of their reasons for these opinions. He crucial detail is the thirteen steps. Thirteen, the number of the sun...