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Pre všetkých, ktorí ešte nezabudli čítať a myslieť.
Submitted by homer_admin on Mon, 11/07/2011 - 23:04
Andrew Graham-Dixon
The Telegraph
Sun, 23 Oct 2011 12:05 CDT  © The National Gallery Photographic Department/Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Virgin of the Rocks, National gallery version Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter at the court of Milan Painter, sculptor, engineer, architect, botanist, inventor - Leonardo da Vinci was many things, but a fast worker wasn't one of them. As his patrons frequently complained, it was unusual for him to finish even one painting. So how did it happen that he completed two versions of the very same picture, his strange and dream-like Virgin of the Rocks? It's a question that has inspired numerous conspiracy theories, and now, for the first time, the two paintings will hang alongside each other, something even the artist himself would never have gazed upon. Together they will form part of Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan, a new National Gallery exhibition which will be the most extensive display of Leonardo's paintings ever staged. And, no doubt, inspire numerous more conspiracy theories.
Submitted by homer_admin on Wed, 10/12/2011 - 17:28
A submerged ancient Greek city, from the heroic era portrayed in Homer's Iliad, is being 'raised' from the bottom of the Aegean. Using cutting edge underwater survey equipment and site reconstruction software, archaeologists and computer scientists have joined forces to map and digitally recreate a Bronze Age port which was swallowed by the waves up to 3000 years ago.
Submitted by homer_admin on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 18:31
Na čo má byť vlastne Japonsko pyšné? Azda na oddávna vládnucu cisársku rodinu, ako si Japonci mysleli pred vojnou - a ako si to dodnes myslia niektorí príslušníci pravice? Iste, dynastia sa udržala na tróne veľmi dlho. Podľa Nihonšoki čiže Japonskej kroniky, najstaršieho historického diela, napísaného v 8. storočí n. l., počiatky cisárskeho rodu siahajú dvetisícšesťsto rokov do minulosti. Pochopiteľne, tento údaj nemožno brať celkom vážne, lebo záznamy o najstarších panovníkoch sú nespoľahlivé. No aj keby sme akceptovali len historicky potvrdené zdroje, presvedčili by sme sa, že predkovia dnešného cisára panujú v Japonsku okolo tisícpäťsto rokov. V istom zmysle je to obdivuhodný výkon. Pokúsim sa však vysvetliť, že na tom nie je nič mystické a už vôbec to nie je dôvod, aby sa Japonci cítili nadradení nad ostatné národy sveta.
Submitted by homer_admin on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 20:44
I.
The corn has turned from grey to red,
Since first my spirit wandered forth
From the drear cities of the north,
And to Italia's mountains fled.
And here I set my face towards home,
For all my pilgrimage is done,
Although, methinks, yon blood-red sun
Marshals the way to Holy Rome.
Submitted by homer_admin on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 20:37
Tread lightly, she is near
Under the snow,
Speak gently, she can hear
The daisies grow. All her bright golden hair
Tarnished with rust,
She that was young and fair
Fallen to dust. Lily-like, white as snow,
She hardly knew
She was a woman, so
Sweetly she grew.
Submitted by homer_admin on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 20:54
Life Genet's mother was a young prostitute who raised him for the first year of his life before putting him up foradoption. Thereafter Genet was raised in the provinces by a carpenter and his family, who according to Edmund White's biography, were loving and attentive. While he received excellent grades in school, his childhood involved a series of attempts at running away and incidents of petty theft (although White also suggests that Genet's later claims of a dismal, impoverished childhood were exaggerated to fit his outlaw image).
Submitted by homer_admin on Tue, 12/30/2008 - 22:42
Motto: Ak sa majú v povahe človeka prejaviť nejaké skutočne výnimočné vlastnosti, musíme mať šťastie dlhé roky pozorovať, čo ten človek robí. Ak v jeho práci nie je ani stopa po sebectve, ak je myšlienka, riadiaca jeho činnosť, bezpríkladne ušľachtilá a je nepochybne jasné, že nie len nehľadal nikde odmenu, ale dokonca zanechal vo svete i viditeľné stopy, ocitáme sa - bez nebezpečia, že sa zmýlime, pred človekom výnimočného charakteru.
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