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Bronze Helmet, Gallery of Greece on Flickr.
Taken at the Gallery of Greece of the Royal Ontario Museum.
Bronze Helmet, Corinthian type. 7th century BC, reportedly found at Corinth.
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"In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you."
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NASA satellite images of the Richat Structure.
The Richat Structure, also known as the Eye of the Sahara and Guelb er Richat, is a prominent circular feature in the Sahara desert of west–central Mauritania near Ouadane. This structure is a deeply eroded, slightly elliptical, 40-km in diameter, dome. The sedimentary rock exposed in this dome range in age from Late Proterozoic within the center of the dome to Ordovician sandstone around its edges.
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‘Inside the Museum of African Art,’ Wosene Kosrof, 1990
This painting was created after Wosene Kosrof’s visit to the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C. The multitude of images that fill the canvas are influenced by the diversity of the museum’s collection and by the artist’s Ethiopian heritage.
The three arches at the top of the painting represent the entrance to the museum. The plant to the upper left is the tree outside of the building but it also represents the Tree of Life that Wosene often saw in early Ethiopian Christian art. Below and to the right of the tree is a rectangular area of bold colors and a striped design reminiscent of kente cloth from Ghana. In the middle is a prominent mask image originating from Central Africa. It is the most realistic and bold image in the painting because it is a welcoming piece to the Museum of African Art, which was memorable for the artist.
Amharic writing, an Ethiopian language, is included throughout the painting. The black lettering around the central mask spells out “Africa,” while another phrase, “the African spirit,” is found elsewhere. The painting is organized into vertical segments. This arrangement comes from the Ethiopian tradition of using long goatskin religious scrolls.
Pages from Albert Einstein’s Notebook.
Although I’m not graphologist, I find individual handwriting very interesting.Synonymous to an artist’s sketchbook, a scientist expresses their thoughts into their notebook which overflows with creativity and innovation.
