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Art Walk Limmat Zurich
June 2012
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Silently a group of around 38 people walk small step by small step, one meter apart, alongside and upstream the Limmat river in Zürich, Switzerland, as a part and an experiment oft the Art and the City public space exhibition which will run over all summer till 23 September 2012. Artist Hamish Fulton is not to be seen in our group but rather walks downstream with another group of 126 art lovers who are coming closer to us on opposite track. The image shows the certificat which the artist © Hamish Fulton handed out to the participants.
Clover Leaf Egg
March 2013
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The Clover Leaf Egg is a jewelled Easter egg made under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in 1902 for Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. It was presented by Nicolas II as an Easter gift to his wife, the Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna. It is currently held in the Kremlin Armoury Museum in Moscow, and it is one of the few Fabergé eggs that have never left Russia. The Clover Leaf Egg is made of an openwork pattern of stems and leaves of clover forming the shape of an egg. The gaps between the metal outline of the leaves are covered with transparent bright green enamel. A very thin golden ribbon paved with rubies curls through the foliage. At the time, the production of transparent enamel was still a new method, and often suffered from problems while cooling. There are no flaws in the enamel of the Clover Leaf Egg, but it is considered too fragile to travel.
Rose Trellis Egg
June 2012
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Artfully decorated eggs, most famously the Fabergé eggs by Peter Carl Fabergé, have always been part of art. The egg is a symbol of resurrection. It's perfect spheroid form invited artists of all periods to add rich decoration, painting or other forms of changing the natural form and product into an artefact. On April 22, 1907, Tsar Nicholas II presented this egg to his wife, Alexandra Fedorovna, to commemorate the birth of the tsarevich, Alexei Nicholaievich, three years earlier. Because of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, no Imperial Easter eggs had been produced for two years. The egg contained as a surprise a diamond necklace and an ivory miniature portrait of the tsarevich framed in diamonds (now lost). Fabergé's invoice, dated April 21, 1907, listed the egg at 8,300 rubles. Location: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Hamsa, save and protect
March 2012
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The hamsa (Arabic: khamsah, also romanized khamsa, meaning lit. "five") is a palm-shaped amulet popular throughout the Middle East and North Africa, and commonly used in jewellery and wall hangings. Depicting the open right hand, an image recognized and used as a sign of protection in many societies throughout history, the hamsa provides superstitious defense against the evil eye. It is also known as the hand of Fatima, so named to commemorate Muhammad's daughter Fatima Zahra. Levantine Christians call it the hand of Mary, for the mother of Jesus. Following its incorporation into Jewish tradition via its widespread use in the Islamic world, it was also renamed the hand of Miriam for Miriam, sister of Moses. by Wikipedia
Crucifixion
March 2013
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Fresco from the Scrovegni Chape, Padua, Veneto, Italy, about 1300 a.c. Giotto's masterwork is the decoration of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, also known as the Arena Chapel, completed around 1305. This fresco cycle depicts the life of the Virgin and the life of Christ. It is regarded as one of the supreme masterpieces of the Early Renaissance.
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