Forged iron ring with a container. The body of the ring is fabricated from an iron tube. The "brass" vat is made out of two Hungarian coins. It is cold connected to the ring and the hinge. On the top of the ring there is a silver pearl.
Weight: 21.2 g
The diameter of the ringhead is: 21 mm
The ships on the picture are part of the shipping museum next door. In the background you can see the Atlantic Sails Hotel and the Mediteraneo shopping center.
Blue..Blau..Bleu..
Explore #427 17-8-07
1st on interesting photos tagged with "Mediterranee"
This view of Machu Picchu shows Huaina Picchu in the back. Only 400 people per day are allowed to hike up. The first 200 go in at 7am (or so), and the rest after 10am. The catch is that the second batch of people are allowed in as people come out. That means you show up at 10am and there is a long line of people waiting, and you have no idea how long the wait will be. There are other interesting hikes. View On Black
A ROMAN BRONZE FIGURE OF POLYKLEITOS' "DISKOPHOROS"
JULIO-CLAUDIAN, CIRCA LATE 1ST CENTURY B. C.-EARLY 1ST CENTURY A. D.
The radiantly-beautiful muscular youth standing in contrapposto with both feet flat on the ground, his weight on his right leg, the left bent at the knee with the foot splayed out, depicted nude but for sandals, his right hip thrust outward, his left arm lowered with the elbow slightly bent, the fingers curled around a now-missing attribute, the right arm lowered, the forearm once projecting forward, his torso with well-defined iliac crests, his head turned to his right and angled downward, his idealized face with a broad forehead and subtly-modelled brows that merge with the slender nose, the eyes inlaid in silver with the pupils recessed, the hair a mass of short wavy locks flowing in all directions and overlapping the tops of his ears
12 in. (30.4 cm.) high
Provenance
German Private Collection, 1990s.
Lot Notes
Polykleitos was one of the most famous and influential Greek sculptors of the High Classical Period. A native of Argos in the Peloponnesus, his artistic career flourished circa 460-420 B. C. The Roman writer Pliny tells us that Polykleitos wrote about his theories of rhythm and proportion. This sculptural Canon emphasized the juxtaposition of antithetical pairs, such as right and left, straight and curved, relaxed and tensed, rest and movement.
The Doryphoros or Spearbearer, and several other of his works are described in ancient literature, including the Diadumenos or Filletbinder, and the Kyniskos, known only from a statue base found at Olympia and subsequently identified as the Westmacott Athlete since the 19th century. His Amazon of Ephesus was famed for having been chosen in a competition over works by the sculptors Pheidias and Kresilas, while his most magnificent creation was said to be the colossal gold and ivory cult statue of Hera from the Heraeum of his native Argos. None of the master's original works are known to have survived, but several are recognized in Roman copies.
An additional work universally associated with Polykleitos is the so-called Diskophoros, even though no ancient source assigns such a statue to him. The type was identified as a Diskophoros from a single copy in the Museo Torlonia in Rome that preserves the vestiges of a discus on the upper left thigh. However, the attribution of this type to a discus-carrying athlete may be erroneous. The type was very popular with the Romans, as evinced by the numerous lifesized copies in marble that survive, some of which were used as portrait statues. There are also a number of versions in smaller scale in bronze, such as the present example. Many of the small-scale bronze versions and one marble head carry the attributes of Hermes, such as the kerykeion and a money-bag, and this may in fact be the identity of Polykleitos' original. That the figure stands with both feet relatively flat on the ground has suggested to some that this is one of the master's earliest works, dating to about 460 B. C., and must have come before his ponderation innovations as evinced in his Doryphoros. Pliny describes a statue by Polykleitos as nudus talo incessens or "naked man striding with the heel" and many have sought to see this type in that description, be it an athlete or a god (see Boll, "Diskophoros" in Beck, Bol and Buckling, Polyklet, Der Bildhauer der griechischen Klassik, p. 111-112).
For a marble version preserving the head, now in the Davis Museum of Wellesley, see no. 10.9 in Ridgway, "Paene ad exemplum: Polykleitos' Other Works" in Moon, ed., Polykleitos, the Doryphoros, and Tradition. For the marble head bearing Hermes' wings in the hair see no. 10.10 in the same publication. For a thorough listing of all of the known types, with variants and interpretations, see nos. I 1-48 in Kreikenbom, Bildwerke nach Polyklet. Closest in spirit to the present example is the slightly smaller Roman bronze Mercury in the Louvre, no. 8.11 in Hallett, "Kopienkritik and the Works of Polkleitos" in Moon, op. cit. The Louvre Mercury does not as carefully capture the Polykleitan details of the face and hair, as so beautifully exemplified here. It can be argued that the present bronze is one of the finest surviving echoes of Polykleitos' lost original.
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Highest Position - Explore #11 | 10.01.2009 (Thankin' all of u as always :))))
(Special thanks to Ronaldo for the initial explore link ;))
Duh! i just woke up & guess what its already 1130am here!!!!! Half my day is gone & now i've a lot to catch up! Its Sunday morning here even tho i believe its still Saturday at the other side of the world. Australia has to be the second fastest country in term of timing.. I believe New Zealand is the fastest of them all. Anyway as usual, a holy churchy shot from me... just the right timing to atone for my boldness & rudeness in my yesterday's 16 tagged items. My apologies if too much information was given out.. in fact it has went through my own censorship board & tone down heaps before it went on air.. imagine reading the original copy, all of you might laugh so bad that u might just shit in your pants LMAO! honestly no kiddin' :P...someone has accidentally peed in his undies yesterday with my 16 tagged items... so i owe him a new pair now LOL! u know who u r.. someone from the fastest timing country in the world :P Back to reality now.. .have a great weekend!
View LARGE On Black to feel organic lol!
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The Pipe Organs at St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney
The Shot
Standard 3 exposure shot (+2..0..-2 EV) with tripod using Sigma DC HSM 10-20mm lens
Photomatix
- Tonemapped generated HDR using detail enhancer option
Photoshop
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'curves' to increase the contrast
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (master) to decrease overall tone
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (yellows) to decrease the lightness of stone wall
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (reds) to adjust the tone of the ceiling
- Applied digital blending of another tonemapped hdr to correct the overblown spotlights
- Used 'unsharp mask' (as always) on the background layer
You
All comments and constructive criticism are (as always) welcome. A fave is even better! :P
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