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What is UNIVERSITY MUSEUM? What does UNIVERSITY MUSEUM mean? UNIVERSITY MUSEUM meaning
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A university museum is a repository of collections run by a university, typically founded to aid teaching and research within the institution of higher learning. The Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford in England is an early example, originally housed in the building that is now the Museum of the History of Science. A more recent example is the Holburne Museum of Art in Bath, originally constructed as a hotel in 1796 it is now the official museum of the University of Bath.
Historically, the focus of university museums and galleries included curatorial research into, as well as the display of, commemorative, ceremonial, decorative and didactic collections. For academics, these collections served as a valuable research resource. For students, museums performed both a leisure and learning function, developing their visual literacy, critical thinking, and creative skills. Aside from campus, museums served their perspective city and town's communities, spreading museological literacy among the different target audiences.
With decades, the role of the university museums changed as they started to become more open and receptive to the cultural needs of the public. Public educational outreach is considered now by many university museums as an integral part of their mission, some even adopt a market approach. Changes and decentralization of the institutional values coinciding with budgeting shortfalls in some cases gave rise to tensions and a lack of cohesive identity among a demoralized staff. Many campus museums have critical needs for facilities, staff, and support. In the 21st century, despite the challenges brought by transition, the university museums not only continue to play important role in object-based learning (tradition that reaches beyond the record of the founding of the University of Bologna) but also perform important civic and cultural functions for the larger society.
Organizationally, university museums are represented by a variety of historical, traditional and novel entities, such as anatomical theaters and archeology museums, natural science and art museums, history museums, planetariums, arboretums and aquariums, archives and house-museums, science and arts centers, ecomuseums, hospital museums, and contemporary art galleries, as well as discipline-specific collections hosted by academic departments and institutes; some special collections are hosted by the university libraries. In general, university museums and collections are classified based on disciplinary criteria or the nature of the artifacts. In Europe the number of the university museums and collections is estimated as 12,914.
The first university museums can be traced to the medieval universities and their teaching collections to support medical education — the physic, or botanical, garden (hortus medicus) and the anatomical theatre (theatrum anatomicum). The first hortus medicus was established in Italy in either Padua or Pisa in the 1540s and the first theatrum anatomicum in Padua in 1594 for the purpose of educating both the apothecaries and doctors. In the beginning of the 17th century, anatomical theaters were established at the universities of Bologna, Ferrara, Leiden and Montpellier. There are records that document the use of Pisa’s hortus medicus opened in the 1590s as a teaching museum. Soon, the teaching museum model was adopted by painters, sculptors, and architects. The cabinets of physics and chemistry followed the suit. At the University of Oxford, the picture gallery of Christ Church College was founded in 1546. In 1671, the University of Basel granted public access to the Basilius Amerbach’s cabinet, which was donated by the city of Basel. However, the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, that was opened in 1683 is generally perceived as the first university museum on record. In the following centuries the diversity and complexity of the university museums and collections dramatically increased.
The Protection of Cultural Heritage in Italy: A Short History and Some Current Issues
Salvatore Settis will be presenting at the Seminar in Renaissance and Early Modern Material Culture on Wednesday, November 2 at 6 pm. His talk is entitled “The Protection of Cultural Heritage in Italy: A Short History and Some Current Issues.”
Salvatore Settis is the Former Director, Getty Research Institute; Former Director, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa; Chairman, Scientific Council, Louvre Museum, where he also taught Classical Archaeology and Art History. He was Warburg Professor at the University of Hamburg (1991) and delivered the Isaiah Berlin Lectures at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (2000), the A.W. Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (2001), and the Lectures of the Cátedra del Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid (2010-11). He was also appointed as Professor of the Borromini Chair at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland (2014-2015), and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the Institut de France, the American Philosophical Society, the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere, ed Arti, and of the Academies of Sciences in Berlin, Munich, Brussels, and Turin. He currently chairs the Scientific Council of the Musée du Louvre. Settis’ research interests focus on ancient and Renaissance art history, and his numerous publications include If Venice Dies (2016), Azione popolare. Cittadini per il bene comune (2012), Artisti e committenti fra Quattro e Cinquecento (2010), and The Future of the Classical (2006). He was the editor of The Classical Tradition (with Anthony Grafton and Glenn W. Most, 2010), I Greci. Storia, arte, cultura, società, vols. 1–6, (1995–2002), Memoria dell'Antico nell'arte italiana, vols. 1–3 (1984–86), and is the general editor of the series Mirabilia Italiae. For his interest in the preservation of landscape and cultural heritage, Settis has been Chair of Italy’s High Council for Cultural Heritage and Landscape (2007–2009). He has been awarded two honorary degrees in Law by the University of Padua (2007) and the University of Rome Tor Vergata (2008), and one in Architecture by the University of Reggio Calabria (2013).
Italian Laws for protection of cultural heritage are particularly strict (as in other “source countries” such as Greece, as opposed to “consumer countries” such as the US). While current laws belong to a sequence started after Italian unification (1859–70), they cannot be explained in terms of nationalism. Rather, ethical and juridical principles of conservation have a much deeper root, i.e. a lasting tradition, starting (for instance in Rome, Naples, or Venice) long before the very concept of “nation” was operative in Europe. Close analysis of early texts (such as Raphael’s letter to pope Leo X about the antiquities of Rome) will show that norms enforced by governments of pre-unification Italian states, linked as they were with the birth and growth of collecting practices, were mostly aimed at regulating and limiting the market. It was only with the French revolution that a notion of patrimoine national was launched, and slowly adapted into post-Restauration Italian states. From 1909 to 2004, the “Italian system” for protection of cultural heritage and landscape evolved into a complex public organization, whose pivotal point is the Italian Constitution (1948), where for the first time “the tutelary guardianship of the landscape and the historic and artistic patrimony of the Nation” was inscribed among the fundamental principles of any modern state. Nonetheless, while the rhetoric of conservation is still forceful, the last decades have witnessed the rapidly progressing deterioration of the resources, institutions, and values committed to the tutelage of cultural heritage. This talk, after examining the history of conservation from early modern Italy to the present, will also focus on the current “state of the art.”
10 Strangest Religious Artifacts
10 Strangest Religious Artifacts
Bones, skin, hearts, and severed heads: it sounds like the contents of a cabinet of curiosities, the sort of death-obsessed exploitation of bell-jarred oddities that one would find next to unicorn horns and taxidermied birds of paradise. But we’re not talking about a cabinet of wonders. We’re talking about religious relics and artifacts. The bones and bodies of saints have been preserved, celebrated, worshipped, and stolen. They have long represented a transcendental bridge between God and man, and atavism and science. In other words, the bones of Saint Peter have power, as does the head of Saint Catherine of Siena and the Shroud of Turin. While many holy objects have been discredited, thousands of people still line up to pay respects to the gilded tongue of St Anthony of Padua and other grizzly displays of religious iconography.
If relics and artifacts are the physical embodiment of God’s work on earth, then what does one make of the relics and artifacts that are mysterious and other-worldly, not the work of God, or man, but of something else? Conspiracy and religion go hand-in-hand, and there are several religious relics that seem as if they’ve been left behind by other civilizations, from strange orbs and spheres to the Mayan artifacts released in 2012 by the Mexican government that possibly depict aliens and alien aircraft. Here are 10 of the strangest religious artifacts.
List of natural history museums | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:34 1 Africa
00:00:42 1.1 Algeria
00:00:56 1.2 Angola
00:01:12 1.3 Botswana
00:01:24 1.4 Canary Islands
00:01:44 1.5 Egypt
00:02:00 1.6 Ethiopia
00:02:14 1.7 Kenya
00:02:28 1.8 Mozambique
00:02:41 1.9 Namibia
00:02:56 1.10 South Africa
00:03:58 1.11 Sudan
00:04:10 1.12 Tanzania
00:04:24 1.13 Tunisia
00:04:36 1.14 Uganda
00:05:04 1.15 Zimbabwe
00:05:17 2 Asia
00:05:26 2.1 China
00:06:38 2.2 India
00:07:26 2.3 Indonesia
00:07:39 2.4 Iran
00:08:23 2.5 Iraq
00:08:35 2.6 Israel
00:09:03 2.7 Japan
00:11:35 2.8 Jordan
00:11:46 2.9 Kyrgyzstan
00:11:59 2.10 Malaysia
00:12:14 2.11 Mongolia
00:12:32 2.12 Oman
00:12:44 2.13 Pakistan
00:12:56 2.14 Philippines
00:13:16 2.15 Qatar
00:13:28 2.16 Singapore
00:13:42 2.17 South Korea
00:14:04 2.18 Taiwan
00:14:34 2.19 Thailand
00:17:35 2.20 United Arab Emirates
00:17:48 2.21 Uzbekistan
00:18:00 2.22 Vietnam
00:18:16 3 Central America
00:18:25 3.1 Belize
00:18:38 3.2 Costa Rica
00:19:16 3.3 Dominican Republic
00:19:37 3.4 Grenada
00:19:48 3.5 Guatemala
00:20:19 3.6 Honduras
00:20:31 3.7 Nicaragua
00:21:26 3.8 Panama
00:22:24 4 Europe
00:22:33 4.1 Albania
00:22:45 4.2 Armenia
00:23:00 4.3 Austria
00:24:49 4.4 Azerbaijan
00:25:12 4.5 Belarus
00:25:29 4.6 Belgium
00:25:46 4.7 Bosnia and Herzegovina
00:26:00 4.8 Bulgaria
00:26:50 4.9 Croatia
00:27:50 4.10 Czech Republic
00:28:09 4.11 Denmark
00:28:35 4.12 Estonia
00:28:52 4.13 Finland
00:29:23 4.14 France
00:31:21 4.15 Georgia
00:31:44 4.16 Germany
00:35:08 4.17 Greece
00:35:45 4.18 Greenland
00:35:57 4.19 Hungary
00:37:14 4.20 Iceland
00:37:27 4.21 Ireland
00:37:52 4.22 Italy
00:40:51 4.23 Latvia
00:41:03 4.24 Liechtenstein
00:41:15 4.25 Lithuania
00:41:32 4.26 Luxembourg
00:41:45 4.27 Macedonia
00:41:58 4.28 Malta
00:42:11 4.29 Moldova
00:42:24 4.30 Monaco
00:42:36 4.31 Montenegro
00:42:50 4.32 The Netherlands
00:43:58 4.33 Norway
00:44:27 4.34 Poland
00:45:00 4.35 Portugal
00:46:21 4.36 Romania
00:49:15 4.37 Russia
00:50:21 4.38 Serbia
00:50:43 4.39 Slovenia
00:50:58 4.40 Slovakia
00:51:14 4.41 Spain
00:52:53 4.42 Sweden
00:53:55 4.43 Switzerland
00:54:57 4.44 Turkey
00:55:17 4.45 Ukraine
00:56:09 4.46 United Kingdom
00:56:18 4.46.1 England
00:57:49 4.46.2 Scotland
00:58:23 4.46.3 Wales
00:58:37 4.46.4 Northern Ireland
00:58:48 5 North America
00:58:57 5.1 Bermuda
00:59:10 5.2 Canada
00:59:18 5.2.1 Alberta
00:59:41 5.2.2 British Columbia
01:00:11 5.2.3 Manitoba
01:00:51 5.2.4 New Brunswick
01:01:02 5.2.5 Newfoundland
01:01:17 5.2.6 Nova Scotia
01:01:34 5.2.7 Ontario
01:02:04 5.2.8 Quebec
01:02:43 5.2.9 Saskatchewan
01:03:13 5.2.10 Yukon
01:03:30 5.3 Mexico
01:04:34 5.4 United States
01:04:43 6 Oceania
01:04:52 6.1 Australia
01:07:01 6.2 Indonesia
01:08:29 6.3 New Zealand
01:09:02 7 South America
01:09:11 7.1 Argentina
01:13:12 7.2 Bolivia
01:13:41 7.3 Brazil
01:15:04 7.4 Chile
01:15:29 7.5 Colombia
01:16:06 7.6 Ecuador
01:16:20 7.7 Guyana
01:16:32 7.8 Paraguay
01:16:45 7.9 Peru
01:17:04 7.10 Trinidad and Tobago
01:17:21 7.11 Uruguay
01:17:40 7.12 Venezuela
01:18:49 8 See also
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This is a list of natural history museums, also known as museums of natural history, i.e. museums whose exhibits focus on the subject of natural history, including such topics as animals, plants, ecosystems, geology, paleontology, and climatology.
Some museums feature natural-history collections in addition to other collections, such as ones related to history, art and science. In addition, nature centers often include natural-history exhibits.
Time pursued by a Bear: Ursa Major and stellar time-telling in the Paduan Salone
This paper focuses on the images of four bears found along the top register of the fresco scheme of the first-floor Salone of the Palazzo della Ragione, Padua, Italy. To ask why bears appear in this register is to question how bears were viewed in the medieval period. Previous scholars have described these Salone images as representing qualities, such as ‘wicked and hot tempered’. Nevertheless, as my previous research has shown (Gunzburg 2013), these top register images are reflective of the constellations that dictated the seasons and the cycle of the year as seen over Padua c.1309. Thus a more likely candidate is Ursa Major, the Great Bear. This presentation creates four sky maps at midnight, which was relevant for time telling by the sky at this time (Vincent and Chandler 1969: 375-376). The sky maps are created for Padua specifically for when the sun ingressed into the zodiac signs of Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius. They reveal the changing rotational pattern of Ursa Major from ‘hibernation’ to descent. These sky maps are then connected with the position of the bears in the Salone fresco scheme. This concept of the constellation of the Great Bear Ursa Major in its four positions as seasonal markers in the sky sits within the philosophy of time telling by the stars (Hannah 2009:14). Finally, this paper argues that these older time-telling strategies (Reeves 1916: 441; McCluskey 1990: 14; McCluskey 1998: 111) not only had practical applicability but that such knowledge-practice continued across cultures and time. Their appearance on the walls of the Salone in the ‘elite’ visual language of this fourteenth-century Paduan fresco offers evidence for that practice continuing into the late medieval era.
References
Frank, R.M. ‘Hunting the European sky bears: When bears ruled the earth and guarded the gate of heaven.’ In Astronomical Traditions in Past Cultures, edited by V. Koleva and D. Kolev. 116-142. Sofia: Institute of Astronomy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and National Astronomical Observatory Rozhen, 1996.
Gibbon, William B. ‘Asiatic Parallels in North American Star Lore: Ursa Major.’ The Journal of American Folklore 77, no. 305 (1964): 236-250.
Gunzburg, Darrelyn. ‘Giotto's Sky: The fresco paintings of the first floor Salone of the Palazzo della Ragione, Padua, Italy.’ Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 7, no. 4 (2013): 407-433.
Hannah, Robert. Time in Antiquity. Abingdon: Routledge, 2009.
McCluskey, Stephen C. ‘Gregory of Tours, Monastic Timekeeping, and Early Christian Attitudes to Astronomy.’ Isis 81, no. 1 (1990).
McCluskey, Stephen C. Astronomies and Cultures in Early Medieval Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Reeves, E. A. ‘Night Marching by Stars.’ The Geographical Journal 47, no. 6 (1916): 440-455.
Vincent, Clare, and Bruce Chandler. ‘Nighttime and Easter Time: The Rotations of the Sun, the Moon, and the Little Bear in Renaissance Time Reckoning.’ The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 27, no. 8 (1969): 372-384.
Darrelyn Gunzburg, University of Wales Trinity Saint David
'Everything, everywhere, ever' - the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Cambridge University's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology reopens after a 18-month closure for redevelopment.
Home to some of the most important collections of its kind in the UK, the museum has undergone a stunning transformation.
Padua | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:56 1 Etymology
00:02:54 2 History
00:03:02 2.1 Antiquity
00:07:43 2.2 Late Antiquity
00:09:29 2.3 Frankish and Episcopal Supremacy
00:10:27 2.4 Emergence of the Commune
00:14:11 2.5 Venetian rule
00:16:07 2.6 Austrian rule
00:17:43 2.7 Italian rule
00:18:23 2.8 The 20th century
00:22:35 3 Geography
00:22:44 3.1 Climate
00:23:05 4 Main sights
00:32:23 4.1 Villas
00:33:19 4.2 Churches
00:34:50 4.3 Gallery
00:34:58 5 Culture
00:38:20 6 Demographics
00:40:09 7 Government
00:41:00 8 Consulates
00:41:27 9 Economy
00:42:11 10 Transport
00:42:20 10.1 By car
00:43:10 10.2 By rail
00:45:02 10.3 By aeroplane
00:45:46 10.4 Public transport
00:46:49 10.5 Statistics
00:47:38 11 Sports
00:50:44 12 Governance
00:50:53 12.1 Town twinning
00:51:04 13 Notable people
00:56:27 14 See also
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Padua (; Italian: Padova [ˈpaːdova] (listen); Venetian: Pàdova) is a city and comune in Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 214,000 (as of 2011). The city is sometimes included, with Venice (Italian Venezia) and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE) which has a population of c. 2,600,000.
Padua stands on the Bacchiglione River, 40 kilometres (25 miles) west of Venice and 29 km (18 miles) southeast of Vicenza. The Brenta River, which once ran through the city, still touches the northern districts. Its agricultural setting is the Venetian Plain (Pianura Veneta). To the city's south west lies the Euganaean Hills, praised by Lucan and Martial, Petrarch, Ugo Foscolo, and Shelley.
It hosts the University of Padua, founded in 1222, where later Galileo Galilei was a lecturer between 1592 and 1610.
The city is picturesque, with a dense network of arcaded streets opening into large communal piazze, and many bridges crossing the various branches of the Bacchiglione, which once surrounded the ancient walls like a moat.
Padua is the setting for most of the action in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. There is a play by the Irish writer Oscar Wilde entitled The Duchess of Padua.
The city is also known for being the city where Saint Anthony, a Portuguese Franciscan (Anthony of Padua, also known as Anthony of Lisbon - city where he was born in 1195), spent part of his life and died in 1231.
Inge Reist: Shaping the Splendor of Italian Renaissance Art through Collecting and Patronage
April 12, 2019. Inge Reist presents her keynote lecture Shaping the Splendor of Italian Renaissance Art through Collecting and Patronage as part of the two-day symposium 'When Michelangelo Was Modern: The Art Market and Collecting in Italy, 1450–1650' organized by the Center for the History of Collecting, Frick Art Reference Library.
(Italian) Science Study Illuminates Altinum, Ancestor of Venice
A newly detailed picture of the ancient Roman city of Altinum, which some consider the ancestor to Venice, has emerged from a study of aerial photographs. The images reveal the remains of city walls, the street network, dwellings, theaters, other monumental structures, and a complex network of rivers and canals, showing how the people of Altinum mastered the marshy environment in what is now the Lagoon of Venice. This video relates to an article that appeared in the July 31, 2009, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Andrea Ninfo of Padua University in Padua, Italy, and colleagues, was titled, The Map of Altinum, Ancestor of Venice.
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What did Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper really look like? | DW Documentary
Leonardo's famous painting The Last Supper hides a secret: only 20 percent of the original work is still visible.
In the style of a thriller, the documentary attempts to reconstruct what it originally looked like. Leonardo da Vinci was the epitome of the Renaissance Man. May 2019 marks the 500th anniversary of his death. The artist created world-famous works such as the fresco The Last Supper - perhaps the most famous. It is still in its original setting, on the wall of the dining room of the former Dominican convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. The painting, which is 4.60 meters high and 8.80 meters wide, has been undergoing restoration for the last 19 years. But the restorers now know that only 20 percent of the original is visible today. So what did something that is the focus of so many legends originally look like? Our investigation also takes us to the small Belgian abbey of Tongerlo, where a mysterious copy of da Vinci's work has been discovered. It is a painting on canvas that could have been commissioned from da Vinci’s workshop by the French King Louis XII. It has perhaps brought the researchers a step closer to the truth.
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Neutron technology aids in restoration of ancient artifacts
Tivoli, Italy
1. Wide of exteriors of Villa Adriana, a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) world heritage site
2. Close up of statues on water
3. Tourist posing for a picture with a statue
Oxford, England
4. Pan from Professor Giuseppe Gorini, Coordinator of the Ancient Charm project, walking to wide of Rutherford Appleton laboratory, near Oxford
5. Close up of sign reading: Danger very high radiation levels
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor Giuseppe Gorini, Professor of Physics at Bicocca University in Milan and Coordinator of Italian Institutions:
Ancient Charm is a new project which will last for three years, which is aimed at the application of a new neutron-based technique for the analysis of cultural heritage objects. So what we want to do is to look at the inside of objects and make a full tri-dimensional analysis of their composition in terms of elements they are made of and also their physical structure.
7. Neutron generator inside the bunker
8. Researcher placing an ancient bronze inside the generator
9. Close up of ancient bronze inside the generator
10. Close up ancient bronze, view from the porthole
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor Giuseppe Gorini, Professor of Physics at Bicocca University in Milan and Coordinator of Italian Institutions
In the recent years there have been developments in portable neutrons sources. So it may be that one day, not now but years from now, we will be able to have neutron sources that can actually be brought to either a building that needs restoration or a museum for analysis of samples that you do not want to take out of the museum or archaeological site.
Tivoli, Italy
12. Wide of ancient ruins of Villa Adriana
13. Mid shot marble capitals (tops of ancient columns)
14. Wide of school children looking at ruins
15. School children
16. Wide of marble statues in Villa Adriana museum, 5th century B.C.
17. Close of broken statues
18. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Carla Andreani, Professor in Condensed Matter Physics at Tor Vergata University:
It''s very important to trace back the material composition inside the object itself. For example, regarding this statue behind me, archaeologists believe it contains an iron internal structure. Obviously, in order to study this statue, we would never like to break it. With neutrons we can actually do it. In this case, I would say that the neutrons technique is unique, while X-rays can not penetrate it at all.
19. Male statues with cuts
20. Tilt down statue of Hermes, the herald of the Olympian gods in Greek mythology, from damaged arm to hand showing an iron pivot
21. Close up of damaged foot on statue of Hermes
22. Wide of statue near a lake
23. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Benedetta Adembri, Head of Villa Adriana Archaeological Site near Rome
For what concerns the restoration, it is very important to determine the technique which was used, for example, to make a bronze statuette, to know how an object has been made, which were the following interventions. Or even if there are any fractures or cracks which are invisible to the eye but allow to study the most appropriate intervention on the object.
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Rome, Italy
24. Wide of exteriors of Rome''s city hall on the Capitol Hill
25. Various of head from statue of Roman Emperor Constantine being moved for restoration
26. Wide of a head from a statue of an emperor during restoration
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Grad Labin u veljači 2013. godine prijavio se na natječaj Europske unije, program Europa za građane, Mjera 1.2. Mreža gradova s projektom „Rudarsko nasljeđe: generator gospodarskog i turističkog razvoja“. Program Europa za građane centraliziranog je tipa i provodi se posredstvom Izvršne agencije za obrazovne, audio-vizualne i kulturne politike (Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA).
Izvršna agencija dana, 22. svibnja 2013. godine na svojim službenim stranicama objavila je rezultate - odabrane projekte u sklopu ovog natječaja među kojima je i projekt Grada Labina „Rudarsko nasljeđe: generator gospodarskog i turističkog razvoja“. Projekt je odobren u iznosu od maksimalno 142.000 EUR ovisno o broju sudionika, a zamišljen je kao mreža gradova sa zajedničkom poveznicom - rudarskim nasljeđem. Projektom Grad Labin želi razvijati suradnju u namjeri da se ostvare i unaprijede međusobni odnosi partnera u projektu temeljeni na izvornoj zajedničkoj povijesti s posebnim osvrtom na obnovu i valorizaciju baštine industrijske arheologije te općenito urbanih naselja povezanih s iskopnom djelatnošću.
Partneri u projektu su gradovi i općine Labin (CRO) – nositelj projekta, Rybnik (PL), Carbonia (IT), Banovići (BIH), Idrija (SLO), Velenje (SLO) i Raša (CRO). Projekt će se se provoditi od srpnja 2013. godine do rujna 2014. godine na način da će se periodično održavati aktivnosti kod svih partnera u projektu.
Restoring a Masterwork - Part 3
In 1999, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts exhibition Restoring a Masterwork followed the process of conserving Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione's The Immaculate Conception with Saints Francis of Assisi and Anthony of Padua.
This five-part video documents each step of the restoration process, from the painting's removal from the gallery to its eventual re-installation. During the restoration project, segments of this video were screened in the gallery as they were produced.
Giovanni Battista Belzoni - A Real Life Indiana Jones
The protagonist of today’s story discovered ancient tombs, explored secret passages inside pyramids and recovered artefacts as old as time - while getting into fistfights, foiling assassination attempts with his trusty whip, dodging bullets amongst Egyptian ruins and facing the opposition of a French rival.
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Professor Caroline Wilkinson Combined Royal Colleges Lecture
Depicting the Dead
Clinical images are incredibly important for the analysis and assessment of living bodies, but they can also be utilised for forensic identification and archaeological investigation. This presentation will describe how clinical images contribute towards the depiction of faces from the past and from contemporary forensic investigation and discuss the challenges and limitations of this research.
You will discover the application of clinical imagery to the depiction of famous historical figures (such as Richard III and Robert the Bruce), preserved bodies (such as Ancient Egyptian mummies or bog bodies) and disease or trauma in ancient populations. The lecture will be given by Professor Caroline Wilkinson, Director of the Face Lab, a LJMU research group based in Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) and Director of Liverpool School of Art & Design.
Caroline has a background in art and science and her research and creative work sits at the forefront of art-science fusion and includes subjects as diverse as forensic art, human anatomy, medical art, face recognition, forensic science, anthropology, 3D visualisation, digital art and craniofacial identification.
Restoration of the Church of the Holy Mother of God -- Peribleptos in Ohrid, Macedonia
Restoration of the Church of the Holy Mother of God -- Peribleptos in Ohrid through the Ambassador's Fund for Cultural Preservation 2009-2012 Project
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Mrs. Donatella Zari, Head of Fresco Paintings Conservators
Mrs. Donatella Zari, the head restorer from Italy, explains the first step in cleaning the frescos of the Monastery Complex of the Holy Mother of God PERIBLEPTOS. She uses a special Japanese paper, sponge, and water to clean the layers of dirt from the frescos. You can wash the frescos as you would wash a floor, but the water should not touch the colors, Donatella says. This special paper from Japan absorbs the dirt and does not leave a trace of water on the frescos. However, if there are layers of different kinds of dust or candle spots or other materials on the frescos then, instead of water, we can use chemicals like Ammonium Carbonate to clean the frescos. However, we must always use this kind of paper, explains Donatella.
She also points out that her team's work must always be reversible! They use water color that is nearly transparent. Everything that is done to the frescos is less strong than the original so, if need be, it can be taken off. I prefer to remove my work rather than the original, Donatella says.
Mr. Goran Patcev, Architect - N.I. Museum and Galleries, Ohrid
Mr. Goran Patcev's work concentrates on the architectural conservation of this complex project. Goran explains the Church blueprints to Embassy Skopje Educational and Cultural Attaché Brian Bauer. Specific areas of the church were more damaged than others, particularly through water damage, and Goran's team is working to dry them out as quickly as possible to proceed with conservation efforts. On the base of the wall we have noticed that there is a capillary humid. We excavated there and found graves and other walls, possibly of an older church, Goran says.
Goran gave us a tour around the church and explained the work being done to protect the church architecture. He pointed out an archeological excavation performed around the church and the water system and an ancient cistern that was discovered. In the 19th or early 20th century, the church was covered with dirt as a result of the laws of the Ottoman Empire and you can see the line, Goran explains. We also discovered graves around the church.
Significant effort is being put into protecting the complex from above as well. The Greek architect Dr. Alkiviadis Prpis advised Goran's team to build a temporary roof above the church to protect the site and work from inclement weather and, most importantly, to achieve the best conditions possible for the preservation of the precious frescos.
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Timeline of the name Palestine | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Timeline of the name Palestine
00:03:20 1 Historical references
00:03:30 1.1 Ancient period
00:03:39 1.1.1 Egyptian period
00:04:39 1.1.2 Assyrian period
00:06:26 1.2 Classical antiquity
00:06:35 1.2.1 Persian (Achaemenid) Empire period
00:08:36 1.2.2 Hellenic kingdoms (Ptolemaic/Seleucid/Hasmonean) period
00:09:27 1.2.3 Roman Jerusalem period
00:16:06 1.2.4 Roman Aelia Capitolina period
00:24:55 1.3 Late Antiquity period
00:25:04 1.3.1 Late Roman Empire (Byzantine) period
00:35:59 1.4 Middle Ages
00:36:07 1.4.1 Rashidun, Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates period
00:42:25 1.4.2 Fatimid Caliphate period
00:44:47 1.4.3 Crusaders period
00:46:15 1.4.4 Ayyubid and Mamluk periods
00:52:21 1.5 Early modern period
00:52:30 1.5.1 Early Ottoman period
01:16:22 1.6 Modern period
01:16:31 1.6.1 Late Ottoman period
01:58:46 1.6.2 Formation of the British Mandate
02:03:59 2 Biblical references
02:08:56 3 Etymological considerations
02:09:36 4 See also
02:09:57 5 Bibliography
02:18:07 6 Notes
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This article presents a list of notable historical references to the name Palestine as a place name in the Middle East throughout the history of the region, including its cognates such as Filastin and Palaestina.
The term Peleset (transliterated from hieroglyphs as P-r-s-t) is found in five inscriptions referring to a neighboring people or land starting from circa 1150 BC during the Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt. The first known mention is at the temple at Medinet Habu which refers to the Peleset among those who fought with Egypt in Ramesses III's reign, and the last known is 300 years later on Padiiset's Statue. The Assyrians called the same region Palashtu/Palastu or Pilistu, beginning with Adad-nirari III in the Nimrud Slab in c. 800 BC through to an Esarhaddon treaty more than a century later. Neither the Egyptian nor the Assyrian sources provided clear regional boundaries for the term.The first appearance of the term Palestine was in 5th century BC Ancient Greece when Herodotus wrote of a district of Syria, called Palaistinê between Phoenicia and Egypt in The Histories. Herodotus was describing the coastal region, but is also considered to have applied the term to the inland region such as the Judean mountains and the Jordan Rift Valley. Later Greek writers such as Aristotle, Polemon and Pausanias also used the word, which was followed by Roman writers such as Ovid, Tibullus, Pomponius Mela, Pliny the Elder, Dio Chrysostom, Statius, Plutarch as well as Roman Judean writers Philo of Alexandria and Josephus. The word was never used in an official context during the Hellenistic period, and is not found on any Hellenistic coin or inscription, first coming into official use in the early second century AD. It has been contended that in the first century authors still associated the term with the southern coastal region.In 135 AD, the Greek Syria Palaestina was used in naming a new Roman province from the merger of Roman Syria and Roman Judaea after the Roman authorities crushed the Bar Kokhba Revolt. Circumstantial evidence links Hadrian to the renaming of the province, which took place around the same time as Jerusalem was refounded as Aelia Capitolina, but the precise date of the change in province name is uncertain. The common view that the name change was intended sever the connection of the Jews to their historical homeland is disputed.During the Byzantine period c. 390, the imperial province of Syria Palaestina was reorganized into: Palaestina Prima, Palaestina Secunda, and Palaestina Salutaris. Following the Muslim conquest, place names that were in use by the Byzantine administration generally continued to be used in Arabic. The use of the name Palestine became common in Early Modern English, was used in English and Arabic during the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem. In the 20th century the name was used by the British to refer to Mandatory Palestine, a mandate from the former O ...
The Alpine Iceman: Understanding Our Human Past Through Science
The Alpine Iceman: Understanding Our Human Past Through Science
March 5, 2013
The scientific examination of art and archaeological objects and materials permits the interpretation of past human activities and helps the preservation of cultural heritage for future generations. Analytical results from materials and objects of different periods illustrate how modern scientific techniques increase our knowledge of ancient humans, materials, and processes. This lecture explores the modern techniques and multi-disciplinary investigations used in the reconstruction of the life and death of the Copper Age Alpine Iceman.
Gilberto Artioli
Professor, Department of Geosciences, University of Padova
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Giuliana Guazzaroni: Virtual and Augmented Reality in Mental Health Treatment
Giuliana Guazzaroni. Technology Enhanced Learning Ph.D. She has developed EMMAP (Emotional Mapping of Museum Augmented Places) an interactive format for Museums, Archaeological Parks, Art Galleries etc. The Presidential Medal of the Italian Republic awarded her researches relating to “Quantum art, science and augmented reality: innovation synergies”. She has been involved in e-moderating different online courses at the Università Ca’ Foscari of Venice and Università Politecnica delle Marche. She has used E-Learning environments, integrating learning objects with mobile devices, to create unique learning experiences where the participant interacts in a place, at the same time, authentic and augmented by the use of different media. She studies and develops Virtual or Augmented Reality systems useful in treating mental health, including VR 360 movies. She has published scientific articles on the themes of E-Learning, Augmented and Virtual reality, Virtual and augmented learning environments, Virtual and Augmented Reality in Mental Health Treatment. She has a degree in Foreign Languages (Università di Macerata), a master degree in Technologies and Methodologies of E-Learning (Università di Verona) and a Ph.D in Engineering Sciences, Curriculum E-Learning (Università Politecnica delle Marche). American Association for Science and Technology (AASCIT) Member.
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