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By: Egytian Statue in Front of the The Temple of Dendur at the Met in NYC

Egytian Statue in Front of the The Temple of Dendur at the Met in NYC — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 04:10:30 +0000

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By: Egypt: Alexandria | Denis Schofield

Egypt: Alexandria | Denis Schofield — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:33:34 +0000

[…] I was in Alex to spend some time in the city, but mostly to see the library. I recently asked for ideas for a drawing assignment, and I decided to accept my colleague Ray’s suggestion that I go do some drawing at the library. I probably would have done it anyway, but this was the incentive I needed to jump in head first. It is a striking building located at the eastern edge of the main harbor. Alex actually stretches along the southern Med coast for 20 kilometers, but the hub of activity happens within the Eastern harbor, between Fort Qaitbey and the bibliotheca. The new library is currently the largest in the world. It seats 2000 people and has room for a collection of 8 million books. Currently there are 1.5 million books in the collection, so that is a lot of room for growth. The general idea for the building is really simple and powerful, a round disk in plan is tilted up on axis, like the sun emerging from the sea. The tall end of the extruded disk is clad in gray granite from Aswan, in northern Egypt and inscribed with characters from every alphabet known to man. It is a simple yet powerful gesture that provides a strong south facing facade featuring local materials and a reference to the past. The interior space is both grand and intimate at the same time. The sloping roof helps to maintain a familiar height throughout the 8 different public levels. During my tour the docent told me that the cast concrete columns and capital represented the lotus flower, but I couldn’t help but see a relationship to ancient Egyptian statues, the tall slender bases as the body, the stainless steel ring below the capital as the necklace and the gently tapering capital as the head. That’s what I got out of it, but why don’t you judge for yourself: http://travel-photos.curiouscatblog.net/2011/03/22/statue-of-king-mankaure-and-his-queen-egypt/. […]

By: Buddha Statues, Borobudur Temple, Java, Indonesia

Buddha Statues, Borobudur Temple, Java, Indonesia — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 10:58:18 +0000

photos of animals on Buddha statues at the Borobudur temple (World Heritage site)

By: Leon

Leon — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:04:49 +0000

I see this stattue, as the most accurate manifestation of mankind, as I think, is represented, in this stattue, ONE person.

The woman stands on the left side of the man, holding, with her left hand, the left arm of the man, with her right arm, holding his right side, both left foot forward. I think it represents the most accurate representation of the “God idea” where, in our body, our left side is female and our right side is male. It, I think, also repesents ‘birth’ and ‘existance’. A woman gifes birth and makes sure of ongoing existence. The only thing that is not representated, is that God is the surviver of cycles and cannot therefor be representated. Therefor I think this is the most accurate “human” repesentation of God. It is why I think, our hart is on our left side, and God ‘knows’ that man is good. Ofcourse, we all dance around in a ring and suppose, while truth is in the middle..

and knows.

By: michelle

michelle — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:25:55 +0000

So pretty. There are several museums over here but we haven’t gotten to go to many because it would bore the little ones silly. We should go on a date night.