Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Birth name   Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Born             25 February 1841
                      Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France

Died              3 December 1919, Cagnes-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France

Nationality   French

Field             Painting

Movement   Impressionism

Works
Bal du moulin de la Galette, 1876
Lunche on of the Boating Party, 1880
Nude, 1910

Two of Renoir’s paintings have sold for more than US$70 million. Bal au moulin de la Galette sold for $78.1 million in 1990.

Auguste Rodin

Birth name   François-Auguste-René Rodin

Born              12 November 1840, Paris

Died              17 November 1917 (aged 77), Meudon, Île-de-France

Nationality   French

Field              Sculpture, drawing

Works
The Age of Bronze (L’age d’airain), 1877
The Walking Man (L’homme qui marche), 1877–78
The Burghers of Calais (Les Bourgeois de Calais), 1889
The Kiss, 1889
The Thinker (Le Penseur), 1902 Awards Légion d’Honneur

Awards Légion d’Honneur

The Age of Bronze(1877)

The Thinker (1879–1889) is among the most recognized works in all of sculpture.

Diego Velázquez

Birth name    Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez

Born             June 6, 1599 Seville, Spain

Died               August 6, 1660, Madrid, Spain

Nationality    Spanish

Field               Painting

Movement     Baroque

Works
Las Meninas, 1656
Rokeby Venus, 1644–1648
The Surrender of Breda, 1634–1635

The Surrender of Breda

Las Meninas (1656)

Behind Master Piece

Arguably the most recognizable feature of the £500m development is the Grant Associates-designed forest of Supertrees, a cluster of 18 structural forms which vary in height between 25 and 50 meters and act as scaffolding for a living network of climbers, epiphytes and ferns. During the day, these soaring spectacles add to the educational experience as a series of vertical gardens, but as the sun falls, they are animated by dramatic light shows and projected media.

Back in December 2011, WAN sent reporter Bronte Cullum to check up on the construction progress of this gargantuan scheme. She wrote: “The Supertrees, amongst all of the other intrepid developments of the Gardens by the Bay project, are by far the most audacious. Walking away from this capacious piece of architecture left me awed, with a nostalgic sense of wonder for the future.”

It was this ‘wow’ factor that Andrew Grant, Director of landscape architects Grant Associates, was so keen to capture in his concept: “Our brief for Gardens by the Bay was to create the most amazing tropical gardens in the world, incorporating cutting edge environmental design and sustainable development principles. We wanted to capture people’s relationship with nature and use innovative technology to create rich lifestyle, educational and recreational experiences for both local residents of Singapore and visitors from around the world.”

To fulfill the educational requirements of the brief, the team imagined a pair of immense biomes: the 1.2 hectare Flower Dome and the slightly smaller 0.8 hectare Cloud Forest Dome. Designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects, the two bulbous forms encase specially-crafted environments where endangered plants and those not native to Singapore are able to grow in abundance.

There are still two phases to complete before the entire Gardens by the Bay vision is realized. Phase one saw the completion of Bay South, but there are still the Gardens of Bay East and Bay Central to finalize. Once this is seen through, the Gardens by the Bay scheme will measure an astonishing 101 hectares on Singapore’s waterfront.

 Courtesy: worldarchitecturenews

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Why 1 is “one”, 2 is “two”, 3 is “three”, ….? Have you ever asked this question why? …….. You should know that the numbers we write are made of algorithms, (1, 2, 3, 4, etc.) are called Arabic algorithms, to distinguish them from Roman algorithms, (I, II, III, IV, etc.). The Arabs popularize the algorithms, but their origin goes back to the Phoenician merchants, that used them to count and do their commercial countability. What is the logic that exist in the Arabic logarithm? Easy, very easy! THEY ARE ALL ANGLES! Look at these algorithms written in their primitive form.

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2. In fact, archaeologists have just recently begun to excavate the third of the three burial pits containing the warriors. Work commenced on Saturday, June 6th this year and is expected to proffer at least hundreds more of the famous figures. This time, however, experts are keen to keep the vivid colours, found on all terracotta warriors thus far, intact. All previous soldiers have turned an oxidised grey when exposed to air.

3. The Chinese historian Sima Qian wrote in the 2nd century BC – a full hundred years after the Emperor’s death – that over 700,000 men took 36 years to create his terracotta army. Modern historians feel Sima may have been slightly economical with the truth, and argue as few as 16,000 men could have done the job in just two years.

4. The First Qin Emperor didn’t just want an army to protect him in the afterlife: a 1999 excavation at the site uncovered eleven terracotta acrobats and strongmen. Popular performers 2,000 years ago, the acts would have been meant to entertain the emperor in his journey through the afterlife.

5. ‘The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army’ at London’s British Museum, held between September 2007 and April 2008, comprised 120 of the warriors and was the most successful event in the museum’s history. It even surpassed the feverish popularity of King Tut’s 1972 appearance.

Qin Shi Huang was terrified of death – but allegedly died from taking too many mercury pills, which he thought would give him immortality
6. The First Emperor, Qin Shi Huang, was terrified of death and was constantly searching for the so-called ‘elixir of life’. After allegedly sending 8,000 people on expeditions to find his cure unsuccessfully (they never returned, knowing they’d be killed without the elixir – legend says they founded Japan), Qin relied on mercury tablets in increasing doses, until they killed him aged 50. How ironic.

7. The Emperor was extremely proud of his cavernous tomb. So proud, in fact, that he promptly murdered its creators to sustain a resounding enigma which endures to this day. Only recently have probes entered the giant subterranean complex, which contains high levels of mercury – appearing to confirm the above legend.

8. Though each terracotta warrior is unique, experts believe a set number of facial moulds were actually used, before workmen added clay to make each one distinct. Each limb and the head was created separately before being fixed to the torso.

9. The poor old warriors had a torrid 2008. Not only were seven of those in China damaged by a huge earthquake measuring 8.0 on the Richter scale, but two being paraded in London became unwitting political protesters. Martin Wyness and Mark Trepte, from Hereford, England, placed placards on the soldiers bearing the messages ‘China Stop Killing Tibetans’ and ‘Boycott the Chinese Olympics’. The soldiers were unavailable to comment.

10. You won’t just find terracotta warriors in the middle of China, or the world’s biggest museums. The living terracotta warrior, or Chi Chang to his friends, has been sent out onto the streets of Washington, DC ahead of the city’s National Geographic Museum’s terracotta warriors exhibition.

Courtesy: Heritage key – Unlock the wonders

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