Egon Schiele (more), from The Radical Nude Catalogue
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Monthly Archives: December 2014
Hans Bellmer, from Little Anatomy of the Physical Unconscious or The Anatomy of the Image
Measuring weather instruments, Musée des Arts et Métiers
Carlo Scarpa, Olivetti Showroom
Catoptric sundial, Trinità dei Monti Convent
This catoptric sundial is the most spatial and temporal drawing that measures ‘the hour of the stars’ utilising small mirror that tracks the movement of the sun across the vaulted ceiling. For other type of dials see below post.
Dials, Musée des Arts et Métiers
The measure of time passing
Before the invention of the mechanical clock, two kinds of instruments were used to measure time. On the one hand, hourglasses and water clocks, were used to count the passage of time, the time that is ‘running’. On the other, gnomons and sundials give this hour, the hour of the stars.
Foucault pendulum, Musée des Arts et Métiers
Rokeby Venus, Diego Velázquez
One of the most famous nude paintings due to its erotic charge is little known to have suffered slashing by suffragette almost 100 year ago. More details about the destructive event could be found at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-26491421
Egon Schiele’s drawings from The Radical Nude exhibition catalogue
Drawings from anatomical book in Old Operating Theatre Museum
