Garibaldi and the Risorgimento

Two scenes from the panorama:



A life and times of Garibaldi plus a fabulous panorama at Brown University. From the site:

'Moving' panoramas displayed one scene at a time. Attached to rollers, the paintings could be unrolled slowly as a narrator described each vignette to the audience. Markers attached to the paintings would serve as guides for the persons cranking the piece as well as the narrator. An interval would have been announced upon reaching the end of side one, in order for the staff to turn the panorama around for displaying the second side.

This sounds fabulous.

Witkacy

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz 1885-1939. Brilliant and tragic mononymic. Link…

Antikvars

A commercial site. I know… but I liked some of the objects. Link…

Deer Scroll

A 72ft (22m) long painting featuring 13th-century Japanese poetry. Very cool. Link… [flash]

Damiané

Monumental painting in Georgia. An interesting analysis of the influences on Damiané as he creates this work at Ubisi. Link…

Luis Quintanilla

"On the night of October 5, 1934, Quintanilla was arrested in his studio for being a member of the Revolutionary Committee which intended to oust the Spanish government. He was taken to Madrid's Model Jail (Carcel Modelo) where along with a sizeable group of politicians, intellectuals, and workers he was locked up to await trial." Link…

Karl von Amira

Karl Konrad Ferdinand Maria von Amira (1848-1930), studied jurisprudence in Munich. His collection of drawings, copperplate prints, photographs, etchings, postcards, watercolours and blueprints documenting court scenes, punishments, trials by ordeal and oaths was intended for publication as an Atlas of Legal Archaeology. It was never published but the somewhat eerie and at times, gruesome material is available at The Digital Library Department of the Bavarian State Library. Link…