January 9, 2025 9:43 am

Meeting Bench

CODEX SERAPHINIANUS – The strangest book in the world

The cover of the book is constantly being studied. An edition of this book, depicts a couple who, in the act of having sex, is transformed into a crocodile. Between 1976 and 1978 the Italian artist Luigi Serafini has made a special book, written and illustrated with over a thousand drawings. The Seraphinianus Codex is an absolutely original and surreal …

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IN CONSTANT SORROW – Things have changed, for that forever young man

Man of Constant Sorrow – In constant sorrow through his days, I am a man of constant sorrow. I’ve seen trouble all my day. I bid farewell to old Kentucky The place where I was born and raised, the place where he was born and raised. For six long years I’ve been in trouble. No pleasures here on earth I …

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A WOMAN FREE AND PROUD – Artemisia Gentileschi: to paint when women were denied access to schools and at work

ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI 1/4 – She was a Baroque-period painter, known for such works as “Susanna and the Elders” and “Judith Slaying Holofernes.” She lost her mother when she was 12 years old, and suffered another tragedy five years later (when she was raped by one of her father’s colleagues). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEa0ibrXqSk She married a painter from Florence, but their union wasn’t …

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ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI (1593/1652), ITALIAN PAINTER – A raped woman, an artist violently combative

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FUEL FOR THE CONTEMPORARY POPULAR CULTURE – EMP, The Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture

It was founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 2000, as the Experience Music Project. The Museum of Pop Culture, is a nonprofit museum dedicated to contemporary popular culture. The EMP museum has organized dozens of exhibits, across the US and internationally. http://www.empmuseum.org/ For music lovers, Seattle means Nirvana. While parents discover the history of rock, children can become rock …

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INTERPRETING THE MOOD OF A WHOLE GENERATION – Nirvana, the most representative group of the grunge movement

Though the band dissolved in 1994, their music continues to inspire and influence modern rock. Went through a succession of drummers (the longest-lasting being Dave Grohl, who joined the band in 1990. Has come to be regarded as one of the most influential and important alternative bands in history. Nirvana http://www.nirvana.com/ was an rock band formed by singer and guitarist …

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THE WANDERER, POOR AND IMPROVIDENT PAINTER – Lorenzo Lotto, between portraits and historical scenes

LORENZO LOTTO 1/4 – His work appeals to a modern audience, particularly because of the way he identifies with his subjects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-d-ZhfeylE Well known for his perceptive portraits (and mystical paintings of religious subjects), he represents one of the best examples of the relationship between the Venetian and Central Italian schools. In the earlier years of his life, he lived …

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LORENZO LOTTO (1480/1557), ITALIAN PAINTER – Perceptive portraits and mystical paintings

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THE CITY OF THE GNOMES – Around Wroclaw, get to know the 300 tiny inhabitants in the “Venice of Poland”

Wroklovek, gleefully celebrating whoever comes, his heart in his hand. Botanik, in Spring as in the Snow, he loves playing his big trumpet made of flower petals. Obiezysmak, he ate so much that almost burst his trousers. You’re walking through the streets of Wroclaw, Poland. http://visitwroclaw.eu/en What you see is a gnome, one of more than 300 people living with …

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WROCLAW’S INNER LANDSCAPES

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