Many people loves to read. Our proposal call any web-traveler to sit into Meeting Benches info@meetingbenches.com to share written emotions, observing new creative horizons. Readers enjoy the arts and improve their imagination. Reading makes you smarter, it improves your memory to discover and create yourself. In his book (How to Read and Why), Harold Bloom says that we should read …
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LANDSCAPES OF THE SOUL / NETHERLAND
DUTCH MUSIC SHADES
Also hip-hop in the Dutch language, is very popular in the Netherlands, together techno and hardstyle, gabber, trance and other styles in electronic, and most of the best-known hail from the Netherlands, including Tiësto and Ferry Corsten, Sander van Doorn, Hardwell, Showtek, Oliver Heldens). But you need to remember that Dutch music shades, they come far away. Contemporary Dutch popular …
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Vitruvian Man created by Leonardo da Vinci is a design, where a man in two overlapped positions (with arms and legs spread wide), is inscribed in a circle and a square. https://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/history/leonardo.html Throughout the centuries, that image has become a cultural icon. Perfectly proportioned, the symmetry of the human anatomy is correlated with the symmetry of the universe. That man …
Read More »THE DINNER – Novel by Herman Koch
Born in 1953, Herman Koch it is a Dutch writer and actor, author of novels. When his family moved to Amsterdam. He has written short stories and novelsis, but his best-selling novel (The Dinner), has been translated into 21 languages, and had sold over one million copies throughout Europe. In his subsequent novels, he developed into an ironic writer relating …
Read More »THE CLASSICALLY-EDUCATED HUMANIST SCHOLAR, NAMED PETER PAUL – Rubens, the man able to be painter, art collector and diplomat
Vitruvian Man created by Leonardo da Vinci is a design, where a man in two overlapped positions (with arms and legs spread wide), is inscribed in a circle and a square. https://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/history/leonardo.html Throughout the centuries, that image has become a cultural icon. Perfectly proportioned, the symmetry of the human anatomy is correlated with the symmetry of the universe. That man …
Read More »PETER PAUL RUBENS (1577/1640), DUTCH PAINTER – The prince of painters and the painter of princes
ALSO HIS DINOSAURS WERE SOMETHING RATHER SPECIAL – Rob Hefferan and the Pre-Raphaelitism as photos painting
ROB HEFFERAN 1/3 – He was born in the north of England, where began drawing and painting as a small child. During family holidays, he would paint en plein. His art teacher who recognized that his childish drawings of dinosaurs were something rather special. Throughout high school and college, he entered and won many art competitions. This painter, is influenced …
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