"The Kiss of the Sphinx" created by German sculptor Christian Behrens around 1880.
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"The Kiss of the Sphinx" created by German sculptor Christian Behrens around 1880.
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Typography Tuesday
Today we present some fancy Caslon capitals, borders, and ornaments from The Manual of Linotype Typography, printed by the Plimpton Press for the Mergenthaler Linotype Company in Brooklyn, New York, in 1923. William Caslon (1692-1766) famously introduced the first superior British Roman font in his 1734 specimen sheet. Various iterations of the Caslon typefounding house persisted until the 1930s when it was acquired by Stephenson Blake, but the Caslon Roman typeface remains the classic British font.
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Zoomorphic Sculpture from Georgia (South Caucasus) c.800-650 BCE: this sculpture was originally equipped with multiple heads on opposite ends of a four-legged body
This artifact was unearthed from the central terrace at Vani, which is located in what is now western Georgia (the country, not the state). It was created roughly 2,800 years ago, when Vani served as the religious, cultural, and administrative center for the Kingdom of Colchis.
The sculpture was originally designed with six heads, but only two of those heads remain intact. Each head is depicted with a large crown and zoomorphic features.
Above: the full-sized sculpture
Several other sculptures with this design have been discovered at Vani, and the same motif also appears at the nearby site of Nokalakevi.
Above: a similar sculpture from Vani
As this article explains:
Numerous terracotta figurines of various animals occur at Vani (e.g. deer, rams, etc.) but particularly interesting are four-footed figures with multiple heads on opposite ends. The protomes of two-headed and three-headed fantastical creatures with characteristic post-like legs apparently belong to figures of this type.
Above: two-headed protome from Vani
Similar designs can also be found in artifacts from ancient Greece:
Such figures, also common in the Greek world and generally assigned to the geometric period, have been found in 8th-7th century [BCE] contexts at Olympia, Delphi, Athens, Crete, Rhodes, Samos, and elsewhere. In Italy, these figures frequently appear in 7th-6th century contexts. Although at present a firm decision on which culture influenced the Vani figures (four-footed with two heads on opposite ends) is difficult to discern, the earlier emergence and wide distribution of such representations in the Greek world suggest a link with Hellenic culture.
Perhaps these new elements in Colchian culture c.800-650 BCE resulted from Greek contacts (still intermittent) in the precolonial era, which were reflected in the great popularity of stories of the Argonauts in the 8th-7th centuries and in the first geographical and ethno-political reports of Colchis (e.g. geographical references in the Homeric Catalogue of the Trojans, mention of Colchis in Eumelos and of the Phasis River in Hesiod). Regular Greek contacts began only c.550 BCE, after the establishment of Greek settlements on the eastern shore of the Black Sea.
Above: another two-headed protome from Vani
Sources & More Info:
Journal of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies: Vani: an Ancient City of Colchis (PDF)
The Georgian National Museum: Figurine of a Fantastical Beast
Phasis: New Discoveries in Colchis (PDF)
Hybrid Modernism. Churches in Kerala by Haubitz-Zoche
Photographer Stefanie Zoche of Haubitz-Zoche has captured a series of vibrant images showcasing the “hybrid modernism” churches of the Southern Indian region of Kerala. The images below, also available on the artist’s website, depict the blend of modernist influences and local architectural elements that defined many Indian churches following the country’s 1947 independence.
As Zoche explains, the post-independence Indian church establishment sought to differentiate itself from the historic colonial building style, and hence drew inspiration from the modernist icon Le Corbusier. The buildings in Zoche’s gallery often display an “effusively sculptural formal language and a use of intense color” with Christian symbols “directly transposed into a three-dimensional, monumental construction design.”
Mosaic from the floor of Otto Wagner's former residence, Vienna, Austria
Château de la Ferté Saint-Aubin, Sologne, France
Mächler gravel factory in Munich / listed industrial plant dating from 1936
The Skyscraper Chair by Paul T. Frankl, ca. 1927-30. Painted pine.
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Spoon in the shape of a fish. Carved from some Sycamore I found just outside Wivenhoe, Essex.
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An incredible Winchester Model 1873 lever action rifle carved by the Haida people of the Pacific Northwest, British Columbia.