Astrolabe Pictures

Dante and the Church: Literary and Historical Essays
The Catholic Historical Review; 1/1/2009; 1440 words; ...analogues" - maps, portulan charts, astrolabes, and new painting techniques (rules...firsthand knowledge of portulan charts, astrolabes, and other navigational and astronomical...virtuosity to produce an uncannily convincing picture of purgatory situated on "the only bit...

Time is catching up to me this Christmas.(Living)
The Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, Ontario); 12/11/2008; 995 words; ...unit, than an Italian wedding, and the tag line with the pictures is You never actually own a Patek Philippe; you merely look...some alien creature's complex robotic eye; and I can just picture some Swiss control freak, who likes to work with tweezers...kind that has what they call supercomplications. Like an ...

Qatar's new museum: Despite flaws, a home for Islamic treasures ART
International Herald Tribune; 12/6/2008; 1659 words; ...the room, the more diligent art lovers may spot an important astrolabe from Iran signed in 374 of the Islamic calendar (984-985...Romanesque sculptural group from France and a 17th- century picture by Rubens on the grounds that both represent Mary and the infant...

Highlights of the lowlands ; The fashion for Dutch and Flemish masters has waned in the past half century. A new show reminds us of the odd riches we now overlook
Evening Standard - London; 11/28/2008; 2124 words; ...not itself a typical cabinet picture, but it is the depiction...scientific interest. Another picture, propped on the table, is...thrown to the ground, an astrolabe, a mandolin, a painter...however, is that of other pictures within the picture, and the illusion is thus...

Snapshots Of Islam.(Arts)(The Modern Arab World exhibit to be held in Greece)
Newsweek International; 9/8/2008; 1297 words; ...century Orientalist painters in favor of more contemporary pictures of identikit malls and fast-food franchises in teeming cities...memorial doors from eighth-century Mesopotamia, a small bronze astrolabe belonging to famed astronomer Ahmad ibn al-Sarraj and a...