tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post1511891410367956994..comments2024-03-27T19:47:13.475-07:00Comments on Dark Buzz: History of the 4th dimensionRogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-34452403010404719542021-02-17T01:09:39.116-08:002021-02-17T01:09:39.116-08:00There is quite a bit of Egyptian Sarcophagi (like ...There is quite a bit of Egyptian Sarcophagi (like King Tut's sarcophagus 1325 BC), ceramics and jewelry which are many shades of blue or uses blue lacquers, inlays, stones, umm, sapphires anyone? Does anyone have any idea how long sapphires have been cherished by humanity? How about scarabs which are often depicted blue easily as far back as 2000BCE? The Egyptians go back quite a bit before the Greeks and Romans by many thousands of years. Jews have also venerated a particular blue wool called tekhelet, dyed by a type of sea creature called chilazon which is mentioned in the Torah (last major editing around 539BC), I dare anyone want to tell them they didn't know about blue until 700 years ago. Blue cobalt ores were used in West Asia as far back as 2000BC. I won't begin to touch on how long the Chinese and Japanese have been using blue in pottery (considerably longer than 700 years, try 475BC), because at this point, the entire premise of blue being a recent discovery is demonstrably ridiculous. <br /><br /> I call bullshit on this VERY poorly researched scholarship by people who clearly are historically illiterate. CFTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-39667101809329017932021-02-16T15:01:08.459-08:002021-02-16T15:01:08.459-08:00By pure coincidence this you tube clip caught my e...By pure coincidence this you tube clip caught my eye today.<br /><br />Interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1-WuBbVe2EThwack!https://www.blogger.com/profile/01345082272453573052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-19209244229218051962021-02-15T22:29:46.251-08:002021-02-15T22:29:46.251-08:00That makes more sense.That makes more sense.Rogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-45421393362270504692021-02-15T22:05:23.597-08:002021-02-15T22:05:23.597-08:00Short answer:
Take an art history course.
Long ...Short answer:<br /> Take an art history course. <br /><br />Long answer:<br /> I wouldn't be so sure about the golden sky claims in art history. The fact is that many of the formulas used to create blue paints and dyes (often taken from plants and lichens) often faded over time. Many tapestries from antiquity and the medieval period often show discolored skies. You can also find ancient mosaics from ancient Roman cities that do indeed show the sky as very blue, because the colored glass and natural stone (like lapis lazula)did not fade.<br /><br />Byzantine art often used a great deal of gold leaf to lighten artwork due to the nature of how it was displayed, on the ceilings and walls of Byzantine churches/temples which were found in Romanesque architecture, thick walls and arches, with relatively small windows. Much of the light was often produced by torches or lamps, and because of the dim light, reflective treatments were very effective to allow detail to be visible on distant surfaces, and also helping in general to make the rooms seem brighter and golden. The artistic artifact which Christianity considers the 'Halo' actually came from the Byzantine style of putting a gold leafed disk behind the head of saints and angels, this was often used to help designate the holy from the common in artwork that was very stylized and cookie-cutter like (there was almost no differences in facial features). Later on during the Renaissance the gold disk feature became an awkward symbolic relic that worshippers expected to denote the holy, as the artists (like Giotto) were depicting the portrayed people in more detail and in perspective, and flat disk detracted from the depth of the perspective (think Mickey Mouse ears, they are always in the same position no matter which way Mickey is looking) they were trying to achieve. The flat gold disk was replaced with glass like disk (representing a piece of the crystal vault of the heavens) in perspective, with only the tracery edge or 'halo' now visible. There are several famous works you can see where the entire glass like disk is visible, and then later works where only the edge like tracery remains. <br /><br /> Art often shapes what people imagine spiritual entities to look like more than the actual religious texts which originally inspired the art.CFTnoreply@blogger.com