The American-Croatian painter Maksimilian Vanka, 1 1889-1963, or Maxo for his friends, composed together with his American wife Margaret, her father dr. Stetten DeWitt and his friends Louis and ...Stella Adamic, his most enigmatic work, the "WORLD WAR II" collage. The collage originated at the reunion of Maxo Vanka, his wife Margaret, his friends Louis and Stella Adamic, with Margaret's father Dr. Stetten DeWitt, after his return from Europe at war. The party was exhilarated with Dr. Stetten's safe escape from Korcula (Dalmatia) to Paris, Le Havre and on board of the French liner lie de France to New York, and preoccupied with the imminent World War.
The polyhedron with triangular and pentagonal faces on the Duerer's "MELENCOLIA I" engraving is said to be a cube with two opposite corners cut off. A cube has 6 faces, 12 sides and 8 corners. A ...cube with two truncated tips has 8 faces, 18 sides and 12 corners. In the above numbers, the prime factors 2 and 3 are implied. The numbers 2 and 3 are symbols for human beings, male and female. The solid is a symbol for humanity. Men and women can be affected with melancholy.
In the numbers of Duerer's Melancolia magic square is hidden the Aristotle's wonder: "How come, that all the people, excelling in philosophy or in politics or in poetry or in arts, are evidently ...melancholical..."
Im Kupferstich von Dürers »Melancholie«, Kat. Nr. 270, ist das magische Quadrat mi1t der Schlüsselzahl 34 abgeblildet. Die letzte Quadratsreihe stellt gematrisch das Entstehungsjahr, den Namen des ...Künstlers und das Thema der Grafik dar.
François Rabelais signed his books on Gargantua et Pantagruel with pen names. The gematric value of his pseudonyms, NASIER, M. ALCOFRIBAS, and ALCOFRIBAS NASIER, are 66, 99 and 152, ...respectively.With numbers 66 and 99, Rabelais identified himself as the Apocalyptic beast, according to the report by St, John the Divine: And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had horns like a lamb. The ram's and buck's horns are indeed similar to the Indian figures 66 and 99.
The plan of Borobuclur conforms with two concentric octagrams. The lines of the scheme, their lengths, and their intersections, determine the articulation of the Borobudur composition, i. e. the ...sizes of every part and of the whole as well. The sizes of Borobudur are modular. Their modular multiples are Pell numbers, the ratios of which rationally approximate the irrational proportions in octagram If Borobudur numbers are located in the Peli number-pattern and connected with a line, the syllable OM, written in Sanskrit, appears. The word octagram is only the modern European name of the symbol of OM. The prayer OM MANI PADME HUM, translated as 'the JEWEL and the LOTOS', is a good description of octagram.
The various meanings & semantic history of Greek kosmos 'beautiful order, politeness, mankind, shape, ornament' are discussed & its relationship to arhitekton 'architect, inventor, master of ...theatrical scenography' is examined. It is noted that the latter word acquired the meaning 'builder' when the words kosmos & kosmetes became pejorative. The misunderstanding of the word kosmos caused fear in the pre-Renaissance period that architecture was not an art since no Muse supervised the art of building. However, Urania was the goddess of the activity implied in the V kosmeim 'to put in beautiful order', which included everything from the universe to man-made space. Modified HA
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