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Source: ‘Messiah’ photo Tucker Densley/Ashmolean Museum. Ct scan Francesco Piasentini @ Tec Eurolab The following is an extract from an article in The Strad’s January 2021 issue in which we examine the findings of an extensive project to CT-scan the Stradivari’s iconic 1716 violin, the ‘Messiah’.  To read in full, click here to subscribe and login.  The date was Monday 5 September 2016 and Francesco Piasentini, a violin maker with a PhD in metallurgical engineering, was wait...

The Internet Is Gleefully Superimposing Bernie Sanders’s Disheveled Inauguration Photo Onto Famous Works of Art—See the Memes Here From the Phillips Collection to Marina Abramović, Bernie Sanders became part of a lot of art history yesterday. January 21, 2021 Senator Bernie Sanders in the photograph that launched a million memes. Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images. From youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman’s awe-inspiring performance to Jennifer Lopez’s unique rendition of �...

Flower Child of Akhetaten Ankhesenamun is portrayed in myriad ways; as a terrified and hapless youngster; a power-hungry murderess; or a loathsome vixen who will stop at nothing to achieve her devious ends. Very few characterizations concentrate on the real person, sans the hype. But then, with irrefutable facts hard to come by, any exotic soap opera can be built around an ancient individual! This once-powerful queen surely deserves a far better study of her personage; for she seems to have ma...

MUSEUMS may be shut physically this weekend, but Oxfords museums and galleries are hosting a tonne of online exhibitions you can attend. You can now experience all the exhibitions and cultural shows Oxford has to offer without leaving the comfort of your bedroom.  1. The Ashmolean: One World Online Festival: This is a celebration of the many communities and faiths of Oxfordshire  Online Baby Ashmoles: These online sessions are designed for babies under 1 and their parents/carers, and a...

The Morris Museum of Art announces the death of artist Philip Morsberger Jerry Siegel, Philip Morsberger, Georgia, 2006, printed 2012. Digital C-print. Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia. Courtesy of the artist. AUGUSTA, GA .- The world lost a great artist with the death of Philip Morsberger on Sunday, January 3, 2021, of complications due to COVID-19. “Philip Morsberger was blessed with many gifts—his extraordinary curiosity and creativity, both of which sustained his skills as an ar...

A statue of Christopher Codrington by Henry Cheere is located in the library at All Souls in Oxford Oxford University’s All Souls College has dropped the name Christopher Codrington from its library, but has refused to remove its controversial statue of the Barbados-born slave owner, sparking condemnation from campaigners. In a statement published at the end of last year, but largely unreported, the college said that, “rather than seek to remove [the statue] the College will inv...

Designs for the interior of the revamped Randolph Hotel in Oxford have now been revealed.

SHARE For two years British sculptor Piers Secunda has painstakingly worked hard to restore and replicate many of the priceless treasures destroyed by ISIS. Now an exhibition of his work, Owning the Past: from Mesopotamia to Iraq, has opened at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. ISIS looted and destroyed thousands of ancient artefacts in museums and at the Nirgal Gate, one of several entrances to Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian empire. One of worst hit areas, was Iraq’s second largest mus...

Explore Iraq history  ); A NEW exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford explores the cultural identity of the Middle East. Owning the Past: from Mesopotamia to Iraq critically examines the role Oxford University played during the early 20th century in the formation of the nation state of Iraq, previously Mesopotamia. Using a selection of objects, maps and diaries featured in the exhibition, local residents from the Middle East reflect on the colonial legacy that continues to have an impact...

Ceramist Abbas Akbari honored as Irans top art scholar of the year 07/22/20 Ceramist Abbas Akbari honored as Irans top art scholar of the year The honoring ceremony was organized online last Tuesday by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology as part of National Research Week, which was held from December 12 to 18. Abbas Akbari with some of his works Akbari is a professor at the Department of Higher Art Studies at the University of Kashan. He is active in the fields of pottery and cera...