  Online nowHarmenlast- Harmen is a guy in a relationship from Amor Vincit, Omnia, Netherlands.
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Hi ... and welcome :)
If you have liked this blog, do remember that I try to keep it as compact as possible and that I frequently change the older pages around while also adding new items there. So if there is nothing new at the top of page one today, this does not mean that there is nothing new inside. In fact, during your next visit there may be a lot inside that you have not yet seen, read or heard. Find out if you are so inclined. And if you liked what you saw, read or heard and want to come here again to see what has been added, don't hesitate to hit the "friend" button ... if you want to be able to find me again and the new stuff I may have entered :) Other than that ... with the exception of the stuff which bears my copyright, please feel free to "borrow" what you like. :)
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778)Piranesi's Dream ... Eternal Modern Design
When reading the Encyclopedia Britannica's content on Giovanni Battista Piranesi, you will read stuff like "also called Giambattista Piranesi, Italian draftsman, printmaker, architect, and art theorist. His large prints depicting the buildings of classical and postclassical Rome and its vicinity contributed considerably to Rome's fame and to the growth of classical archaeology and to the Neoclassical movement in art" etc etc.
Piranesi, however, was much more than that. Regarded as a genius and even being referred to by many as an 18th century Leonardo da Vinci, I am sure that other Stumblers must have entered items on him and perhaps even on the perspective which I find interesting ... his role as a designer.
At present (Feb-May) Teylers Museum in Haarlem, The Netherlands (I won't mention their url because there is no English language in that site) presents "Piranesi's Dream," Eternal modern design, the first museum exhibition in Europe to show Giovanni Battista Piranesi's full range and influence as a designer of architecture, interiors and furnishings. The objects in the above four images are part of that particular perspective.
Intellect is nothing ... of itself it is merely potential.
It may benefit wisdom.
But wisdom is humble, patient and loving.
And a man will have reached the greatest height of his wisdom
at the moment on which he relinquishes it
in exchange for a Wisdom greater than his.
HL
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