Pope Cancelled April Fool's Days

Pope Cancelled

April Fool's Days 

April Fool's Day 2018 Cancelled

Because of Clash with Easter

The Pope has declared there will instead be two April Fool's Days in 2019
This year Easter Sunday will fall on the usual day of April Fool’s Day, April 1, and the change to the calendar has been made to avoid a clash.

April 2 will also be a holy bank holiday thanks to Easter Monday meaning the traditional day of pranks couldn’t have been held until April 3 this year.

The date was considered too late – given that practical jokes shouldn’t be played after midday on April 1, so the annual festival has instead been cancelled.
The change has been ordered by The Pope, who has had the authority to change dates since his predecessor Pope Gregory XIII created the modern-day calendar in 1582.  The little-used power hasn’t been enacted since July 15, 1782 when the then Pope cancelled the date of his brother’s birthday because of an argument.

The Pope has declared there will be two April Fool’s Days in 2019 – one on April 1 and one several days earlier on March 29.

Vatican spokesman Father Pesce Daprile said: “We understand the British Government has organized a massive practical joke for March 29, 2019 which they’ve been working on for several years.
“We are sure everyone will enjoy it and it will make up for not having any April Fool’s Day in 2018”

 

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/april-fools-day-2018-cancelled-983604

After 2018, the next one is 2029, 

and then again in 2040

After that, not again in this century.

Smile 1..2..3..

Beauty - Rino Stefano Tagliafierro

Rino Stefano Tagliafierro
Beauty

 

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B E A U T Y is a short story of the most important emotions of life, from birth to death, love and sexuality through pain and fear.It is a tribute to art, to life and their disarming beauty

CREDITS:
Director   RINO STEFANO TAGLIAFIERRO
Assistant Director   LAILA SONSINO   2nd Assistant Director   CARLOTTA BALESTRIERI
Editing - Compositing - Animation   RINO STEFANO TAGLIAFIERRO
Sound Design   ENRICO ASCOLI  Art Direction    RINO STEFANO TAGLIAFIERRO
Historiographer   GIULIANO CORTI   Time   09'49"    Year   2014

IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE	Click the name of painting to view the gif
Asher Brown Durand - The Catskill Valley‬	Correggio - Giove e Io
Thomas Hill - Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe	François Gérard - Psyché et l'Amour
Albert Bierstadt - Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains	John William Godward - Contemplation
Ivan Shishkin - Forest edge	John William Godward - Far Away Thought
James Sant - Frau und Tochter‬	John William Godward - An Auburn Beauty
William Adolphe Bouguereau - The Motherland	William Adolphe Bouguereau - Flora And Zephy
Ivan Shishkin - Morning in a Pine Forest	Louis Jean François Lagrenée - Mars and Venus, Allegory of Peace
William Adolphe Bouguereau - The Nut Gatherers	Fritz Zuber-Bühle - A Reclining Beauty
William Adolphe Bouguereau - Two Sisters	Paul Peel - The Rest
William Adolphe Bouguereau - Not too Much to Carry	Guillaume Seignac - L'Abandon
Thomas Cole - The Course of Empire: Desolation	Victor Karlovich Shtemberg - Nu à la peau de bete
Martinus Rørbye - Entrance to an Inn in the Praestegarden	Pierre Auguste Cot - Portrait Of Young Woman
William Adolphe Bouguereau - Sewing	Ivan Shishkin - Mast Tree Grove
William Adolphe Bouguereau - The Difficult Lesson	Ivan Shishkin - Rain in an oak forest
William Adolphe Bouguereau - The Curtsey	William Adolphe Bouguereau - Biblis
William Adolphe Bouguereau - Little Girl with a Bouquet	William Adolphe Bouguereau - Elegy
Claude Lorrain - Pastoral Landscape	Marcus Stone - Loves Daydream End
William Adolphe Bouguereau - Cupidon	William Adolphe Bouguereau - Head Of A Young Girl
William Adolphe Bouguereau - Admiration	Hugues Merle - Mary Magdalene in the Cave
William Adolphe Bouguereau - Girl Defending Herself Against Eros	Andrea Vaccaro - Sant'Agata
William Adolphe Bouguereau - Dawn	Jacques-Luois David - Accademia (o Patroclo)
William Adolphe Bouguereau - L'Amour et Psych	Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - San Giovanni Battista
William Adolphe Bouguereau - Spring Breeze	Roberto Ferri - In Nomine Deus
William Adolphe Bouguereau - The Invation	Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - Cristo alla colonna
William Adolphe Bouguereau - Nymphs and Satyr	Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - Incoronazione di spine
William Adolphe Bouguereau - The Youth of Bacchus	Paul Delaroche - Exécution de lady Jane Grey1554
William Adolphe Bouguereau - The Birth of Venus	Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - Decollazione di San Giovanni Battista
William Adolphe Bouguereau - The Nymphaeum	Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - Sacrificio di Isacco
Gioacchino Pagliei - Le Naiadi	Guido Reni - Davide e Golia
Luis Ricardo Falero - Faust's Dream	Enrique Simonet - Anatomía del corazón
Luis Ricardo Falero - Reclining Nude	Thomas Eakins - Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic)
Jules Joseph Lefebvre - La Cigale	Rembrandt - Lezione di anatomia del dottor Tulp
John William Godward - Tarot of Delphi	Peter Paul Rubens - Die Beweinung Christi
Jan van Huysum - Bouquet of Flowers in an Urn	Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - Giuditta e Oloferne
Adrien Henri Tanoux - Salammbo	Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - Davide e Golia
Guillaume Seignac - Reclining Nude	Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - Salomè con la testa del Battista
Tiziano - Venere di Urbino	Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - Davide con la testa di Golia
Louis Jean François Lagrenée - Amor and Psyche	Jakub Schikaneder - All Soul's Day

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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - San Gerolamo scrivente	Peter Paul Rubens - Saturn Devouring His Son
Guido Reni - San Gerolamo	Ilya Repin - Ivan il Terribile e suo figlio Ivan
Pieter Claesz - Vanitas	Franz von Stuck - Lucifero Moderno
Gabriel von Max - The Ecstatic Virgin Anna Katharina Emmerich	Gustave Doré - Enigma
William Adolphe Bouguereau - Portrait of Miss Elizabeth Gardner	Arnold Böcklin - Die Toteninsel (III)
Jan Lievens - A young girl	Sophie Gengembre Anderson - Elaine
Johannes Vermeer - Portrait of a Young Girl	John Everett Millais - Ophelia
Luis Ricardo Falero - Moonlit Beauties	Paul Delaroche - Jeune Martyre
Joseph Rebell - Burrasca al chiaro di luna nel golfo di Napoli	Herbert Draper - The Lament for Icarus
Luis Ricardo Falero - Witches going to their Sabbath	Martin Johnson Heade - Twilight on the St. Johns River
William Adolphe Bouguereau - Dante And Virgil In Hell	Gabriel Cornelius von Max - Der Anatom
Théodore Géricault - Cheval arabe gris-blanc	Paul Hippolyte Delaroche - Die Frau des Künstlers Louise Vernet
Peter Paul Rubens - Satiro	William Adolphe Bouguereau - El primer duelo
Felice Boselli - Skinned Head of a Young Bull	Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau - Too Imprudent
Gabriel Cornelius von Max - Monkeys as Judges of Art	William-Adolphe Bouguereau - The Prayer
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - Medusa	Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - Amorino dormiente
Luca Giordano - San Michele	Augustin Théodule Ribot - St. Vincent (of Saragossa)
Théodore Géricault - Study of Feet and Hands	Caspar David Friedrich - Abtei im eichwald

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Historic March Against Gun Violence

Thousands Of Teens To Descend On Washington

Historic March Against Gun Violence

March For Our Lives marks the biggest political moment yet for the student-led movement.

March for Our Lives: Chants of ‘Enough Is Enough’
at Huge Rallies on Guns

Hundreds thousands of protesters, outraged by a recent massacre at a South Florida school and energized by the students who survived, are thronging streets across the globe in public protests on Saturday, demanding action against gun violence in their most ambitious show of force yet.

In New York, marchers bundled in bright orange — the official color of a gun control advocacy group — charged toward Central Park. In Washington, protesters held signs with the messages “Arms Are for Hugging” and “Never Again.” And in Parkland, Fla., less than a mile from where the shooting took place, one protester’s eyes brimmed with tears, surrounded by the echoing chant, “Enough is enough!”

 

By late morning, counterprotests were also gaining steam. In Salt Lake City, demonstrators carried pistols, flags and toddlers swaddled in blankets. One of their signs read: “What can we do to stop mass shootings? SHOOT BACK.” In Boston, opposing groups of protesters shouted at one another before the police intervened.

Here’s what we’re watching as protests unfurl around the globe:

• More than 800 protests are planned in every American state and on every continent except for Antarctica, according to a website set up by organizers. Check out photos from around the world, and a map of planned protests.

 

 • The National Park Service has approved a permit for the Washington march that estimates 500,000 people could attend. Called March for Our Lives, the main event there kicks off around midday, and some of the most prominent student activists from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where a shooting left 17 dead last month, will speak.

 

• The student leaders who organized the day’s events, many of them sharp-tongued and defiant in the face of politicians and gun lobbyists, have kept attention on the issue in a time of renewed political activism on the left, as they helped lead a national school walkout and pushed state officials in Florida to enact gun legislation. The effectiveness of the students’ efforts will be measured, in part, on the success of the demonstrations.

• On Saturday, the White House said in a statement, “We applaud the many courageous young Americans exercising their First Amendment rights today.” On Friday, the Justice Department proposed banning so-called bump stocks, but President Trump signed a spending bill that included only some background check and school safety measures.

• Counterprotests in support of gun rights were planned in cities including Salt Lake City, Greenville, S.C., and Helena, Mont.

• The Times has journalists covering the marches in Washington; New York; Boston; Montpelier, Vt.; Parkland, Fla; Dahlonega, Ga.; Chicago; Salt Lake City; Los Angeles; Anchorage, Alaska; Rome; Berlin; and Tokyo. Follow them on Twitter.

 

 The March For Our Lives in Washington, D.C. - which students from Parkland, Florida, began planning after 17 people at their high school were killed last month in a mass shooting - boasts high-profile donors and celebrity attendees, and has inspired other communities around the U.S. to plan events.

“We have never lived in a world where there weren’t major school shootings,” said Kate Lebrun, 18. “It should have been enough a long time ago, enough for people to start doing this amount of stuff. I realized if we don’t start now, it’s never going to happen.” 

More than 150,000 students in the U.S. have experienced a shooting on campus since the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, according to a Washington Post analysis.

Lebrun and a few other students from Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, Maryland, helped coordinate lodging for teens who are coming to D.C. for the march but might have trouble finding or affording a hotel room.

Teens are expected to travel to Washington from all over the country, and some area restaurants are offering free or discounted meals to student activists. More than 100 GoFundMe campaigns have sprung up to organize bus trips to marches in major cities, according to a spokesperson for the crowdfunding platform.

March For Our Lives Action Fund, the 501(c)(4) nonprofit connected to the event, has raised millions of dollars. The money is covering expenses associated with the D.C. march, but will also be used to lobby for gun safety legislation. It’s not clear what those legislative priorities are yet, and it’s likely they will continue to evolve. A board of directors, which includes public servants, legal experts and professionals, will work with a student advisory board to make decisions on how to spend the money, a spokesperson said.

Le pouvoir... Au féminin ! Musée du Louvre

Le pouvoir... Au féminin !

(NaRt, l'art en 3 coups de pinceau)

Musée du Louvre
Published on Mar 8, 2018

 

Venus de Milo * Louvre 3D Reconstruction

Venus de Milo

(Louvre 3D Reconstruction)

3D reconstruction of Aphrodite of Milo, better known as the Venus de Milo. Created sometime between 130 and 100 BC, the statue is believed to depict Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty (Venus to the Romans).

From an inscription that was on its plinth, it is thought to be the work of Alexandros of Antioch. 

It is currently on permanent display at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

The arms and original plinth were lost following the discovery of the statue.

This reconstruction is based on Adolf Furtwängler’s proposed restoration sketch from 1895, incorporating statue fragments found at the original site.

Aphrodite Vénus de Milo (Mélos)

Louvre Reconstruction
VIDEO

            

La Vénus de Milo
Musée du Louvre
Paris - France

Découverte en avril 1820 à Mélos (Milo) dans l’archipel des Cyclades en Grèce, la Vénus de Milo fut immédiatement considérée comme un modèle de beauté. Le film raconte l'histoire de son succès à travers les fantasmes qui ont nourri l'imaginaire de ceux qui l'ont portée au pinacle. Extrait de la Série Sculptures, la Vénus de Milo ou l'invention d'un mythe

Without Arms
Alek Vacura (2009)

Thesis for Pratt Institute MFA in Digital Arts, Spring 2009. A 3D animated short that took 3 semesters, 2 of which were spent at The Mill Group's facility in NYC completing this film. 
Software used: Maya 2009, The Setup Machine, ZBrush3, Adobe After Effects CS4, Final Cut Pro 4.5 HD. 
Music: Fantasy in D- by Mozart, performed by Harrison Gradwell Slater, used with permission alekvacura@gmail.com