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Showing posts with label Culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Culture. Show all posts

Saturday, 10 August 2013

Open old cemetery in Italy in search of her Mona Lisa


Researchers open the old cemetery is due to several centuries in Florence yesterday, "Friday" in search of the remains may confirm the identity of the woman who immortalized the painter Leonardo DaVinci her mysterious smile in his famous Mona Lisa painting.

The researchers drilled in the floor of the stone church built over the tomb of the silk merchant family in Florence Francesco del Gioconda, who believed that the DaVinci drawing his wife, Lisa Gherardini, in the sixteenth century.

And numerous theories about the character of Mona Lisa true is that Silvano Vingsty writer and researcher who heads the National Committee to support the historical and cultural heritage plans to conduct DNA tests on bones found in the tomb and try to gain access to DNA matching her from the remains of three women buried in a nearby convent.

Historians say that Gherardini and called her name after marriage "Gioconda" on the plate Mona Lisa in Italy, she spent her last years in the monastery of St. Ursula, where the journey began search for bones in the past year.

The Vingsty believe that to Lisa Gherardini one of the three women Almedfonat the monastery.

The Vingsty hopes that some of the bones in the tomb, located down the church for someone with which link blood Bmoneliza the inspirational DaVinci and that is probably her son Piero.

After matching DNA Vingsty says he can draw a picture of the face of the skeleton in St. Ursula and compared the painting, which attracts millions of visitors to the Louvre Museum in Paris every year. The museum says that the painting probably painted between 1503 and 1506.

And said Vingsty "while we find a correspondence between the DNA of the mother and Son Chenkchw of the Mona Lisa is."

Friday, 9 August 2013

Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture issued a series of children's books translated from Finnish

Issued by the National Library at the Abu Dhabi Authority for Tourism and Culture six children's stories, translated from Finnish to English within the Finnish literary exchange program (Philly).

The Board has held an agreement with the Foundation literature Finnish (Philly) to achieve its goal of supplying the Arab library with the latest versions literary world, particularly in children's literature, the organization seeks Finnish to support the translation of books Finnish into the languages ​​of the world, the definition of literature, Finnish and published, since its inception in 1977, is given Foundation grants for translation of Finnish literature, printed children's books and comic books more than five hundred thousand euros a year, covering nearly three hundred of the project.

The Foundation was keen to hold the agreement with the National Library of being the first point of Finnish books published in Arabic, the company is also keen to participate annually at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair organized by the Abu Dhabi Authority for Tourism and Culture, being an important cultural event in the Arab region.

And stories translated is: "Journey Slav Night" authored by Juha ڤairta, and "the heart of Sapphire" to its author Karina Hillakisa, and "Dance rat forest" for its author Birkuliza Sorwigen, and a series of "أرنوبة sail" and " and Sunni happy" and " and space flight" to its author Nina Berhonin.

The new titles feature the placing of topics related to nature and the relationship with other friends and the people, whether through the figures of animals or imaginary figures of aerospace and other books also feature graphically expressive and beautifully colored.

It was translated stories Maria Pakal, a graduate of King Fahd School senior translation in Morocco, a researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland, where attending doctoral thesis in the science of interpretation, as well as being taught Arabic language and translation in a number of universities, Finnish, has been translated Pakal yet 29 books of Finnish language to Arabic; including scientific books, novels, poetry, and children's books.

Has earned her book, "our common sea" published by the National Library at the Abu Dhabi Authority for Tourism and Culture the award for best book translated into Arabic, from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences in 2012, and they speak several languages ​​such as English, French and Maltese as well as Arabic and Finnish.

Saturday, 3 August 2013

Saturday ..Band "Axanderala" field of art



Provide band "Axanderala" concert, events within the "field of art" Abdeen Square, in the ninth on Saturday evening August 3.

Band "Axanderala", led by Hazem Shaheen, Songs Sheikh Sayed Darwish and Sheikh Imam Issa, Ziad Rahbani and other songs for the band.

Founded in 2005, and presented concerts many in Egypt, Qatar, Bahrain, Lebanon and Tunisia, and added to its songs composed by Hazem Shaheen, and written by the father of poets Fouad Haddad and poets "Amin Haddad and Ahmed Haddad," in addition to the Collection of poems of the great poet Salah Jahin.

Saturday, 13 July 2013

Record of the Spanish artist painting "Jericho"

Panel hit Spanish artist Greco titled "St. Dominic during the prayer," set a record when sold at Sotheby's London auctions, reaching 75.1 million euros.

This painting is one of the two panels Ohadahma Spanish artist who was born in 1541 and died in 1614 to "Alex Bell" Head of the paintings of the top celebrities in Sotheby's of London.

The painting depicting one of the founders of the Dominican monks in the thirteenth century, kneel on his knees during prayer and the perception of most boards Greco hermits and monks during worship.

The auction attracted many collectors from Asia and the Middle East.

Friday, 12 July 2013

Band popular machines in Nightlife Suhaimi House Ramadan


Assesses Creativity Center Suhaimi House - aesthetic District - sector of the Cultural Development Fund, the Nile band for popular machines at half past nine on Sunday evening, July 14, in Beit Suhaimi, aesthetic, lane trail yellow, Moez Street Fatimid religion of Allah.

The band during the concert offers a range of popular and Songs at Gowany and its reviews its own character, which is based on flutes and drums large and Anakrzan that carry authentic manifestations of folklore associated with Egypt.

Thursday, 11 July 2013

Theatrical presentation ceremony for the rap popular in the nights of Ramadan as "Art Major


Regulates the Cultural Center "Art Major .. space art of" Nights of Ramadan artistic and cultural, which begins next Friday July 12 at ten o'clock evening presentation theater group Third Eye from 10 am until 11 pm, followed directly concert "rap peoples" continue throughout the two hours.

Wednesday, 10 July 2013

"Mario Rossi" designer-month mosques of Alexandria


Mario Rossi is the architect and designer buildings Italian, came to Egypt, accompanied by a number of engineers Europeans who استقدمهم King Fouad during his reign, has been met with living in Egypt acceptable to the "Russian" which manifested after that in his conversion to Islam after integration into Egyptian society.

The "Russian" loved the heritage of Islamic architecture has remained for a long time contemplating this art and absorb it and work on re-established in the spirit of new and fashionable to be conducted by the Ministry of Awqaf global competition to choose the chief architect of the ministry has won the "Russian" in this contest and became the chief architect of the Egyptian Ministry of Awqaf.

Was evident genius Italian designer in his designs for the mosque marina Abu Abbas in Alexandria, which took 16 years using the architecture of Western classical and Mamluk has been delayed to work in construction due to the outbreak of World War II, was arrested on the "Russian" at the time but was released after that in order to complete construction of the mosque.

No sooner had finished "Russian" from the construction of the marina of Abu Abbas, where the work of graphics and designs for the mosque "Aref God", which is located Freight area and use the decorations represent Mamluk architecture.

On the occasion of the centenary of the death of leader Ibrahim Pasha, son of Mohammed on the founder of the modern Egyptian the "Russian" to put designs mosque leader Ibrahim area Raml Station, which is the mosque months, which launched him to spark a revolution twenty-fifth of January is also one of the most prominent signs of Islamic architecture in Alexandria.