'Arerit Jutsu'
Mixedmedia.
19.7 X 11.8 X 1.5 inch
"A short interval where it is no longer day but not yet night, when the sky is pervaded by a soft and diffused light. This is the twilight. Arerit. It marks the first stage of the journey through a border location, the Orange Ultra."
Overlying elements applied from a pre-worked HDR ultra chrome ink transfer print on velvet Matt stock paper.
Frame: black / brown or white ayous frame
Certificate of Authenticity: cartaceous or Non Fungible Token (Nft)
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'Udjat'
Oil, pigments, dyes, acrylics and charcoal on canvas
180 X 150 X 4 cm
In Statu Nascendi, pt.5 - English full version for Medium Blog official account. Extract:
"...this painting is inspired by the Udjat eye, symbol of good health and well-being in the ancient Egyptian / Nubian culture.This symbol combines human and animal features, represents also the stylized shape of the pineal gland. According to Egyptian sincretic aspects of the mythological culture, the right eye of a deity was the Sun, while the left eye was the Moon. Seth, during his fight for supremacy, injured his brother's eye which was then healed by the medical skill of the writing power of Thoth. Name 'Udjat' , from hieroglyphic transliterations can take on also meanings as "whole" or "in good health" and evokes the victory of forces of good against chaos, triumph of life over the concept of nothingness. For me, contemporary speaking, of Natural backgrounds over cities. It had to guarantee the physical integrity of the deceased after death and allows one's Ba to observe within thyself..."
Full version out soon on www.albertoballocca.medium.com
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'Fotosintesi'
Mixedmedia. Canvas
115 X 85 X 4 cm
In Statu Nascendi.
A diachronic composition that intertwins the statue of winged victory of the Parco della Rimembranza in Turin, with natural elements such as ancient Egyptian typical lotuses and random natural elements.
"A diachronic composition that intertwines the statue of the winged victory of the Parco della Rimembranza in Torino hills with natural patterns developed by the artist. Photosynthesis (a word that includes also the ancient greek philosophical term 'Ph.y.sis') refers to the enigmatic natural process by which plants transform sunlight into nourishment, that, the artist asserts, reflect the reality of what human beings do, without being aware: "however majestic, everything artificial returns to be covered by Nature, being Nature the real axiom for each theorem that man thinks to have developed throughout Plato's legacy."
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'Untimed'
Mixedmedia on canvas
95 X 110 X 4 cm
"Time doesn't exist. There is a spatial perception, in which time shows its passage. Everything oscillates harmoniously on each moment of our existence. A single fragment represents the entire existence."
Framed on a black wood frame.
Signed on the back.
2024
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'Pho&Nyx'
Acrylics, oil, wall paint, dyes, pigments, marker, oil pastels and sprays on canvas
65 X 52 X 4 cm
- Private collection
In Statu Nascendi, pt.6 - Full version available on Kindle Direct Publishing, Amazon - 11.11.2024
"Phoenix Dactilifera is the scientific name of the most common plant in Egypt, a particular palm tree. Light can be synthesized in the root 'Pho' of photon, and night, in the immersive Greek 'Nyx', the conjunction & is included in the package; but the reference is the lighting in darkness, as well as the Phoenix which symbolizes 'rebirth'; an implicit concept in the words that are generated in translation. Pho, as root of Phos, Greek translation of 'light', which is also the unit of measurement of what science defines 'light', or electromagnetic radiation. It might be interesting enough to make you smile, but the truth is that what really matters is how natural its power is love, because talking about love is talking about istants, these two terms 'pho' and 'nyx' are istants and not roots of words. Aeternal elements of spiritual sublimation."
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'Tutto quello che non riesco a dire, queste foglie vedono'
Oil, pigments, pastels, dyes, grass & wall enamels on canvas
38 X 32 X 1.5 inch
Painting on canvas included in the collection 'All Leaves' - Full collection releases 02.2025 /
"Tutto ciò che non riesco a Dire, queste foglie Vedono" ( Part.2 )
Collection 'All Leaves' will include 7 paintings, 2 sculptures, a short movie and partly of NFT collection - Each artwork will be accompanied by a unique story written as article on my official Medium account.
https://albertoballocca.medium.com/
Worldwide release, February 2025
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'X-Cape'
Oil, acrylics and sprays on canvas. SIgned on the front.
65 X 45 X 4 cm
Exhibited in the duo show Nature & Love' curated by Master Ruha Gallery. N. 18, Rudong Road, district of Shinan, Qingdao city, Shandong - Beijing, Qingdao, China.
'THIS WORK IDENTIFIES COMPOSITE SYMBOL UPON LAYERS OF MEDIUMS. THE UNION OF UPPER AND LOWER EGYPT (FLOWER DEPICTED ARE ADAPTED HIEROGLYPHS, TAKEN FROM SEMA-TAWY SHAPES, LOTUS FLOWERS AND PAPYRUS), SYMBOLS OF LOWER AND UPPER REIGNS. X CAPE IS ALSO INSPIRED BY THE FAMOUS MISSION OF CRASH BANDICOOT 1, VINTAGE CONSOLE GAME THAT STARTS WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER LANDING ON A TROPICAL ISLE..."
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'Fuoco / L'etica del Fuoco'
Clay, Wood, Sprays, Concrete, Acrylics & Sprays
13.7 X 5.9 X 4 inch
"I talk a lot about resonance in art, but resonance is really just a dynamic of life in general. In a world of billions of people, countless messaging, and a plethora of decisions going on within us and around us in a given moment, both conscious and unconscious, knowing how to register what resonance feels like is important. Connecting with art fosters this experience. Feeling the intention imbued in a piece by its creator is practice for feeling the intention imbued in life by THE creator – whoever or whatever that is. It’s the subtle connections we make from our past that we bring to the present that give it meaning."
Abstract - 'Like the Death of a Star', conversation with writer, curator and performer Monique Michel (Au)
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'Petra Genetrix'
Clay, ventilated car-brake, eriobotrya japonico branches, maple bark, acrylics and sprays.
39 X 31 X 15 inch
"Art is the mirror of the impersonal stratum of human Psyche, the ‘Petra Genetrix’ of my-self. This installation combines different elements into a single composition and is partly inspired by the 'mysteries of Mithras' protector of the initiate. Based on the numerous depictions found in the Mithraeum, It was born from a rock identified with term 'Petra Genetrix'. Read more details about my current research and compendium 'In Statu Nascendi' on my official Medium account."
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'Air'
Mixedmedia.
6.3 X 1.8 X 2.5 inch
'Air' has been exhibited in the duo show 'Nature & Love' curated by Master Ruha Gallery. N. 18, Rudong Road, district of Shinan, Qingdao city, Shandong - Beijing, Qingdao, China.
August 2024 - September 2024
'MOVEMENT OF LEAVES DETERMINES THE EXISTANCE OF WIND. AN ENTITY THAT WE MUST ALL RESPECT AND NOT POLLUTE. FRACTILE EXISTANCE OF A DETERMINED ELEMENT WE CANNOT SEE, BUT JUST PERCEIVE, ANCIENT EGYPTIANS CALLED HIM ‘SHU’. THIS SCULPTURE REPRESENTS AIR, (IN LATIN ‘AER’) ON THE MOUTH OF THE SUBJECT, WHO IS OPENLY BREATHING AND THE NOSE, ALL BLUE AS THE FRESH AIR OF THE SKY ENTERS. WE MUST NOT POLLUTE AIR, BECAUSE WE VIBRATE WITHIN IT, AND ALSO AS ANCIENT GREEK LANGUAGE TAUGHT US ABOUT ‘PSYCHE’, WE SHOULD TRANSLATE IT AS ‘BREATH / AIR’. VITAL FORCE.
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'Aku-Aku'
Mixedmedia. 5 volt led.
44 X 32 X 8 cm
- Private collection
"Aku Aku is a wooden voodoo mask inside which resides the spirit of an ancient sorcerer which makes him alive and able to move, speak and continue to protect Earth from evil as he did when he was alive.
Aku Aku teams up with Crash and Coco to fight against Doctor Neo Cortex and Uka Uka. To help the two Aku Aku can divide his soul into various parts and spread them across the world, locking them in boxes with his effigy printed on them."
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'Anthrakas'
Oil, dyes, ascrylics, pigments, graphite drawing and pastels.
17.7 X 11.9 X 1.3 inch
Anthrakas is made with oil pastels, charcoal and acrylics with a gestural and un-controlled approach on dusty paper. Overlying elements applied from a pre-worked HDR ultra chrome ink transfer print on velvet Matt stock paper.
"This work identifies the entity that governs the carbon structure and functioning. Anthrakas is a Greek word that means 'Carbon'."
Frame: black / brown and white ayous frame available.
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'Veins'
Graphite, charcoal, markers, paper, recycled paper
48 X 33 X 2 cm
- Private collection.
"In ancient Greek and Roman cultures, the vase was also an important liturgical element, called 'rhyton'. Rhytòn is a perforated container from which the liquids poured into it could escape to be drunk in ceremonies such as libation. Rhytà were very common in ancient Persia, where they were called takūk. After the Greek victory over the Persians, in 479 BC. many luxury goods including numerous rhytà were brought to Athens as booty and were immediately imitated by greek artists. The word is thought to come from the Greek rhein, "to flow", which, in turn, derives from the Indo-European *sreu-, "flow".
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'Kàtagma'
Mixedmedia. Paper
36 X 24 X 4 cm
Not for sale. Private collection of Museo Materiali Minimi d'Arte Contemporanea - Paestum.
"Kàtagma, in Greek language, means 'fracture' and this work identifyies a clear symbol of opening as well as an inspiration source of some personal meditation about the ancient so called process of antithesis between 'Physis' and 'nomos'. This philosophical concept is expressed through the representation of the symbolic elements defines the composition of Kàtagma. With the 'Sophistry' movement (2nd half of the 5th century) term Physis (Greek translation of Nature) takes on a political value, giving rise to what is nowadays conventionally defined as the antithesis between nature and political structures. Nomos, considered as the primitive 'positive law of the polis', thus defines the identity of a population through the structural compendium of habits and customs, becoming distant and often detached from the urban context, in terms of natural schemes sublimation into social structures. Katagma is the fracture, that exists takes on and between natural entities (physis) and the so-called western civil laws. (nomos)."
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'Orama'
Graphite drawing, Photography, Digital Collages, Manual Collages and Digital render
33 X 48 X 4 cm
- Private collection / Sold out
Graphite drawings and photographs scans, digital collage and rendering. Ink jet printing on archival paper, 305 gr
- Graphite drawing used for the final compositional approach comes with the artwork.
"Orama Project. A green growth develops on an ocher background, dissimulating the divine figure that man pursues in his relationship with nature. Orama is a greek translation of word ‘vision’ and, and as between two lovers, this vision of Nature becomes a mirror for all those spiritual elements that inhabit my gestures and impulses. Slow drawing and cutting processes first and a quick compositional decisions after scanning draft and sketches, a statuary icon and vegetal patterns, a mental object of investigation about the relation that ancient people had within natural environments, especially through art and natural depictions within an hidden aesthetics sublimation."
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'Physis'
Graphite drawings and photographs scans, digital collage and rendering. Ink jet printing on archival paper, 305 gr
48 X 33 X 4 cm
- 3 Editions Still available
Graphite drawings and photographs scans, digital collage and rendering. Ink jet printing on archival paper, 305 gr
- Graphite drawing used for the final compositional approach comes with the artwork.
"If i mirror myself within a natural spot, within vegetal elements, I will find also what I can call my inner-self, within every organ that composes my body, my physiology. Aristotles invented word physiologists ( ‘fysi / physis / fysis’ ) to identify people that used to contemplate Nature aimed to propose and construct the first legislative forms of politics in the ancient Athens city, and through the relation nature, body, soul, nature has been initially called “Physis”."
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'Two Sparks'
Mixedmedia on paper
48 X 33 X 4 cm
- Private collection, Unique Edition
Graphite drawings and photographs scans, digital collage and rendering. Ink jet printing on archival paper, 305 gr
- Graphite drawing used for the final compositional approach comes with the artwork.
"Two reigns as Two Sparks. This artwork is inspired by the Sema-tauy symbol (or sma-taui, or sema knot) that is an ancient Egyptian symbol composed of the intertwining of two plants linked to a sign representing also the trachea and arteries. Lotus flower (typical of Upper Egypt) and the Papyrus (typical of Lower Egypt). This ancient symbol clearly alludes to the event of unification of the two reigns of ancient Egypt under the same power. In royal statuary, this symbol was placed on one of the sides of the cubic throne of the sovereign and sometimes it was also imprinted on an amulet placed on the body of the deceased, signifying the eternal integrity of the body even after death."
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'Frequency'
Graphite drawing, sprays and paper on wood
33 X 24 X 4 cm
- Private collection.
- Light exposition changes based upon different lights.
"Small format work on paper made with the superimposition of different layers and mediums. Frequency features the ancient Egyptian deity 'Ptah', protector of artisans and the concept of frequencies, as the ones that electronical devices have upon reality perception and nature."
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'Shu'
Mixedmedia. Raw paper.
45 X 31 X 4 cm
The ancient Egyptian deity of wind. His name means "He, Who Raises" and derives from his main mythological function: the division of his son Geb, Earth, from his daughter Nut, the Sky - fundamental moment of the creation of the world; based on different inspcriptions interpretations and translations, his name means Dry (reference to the wind that dries) or Empty.
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'Wild Protector Mehen'
Mixedmedia.
50 X 70 X 4 cm
-Private collection
"The earliest known references to Mehen occur in the Coffin Texts. Mehen is a protective deity who is depicted as a snake which coils around the sun god Ra during his journey through the night, for instance in the Amduat. In the German-Egyptian dictionary by R. Hannig, it is said that the Mehen (mḥn) or the Mehenet (mḥnt) snake is equivalent to the Ouroboros. With its coils, snake Mehen, protected the Sun by wrapping him, like a shield, during his nocturnal journey in the Duat (underworld) or saved him from the evil snake Apopi who. Both deities, in the ancient Egyptian pantheon represented the eternal struggle between good and evil."
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'The Pyramids Texts'
Mixedmedia
29.5 X 25.5 X 1.6 inch
- Private Collection
"The Pyramid Texts" are the oldest Egyptian funerary hieroglyphic texts with religious meanings, dating back to the end of the Old Kingdom: the earliest known corpus of ancient Egyptian religious texts. Written in ancient hieroglyphics pictograms, were carved on the underground walls and sarcophagi of the Saqqara pyramids from the end of the fifth dynasty and throughout the sixth dynasty of the Old Kingdom, until the eighth dynasty of the early Intermediate period. These formulas were intended to ensure the protection of pharaoh's remains, reinfuse the spirit into his mummy and ensure his ascension among the gods and reunification with the sun-god Ra (a central idea in the spirituality of the ancient kingdom)."
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'Taurocatapsia'
Mixedmedia
55 X 48 X 4 cm
"Eurystheus ordered Heracles, as his seventh labor, to capture the bull of Crete; it is still debated whether it was the taurus sent by Eus and who transported Europa to Crete, or the other, who Minos refused to sacrifice to Poseidon and who generated the Minotaur with Pasiphae. When Heracles sailed to Crete, Minos offered him every help in his power, but Heracles preferred to meet the creature alone, although the animal spit flames from its nostrils. After a bitter fight, Heracles brought the bull back to Mycenae, where Eurystheus, dedicating it to Hera, set the animal free."
The archaic sporting ritual of Taurocatapsia is currently considered as the progenitor of modern traditional "Corrida", but without the aspects of man' suppression of the wild animal despite being a ritual older than 3000 years in respect of the modern tradition.
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'Atma Victu'
Enamels, drawing collage, sprays and oil on panel
55 X 45 X 4 cm
"Atma Victu is a Sanskrit term of masculine gender, which indicates the "essence" or the "vital breath". This painting is inspired by Junghian theory and totemic sculpture entitled Atma Victu. This painting is included in the compendium 'In Statu Nascendi"
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'Mirror - Zero Point Energy'
Mixedmedia.
80 X 60 X 4 cm
In Statu Nascendi - Extract
"Symbol of circle identifies circles, building verb 'to circle' before the graphic sign of the vowel o (ita tr. 'Cerchi.o') which is - again - a circle.
While speaking, meanings exudes throughout words: graphic aspect of letters is the only element that can make the difference in the criticism of the meanings deducible between various words; beyond any speculation, truth is never within but between. As a middle way, each circle ends within each other circle."
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'La Tredicesima Fatica'
Mixedmedia
95 X 89 X 4 cm
- Painting exhibited in Van Der Plas Gallery, New York.
"The twelve trials (in Greek dodekathlos) of Heracles, later Hercules in Roman mythology, are a series of episodes of Greek mythology, later reunited in a single story, which concern the exploits carried out by the hero Heracles to atone for the fact of having made himself guilty of the death of his family. Artwork inspired by the third effort of the ancient Greek hero."
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'Tyche'
Acrylics, sprays and collages on wood board
60 X 40 X 4 cm
"Term τύχη has the root of τυγχάνω (= to happen) and this gives the term a connotation not only of randomness, but also of inevitability. Significant for understanding this concept is a passage from Sophocles' Ajax' where the theme of inevitability is strengthened by ἀναγκαίας, feminine singular genitive of ἀνάγκη (= necessity). In fact, the Tyche, together with the Moira, is an impersonal force, believed to be able to completely overwhelm lives of men."
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'Capo Tribù Dogon'
Mixedmedia. Wood.
62 X 51 X 1.5 cm
- Private Collection
"Starting with French anthropologist Marcel Griaule, several authors have confirmed that traditional Dogon religion of Mali region, incorporates details about extrasolar astronomical bodies that could not have been detected by naked-eye observation such as the star Sirius B and C."
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'Fear is Ego'
House paint, Pigmented Gold Foil, Silicones, Acrylics, Oil pastels, Tempera and markers
80 X 60 X 4 cm
- Private collection
This painting represents the study of various mediums (acrylics, enamels, silicones, gold foil and more) instinctively applied on the support. Study of the decomposition of form. So called *Ego is the form, what makes us rational beings, fear is included in the package. I broke that down too.
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'Third Door'
Oil and sprays on wood
80 X 60 X 4 cm
- Private collection
'The Book of Doors appears towards the end of the 18th dynasty and is normally inscribed in the burial chamber, or in the first colonnaded chamber, of many tombs. From the 20th dynasty to the 26th dynasty, the book is also depicted, albeit partially, on wooden sarcophagi.
The name of the composition refers to the 12 doors of the night, or the passage from one hour to another. The most complete versions are found in the tomb of Sethy I and Ramesses VI, describe within the third one. The Book of Doors is reported in several tombs in the Valley of the Kings (reported in chronological order of reign of the "Holders".
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'Cleopatra VII'
OIl, acrylics, oil pastels and sprays on wood panel.
75 X 50 X 4 cm
-Private collection
OIl, acrylics, oil pastels and sprays on wood panel.
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'Nefertiti'
Acrylics, oil pastels, spray, markers, collages, gold foil.
29.5 X 19.6 X 1.5 inch
- Private collection.
Rha-Nefertiti is inspired by the fascinating atmosphere behind the ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti, considered the great royal wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten, she joined her husband in the great but ephemeral religious revolution that tried to impose the cult of the single god Aton, the solar disk. Together, Akhenaten and Nefertiti were responsible for the creation of a new henotheistic religion which caused, for twenty years, upheavals within the ancient Egyptian religion and some political unrest.
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'Eseis'
Acrylics, oil and sprays on panel
70 X 50 X 4 cm
- Private Collection
'Eseis' is a tribute to the feminine divine side of human creativity. This painting has been selected as cover-image for the book 'Better the original rather than digital' for sale via Lulu.com. Eseis is a greek noun modified according to give sense to the word eseis as 'to her' and not 'her', to enhance the sense of giving to and dancing with instead of taking from and controlling human creativity.
Painting jpg cover of 'Better the original rather than the digital' diy book - print on demand by Fidalma Lotti.
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'Hexis Filosofica'
Acrylics, drawing collages, sprays and oil pastels on wood
60 X 40 X 4 cm
- Private Collection
"Hexis is a characteristic, capacity or disposition that one 'possesses'; its etymology is the Greek word ekhein, the term used to indicate spiritual property."
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'Deus Ex Machina'
Mixedmedia. Canvas.
100 X 70 X 3 cm
- Private collection
"Deus ex machina is a Latin phrase borrowed from the Greek "Mechanè", in ancient Greek: ("apò mēchanḗs theós") which literally means "deity (coming down) from the machine. Originally, it indicates a character from Greek tragedy, or a divinity who appears on the scene to give a resolution to a plot that is now unsolvable according to the classic principles of cause and effect."
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'Space Cadet'
Mixedmedia. Wood.
80 X 60 X 4 cm
- Private collection
"Space Cadet" as the first time being an artist. Dive through this universe to come up as a cadet within this city morgue. Art as a guidance, without guilds, space-time float out of the studio. Art is a universal aegis."
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'Mitoscopio - m4'
Mixedmedia on wood.
80 X 60 X 4 cm
Mitoscopio - m.4 is the second painting dedicated to the archeological project Medjehu, Investigating Woodcrafts along the Nile.
- Mitoscopio - m.4 elaborates some scientific characteristics symbolically linked to the technical functioning of carbon dating, in relation to the meaning of the Egyptian hieroglyph m-4 , which is a notched palm branch used to indicate the passage of time. As official donor of the archaeological project 'Medjehu' I realized this painting inspired by part of their research: (Hieroglyphs classification by Alan H. Gardiner book).
'Carbon-14, is affected by solar cosmic rays, rapidly oxidizes becoming carbon dioxide, entering the atmospheric carbon cycle, plants and animals absorb it with carbon dioxide, and when they die, they stop exchanging it with the biosphere and carbon decays within times determined by the radioactive decay law, thus, a historical chronology and timeline datation of the artifact, is obtained.'
During the last mission, part of the team was also able to work in the Carter magazines, where the most beautiful pieces discovered in the various Theban necropolises are kept. During these working sessions, we had the pleasure of making a magnificent discovery, or rather
rediscovery, with the identification of the black coffin with yellow decoration from Taat dating from the 18th dynasty, discovered and published by Bruyère in 1933 but which had completely disappeared at the time."
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'Socrates'
Mixedmedia. Wood
80 X 60 X 4 cm
Painting for sale via 1stDibs Platform -
"You will know no greater knowledge than that of knowing that you know nothing."
An enigmatic figure, Socrates authored no texts and is known mainly through the posthumous poems of classical writers, particularly his students Plato and Xenophon. Depictions of Socrates in art, literature, and popular cultures have made him a widely known figure in the Western philosophical tradition.
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