10 - Architecture and Places - Rome - The Pantheon

Magic.

Baroque Rome Tour - KissFromItaly | Italy tours

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Baroque Rome Tour

 

 

9 - Sculpture - The Kiss - by Rodin

I always find that Rodin sculptures are just living beings made of stone...

8 - Fotography - Poussiere de Toiles - by Ludovic Florent

Can't be more beautiful than that:

Link to Stardust series

7 - Drawing - Durer - Melencholie

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Let's look again at D's most famous print, which scholars call Melencolia or Melencolia ONE and Dürer ...

 

I love hatching (and several basic drawing forms)...

 

6 - Calligraphy - an article by Jessica Bordeau for Smashing Magazine

I have been interested in Caligraphy since I remeber. I remember vividly a quote from the movie "Hero" when it was said that calligraphy and sworplay are akin... Nowadays I discovered the absolute beauty of Georgian penmanship. But this is another story...

Jessica Bordeau - The beauty of typographical ... - Smashing Magazine
Bunbu Ittai


From the article...

5 - Song - Van Diemens Land by U2 and Poetry - Epitaph for Maiakovsky by Berthold Brecht

This is when I was falsely accused and lost my job, my friends and my ground - the music and the poetry describe how I felt. 

Epitaph for Maiakovsky

I escaped from the shark
I bagged the tigers
I was eaten up
By the bedbugs

Link for Van Diemen's Land

4 - Litography - Metamorphosis by Escher

Metamorphosis mix 3 of my passions, Escher, Chess with a beloved Philidor Position and Art.

Metamorphose II (1939-40, Wood-engraving, 3 colors)

3 -Shogun - book by James Clavell - Lone wolf and cub - Manga by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima

I was looking for cultural references for values as truth, honor, aestetics, and found the beauty of Japanese culture. I also learned how to kill the Buddha.
Link: Lone Wolf and Cub
Link: Shogun

2 - Siddhartha - book by Herman Hesse

It is the best book I ever read. Introduced me to the oriental mind.
Link: Sidarttha

Zen Circle Photograph by Sheilan Sheilan - Zen Circle Fine Art ... fineartamerica.com - 900 × 900 - Search by image Zen Circle Photograph

1 - Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid also known as GEB, 1979 by Douglas Hofstadter

I was a young student and my teacher who would be my best friend, was always carrying and reading this book. Some day he emigrated and left me the book as a treasure. It introduced me to things that I consider central: Zen, Art, Mathemagic, paradoxes and the joys of thinking.
Link: GEB