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The most popular restoration I've done is the one showing an ordinary man's business in Ancient Rome. x.com/chapps/status/…
My most difficult creative challenge, I present the #polychrome version of this ca. 50 AD Roman funerary relief, showing the deceased's pillow shop. *Many* thanks to @DrNWillburger for all her time and help on research and for the original image! #Uffizi #polychromy 1/
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En los últimos meses he desarrollado PolyView, un software libre y gratuito para documentar, organizar y estudiar la policromía antigua sobre esculturas y fragmentos arquitectónicos. En esta entrada os cuento qué es PolyView y cómo le he dado forma. 👇
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Os presento #PolyView: un laboratorio digital de policromía antigua. Gratuito, open source y con IA local no generativa. Una ayuda para mirar el color del pasado. 🏛️🎨
▶️ polyviewlab.com
#arqueología #policromía #patrimonio #3D #opensource
▶️ polyviewlab.com
#arqueología #policromía #patrimonio #3D #opensource
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Esta tarde os presento #PolyView, un paso más en la investigación sobre policromía antigua en la que estoy inmerso desde hace meses.🎨 Estad atentos/as. 👇👀
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Sesame Workshop mourns the loss of Sir Patrick Stewart. Thank you for being our friend and for sharing your brilliance, joy, and kindness with the world. 💛💚
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This seems like a great time to reshare my favourite Sir Patrick Stewart performance, ‘What has the ECHR ever done for us?’ It’s just perfect in every possible way … including the ending 😂😂😂 RIP.
🎥 The Guardian
🎥 The Guardian
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SIR PATRICK STEWART (1940-2026)
Before everything else, Patrick was defined by being born and bred in Yorkshire, the proud county in the north of England which he loved to the end. You could hear it in his accented voice and in the stern honesty with which he told you what he hiremen have no truck with half-truths or avoidance of big issues. He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love.
We first met as ambitious young actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company half a century ago but we weren’t in the same productions. My first strong memory was a few years later, meeting him in the street in central London when he told me about an offer to take over a leading part in 'Star Trek'. “But Patrick think of your stage career in the UK. Do you really want to risk—getting lost in Hollywood for years and years?”. Well, he took the risk and thank goodness for us all that he did for not just his devoted Trekkies but film and theatre audiences, who marvelled at his using international celebrity to star in a string of cinema successes ('X-Men' of course) and in great classical plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Peter Shaffer, Pinter and Beckett at Stratford-upon-Avon, in London’s West End and on Broadway.
America was his adopted home, where he met his adored Sunny who has cared for him through sickness and health, through thick and thin. But he never forsook his origins: and the proudest achievement of the most respected and beloved actor of his generation on either side of the Atlantic, was his appointment as Chancellor of Huddersfield University in Yorkshire.
His farewell performance in 'Avengers: Doomsday' is yet to be seen.
Ian McKellen 29 October 2026
Photo: University of Huddersfield
Before everything else, Patrick was defined by being born and bred in Yorkshire, the proud county in the north of England which he loved to the end. You could hear it in his accented voice and in the stern honesty with which he told you what he hiremen have no truck with half-truths or avoidance of big issues. He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love.
We first met as ambitious young actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company half a century ago but we weren’t in the same productions. My first strong memory was a few years later, meeting him in the street in central London when he told me about an offer to take over a leading part in 'Star Trek'. “But Patrick think of your stage career in the UK. Do you really want to risk—getting lost in Hollywood for years and years?”. Well, he took the risk and thank goodness for us all that he did for not just his devoted Trekkies but film and theatre audiences, who marvelled at his using international celebrity to star in a string of cinema successes ('X-Men' of course) and in great classical plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Peter Shaffer, Pinter and Beckett at Stratford-upon-Avon, in London’s West End and on Broadway.
America was his adopted home, where he met his adored Sunny who has cared for him through sickness and health, through thick and thin. But he never forsook his origins: and the proudest achievement of the most respected and beloved actor of his generation on either side of the Atlantic, was his appointment as Chancellor of Huddersfield University in Yorkshire.
His farewell performance in 'Avengers: Doomsday' is yet to be seen.
Ian McKellen 29 October 2026
Photo: University of Huddersfield
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Hoy viajamos uno de los espacios más desconocidos enterrados por el Vesubio en el año 79. Se trata de una villa residencial opulentísima situada al otro lado de los montes Lactarios que cierran el golfo de Nápoles.
Sígueme en este #HiloRomano para descubrir la villa de Positano.
Sígueme en este #HiloRomano para descubrir la villa de Positano.
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In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
alzresearch.org/giving/
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
alzfdn.org/donate/
Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
alzresearch.org/giving/
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
alzfdn.org/donate/
Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
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Folks, this is amazing. Take a virtual journey to ancient Troy. Brilliant work by @par_virtual. 👏 👏
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El próximo jueves 12 de noviembre participo en la CHNT31 (Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies) en Viena, en concreto, en una sesión llamada "What Makes Virtual Reconstructions Scientific?" y allí voy a presentar esta web interactiva. 👇
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Muebles de madera carbonizados, casas con sus tejados intactos y hasta un teatro excavado bajo los escombros volcánicos a 26 metros de profundidad.
En este #HiloRomano dedicado a Herculano descubrirás algunas de las maravillas más desconocidas que el Vesubio enterró en el año 79
En este #HiloRomano dedicado a Herculano descubrirás algunas de las maravillas más desconocidas que el Vesubio enterró en el año 79
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Tres ciudades se unieron para fundar Rodas. Siglos después, su nombre quedaría ligado para siempre al Coloso de Helios, una de las Siete Maravillas del Mundo Antiguo. ¿Dónde pudo alzarse esta gigantesca estatua? Descúbrelo en mi último vídeo de YouTube.
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In a handful of villages in southern Italy, people still speak what may be the last surviving linguistic descendant of "Magna Graecia", the ancient, Classical Greek world that once covered much of southern Italy.
The language, unsurprisingly, is called Griko (Γκρίκο).
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The language, unsurprisingly, is called Griko (Γκρίκο).
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¡Si quieres saber más sobre el ascenso al poder de Constantino y a la vez contemplar la Roma de su época, puedes hacerlo en "La Roma de Constantino"!
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"You can tell the sun in his jealous sky / When we walked in fields of gold." For #FrescoFriday, the House of #Livia on the #Palatine. Painted c. 30 BCE during the ascendancy of #Augustus, this Second Style wall depicts his Golden Age of perpetual abundance.
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El obelisco de Montecitorio funcionaba como gnomon de esta línea meridiana de unos 150 m. Su sombra marcaba el mediodía y avanzaba o retrocedía a lo largo del año. ¿Quieres saber más sobre la Meridiana de Augusto? ¡Ve a ver mi último vídeo de YouTube!
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breathtaking!
unfinished painting of Amazon on horse
Ancient Greek vase
Princeton Art Museum
thanks @LeifWenar
unfinished painting of Amazon on horse
Ancient Greek vase
Princeton Art Museum
thanks @LeifWenar
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Bee-women on Scythian gold artifacts
(previously identified as snake-bodied women)
@LuciaNixon
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(previously identified as snake-bodied women)
@LuciaNixon
arkeonews.net/2300-year-old-…
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