Using a stroboscopic flash to achieve exposures as fast as 1/1,000,000 of a second, Edgerton revealed aspects of motion and of the structure of the world not visible to the naked eye in real time. Here he recorded the powerful “splash” as a bullet collides with a steel block.
The speckled green glaze is typical of medieval ceramics from the kilns at Mill Green, about forty miles northeast of London. For about a century, beginning around 1270, potters there created tableware both for local use and for sale in the capital and at other locales within about a forty-mile radius, including Kent, Cambridge, and […]
Semi-opaque turquoise blue ground; additions in opaque white and translucent cobalt blue. Squat spherical shape with rounded ends to large vertical hole. Staggered pattern of six white disks, each with rosette of seven eyes in white and blue, but with one disks having only six eyes. Intact; dulling, some pitting, and faint creamy iridescent weathering. […]
Translucent blue green. Fire-rounded, thick, uneven rim, forming end of handle; long hollow neck, tooled in around base, forming handle; body shaped into bowl of spoon with angular bottom and tubular edge. Intact, but small weathered chips in bottom edge of bowl; some elongated bubbles in neck; slight dulling and pitting, and faint weathering on […]
Obverse and reverse, ketos (sea monster). Because the trip to the Underworld was believed to involve a sea voyage, marine creatures, both real and imaginary, were often associated with death in Etruscan culture. Both hippocamps (sea horses) and kete (sea monsters) were presented in a positive light, often guarding the deceased or transporting them to […]
1907