Harry Potter and the Renaissance and Elizabeth's Wardrobe.

Harry Potter's World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/harrypottersworld/index.html
If you want to see if this exhibit is coming to you look at this site

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/about/exhibition/travelingexhibitions/hpitinerary.html

It should be interesting.  Lot of info on the web site. 

The next item is brough to us by Drea Reed. Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Uploaded

http://www.elizabethancostume.net/qewu.html

enjoy. 

Canadian Conference of Art Historians and Walters Art Museum

http://www.yorku.ca/ccmah/

32nd Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians
March 9-10, 2012
University of Winnipeg and University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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Announcements

• NEW (July 29, 2011): The Call for Papers is now available. 
• NEW (July 29, 2011): The website is in the process of being updated for the 2012 conference.  It will be set in a new bilingual format. A CCMAH  Facebook page has also been set up.Not a lot of info but it will be forth coming.
  
  http://thewalters.org/exhibitions/current.aspx
  
  The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland is internationally renowned for its collection of art. The collection presents an overview of world art from pre-dynastic Egypt to 20th-century Europe, and counts among its many treasures Greek sculpture and Roman sarcophagi; medieval ivories and Old Master paintings; Art Nouveau jewelry and 19th-century European and American masterpieces.
  
  Okay this is pre our period but still really cool!
  
  
  Lost and Found: The Secrets of Archimedes
  
  
  October 16, 2011 - January 01, 2012
  10:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  From the birth of its texts in the cradle of Western civilization to their obliteration on April 14, 1229, in Jerusalem and their recovery in Baltimore 700 years later, the Archimedes Palimpsest is an iconic example of the epic and perilous journey that every record is making.
  
  
  
  
  Touch and the Enjoyment of Sculpture: Exploring the Appeal of Renaissance Statuettes
  
  
  January 21, 2012 - April 15, 2012
  10:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  This groundbreaking focus show will explore the implications of tactile perception for enjoying sculpture, studying how the brain reacts to tactile stimuli from European Renaissance art-a period marked by a new availability of small "collectibles" meant to be held.
  
  
  Paradise Imagined: The Garden in the Islamic and Christian World
  
  
  June 30, 2012 - September 23, 2012
  10:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  This exhibition explores the art of gardens and the cross-fertilization of garden imagery between the East and West. Gardens have functioned as spaces of invention, imagination and myth-making, as well as places of repose and recreation, for different cultures across time.
  
  
  
  
  Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe
  
  
  October 14, 2012 - January 21, 2013
  10:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  This groundbreaking exhibition will explore the wealth of European art to reveal the hidden presence of Africans in Renaissance society and the many roles they played.

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At museums

At the MET New York New York
Masterpieces of the Middle Ages
Tuesday, October 11, 10:45–11:45 a.m.
http://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/talks-and-tours/guided-tours/masterpieces-middle-ages?eid=R012_%7b46EE629F-4B53-4BA5-BD4A-BF1EECA3F100%7d_20111011104500


Great Paintings   

http://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/talks-and-tours/guided-tours/great-paintings?eid=R012_%7b312C95DD-1C8C-480D-82CB-9D8052B1D9E8%7d_20111011103000



At the Royal Ontario Museum - Toronto, Ontario

Connecting: How Shakespeare Changed Everything with Stephen Marche
Friday, December 2, 7:00 - 9:30 pm
http://www.rom.on.ca/programs/lectures/index.php?cat_id=1&ref=showinfo&prev_ref=showlisting&program_id=7121&keyword=&audience_ids=all&theme_ids=all&start_date=all

Fall: Knight School (Ages 6-7)

Saturdays, October 15 - December 3, 9 am - 12 pm http://www.rom.on.ca/programs/lectures/index.php?cat_id=1&ref=showinfo&prev_ref=showlisting&program_id=7180&keyword=&audience_ids=all&theme_ids=all&start_date=all
Cleveland Museum of Art - has distance learning

http://www.clevelandart.org/learn/distance%20learning.aspx

Middle Ages Torture-Museum, Rudesheim, Rhine, Germany

http://www.witchcraft-bondage-pictures.middle-ages-torture.com/medieval.html

Museum of Science Boston

Painting in the Middle Ages

http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/PaintingBeforetheRen.html

Museum Of The Middle Ages - Paris, France
http://www.musee-moyenage.fr/ang/homes/home_id20392_u1l2.htm

What are other kingdom's doing?

Here is a link to a newsletter from the Kingdom of Glenn Abihan

 http://www.kingdomofgleannabhann.org/library/func-startdown/137/

A and S display at Pennsic - Pictures

http://s300.photobucket.com/albums/nn7/SleepyUnicorn/Pennsic%2040/Pennsic%2040%20Arts%20and%20Sciences%20Display/

I only had two hours to look at this display. I needed more time, I needed more time.  Thank you all those who shared their art with others.

Creative Commons licensing - music

This Licensing allows you to stream or download entire albums for free.
You delete what you don't like and you can down load as much music as you want for one monthly fee of 15.00 a month.  13.00 a month if you purchase a year at a time, or 240.00 for a lifetime membership.  http://magnatune.com/genres/classical/

They have some wonderful stuff. 

Lifted from the web site:
http://magnatune.com/artists/canconier

Cançonièr is a San Francisco Bay Area early music group devoted to medieval repertoire from the 12th to the 15th centuries, occasionally including traditional music from related regions (Scandinavia, the Balkans, and the Middle East).

http://magnatune.com/artists/skarazula

Skarazula: medieval European, Turkish and Arabic music

Just two.  If you like the music and keep it please pay for it.  We want these musicians to keep playing!!!!!


Thank you to Arnora and Guillaume for showing me this link

More good links

The Ontario Science Centre in Toronto Ontario.

Leonardo da Vinci's Workshop -
The Exhibition

October 13, 2011 - March 18, 2012

http://www.ontariosciencecentre.ca/calendar/default.asp?eventid=1111&ddmmyyyy=01102011


Finger loop braiding - archeological links here as well, so lots of good information

http://fingerloop.org/

Here is a link to information about he golden ratio for scrolls

http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/ironhart/goldensec.html

I took this class at pennsic and loved it I learned a lot from it.