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domingo, 12 de janeiro de 2014

Bust of Galileo - My favorites relics of the Royal Museums Greenwich 12


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Italian reliquary pearwood bust of Galileo, the Pisan-born experimental natural philosopher and astronomer. He is shown head, shoulders and upper torso, in old age and slightly larger than life, looking to
his left and dressed in a robe with a fur collar. A ribbon with an indeterminate pendant hangs over the collar and a loose shirt is visible round the neck beneath it. At the back is a circular glazed recess containing a relic in the form of a piece of crimson velvet with a fringe, possibly (according to previous notes) a piece of fabric from Galileo's academic chair. The carved socle consists of a group of astronomical and mathematical instruments round a flared square base surmounted by a ... LINK

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