This 1.4 Million Dollar Bronze Sculpture has just been donated to the University of Sydney

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Individuals by Andrew Rogers at the University of Sydney.

Andrew Rogers, a contemporary Australia artist, has just given the University of Sydney a $1.4 million cast bronze sculpture.

The work, Individuals, was first exhibited in New York in 2013. The university says it’s the most significant gift of sculpture by a living artist in Australia.

It’s been placed outside the new Faculty of Law building at the University of Sydney’s Camperdown campus

Individuals was first exhibited at the gateway to the United Nations in New York City in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza.

It was unveiled by Sir James Wolfensohn, the ninth President of the World Bank, and a graduate of the University of Sydney Law School. At the time, it was one of the largest installations of bronze cast forms to be installed in New York.

Rogers said Individuals is a metaphor for the inseparable relationship between singularity and community.

“We are all individuals possessing the sanctity of a singular life and the ability to express ourselves. At the same time we are part of the society within which we live,” he said.

“With the lack of respect for the sanctity of individual life that we see around the world today, the message of the sculpture is significant and well placed outside the Law Faculty of a leading university.”

Made up of 15 sculptures of varying heights up to 3.5 metres, each bronze cast form is similar yet different. Each one is balanced on a tightly curled base which unfurls as it extends upwards and outward in an undulating spiral movement.

One of Rogers’ monumental projects is his ongoing land art series, Rhythms of Life, which he began in 1998.

Billed as the largest contemporary land art undertaking in history, it is made up of 51 massive stone structures in 16 countries across seven continents and has involved more than 7,500 people.

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CT Scan Reveals Something Incredible in 1,000 Year Old Buddha

It is truly fascinating what you can find inside of many antique sculptures.

Quite the amazing find was discovered in the Netherlands recently after a CT scan was taken of a 1,000-year-old Buddha sculpture. The scan revealed that a mummy was hidden within, still sitting in a meditation pose – but that’s not all.

The sculpture is from the 11th or 12th century and was part of the Mummies exhibition at the World Museum in Rotterdam earlier last year. It was recently analyzed at the Meander Medical Center, where, along with the CT scan, samples were taken from the mummy with an endoscope.

The CT Scan revealed the remains of a mummified monk encased inside, still sitting in what appears to be a position of meditation and said to be in immaculate condition. This Is Colossal further reports that “[a]mong some practicing Buddhists it’s been said that similar mummies ‘aren’t dead’ but are instead in an advanced state of meditation.”

According to the NL Times, the body belonged to Buddhist master Liuquan of the Chinese Meditation School. Along with being the only one of its time, it is the only Chinese Buddhist mummy available to the west for scientific study.

Surprisingly, the corpse wasn’t the only thing contained within the statue. During the endoscopic procedure, scientists made another discovery. As reported by the NL Times, gastrointestinal and liver doctor Reinoud Vermeijden “found paper scraps that are printed with ancient Chinese characters.”


The Liuquan mummy has since been taken to Hungary where it is set to be put on display in the National Museum of Natural History in Budapest until May 2015.

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500-year-old sculptures may be Michelangelos

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/02/travel/feat-michelangelo-bronze-sculptures-discovered/index.html

(CNN)Two Renaissance sculptures of a nude man riding a panther may have been created by Michelangelo, says a British museum

 The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge says that the bronze sculptures, known as the Rothschild Bronzes and dating from the 1500s, were probably created just after the famed artist's David and just before he painted the ceiling of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel. The museum and researchers at the University of Cambridge say they have "compelling evidence" that the works, attributed to a Dutch sculptor, are actually from Michelangelo.

If so, they are the only surviving Michelangelo bronzes in the world, says the museum.

The key clue that the unsigned bronzes were actually done by Michelangelo came from one of the master's apprentices.

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Last year, Paul Joannides, a Cambridge art history professor, noted that a Michelangelo student had made a study of several Michelangelo sketches for works believed lost. One of the drawings in the study, which dates from 1508, matched one of the bronzes.

Further research indicated they were in Michelangelo's style, and X-rays roughly confirmed the era of their creation. 

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"Even a peroneal tendon is visible, as is the transverse arch of the foot," wrote University of Warwick anatomist Peter Abrahams, according to the UK Guardian.

Victoria Avery, keeper of applied arts at the Fitzwilliam Museum, described the project to the Guardian as "a Renaissance whodunit."

She says that the museum was careful in assembling the evidence and that the works are masterpieces.

"The modeling is superb, they are so powerful and so compelling, so whoever made them had to be superb," she said.

The works -- and some of the evidence -- will be on display at the Fitzwilliam from Tuesday through August 9.

Though the museum is confident of the works' origins, research is continuing, and results will be presented at a conference in early July.

Bronze Ronald Reagan Statue in California Destroyed

A bronze statue of Ronald Reagan sustained damage Sunday morning after an apparent theft attempt. (Photo credit: Orange County Register)

A life-size statue of former President Ronald Reagan is tilting at an odd angle in California after someone apparently tried to make off with it.

Photo credit: Orange County Register

The bronze statue was just dedicated last month in Newport Beach, Calif. It remains in the park, but is broken off its foundation and is tilting forward after someone attempted to pull it down, the Orange County Register reported.
Newport Beach Police received a call around 5:30 a.m. Sunday of a vandalism in progress, KTLA-TV reported.

A witness said a man wearing dark clothing tried to attach a chain to the base of the statue. The chain was connected to the back of his truck and he seemed to be trying to pull the statue down. He was unsuccessful and was seen fleeing into the surrounding neighborhood.

“Either someone really didn’t like Reagan or they tried to steal it so they can sell it for scrap metal,” said police Sgt. Kirk Jacoby told the Register.
Police are looking for suspects and officials have not released an estimate of how much repairs will cost. The statue was dedicated a month ago in honor of the 100th anniversary of the former president and California governor’s birth. It was commissioned for $60,000, money that was raised through donations.

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