La rplique installe Genve est deux fois moins grande que l'arc original. Une rplique de l'arche de triomphe de Palmyre a t dvoile jeudi matin Berne l'occasion du 70e anniversaire de l'entre de la Suisse l'UNESCO. The installation coincides with the G7 Summit, held in Palazzo Vecchio on March 30 and 31, 2017, as a symbol of the rebirth and reconstruction of humanitys cultural heritage, continually at risk from the dangers of humankind and nature. Is Baal worship going on in USA and we don't even know it? They are enlisting the help of locals who live near monuments to snap the images, which could allow them to build replicas if they were destroyed. Die Katastrophe hatte sich angekndigt. The process of reconstructing a civilisation is about restoring peoples connections with each other -- and with their history and their culture -- through the act of the reconstruction of physical things, said an expert. It's the sort of immortality of the sets of cultural references that they represent. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/27/british-archaeologists-should-help-rebuild-palmyra-says-boris-johnson?CMP=share_btn_link, The New York Times, Saturday 19th March 2016. The famous 15m (50ft) arch will also illustrate Britain and Syria's shared heritage, with the Greco-Roman architecture of Palmyra echoed by the neoclassical buildings of the National Gallery and Nelson's Column. The team will then build a large-scale 3-D printing grid near the site of the reconstruction. Monuments, as embodiments of history, religion, art and science, are significant and complex repositories of cultural narratives. Reproductions of the 50-foot arch that formed the temple's entrance are to be installed in New York and in London, a tribute to the 2,000-year-old structure that the Islamic State destroyed last year in the Syrian town of Palmyra. The program plans to send out 5,000 cameras by the end of 2015 and 5,000 more next year. Support has been strong, the researchers said, and they expressed confidence that it could work. Gayle, Damien. Bringing the Temple of Baal to New York City is quite fitting. The monument in question is the Arch of Triumph of Palmyra, destroyed by Isil forces as they spread across Syria in the summer of 2015. Already, more than a thousand cameras have been distributed, and the 3-D data from them are being received (though the directors of the project, to protect their associates on the ground, are leaving a lag of several months before they make the images publicly available). The Unesco partner uses photos from its Million Image Database at Harvard University to provide a 360-degree view of the object and create a computer model, said technology director Alexy Karenowska. THIS month, the Temple of Baal will come to Times Square. Washington D.C. The Institute for Digital Archaeology The structure was built around 2,000 years ago as a temple to a Mesopotamian god but was used as a Christian church and an Islamic mosque,Brian Boucher writes for artnet News. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/01/07/how-3d-printers-can-help-undo-the-destruction-of-isis/. The Institute for Digital Archaeology, a joint project of Harvard and Oxford Universities, uses sophisticated imaging techniques to aid conservation, epigraphy, archaeology and art history. The museum is also displaying canvases painted by a computer that has studied the techniques and styles of great artists and then generated original works using a mechanically held brush. In the overarching ethos of the IDA, the notions of authenticity and millimetric accuracy so precious for classical archaeology - have been prevailed by reversible interventions, whose possible imperfections do not interfere with the message they aim to carry on. Little Athens, with its loose-knit, short-lived empire, had nothing to rival Romes scale. Who gets your vote? If you visit China, you will see at the entrance of many cities or historical locations arches that have been erected as entry points. Kultur aus der Konserve, geht das auf? It is an attempt to simply wipe out an aspect of not just western culture, but the breadbasket of the world where humanity first domesticated crops and built the earliest civilizations, and this is an attempt to destroy that history," Ms Simmons said. and the nations will not flow together any more to him. History. Photography is used to ward off total oblivion, the way that the photographs of Courbets The Stone Breakers and van Goghs The Painter on the Road to Tarascon accidentally made the lost paintings visible to future generations.