A part of Melancholia I by Albrecht Dürer with magic square
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Monday, September 24, 2007
Statues + Squares
The Familia Sagrada in Barcelona is still under construction with many fantastic statues to look at. The numbers you see represent a Magic Square.
magic number square
screenprint, embroidery, and pencil on fabric.
Based on Durer's magic number square. Each magic number square is embroidered in the cooresponding box. The penciled numbers are copied directly from my meticulously kept notes on how many ounces of milk I had pumped for my baby during the course of almost a year.
magic number square
screenprint, embroidery, and pencil on fabric.
Based on Durer's magic number square. Each magic number square is embroidered in the cooresponding box. The penciled numbers are copied directly from my meticulously kept notes on how many ounces of milk I had pumped for my baby during the course of almost a year.
magic number square
screenprint, embroidery, and pencil on fabric.
Based on Durer's magic number square. Each magic number square is embroidered in the cooresponding box. The penciled numbers are copied directly from my meticulously kept notes on how many ounces of milk I had pumped for my baby during the course of almost a year.
magic number square
screenprint, embroidery, and pencil on fabric.
Based on Durer's magic number square. Each magic number square is embroidered in the cooresponding box. The penciled numbers are copied directly from my meticulously kept notes on how many ounces of milk I had pumped for my baby during the course of almost a year.
magic number square
screenprint, embroidery, and pencil on fabric.
Based on Durer's magic number square. Each magic number square is embroidered in the cooresponding box. The penciled numbers are copied directly from my meticulously kept notes on how many ounces of milk I had pumped for my baby during the course of almost a year.
Entrada de la Pasión (19 April 2005)
This is the Passion Entrance of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. The scupltures are recents works and not by Gaudi, but they're quite interesting in their own right. The two figures on the right depict Jesus being betrayed by Judas, and in the centre is a "magic square" whose numbers add up to 33.
This photograph was taken with a Lomo LC-A camera and scanned and processed in Photoshop.
The Passió
A detail of the Passió (Passion) façade of the Sagrada Família, designed by José María Subirachs, a Catalan sculptor.
Magic square
This 'magic square' is on the doors to the Passion facade of Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona.
There are several of these (33 in fact) dotted around the building.
Each line of four numbers (horizontal, vertical and diagonal) adds up to 33, the age at which Christ is reckoned to have died.
la porte du palindrome / the palindrome door
la porte du palindrome / the palindrome door, originally uploaded by TisseurDeToile -[maybe un-happy]-.
La porte au palindrome "sator arepo tenet opera rotas" c'est aussi des mots carrés.
La maglietta!
Troppo fashion. Perchè io valgo (e anche Durer!)
aggiungo:it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrato_magico
per chi volesse saperne di più!
SF carré magique
Faire la somme d'une ligne ou d'une colonne et trouver le même chiffre.
Ce chiffre a une signification. Vous avez trouvé ?
SATOR Square
The square reads
SATOR
AREPO
TENET
OPERA
ROTAS
Its a classic Latin palindrome that reads the same up and down, back and forth. It translates roughly to mean that "The Great Sower holds in his hand all works; all works the Great Sower holds in his hand." - Wikipedia.
Or in our case, it means, "Hey that dude has a cool square, lets draw on it"
Quadrato magico
Barcellona - Sagrada familia
Attribuito a Subirach, uno degli architetti che lavorò all'immensa e incompiuta costruzione, questo quadrato magico si trova su uno dei battenti della grande porta sulla facciata "della passione".
La somma dei numeri di ogni riga, di ogni colonna, di ogni diagonale principale e di ogni gruppo di quattro numeri da come risultato sempre lo stesso numero: 33, l'età della morte di Gesù.
E pare siano ben 310 le possibili combinazioni di numeri che danno questo stesso risultato!
Chissà se ci sono altri significati, oltre a quello puramente matematico...
Talismano? Simbolo propiziatorio? Magia? Mistero?
La Sagrada Família - Passion Facade - detail
The numbers of the magic square can add up to 33 in hundreds of different ways. This is believed to be Jesus' age when he was crucified.
SATOR Magic square
The sower, Arepo, holds the wheels to [their] works
Arepo, il seminatore, tiene in movimento le ruote
Tatti, Tuscany, Italy
Il curioso quadrato magico è visibile su un numero sorprendentemente vasto di reperti archeologici, sparsi un po' ovunque in Europa. Ne sono stati rinvenuti esempi nelle rovine romane di Cirencester (l'antica Corinium) in Inghilterra, nel castello di Rochemaure (Rhône-Alpes) in Francia, a Siena sulla parete del Duomo di fronte al Palazzo Arcivescovile, a Santiago di Compostela in Spagna, ad Altofen in Ungheria, solo per citarne alcune. A volte le cinque parole si trovano disposte in forma radiale come a Sermoneta (Latina), oppure in forma circolare come nella Collegiata di Sant'Orso di Aosta.
Ma l'esempio più antico e più celebre è quello rinvenuto negli scavi di Pompei, inciso sulle scanalature di una colonna della Grande Palestra. A partire da questo ritrovamento, il quadrato del Sator viene anche detto “latercolo pompeiano”
ROTAS, OPERA, TENET, AREPO, SATOR
The magic square (ROTAS, OPERA, TENET AREPO, SATOR) on the wall of the church of San Pietro ad Oratorium (Italy, L'Aquila)
Jupiter magic square
Jupiter Magic Square. The magic costant is 34 the product of 2, the first female number (even are female, odd, without 1 are male) and 17 a male prime number.
The sum of all the numbers of the square 136.
136 is strangely bound to 244.
13+33+63=244 and 23+43+43=136
The colours are: orange-bronze for the numbers and blue for the background.
The metal of Jupiter is tin.
