Thursday, June 8, 2023

Rhododendron maximum (WV West Virginia state flower): Carnegie Museum of Art (& Bicycle Heaven Museum, Pittsburgh) * * * In 2023, the 26th edition of #TheEthnologue listed a total of 7,168 living languages, @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress seeks to create #LargeLanguageModels' @WUaSWikiSchools & a #WUaSUniversalTranslator ~ * * * Great rhythm guitar @BobWeir #BobbyWeir Grateful Dead 11/22/1972 ~Austin, TX https://youtu.be/3pV3s9XsSXA Would love to be soaking in a #RealisticVirtualHarbin @HarbinBook @HarbinHotSprings while listening to this https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Grateful_Dead #wuAsVR ~


Carnegie Museum of Art (& Bicycle Heaven Museum, Pittsburgh) 


Greetings, Craig Morrow, visionary creator of Bicycle Museum Heaven and Shop, Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Museums, Pgh PA, (& Bicycle Heaven Museum, Pittsburgh), 

As a further follow up - 

How best to create a Realistic Virtual Earth For Museums (https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForMuseums?src=hashtag_click - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/museums), further, - for all museums ever, and online, and for Physical-Digital conversation in something like Google Street View with time slider and TensorFlow AI? 

Here are two small robotic bicycles, for example, that Craig Morrow, visionary creator of Bicycle Museum Heaven and Shop in Pgh, PA, could conceivably include in his museum collection, but seems unlikely that he would acquire them physically, but if possible, it might be fascinating to add pictures of these to Google Street View, and further 'wiki'-develop the Bicycle Museum Heaven online, and just like that, easy as pie - 


Bicycle Heaven Museum - 


Looking up further the history of the replica Tomb of Francis, Last Duke of Brittany in the Carnegie Museum of Art, in Oakland, - and even regarding how and why the museum might have acquired it, regarding its provenance too (annotations etc. in the museum's collections, which adds mightily to a work of art's significance through time) ... and even regarding whether it could signify the loss of Celtic sovereignty of Brittany and Breton (a Celtic language) speaking people in what is now the northwest of France, I found that the Edict of Union happened in 1532 

,and that Francis II of Brittany died in 1488, and his tomb, in Nantes' Cathedral in France now, was made from 1502-1507 ... seems possible that there could be a connection. Further art history research ahead. (See initial notes below in PS)

How to add such images of this tomb in the Carnegie Museum of Art to an emerging virtual Carnegie Museum of Art in Google Street View with time slider, I wonder - 

Carnegie Museum of Art - 

- and even in an artificial intelligence informed, iterating Realistic Virtual Earth For Museums? And how to do so for art history research, potentially with what I'm calling 'Text in the Sidebar' of Google Street View with Time Slider - https://twitter.com/hashtag/TextInTheSideBar?src=hashtag_click ? 


All the best, Scott
Art History wiki subject at World Univ & Sch and check out the MIT OCW courses - 

Re robotic bicycles, here's the -

Electric_and_Hybrid_Vehicles wiki subject at World Univ & Sch and check out the MIT OCW courses -  

Have created a further blog post with this today here - 




PS


Francis II, Duke of Brittany

23 June 1433 – 9 September 1488)



where is tomb of Francis ii besides in the Carnegie museum of art? 


The tomb of Francis II, Duke of Brittany is a monument located in Nantes, in the Cathedral of St. Peter. The project was commissioned by Anne of Brittany, Queen of France, who was the daughter of Francis and his second wife Margaret of Foix,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Francis_II,_Duke_of_Brittany


his second wife - 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_of_Foix

his daughter - 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Brittany



Why and how and when did the  Carnegie museum of art Pgh PA acquire a replica of tomb of Francis ii last duke of Brittany?


"Tucked away among the 140 plaster casts of architectural treasures in Carnegie Museum of Art’s Hall of Architecture is the spectacular tomb of Francis II, the Duke of Brittany. It includes an intriguing feature that can be easy to miss: a figure with two faces. The original tomb, made of Carrara marble in 1507 by sculptor Michel Colombe, was located in Nantes Cathedral in France. A masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture, it was commissioned by Anne of Brittany, the queen of France and daughter of Francis and his second wife, Margaret of Foix, who is shown lying beside Francis. The duke had hoped the cathedral would be his final resting place with his first wife, Margaret of Brittany, and the tomb actually houses Francis and both wives, though only Anne’s mother is depicted. At the tomb’s four corners stand four figures, each representing one of the cardinal virtues: courage, justice, temperance, and prudence. Prudence has two faces: at the back is an old man, said to be the sculptor, implying the wisdom of the past; at the front is a young woman looking to the future, who holds in her hands both a compass and a mirror."

https://carnegiemuseums.org/carnegie-magazine/winter-2021/125-years-a-history-in-objects-2/



Legend has it that Carnegie sent the clipping with a $10,000 check to Museum Director William J. Holland with the directive to “buy this for Pittsburgh.

https://carnegiemuseums.org/carnegie-magazine/125-years/



When did Brittany lose sovereignty to France?



"It was then that Brittany saw its golden era, becoming an unchallenged maritime power. A kingdom then a duchy, Brittany was forced to unite with France by the union of its sovereignty in 1532."


"In the 9th century Brittany began to emancipate itself from its Carolingian neighbours. Nominoë, duke of Brittany and Erispoë, and his son, the king, expanded the territory and made it into the form it retains today. Torn between France and England, the Montfort dynasty (14th/15th centuries) managed to keep the country independent. It was then that Brittany saw its golden era, becoming an unchallenged maritime power. A kingdom then a duchy, Brittany was forced to unite with France by the union of its sovereignty in 1532. Having become a province, Brittany retains many privileges (specific legislation, tax collection)."


https://www.eurominority.eu/index.php/en/brittany/#:~:text=It%20was%20then%20that%20Brittany,of%20its%20sovereignty%20in%201532.




"Roman times through the 13th century
According to Julius Caesar, Brittany (fr. Bretagne) was historically part of Celtic Gaul as Armorica (Gallic for "Place by the Sea"). On the fall of the Roman Empire, it was integrated into the Gallo-Roman domain of Syagrius.  ... "


"The King of France as Duke of Brittany jure uxoris
Charles VIII became Duke of Brittany jure uxoris upon his marriage to Anne of Brittany. During their marriage, Charles prohibited Anne from using the title of Duchess of Brittany, and imposed his own rule on the Duchy through a Royal Governor from the House of Penthièvre. However, when the king died leaving the royal couple childless, the Duchy of Brittany reverted to Anne. She returned to Brittany and re-established her independent rule. Anne's actions underscored that the Duke of Brittany's line of succession was governed by the Celtic nation's peculiar form of Semi-Salic Law rather than the strict Salic Law governing the Kingdom of France. Her actions also demonstrated that the Duke of Brittany and the King of France, at least at this time, remained distinct and separable titles. ..."

de Mauny, Michel. Traité d'union de la Bretagne à la France. Celtics Chadenn, 2002. ISBN 2-84722-016-X.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Brittany_and_France



Brittany became a part of France when Anne, heir to Brittany, married two successive kings of France, Charles VIII and Louis XII. In the formal treaty of incorporation into France in 1532, the province was guaranteed local privileges.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Brittany-region-France/History#:~:text=Brittany%20became%20a%20part%20of,province%20was%20guaranteed%20local%20privileges.



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Thu, Jun 1, 4:27 PM


Carnegie Museum of Art (& Bicycle Heaven Museum, Pittsburgh)

Greetings, Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Museums, (& Bicycle Heaven Museum, Pittsburgh), 

Not long ago, I came into the Carnegie Museum of Art, Oakland, and was seeking to learn more about the Tomb of Francis II, and his second wife Marguerite, 1502-1507, in the corner of what is sometimes called the Xmas tree room. The reason I'm writing however is to explore how best to add all the objects of all 4 Carnegie Museums to a Realistic Virtual Earth For Museums, and make them available to the public in a new way (which is a project MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch is developing, for all museums ever), and for anyone also to be able to wiki-add pictures or videos, for example, of an 'objet d'art,' and into a Physical-Digital #RealisticVirtualEarthForMuseums -https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForMuseums?src=hashtag_click - regarding the main Museums wiki subject at WUaS  https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Museums (planned in all ~7151 known living languages with machine translation) - and think adding to Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth and with TensorFlowAI, and where little Pegman in Street View could become an iterating Francis the II. This would involve potentially creating an iterating database of all pieces of art ever, each a Wikidata Museum #. Think San Francisco's Exploratorium Museum on steroids (at WUaSmuseums). 

What are many aspects of the art and history of this Tomb of Francis II piece, for example? Could it even be symbolic of the end of Breton Celtic sovereignty, in what is now northwest France? I've actually asked Google Voice, searched in Google Search, and newly asked Google Bard generational AI conversation software (which just added 'visuals') about this aspect, and many other aspects of the piece, and haven't been able to learn anything about it, the pieces provenance (annotations, history at the Carnegie Museum of Art, or if its a replica, where the original is in France, or elsewhere for example). I've also wondered how one could even bring this Tomb of Francis II 'alive' with augmented reality and robotics possibly, so we could possibly 'talk' with the figures in the piece, of which there could be 10-15 sculptures of humans.

Mr. Diehl at the desk in front of this hall one day recently gave me your email addresses and cards, Galleryinfo@cmoa.org, IssaiasT@carnegieart.org, Segretij@carnegiemuseums.org. And he tried to look up "The Tomb of Francis II" in the CMOA database as I was standing there, and surprisingly or not couldn't find even the piece mentioned in the CMOA database. 

In a related set of Tweets - 

WOULD LIKE TO BRING #sculpture from 1502-1507 ALIVE w #FilmTo3D App fr #WUaSphoto & TALK w each HUMAN figured here, & learn their stories in iterating #AIconversation #ChatGPT #GoogleBard #TombOfFrancisII #LastDukeOfBrittany #NWFrance in #RealisticVirtualEarthForMuseums #WUaSHow?


in their languages (eg Breton and medieval French)... 






Think of this above set of Tweets as a beginning example of bringing the Tomb of Francis II 'alive' and with iterating #FilmTo3DApps - and as a way to begin to ask new questions of this art, and engage it in new ways, possibly by conversing with the actual sculptures of people, and thanks to artificial intelligence, and machine learning, and natural language processing, and Google Geospatial Creator. (World Univ & Sch has been in Google Education since about 2015).


Further, MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch seeks to facilitate this https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForMuseums?src=hashtag_click , for example, for the visionary amazingly creative Bicycle Heaven Museum and Shop in Pittsburgh too. 

How best, please, could World Univ & Sch explore a collaboration with the Carnegie Museums of Art in some of these regards, and as a start to wiki-bringing all of the USA's and world's museums online, and for access by the public for example? 

Possibly in a related vein, I've just read that the Carnegie Libraries are holding - 

"Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Strategic Planning - Community Engagement Sessions" - 
https://www.carnegielibrary.org/events/list/?tribe-bar-search=strategic+plan

... and World Univ & Sch is seeking also to create 200 online free world class university research libraries, in 200 countries' languages, as part of major online MIT OCW-centric wiki World Universities and Schools in 200 countries - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - and potentially in a Realistic Virtual Earth For Libraries (think in Google Street View with time slider too) - 

Realistic Virtual Earth For Libraries

https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForLibraries?src=hashtag_click


https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1597977907686936578?s=20


https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1595960401392734208?s=20

... and potentially in collaboration with the Carnegie Libraries Free to the People's vision and organizations, about which I've emailed Jen Styran above (in the past). Am seeking to attend the meeting this evening in East Liberty in some of these regards. 


How to learn more about the Tomb of Francis II, how could the Carnegie Museum for Art make the information, and PROVENANCE (annotations, etc., since it got this piece ... ie could Andrew Carnegie himself have procured this piece, and could it have meant something to him from his growing up in another Celtic country, ie Scotland, for example?) easily available and online especially, eg given that Mr. Diehl wasn't even able to locate the piece by name in the CMOA's art database he looked in while I was there with him?

Looking forward to developing this CMOA & CMNH plus, Bicycle Heaven Museum < > online World Univ & Sch Museums & Libraries' conversation further with time.  

See some of you this evening in East Liberty regarding museums? 

Thanks, best wishes, Scott
 



PPPS
Tomb of Francis II Last Duke of Brittany
And of Marguerite De Foix his 2nd wife

French Renaissance ca 1502-1507 AD

 

Nantes Cathedral, or the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul of Nantes



- Scott GK MacLeod  
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CC-4 licensed MIT OCW-centric. Wiki, 
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In 2023, the 26th edition of #TheEthnologue listed a total of 7,168 living languages, @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress seeks to create #LargeLanguageModels' @WUaSWikiSchools & a #WUaSUniversalTranslator ~


In 2023, the 26th edition of #TheEthnologue listed a total of 7,168 living languages, an increase of 17 living languages from the 25th ed. -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnologue. @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress seeks to create #LargeLanguageModels' @WUaSWikiSchools & a #WUaSUniversalTranslator ~











Retweeting ~

7,151 languages are spoken in the world, as of 2022. 
23 languages account for more than half the world's population. 








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Great rhythm guitar @BobWeir #BobbyWeir Grateful Dead 11/22/1972 ~Austin, TX

https://youtu.be/3pV3s9XsSXA Would love to be soaking in a #RealisticVirtualHarbin @HarbinBook @HarbinHotSprings while listening to this https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Grateful_Dead #wuAsVR ~


Great rhythm guitar @BobWeir #BobbyWeir Grateful Dead 11/22/1972 ~Austin, TX
https://youtu.be/3pV3s9XsSXA Would love to be soaking in a #RealisticVirtualHarbin @HarbinBook @HarbinHotSprings while listening to this https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool. org/wiki/Grateful_Dead #wuAsVR ~


https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1666865461328216070

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1666870214196068356?s=20

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1666869955977936915








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- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
CC-4 licensed MIT OCW-centric. Wiki, 
World University & School (WUaS) 
- PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
- 210 East End Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15221

1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 





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