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Voyage on One of the World’s Largest Cruise Ships

Voyage on One of the World’s Largest Cruise Ships
Here’s a little photo-essay on Brilliance of the Seas cruising in Gulf waters. The ship contains 13 decks, 5 restaurants, a library, theater, art gallery, casino, pools, shops, sports courts and much more! In fact, this is a small floating city. It cruises the Mediterranean from April to November and the Panama Canal and Caribbean from November to April. Brilliance of the Seas is on active service from in January on Monday 18. What is unique about this particular cruise ship is that the pool and Jacuzzi are open 24/7.

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Shocking sculpture from the 1700s

Shocking sculpture from the 1700s
These utterly extraordinary sculptures are the work of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736-1783). Messerschmidt was German-Austrian, and sculpted the heads in 1770-72. At this time he suffered from delusions and hallucinations, or a “confusion in the head” as his employer, the Viennese Academy of Fine Arts, described it. In 1774, Messerschmidt was expelled from the academy.

In 1781, Messerschmidt stated that the heads had been created as a record of his facial expressions on pnching himself to alleviate the pain of an illness he suffered, known now to be Crohn’s Disease. He intended to sculpt the 64 “canonical grimaces” of the human face using his own as a template.

Messerschmidt also claimed that he was physically tortured by “the Spirit of Proportion”, an ancient being who guarded the knowledge of harmony and who was angered by Messerschmidt’s disharmonius work.
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