From Artwork to coin or medal

[EgCollector]

This answers my second question, still the first not answered

Where excatly is death in this painting? 

In the conception of the painting Dali seems to have said that nothing touches the earth not even death
So it is the reason why everything floats but I do not think you will see death as it is a design concept expressed by Dali

Thank you for the lamb though since I am more acquainted with Rubens and Van Gogh and Breughel and even Picasso
I do not think I now much about Dali

I think if this lamb is meant to be by Dali, this lamb resembels death. As far as i know the lamb has been used as a symbol of death in some religeons. You can see that it is drawn inside the swan and as a part of its wing "Death floats"
WOW, if i my interpretation is right. 
I think this deserves a google search about this painting.   

[Paint Your Wagon]

Home of the sculpture

http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/index.html

The daughters of Zeus
The three graces by Canova

http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/08/hm88_0_1_38_1.html

and by wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Graces_%28sculpture%29

Sculpture made out of one block of marmer by Canova and used on a 10 Euro Coin
I totallay acquired by accident cause the postage was paid for by another coin and
I foolishly thougt the vendor mistyped Casanova 

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[scottishmoney]

Gees that would look wonderful in my art gallery.

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Gees that would look wonderful in my art gallery.

I wonder how ST Petersburg got hold of it
Anyway my wife would want to redecorate the walls again 

[Paint Your Wagon]

I convinced my scanner I wanted this coin scanned
The coinholder was breaking up the light in rainbow colors witch I killed with total desaturation etc and selecting and reversing the selection and  and putting on a background all in layers and then redo contrast and white balance
and cussing photoshop which can do everything if you now 500 pages of instructions by heart
Still both backgrounds do not match but so be it

10 Euro 2006 circulating value in Italy and San Marino bwahaha
by the artist Canova the Three Graces daughters of Zeus himself

[Twoshadows]

Now that one DEFINITELY belongs in my Euro collection! San Marino coinage is tough to come by, at least over here, so its now on my want list!

[Paint Your Wagon]

Now that one DEFINITELY belongs in my Euro collection! San Marino coinage is tough to come by, at least over here, so its now on my want list!

This guy has one but I only paid 21.50 E and he is asking more as a starting prices
As an Austrian his shipping prices are on the reasonable side of expensive
He ships worldwide but I guess for a paypal payment he will want extra money which is legal over here

He must be using a mint made picture
Like the spanish they like to photoshop a blackgray contrast into the coin

http://cgi.ebay.de/SAN-MARINO-10-EURO-ANTONIO-CANOVA-2006-PP-SILBER_W0QQitemZ160225434878QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item160225434878


Shame on this one more the 2000 sales and he desaturated the pic and did not even bother to get it into focus

http://cgi.ebay.de/2006-10-Euro-Antonio-Canova-Ag-PP_W0QQitemZ380014552683QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item380014552683

[Twoshadows]

Well it appears they won't take PayPal and are not real interested in shipping world wide. I will continue my search and hope one turns up over here. In the mean time I can enjoy your great photo!

[Paint Your Wagon]

Well it appears they won't take PayPal and are not real interested in shipping world wide. I will continue my search and hope one turns up over here. In the mean time I can enjoy your great photo!

Hey thank you it is only a scan
I spend like 1 hour in photoshop to get rid of the rainbowcolors
I am sure matching the backgrounds is only 3 minutes work if you know HOW to do it ellegantly ; but I gave up on the background cause I liked the coin

Yesterday I spend 4 hours on a fotoshoot of 2 coins and had a short circuit in one of the bulb fixture having my living room full of smoke
this got my wife concerned cause I blew the safety switches etc
My conclusion is that my camera is super but I need to master the lighting environment 

[Paint Your Wagon]

Goya

In 1815, the Spanish Inquisition summoned Goya to reveal who commissioned him to create the "obscene" La maja desnuda, and he was consequently stripped of his position as the Spanish court painter. If Goya gave an explanation of the painting's origin to the Inquisition, that account has never surfaced. Two sets of stamps depicting La maja desnuda in commemoration of Goya's work were privately produced in 1930, and later approved by the Spanish Postal Authority. That same year, the United States government barred and returned any mail bearing the stamps.

La Maja Desnuda is in the collection of the Museo del Prado in Madrid and is on display next to La Maja Vestida in the same room

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_maja_desnuda

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La Maja Vestida
(Dressed Maja)

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La Maja Desnuda

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Can anybody with a medals reference work tell me anything about this medal ? After two days of surfing the web I only found they exist in 5 ounces too . I did not find any minting date nor any total strike limit .
Since mine as n° 26 struck on the side I guess they are very limited
This is a photo not a scan .The scanner could not handle the holder and gave nothing but rainbowcolors 

[TKO-100]

I have a question to ask about this too....

Is it just me or does the face on this coin look like a mans face with ladies hair?