Julkaisuseuranta
In this blog article I will present a group of Etruscan made Chalcidian type helmets that have fully face covering cheek guards. This style is to my knowledge represented by only two examples.The more famous one is a helmet from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Italo-Chalcidian helmet in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,…
In this blog article I have collected the best viking age shield replicas of today to be presented to all who are interested. Some of them are already famous replicas, some unknown to a wider public, but all of them are connected by the high standards of their attempts at historical accuracy. Shields in the…
Corcumello weapons relief. The relief in its finding place. A new Roman weapons relief has just been found in Italy. These are not extremely rare, but new ones don't come up every decade. It was found in Corcumello, a town 100 km east of Rome. The relief was most probably originally part of a great Roman funerary…
Art historian Marja Lahelma, who is a member of the Seekers of the New project, has examined esotericism as a marginalised dimension in Finnish art history in a new publication by the Finnish National Gallery. Lahelma problematises the notion of the ‘Golden Age’ connecting...
23.7.2019
In the postpositivist academia of today, it is generally acknowledged that science is unavoidably subjective and biased, and objectivity and neutrality are rather seen as sacred but unattainable ideals. Science is hence recognised as a social process. Given its essentially human nature, science is also an inherently emotional process. In this post, I’ll discuss emotional…