Step Back In Time
This new quiz is for the nostalgia buffs. Same rules as Movie quiz apply. Enjoy.
here is the first post. Who and what?
Wolfgang Buttress's Hive at Kew Gardens
Its 170,000 pieces of aluminium, suspended from the ground, appear as a twisting swarm of bees from afar, but as you come closer it becomes a hive-like structure of latticework whose low humming sound and hundreds of flickering LED lights draws you in to a multi-sensory instillation. The intensity of sound and light is controlled by the vibrations of honeybees in an actual hive at Kew that is connected to the sculpture.
Many thanks Kiah. What an intriguing work.
CLUE 1: Which very famous building has bees as a design theme?
CLUE 2: The bees are inside the building.
Yes LJ, the famous Barberini bees of St Peter's Basilica.
Sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini was only 25 years old when Pope Urban VIII commissioned him to fashion the altar of St. Peter’s Basilica. Pope Urban VIII was born Maffeo Barberini in April 1568. The Barberini coat of arms features three bees.
Details of the Bernini's baldacchino supporting columns featuring bees and the basement plinths each adorned with the Barberini coat of arms and Saint Peter’s keys topped by the the papal crown.
:) Good on you. Your turn now.
Sorry Gypsy and Kiah.
Gypsy, those bees at the Eureka Tower are very striking. Thanks for coming up with them, I never knew.
A: Nikola Tesla ... a multiple exposure picture of Tesla sitting next to his "magnifying transmitter" generating millions of volts.
His message on the bottom of the photo (as I've seen before here).
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Q: This cameo was retrieved from the wreck of which famous sailing ship?