New Publication
On Exactitude in Science
... In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast Map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.
Suárez Miranda, Viajes de varones prudentes, Libro IV, Cap. XLV, Lérida, 1658
Borges, J. L. 1998. On exactitude in science. P. 325, In, Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions (Trans. Hurley, H.) Penguin Books.
J. L. Borges' photo by Diane Arbus
Item No 244/ 3060 x 3670
Item No 241 /3060 x 3670
Acrylic on traditionally prepared canvas, 3.06 x 3.67m
Breda Museum, July-August 2010
A greyish monochrome painting faces the copy of Velasquez’s Surrender of Breda in Breda Museum. This painting can have the exact dimensions of the famous painting, when the copy not. The selected tone of grey is the average color(1) of the official picture that Prado Museum provides for Velasquez’s painting.
(1)given by software
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