2011年6月26日星期日

Tom Sutcliffe: Hooked on the net's national treasures - By cheap brooches

I've written about the Public Catalogue Foundation before in these pages, a wholly admirable enterprise to identify and log every oil painting in public ownership in the country. It's a kind of Pevsner of fine art and its efforts have resulted in an accumulating library of volumes which, county by county, itemise every single painting and offer a matchbox-sized illustration of it. Browsing through these almost invariably turns up something interesting that you would never have expected to find, not to mention striking juxtapositions of the incompetent and the masterly. When I have written about the endeavour, though, it's often been with the faint sense that these handsome library volumes are the last gasp of cheap prom dresses a dying form of scholarship. That is, the information is of durable value but the form it arrives in is already beginning to look distinctly antique. cheap brooches
In fact, the enterprise was always destined to end up online – and yesterday saw the launch of the website that makes that possible. Your Paintings (www.bbc.co.uk/your paintings), created in partnership with the BBC, will eventually offer online access to all 200,000 art works on the Public Catalogue list, some 80 per cent of which aren't currently on public show. Far more significantly though it will make it possible to search that database by the content of the pictures – something that cheap bridal jewelry would be effectively impossible in book form, and without the participation of the public as volunteer indexers. wholesale cheap brooches
I tried out a beta version of the website's tagging software this week and very addictive it is too. Once you've signed up as a tagger, a painting is delivered at random and you're asked what "things or ideas" you can see in the painting. You can be stolidly literal and write things like "table" and "hat" and "flower". Or you can get a little more metaphorical and tag the painting with abstractions such as "expectation", say, or "motherhood". Provided enough other taggers agree with you the software will eventually add those terms to the artwork, and once enough taggers have looked at the painting it will be added to the Your Paintings website. Further stages allow you to identify people and places and, for some users, genres and painting styles. Ultimately – it's hoped within 18 months – it will be possible to type in a request for paintings that represent, say, motherhood in Southampton containing cameo brooches, and find out almost instantaneously whether any such thing exists in the public collection. Alternatively, you could look at every painting in the country that depicts Pendle Hill. cheap brooches and pins

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The vendors are part of the Antiques Show and Sale, which continues 10 a.m.-3 p.m. today. wholesale cheap brooches
The annual sale, hosted by the Beaufort Historical Association, is in its 51st year. The sale’s sister event, the cheap bridal jewelry Beaufort Old Homes and Gardens Tour, wrapped up Saturday. cheap brooches and pins
The show offers a variety of merchandise from vendors both new to the show and those who have been coming so long they can’t remember which year was his or her first.
Diane Shewmaker, of China Grove, fits into the latter category.
“Well,” she paused, thinking, “I do know that the first year was when Hurricane Hugo came.”
That would make her and her business, Lady Di’s Antiques, 22-year veterans of the show.
The vendor got into antiques dealing by accident. She accepted a job selling watches but was taken by the beautiful old rings, necklaces and cheap engagement rings brooches she saw.

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