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La collection d’art judaïque du Dr Fred Weinberg et de Joy Cherry Weinberg

Collectionner est une passion qui nous rapproche du monde qui nous entoure. Bien que le terme évoque souvent des achats de premier ordre dans des salles de ventes, pour les collectionneurs Joy Cherry et le regretté D r Weinberg, il s’agit aussi d’une démarche significative au cours de

Amer Bhatti

  Meet YPC Member Amer Bhatti What is your occupation? I am an inside sales representative at Microsoft Canada, in the enterprise business group. What was the last book you read? The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. If you could only listen to one song for the rest of your life, what

Art on the tracks

The Healing Power of Dinosaurs: A look at Dinosaur Day at The Hospital for Sick Children

Written by Min Wong, Outreach Volunteer, Member of Friends of Palaeontology Anyone who has listened to an eight year old excitedly describe how a Velociraptor walked on two hind feet and had a huge claw on each foot knows the fascination that children have with dinosaurs. Such was the experience we

Safavid Tile Project I: The Technology

Some of the most noticeable objects in the ROM's Wirth Gallery of The Middle East are two friezes of tiles that would have been in the spandrels of arches. These were made in Iran in the last third of the 17 th century under the Safavid dynasty, probably for a palatial building in Isfahan. The

Safavid Tile Project II: Rebuilding the Friezes

The ROM's Wirth Gallery of The Middle East is blessed with two complete friezes of cuerda seca tiles that would have been in the spandrels of arches. These were made in Iran in the last third of the 17th century under the Safavid dynasty, probably in Isfahan. They were bought by the ROM in