User guide to demo

Collections
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Arts of the Month

Leonardo da Vinci: Lady with an Ermine

Lady with an Ermine is a painting by Leonardo da Vinci, from around 1489–1490. The subject of the portrait is identified as Cecilia Gallerani, and was probably painted at a time when she was the mistress of Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, and Leonardo was in the service of the Duke.
The painting is one of only four female portraits painted by Leonardo, the others being the Mona Lisa, the portrait of Ginevra de' Benci and La belle ferronniere. It is currently displayed in the Wawel Castle, Kraków, Poland. When exhibited in The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, it was described as "signal[ling] a breakthrough in the art of psychological portraiture.
(source: wikipedia)
Csontváry: The Lonely Cedar

The Lonely Cedar features a whole lot of stuff I normally can’t abide in painting: a strong scent of mystical symbolism; dry, tempera like application of oil paint; and things that look to deliberately like other things. For instance, in the painting (6 ½ -feet square), a major part of the tree, on the right, looks kike it has a huge four-legged, giraffe-necked woodpecker clinging to it. The base of the tree resembles some kind of animal foot. A mountain in the distance to the left is topped by what seems to be a nipple.
(source: wikipedia)
Courbet: Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine

Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine (Summer), depicting two prostitutes under a tree, as well as the first of many hunting scenes Courbet was to paint during the remainder of his life.
(source: wikipedia)

Csontváry weeks

Csontváry: The Lonely Cedar

The Lonely Cedar features a whole lot of stuff I normally can’t abide in painting: a strong scent of mystical symbolism; dry, tempera like application of oil paint; and things that look to deliberately like other things. For instance, in the painting (6 ½ -feet square), a major part of the tree, on the right, looks kike it has a huge four-legged, giraffe-necked woodpecker clinging to it. The base of the tree resembles some kind of animal foot. A mountain in the distance to the left is topped by what seems to be a nipple.
(source: wikipedia)
Csontváry: Passing through the bridge company

The picture one of the most puzzling Csontváry company's image. However, the painting animation, dynamic composition, the landscape and figural elements versatility of color because of all the ways Csontváry reproduced works of popular and much in between places.
(source: wikipedia)
Csontváry: Pilgrimage to the Cedars in Lebanon

In the summer of 1907 Csontváry two cedar picture painted in Lebanon. The lone cedar dominates the landscape, the pilgrimage cedar is also higher than the mountains.
(source: wikipedia)
Csontváry: Roman bridge at Mostar

Csontváry spent spring 1903 in Herzegovina and Bosnia. Spring in Mostar and Roman Bridge in Mostar were inspired by Mostar itself. The view of a bridge over the Neretva, a river of emerald colour water, recalls a dream. Its desolation and silence without a person around symbolise the loneliness and solitude of the artist who attempts to make preterhuman efforts. It is all vain to stick to topographic fidelity or to amalgamate two different approaches in order to create a characteristic picture: the world of fantasy defeats objectivity and the peculiar atmosphere of contours lures one to dream. The bridge, which took 9 years to build from 1556, was exploded in a flash at the end of the 20th century. Csontváry Kosztka was wrong to term it Roman as it was built by Hairudin, a famous Turkish architect. The waterfall, another typical motif of the picture, had a more important role in the view of Jajce. In fact, Csontváry often painted waterfalls. The immense power of water, this element, falling from above, served as a symbol of nature.
(source: wikipedia)

You can access the content of the demo system in two ways:

Enter the web address (URL) directly on any device
So by typing the web address of demo (http://demos.guidoguide.hu/guidowebdemo) to any web browser - is it up to desktop PC or a mobile device - the browser load the device optimized main page of the system.
Read the QR placed next to the object using a mobile device
You can try this in the demo system, so that, for example a desktop PC's browser load the demo system, and the bottom of all pages (the main page to) displayed a special , highlighted section:
("Support for mobile devices"),
This section includes a QR code, which is used to access the page. You scan this QR code on your mobile device and system fill the page in the mobile device's browser.

In live environment these codes does not appear in a desktop browser interface. The printed QR codes are placed next to the objects.

Collection of example QR codes

The system is multilingual.
Unlimited number of languages supported. This demo is available in English and Hungarian.

Contents of objects

Object can be organized to groups. Each object can be a member of multiple groups.
Contents of object are added and edited by using a central content management tool (images, audio and video content can be added along with textual information).
not only specific art object informations available to recording, but any number of custom information pages to:
advertising, temporary or permanent program reviews, general tourist information and general historical background, restaurants, hotels, etc.

User interface, navigation and design

The current design of the demo is only for demonstration purposes. Both the navigation and the design is fully customizable so it is possible to create either a unique UI and nevigation or adjust it to our customer's exsiting website(s).
The system can operate as a stand-alone main website, or attached to an existing website as a sub-domain.
In a mixed intranet-internet installation (for example inside a building/zoo, using a local wifi network as well as public internet) It is possible to control what information is accessible publicly and what is available only locally, at the exhibition. For example, it is possible to show only a selected sample of objects on the public site while all information is available locally, whithin local wifi network.
It is also possible to design a different navigation (menus) for mobile and desktop browsers.

Dynamic data management

GUIDO.WEB has a centralized, web-based data administration tool. Using this administration tool, all content of the site can be managed. This module is not available in the demo version. In case of interest, please contact us and we will demonstrate it's functionality and usage.

Data management options:

the main menu can be expanded further menu items, which navigate to any web address or to any custom page in GUIDO.WEB system
main page contents are individually hand assembled, modified. It currently consists of four articles ("Welcome to Multimedia Information System demonstration!", "Guide / Information about the demo", "GUIDO.WEB Services", "Management is easy, simply") , but it is completely converted to.
grouping objects in a single level, you can always change
(In the current demo: "Collections")
the tours can be compiled into in the administration interface
(In the current demo: "Tours")
highlighted information session can be set up more, and each may be subject to specific objects or articles, advertisements, programs and events.
(Two highlighted sections of the demo system is currently: "Arts of the Month", "Csontváry weeks")
collection of links at the bottom of the page
- flexibly grouped (there are currently three groups)
- unlimited number of link items available on the website
- all link item and group can be modify

Whatever questions arise about the operation of the system or the demo, please contact us: contact the developer

Support for mobile devices

Please read the QR code on the right side with your mobile device's camera.

The system is capable to present the information not only in "normal" version - optimized for dekstop web browsers -, but in mobile version as well, which is optimized for mobile devices (smartphones, tablets). You don't need to do anything, just open the website on you smartphone, and the system will present the mobile-optimized version automatically. (It is possible to change to full version of course any time.)

It is possible to reach the information stored in the system - object infos, tours, collections, etc. - "directly", by putting a QR code next to the physical object, and reading that by you mobile device's camera. That will automatically open the device's browser and load the particular page with the related data.

Note: Most modern smartphone's camera application already includes such QR code reading function. For those models that doesn't have this as built in feature. there are plenty 3rd party applications available for all main mobile platforms.

Please test this feature by reading the QR code on the right:

Collections

Tours

Arts of the Month

Leonardo da Vinci: Lady with an Ermine

Csontváry: The Lonely Cedar

Courbet: Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine

Csontváry weeks

Csontváry: The Lonely Cedar

Csontváry: Passing through the bridge company

Csontváry: Pilgrimage to the Cedars in Lebanon

Csontváry: Roman bridge at Mostar

User guide to demo

Support for mobile devices

About the Museum

GUIDO.WEB infos

Regular exhibitions