Arts of the Month

  • 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)

  • 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)

  • 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

  • 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)

  • 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)

  • 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 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)

 

Welcome to a demo of GUIDO.WEB Online Information System

You are viewing the online demonstration site of GUIDO.WEB, which demonstrates the system's features, functions and potential through the content of an imaginary art gallery.

GUIDO.WEB is a web-based object-information system that can be installed in internet and/or intranet environment, and provides multi-language, multimedia-capable content remotely - for users using their computer's browser -, or locally, at place of objects, which can be either inside buildings or any public places like streets, entertainment parks, zoos, etc. The system is capable to provide it's content for classic desktop browsers as well as mobile-optimized content for wide range of mobile devices like smartphones, tablets, netbooks.



Guide / Information about the demo

This demonstration version is for demonstration prurposess, and as such, is slightly different than the operation of the production environment.

Please read the instructions of demonstration version. You can get more information about the operation and services of the GUIDO.WEB system by reading the following articles:

General user guide

Collection of example QR codes


GUIDO.WEB Services

GUIDO.WEB is not designated only for traditional museums. It is a framework, with both the appearance and the content being completely customizable. So in any area in which you want to provide information about arts (e.g. a museum, gallery, auction house), tools, machines (a machinery exhibition), buildings (tourist information system), statues, plants (botanical garden), animals (zoo), etc., it is possible use this system to enhance your visitor's experience.

Video & audio content demo, Picture gallery demo

For details about available services and features please visit the following page: Main features of GUIDO.WEB system.

Applicable to: museums, zoos, educational trails, tourist information services, archives, corporate event walks, showrooms (see in detail: GUIDO.WEB target areas)


Easy management

All content appearing on pages of a GUIDO.WEB site are being managed by a web-based backend application. The application provides a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get), easy to use content editor. You can write, copy & paste and format text just as with any document editor. You can also add audio, image or video content by just a few clicks.

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: