New Delhi: With the view to celebrate the 115th birth anniversary of the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean - Amelia Mary Earhart, Google has today replaced its usual logo with a doodle that features Earhart climbing up the aircraft "Lockheed 5B Vega," which she used to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932. But, besides the fact that Amelia Mary Earhart was the first woman...
10:16 AM, Jul 24, 2012
New Delhi: Seventy five years after her disappearance and 115 years following her birth, Google is honouring the pioneering American aviator (and author) Amelia Earhart. The aviation heroine's end still remains an enigma. The doodle on Amelia Earhart's 115th birth anniversary shows her climbing up her Lockheed Vega 5B monoplane, Earhart's yellow scarf fluttering in the wind. The Google letters take the place of the original registration number of the...
12:01 AM, Jul 23, 2012
New Delhi: Gustav Klimt no doubt felt very much at ease in the company of women. Living with his mother and sisters, he chose Emilie Floge as his life's companion of many years; he was constantly surrounded by models in his studio and was much sought after as a portraitist of ladies of the high society. Six hitherto entirely unknown love letters Klimt addressed to Emilie Floge between 1895 and...
10:33 PM, Jul 14, 2012
New Delhi: To celebrate the 150th birth anniversary Gustav Klimt, the Belvedere has decided to devote a comprehensive temporary exhibition to Gustav Klimt, the most renowned Austrian painter and a trailblazer of Modernism. Klimt and his masterpieces are conveyed to the spectator through an entirely unprecedented interdisciplinary approach. As soon as visitors approach the respective paintings, the app installed on their iPads will easily establish correlations with the topography of...
05:57 PM, Jul 14, 2012
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New Delhi: With the view to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of the Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt, Google, on the one hand, replaced its logo with the doodle that includes Klimt's most famous work - "The Kiss," which was painted by him between 1907-08, while the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, Austria devotes a comprehensive temporary exhibition to Gustav Klimt, the most renowned Austrian painter and a trailblazer of Modernism....
03:53 PM, Jul 14, 2012
New Delhi: On the occasion of the 150th birth anniversary of the Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt, the Belvedere is preparing a very special presentation. The exhibition - Masterpieces in Focus: 150 Years of Gustav Klimt - on the Upper Belvedere's piano nobile will cast new light on what is the largest collection of Klimt's painting worldwide. Unlike most exhibitions of recent years, it will not deal with stylistic relationships...
02:03 PM, Jul 14, 2012
New Delhi: In a bid to mark the 150th birth anniversary of the Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt, Google today replaced its usual logo with a doodle that includes Klimt's most famous work - "The Kiss," which was painted by him between 1907-08, the highpoint of his 'Golden Period', when he painted a spate of works in a similar gilded style. Born in Baumgarten, near Vienna, in 1862, Gustav Klimt...
01:06 PM, Jul 14, 2012
New Delhi: To commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt Vienna's Wien Museum started an online contest to find the tackiest Klimt memorabilia. The contest conducted via the museum's official Facebook page has received numerous contributions that induces a toilet seat, teddy bears, a Barbie doll, slippers and also a coffin. The full gallery of the worst of Gustav Klimt memorabilia can be viewed at here....
11:30 AM, Jul 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Google doodle in honour of Gustav Klimt on his 150th birth anniversary is inspired by the Austrian symbolist painter's most famous work of art 'The Kiss'. Klimt painted 'The Kiss' between 1907 and 1908 is a square 180cmx180cm oil and gold leaf on canvas painting and shows a couple embracing. Some believe that the painting was Gustav Klimt's only self-portrait. The pattern of the elaborate robes of...
10:12 AM, Jul 14, 2012
New Delhi: A painting of a couple kissing is the theme of the doodle on the Google home page on Saturday. The Google doodle commemorating the 150th birth anniversary of the Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt is a reproduction of his most famous work - 'The Kiss'. Some of Gustav Klimt's paintings rank amongst the most expensive in the world. 'The Kiss' is a 1907-08 oil and gold leaf on...
12:00 AM, Jul 14, 2012
New Delhi: It is the 4th of July and Google is up with a doodle on its US home page that celebrates one of the United States' most famous folk songs - This Land Is Your Land. The letters of the Google logo in the colours of the flag of the United States are formed of the opening lines of Woody Guthrie's legendary song - "This land is your land,...
06:08 PM, Jul 04, 2012
New Delhi: The Alan Turing doodle that Google posted on the occasion of British mathematician and the father of computing's 100th birth anniversary is easily the most cryptic Google doodle till date. Google has brought to digital life one of Turing's incredible work (and an eventful life that ended in tragedy), the theoretical Turing machine that he proposed in a mathematical paper. This Turing machine doodle, unlike most other doodles...
03:01 PM, Jun 23, 2012
New Delhi: The doodle on the Google home page on Saturday features a Turin machine, a device used to simulate the logic of a computer algorithm and is helpful in explaining the functioning of a CPU. The doodle is an interactive doodle that requires users to break a set of six codes and each successful code break adds colour to a letter of the greyed out Google logo on doodle....
12:47 PM, Jun 23, 2012
New Delhi: Alan Turing, the father of computing, whose birth centenary is being celebrated on June 23 was also a victim of homophobia. The World War Two codebreaker committed suicide after being convicted and chemically castrated for being a homosexual. Mathematician Turing led a team at Bletchley Park country House north of London which cracked the Nazis' Enigma code - regarded by the Germans as unbreakable - a move credited...
10:21 AM, Jun 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Google doodle on the occasion of the 100th birthday of the father of computing Alan Turing will get you thinking on how to go about solving it. The doodle not only celebrates the Turing machine conceptualised by Turing in 1936 but it also honours the famous World War II codebreaker that Alan Turing was.The Turing Machine is used to simulate the logic of a computer algorithm and...
08:11 AM, Jun 23, 2012
New Delhi: Vint Cerf, Google's chief Internet evangelist, described Alan Turing as "The man challenged everyone's thinking." And the doodle that Google has posted on its home page to honour the father of computing Alan Turing's 100th birth anniversary will also set you thinking. Alan Mathison Turing was a British mathematician who articulated the mathematical foundation and limits of computing, and was a key contributor to the Allied cryptanalysis of...
12:00 AM, Jun 23, 2012
New Delhi: It is the 60th anniversary of the coronation of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Google is commemorating the event with a special doodle on its homepages in the countries of the Commonwealth realm. The doodle features a blue silhouette of Queen Elizabeth II (looking to the right), dressed in her royal finery. The Queen's long flowing blue robe is has diamond patterns and a golden border. The two...
07:00 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: Peter Carl Faberge, the famed Russian jeweller who is the subject of Wednesday's Google doodle, in his position as the the court jeweller to the last of the Russian Czars, designed his first Imperial Easter egg in 1885. [Images] The Romanovs had a tradition of presenting elaborate eggs on Easter. Czar Alexander III wanted something special to gift the Czarina Maria Feodorovna and asked Faberge for a special...
05:13 PM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: Peter Carl Faberge, the famed Russian jeweller who is the subject of Wednesday's Google doodle, in his position as the the court jeweller to the last of the Russian Czars, designed his first Imperial Easter egg in 1885. [Images] The Romanovs had a tradition of presenting elaborate eggs on Easter. Czar Alexander III wanted something special to gift the Czarina Maria Feodorovna and asked Faberge for a special...
05:13 PM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: Six gilded Easter eggs adorn the Google home page to mark master Russian jeweller Peter Carl Faberge's 166th birthday. Faberge was the court jeweller for the last two Russian Czars and the bejewelled Easter eggs were his speciality. Since the very first egg that contained a jewelled hen in 1885 Faberge made a total of 54 eggs in 37 years for the Romanovs. Only 47 of the Faberg...
01:36 PM, May 30, 2012
