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Rogan · Pristupio: 14 Apr 2006 Poruke: 5426 Studijska grupa: Istorija umetnosti

Mavro Kazafranka ::

MIT alleges flaws in Gehry building

BOSTON - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is suing renowned architect Frank Gehry, alleging serious design flaws in the Stata Center, a building celebrated for its unconventional walls and radical angles.

The school asserts that the center, completed in spring 2004, has persistent leaks, drainage problems and mold growing on its brick exterior. It says accumulations of snow and ice have fallen dangerously from window boxes and other areas of its roofs, blocking emergency exits and causing damage.

The suit says MIT paid Los Angeles-based Gehry Partners $15 million to design the Stata Center, which cost $300 million to build. It houses labs, offices, classrooms and meeting rooms.

"Gehry breached its duties by providing deficient design services and drawings," according to the suit, which also names New Jersey-based Beacon Skanska Construction Co., now known as Skanska USA Building Inc. The suit, filed Oct. 31, seeks unspecified damages.

Gehry Partners did not immediately respond to a call from The Associated Press seeking comment Tuesday, and did not respond to calls and e-mails Monday from The Boston Globe. A spokesman for MIT declined to comment because of the pending lawsuit.

An executive at Skanska's Boston office said Gehry ignored warnings from Skanska and a consulting company before construction that there were flaws in the design. "This is not a construction issue, never has been," said Paul Hewins, executive vice president and area general manager of Skanska USA.

the Stata Center

Hehe, Geri je izgleda krenuo stopama F. L. Rajta... Sto bi on (Rajt) svojim recima rekao...
‘If the roof doesn’t leak, the architect hasn’t been creative enough.”

E, to je arhitetura kakvu zhelim da vidim oko sebe... pa makar curela, po principu "crkni skote zbog lepote"... Kez

jimson_crimson · Pristupio: 18 Apr 2006 Poruke: 1772 Studijska grupa: Istorija umetnosti

Ne kapiram ih............ako je vec zgrada toliko nefunkcionalna i ima toliko mana onda neka je ne koriste nizasta osim za razgledanje i pokazivanje............'oce da ga tuze! Pf!! Zasto? Zato sto oni nisu mogli da smislle tako nesto a i da jesu nisu imali muda da projektuju!! Ne smeju dirati niti njega niti zgradu..........uistinu jedno od kardinalnih dela arhitekture!

Mavro Kazafranka · Administrator

Bilo bi kul da sud presudi u korist MITa i da naredi Geriju da im kupi pet tuba silikonskog gita da zacepe rupe Kez

Mavro Kazafranka · Administrator

Malo obimniji tekst... ali vredi procitati...

MIT sues Gehry, citing leaks in $300m complex
Blames famed architect for flaws at Stata Center

MIT's $300 million Stata Center in Cambridge, designed by architect Frank Gehry, was completed in the spring of 2004. (mark wilson/globe staff/file 2007)

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has filed a negligence suit against world-renowned architect Frank Gehry, charging that flaws in his design of the $300 million Stata Center in Cambridge, one of the most celebrated works of architecture unveiled in years, caused leaks to spring, masonry to crack, mold to grow, and drainage to back up.

The suit says that MIT paid Los Angeles-based Gehry Partners $15 million to design the Stata Center, which was hailed by critics as innovative and eye-catching with its unconventional walls and radical angles. But soon after its completion in spring 2004, the center's outdoor amphitheater began to crack due to drainage problems, the suit says. Snow and ice cascaded dangerously from window boxes and other projecting roof areas, blocking emergency exits and damaging other parts of the building, according to the suit. Mold grew on the center's brick exterior, the suit says, and there were persistent leaks throughout the building.

The suit says it cost MIT more than $1.5 million to hire another company to rebuild the amphitheater, with new bricks, seats, and a new drainage system.

The institute alleges that both Gehry Partners and the construction company, New Jersey-based Beacon Skanska Construction Company, now known as Skanska USA Building Inc., violated their contracts with MIT and are responsible for construction and design failures on the project. The 400,000-square-foot Ray and Maria Stata Center, on Vassar Street, also houses labs, offices, classrooms, and meeting rooms, and features a "street" that winds through the ground floor.

"Gehry breached its duties by providing deficient design services and drawings," says the suit, which was filed in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston on Oct. 31 and seeks unspecified damages for costs and expenses incurred by MIT.

Gehry Partners did not respond to repeated calls and e-mail yesterday from the Globe. A spokesman for MIT declined to comment because of the pending lawsuit.

An executive at Skanska's Boston office yesterday blamed Gehry for problems with the project and said Gehry ignored warnings from Skanska and a consulting company prior to construction that there were flaws in his design of the amphitheater.

"This is not a construction issue, never has been," said Paul Hewins, executive vice president and area general manager of Skanska USA. He said Gehry rejected Skanska's formal request to create a design that included soft joints and a drainage system in the amphitheater, and "we were told to proceed with the original design."

After the amphitheater began cracking and flooding, Skanska spent "a few hundred thousand dollars" trying to resolve the problems, but, he said, "it was difficult to make the original design work."

He said Skanska, which built Gillette Stadium, the State Street Financial Center, and Terminal A at Logan International Airport, tried to work with MIT, and attended mediation with the university, but was unable to resolve all issues.

Hewins said two consulting firms hired by MIT agreed with Skanska's assessment that Gehry's initial design was flawed and that the amphitheater had to be completely rebuilt.

"We worked hard to work with MIT to bring this to resolution . . . but it was a design issue," Hewins said.

"It really is a disaster," said former Boston University president John Silber, who sharply criticizes the Stata Center's design in a new book, "Architecture of the Absurd: How 'Genius' Disfigured a Practical Art."

After learning of the lawsuit yesterday, Silber said Gehry "thinks of himself as an artist, as a sculptor. But the trouble is you don't live in a sculpture and users have to live in this building."

Gehry, one of the world's most famous architects, designed the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, one of the most acclaimed architectural structures of the 1990s; the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles; and the recently completed IAC/InterActive Corp headquarters in New York.

Gehry is not the first famous architect to be sued over the design of a local landmark. I.M. Pei and Partners, the architects who designed the 60-story John Hancock Tower, were sued, along with a handful of contractors and engineers, after panes of glass began popping out of the Back Bay building and crashing onto the street below during its construction in the 1970s. It drew worldwide publicity as "The Plywood skyscraper" when its glass was temporarily replaced with wood. The case was settled out of court.

Robert Campbell, an architect who is a critic for the Globe, said it is inevitable that there will be problems in any unconventional building like the Stata Center, which has roofs colliding at different, odd angles.

"It looks like something out of a Disney cartoon," Campbell said. "It's really quite pleasurable and people like it, but it does involve some risks in that it's impossible to keep it from leaking."

In its suit, MIT said it wanted to create a complex of buildings on the nearly 3-acre site along Vassar Street designed to "catalyze interactions and innovations among MIT's faculty and students in computing, information science, artificial intelligence, and linguistics and philosophy."

The result, Campbell said, helped to break up the monotony of a street of concrete buildings.

"Because he's so daring, you figure you've got to be daring, too, if you're a client," Campbell said. "You know if you hire Frank Gehry there are going to be new kinds of problems." But he said clients accept the risks because "they'll get a building like no other building."

jimson_crimson · Pristupio: 18 Apr 2006 Poruke: 1772 Studijska grupa: Istorija umetnosti

BMW Welt, ili u prevodu BMW-ov svet, zgrada koja je pocela da se gradi 2003. a zavrsena u oktobru ove godine. Impresivno dostignuce arhitekture i inzinjerstva, koje podseca na neku svemirsku stanicu ili nekakvu vanzemaljsku gradjevinu spustenu na zemlju. Najinteresantniji deo gradjevine i ono sto prvo zapada za oko je glavni motiv zgrade u obliku pescanog sata koji zapravo cine dve zarubljene kupe koje su spojene na svojim vrhovima a u unutrasnjosti one nose spiralno stepeniste. Pogledajte i sami...

Vise o Welt-u ovde...

Rogan · Pristupio: 14 Apr 2006 Poruke: 5426 Studijska grupa: Istorija umetnosti

Vest je stara nekih godinu dana, ali je ipak vrlo zabavna i zanimljiva :

When art kills

Several people were inside the sculpture when it lifted off

Two people have been killed and 13 injured after a giant, inflatable sculpture blew free from its moorings.

Many were inside the artwork, which consists of connected rooms, when it lifted 30ft into the air at Riverside Park, Chester-le-Street, County Durham.

The Dreamspace sculpture is thought to have drifted for about 40m.

A 38-year-old woman from the town and a 68-year-old woman from Seaham died. A three-year-old girl was seriously injured and was flown to hospital.

The girl, from Langley Park near Durham, is in Newcastle General Hospital.

The Health and Safety executive has launched an investigation.

Three children, aged between eight and 11, suffered neck, leg and arm injuries and were taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead.

An 11-year-old girl was taken to Durham's Dryburn Hospital suffering from shock and a 13-year-old girl was taken to South Tyneside General Hospital with minor injuries.

Walking wounded were also taken to the hospitals.

The sculpture - called Dreamspace - is thought to have drifted for up to 40m before catching on a CCTV camera post and coming down near a children's playground.

About 500 people were in the vicinity of the sculpture, which is half the size of a football pitch, when it came loose.

Fire officers spent much of their time trying to account for people missing inside the structure. Six ambulances and two air ambulances were sent to the scene.

Durham Fire Brigade spokesman John Robson said: "There's been a large inflatable structure, which included walls and floors and obviously the top, which has somehow lifted off the ground, and moved between 30 and 40m out of its pitched area.

The sculpture consists of several interconnected rooms

"There were people inside the structure and obviously people within the vicinity of the structure on the ground, and there were a few casualties.

"There were 400 to 500 people at the park and when we first arrived it was chaos.

"There were parents looking for children, children looking for parents. We had to extricate a number of people from the structure. A number of people had fallen on top of each other."

The sculpture, created by artist Maurice Agis, has appeared at venues around the world and has recently featured on the Derren Brown television show.

It comprises several different rooms, made of translucent PVC sheets, which are interconnected and inflated by air to allow visitors to walk about inside.

'Open mind'

Ch Supt Trevor Watson, from Durham Police, said: "There are a range of injures from some of the children who received bumps and bruises to more serious injuries.

"We are working with the Health and Safety Executive who are already on the scene, obviously looking to establish the cause... we are keeping an open mind.

"I'm sure any individual caught up in the situation would have been frightened and terrified by the final consequences as were people on the ground."

Police are appealing for anyone with film footage of the incident to contact them.

By evening, the remains of the structure were strewn across the grounds of Riverside Park. The red, yellow, and blue polythene was shredded and scattered over a wide area.

garfield · Pristupio: 27 Jan 2007 Poruke: 2609 Studijska grupa: Etnologija i antropologija

Leonardo Da Vinci may have been an Arab

By Malcolm Moore in Rome

Leonardo Da Vinci may have been an Arab, according to scientists who have studied a single, complete fingerprint found on one of his paintings.

The print, taken from the artist's left index finger, was discovered after an exhaustive three-year trawl through his works by researchers at the University of Chieti.

Professor Luigi Capasso, an anthropologist who led the team, said the central whorl of the fingerprint was a common pattern in the Middle East.

"Around 60 per cent of the Middle Eastern population have the same structure," he said.

The revelation will give weight to the increasingly popular academic theory that Da Vinci's mother, Caterina, was a slave who came to Tuscany from Istanbul.

Alessandro Vezzosi, an expert on the Renaissance genius and the director of the museum in his hometown of Vinci, said: "We have documents that suggest she was Oriental, at least from the Mediterranean area.

"She was not a peasant of Vinci. Furthermore, her name was Caterina, which was very common among slaves in Tuscany at the time."

Almost nothing is left of Da Vinci, or his family.

After his death in 1519, his remains were dispersed in a series of religious wars.
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The discovery of the fingerprint came after three years of scrutinising 52 manuscripts and paintings attributed to the artist.

Using the latest spectral scanning technology, the team found more than 200 prints, but only one perfect specimen, on a painting called "Portrait of a Lady with an Ermine".

Da Vinci used his finger to smudge the necklace's shadow in the painting, which is from the Czartoryski museum in the Polish city of Krakow.

Not all the traces in the various documents were left by Da Vinci.

Many of them belonged to his apprentices, or to people who handled the manuscripts, said Prof Capasso.

The left-handed Da Vinci often ate while he worked, so some of the grubby marks are food-based, and research is currently being carried out into what sort of diet the artist had.

The fingerprint is also being used to identify two paintings, which may rocket in value to up to £70 million each if they are found to be genuine.

"We are pleased that the fingerprint can be used to authenticate unknown works, or those we are unsure were carried out by the great genius," said Prof Capasso.

A team of forensic policemen from Rome has examined La Madone de Laroque and Saint Catherine of Alexandria for fingerprints that may match the new Da Vinci print.

The paintings are on show at the History of Biomedicine Museum at Chieti University.

The picture of the madonna was bought in a French street market for £142 and has been thought until now, together with the St Catherine, to be the work of Giampietrino, one of Da Vinci's pupils.

However, studies on the paintings show that the tip of the artist's fingers were used to smudge a soft-focus effect, one of Da Vinci's trademark techniques.

Colonel Gianfranco de Fulvio, an Italian police forensic expert, said his team had taken several photographs of the surface of the two paintings and were busy checking to find a match.

"I'm used to working on fingerprints left by the Mafia, but the skill is similar. We are pretty confident about settling the matter," he said.

Bogme, ako je Djanfranko raskrinkao mafiju, sigurno ce i Leonarda! Kez

Rogan · Pristupio: 14 Apr 2006 Poruke: 5426 Studijska grupa: Istorija umetnosti

Hahaha... sjajno.... A prouchavanjem Leonardove ishrane che utvrditi da je jeo... Jaja! Hleb! Meso! i druge prehrambene tvorevine, i da je zato bio takav genije...

A kad smo vech kod sumanutih teorija vezanmih za Leonarda...

Did Da Vinci hide God's face in painting?

By Aislinn Simpson
Last Updated: 6:24pm GMT 07/12/2007

A new storm is brewing in the world of Da Vinci theorists after a mysterious group claimed it has used mirrors to uncover hidden biblical images in some of the great master’s most famous works.

In recent years, art history scholars have unveiled Templar knights, Mary Magdalene, a child and a musical script hidden in the Italian’s paintings.

These images, from the group's website, show how the original The Virgin and Child sketch (left) can be manipulated with mirrors to supposedly show the ancient Old Testament god Jahveh (right)

It is well-documented that Da Vinci, who lived between 1452 and 1519, often wrote in mirror writing, either in an attempt to stop his rivals stealing his ideas or in a bid to hide his scientific theories, often deemed as subversive, from the powerful Roman Catholic Church.

But now a group known as The Mirror of the Sacred Scriptures and Paintings World Foundation believes that he applied the same technique to some of his best-known creations, including the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper, to conceal mysterious faces and religious symbols.

When applied to the sketch The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist, which hangs in London’s National Gallery, the authors say the mirror image reveals the ancient Old Testament god Jahveh, who "protects the soul of the body’s vices" and wears the Vatican’s crown.

Their theory would explain why many of Da Vinci’s characters seem to be pointing or staring into space, as if searching for the Divine.
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The group claims they are indicating where the mirror should be placed to reveal the painting’s secrets.

In the Virgin and Child sketch, they say, it explains why John the Baptist appears to be staring past Jesus into the distance.

A similar face appears when a mirror is applied to the right hand shoulder of Mona Lisa, and the experts also claim to have found an upturned holy grail on the table in front of Christ in the celebrated Last Supper fresco.

The mirror-technique is applied to another painting of John the Baptist to reveal the four-legged image of creation and the Tree of Life in Adam and Eve’s Garden of Eden.

Again, John is pointing with both hands to the place where the mirror needs to be placed to reveal the "hidden" image.

According to the group, the same technique was used by Michelangelo and Raphael, in artwork exhibited in the Vatican, and Renaissance artists including the neoclassicist Jacques Louis David. Similar images have also been found in famous paintings and sculptures of Buddha.

The Mona Lisa supposedly shows a similar face

The study’s authors wrote to the Vatican last year to explain their discovery, but received a lofty reply saying that while their findings would no doubt be the object of much discussion in the art history world, their ideas required "solid proof" and needed to be supported by a general consensus among art critics before they could be taken seriously.

Critics of the project will claim the authors want to cash in on the worldwide fascination with Da Vinci conspiracy theories, brought to a head by the publication of Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code and the subsequent Tom Hanks film.

These featured the theory that the male figure on Christ’s immediate right is actually Mary Magdalene and the couple had descendants living in the modern world, and multiplied visits to sites all over the world to which Da Vinci was linked.

The latest theory, expounded by The Mirror of the Sacred Scriptures and Paintings group, whose website www.mirrorandart.com, is owned by the Sacred and Divine Reason and Foundation Corp, follows the revelation in July by an Italian amateur scholar that the Last Supper contained a hidden image of a woman holding a child.

The figure, he said, appeared when the fresco was superimposed with its mirror image and both were made partially transparent.

garfield · Pristupio: 27 Jan 2007 Poruke: 2609 Studijska grupa: Etnologija i antropologija

Da li ovo znachi da je Darth Vader u stvari Bog?

Rogan · Pristupio: 14 Apr 2006 Poruke: 5426 Studijska grupa: Istorija umetnosti

Meni vishe lichi na Davy Jones-a iz Pirota Sas Kariba...

devianna

garfield ::

Leondardo Da Vinci may have been an Arab

By Malcolm Moore in Rome

Leonardo Da Vinci may have been an Arab, according to scientists who have studied a single, complete fingerprint found on one of his paintings.

The print, taken from the artist's left index finger, was discovered after an exhaustive three-year trawl through his works by researchers at the University of Chieti.

Professor Luigi Capasso, an anthropologist who led the team, said the central whorl of the fingerprint was a common pattern in the Middle East.

"Around 60 per cent of the Middle Eastern population have the same structure," he said.

The revelation will give weight to the increasingly popular academic theory that Da Vinci's mother, Caterina, was a slave who came to Tuscany from Istanbul.

Alessandro Vezzosi, an expert on the Renaissance genius and the director of the museum in his hometown of Vinci, said: "We have documents that suggest she was Oriental, at least from the Mediterranean area.

"She was not a peasant of Vinci. Furthermore, her name was Caterina, which was very common among slaves in Tuscany at the time."

Almost nothing is left of Da Vinci, or his family.

After his death in 1519, his remains were dispersed in a series of religious wars.
advertisement

The discovery of the fingerprint came after three years of scrutinising 52 manuscripts and paintings attributed to the artist.

Using the latest spectral scanning technology, the team found more than 200 prints, but only one perfect specimen, on a painting called "Portrait of a Lady with an Ermine".

Da Vinci used his finger to smudge the necklace's shadow in the painting, which is from the Czartoryski museum in the Polish city of Krakow.

Not all the traces in the various documents were left by Da Vinci.

Many of them belonged to his apprentices, or to people who handled the manuscripts, said Prof Capasso.

The left-handed Da Vinci often ate while he worked, so some of the grubby marks are food-based, and research is currently being carried out into what sort of diet the artist had.

The fingerprint is also being used to identify two paintings, which may rocket in value to up to £70 million each if they are found to be genuine.

"We are pleased that the fingerprint can be used to authenticate unknown works, or those we are unsure were carried out by the great genius," said Prof Capasso.

A team of forensic policemen from Rome has examined La Madone de Laroque and Saint Catherine of Alexandria for fingerprints that may match the new Da Vinci print.

The paintings are on show at the History of Biomedicine Museum at Chieti University.

The picture of the madonna was bought in a French street market for £142 and has been thought until now, together with the St Catherine, to be the work of Giampietrino, one of Da Vinci's pupils.

However, studies on the paintings show that the tip of the artist's fingers were used to smudge a soft-focus effect, one of Da Vinci's trademark techniques.

Colonel Gianfranco de Fulvio, an Italian police forensic expert, said his team had taken several photographs of the surface of the two paintings and were busy checking to find a match.

"I'm used to working on fingerprints left by the Mafia, but the skill is similar. We are pretty confident about settling the matter," he said.

Bogme, ako je Djanfranko raskrinkao mafiju, sigurno ce i Leonarda! Kez

Hmz...jel se to meni chini ili je ova vest malko bajata....? Plez

28 Dec, 2006

Mavro Kazafranka ::

Researchers: Da Vinci's fingerprint has been identified

ROME
Anthropologists said they have pieced together Leonardo da Vinci's left index fingerprint -- a discovery that could help provide information on such matters as the food the artist ate and whether his mother was of Arabic origin.

The reconstruction of the fingerprint was the result of three years of research and could help attribute disputed paintings or manuscripts, said Luigi Capasso, an anthropologist and director of the Anthropology Research Institute at Chieti University in central Italy.

''It adds the first touch of humanity. We knew how Leonardo saw the world and the future ... but who was he? This biological information is about his being human, not being a genius,'' Capasso said in a recent telephone interview.

The research was based on a first core of photographs of about 200 fingerprints -- most of them partial-- taken from about 52 papers handled by Leonardo in his life. Capasso's work, presented in 2005 in a specialized magazine called Anthropologie, published in the Czech Republic, is on display in an exhibition in the town of Chieti through March 30.

The artist often ate while working, and Capasso and other experts said his fingerprints could include traces of saliva, blood or the food he ate the night before. It is information that could help clear up questions about his origins.

Certain distinctive features are more common in the fingerprints of some ethnic populations, experts say.

''The one we found in this finger tip applies to 60 percent of the Arabic population, which suggests the possibility that his mother was of Middle-Eastern origin,'' Capasso said.

The idea that Leonardo's mother could have been a slave who came to Tuscany from Costantinople is not new and has been the object of other research.

Alessandro Vezzosi, a Leonardo expert and the director of a museum dedicated to the artist in his hometown of Vinci, said there are documents that appear to back this up.

''This coincides with documented indications that she was Oriental, at least from the Mediterranean area, not a peasant of Vinci,'' he said.

Vezzosi, who manages the archive of documents Capasso used for his study, warned that her origin cannot be determined with any certainty until a contract documenting her sale is found.

''Still, her name was Caterina, the most common name among slaves in Tuscany, and we have no certain elements about her,'' he said. The experts say some of the fingerprints left on the manuscripts might belong to the people who handled them over time. However, those caused by attempts to remove ink blots were surely left by the author, Capasso said.

Biological information on Leonardo is largely incomplete. The artist, who was generally but not exclusively left-handed, used his fingers to paint, and his thumb print recurs on the manuscripts, Vezzosi said.

Leonardo sometimes worked while eating or traveling, and his fingers were often dirty, sometimes with residue of food, Vezzosi said.

Carlo Vecce, a professor of Italian literature at Naples' University and a leading Leonardo expert, said the research, in which he was not involved, appears to be ''founded.''

''The research on Leonardo's fingerprints is very interesting. It's always good to locate and distinguish these details both on the paintings and on the drawings,'' he said. ''The fingerprints can tell us if Leonardo was there or if he intervened (on a painting), it's a hint.'' Vecce noted, though, that a fingerprint is not enough proof to attribute a work with certainty, and such a discovery does not necessarily add much to what is known about the artist.

''It give us the illusion of a contact with the genius,'' he said. ''But the most important things about Leonardo are those that concern his intellectual activity, those that we get by reading his words or interpreting what he wrote.''

December 1, 2006

BY Marta Falconi, Associated Press

garfield · Pristupio: 27 Jan 2007 Poruke: 2609 Studijska grupa: Etnologija i antropologija

Citat:

Hmz...jel se to meni chini ili je ova vest malko bajata....?

jel ti to Mavro rekao da napishesh? Plez

elem, tema je zanimljivosti, a ne vesti, zanimljivo je, ne mora da bude toliko sveze.... Namig

Rogan · Pristupio: 14 Apr 2006 Poruke: 5426 Studijska grupa: Istorija umetnosti

Ime teme je Zanimljivosti iz sveta umetnosti, ne Novosti/Vesti... Bash zbog toga shto chesto prodje dosta vremena dok neke ovakve vesti dodju do nas...

<<<EDIT>>> eh, what she said...

devianna

Pa ako je tebi zanimljivo da ponavljash jednu temu svakih godinu dana... Namig

garfield · Pristupio: 27 Jan 2007 Poruke: 2609 Studijska grupa: Etnologija i antropologija

Naravno da jeste Rolling Eyes

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