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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Castiglione"”.
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'The Proust of Painting': Jacques-Émile Blanche, the Neurasthenic Portrait and the Nervous Elite of Paris 1900
… of Marcel Proust (1871-1922) and the Comtesse de Castiglione (1837-1899), the thesis considers Blanche’s ‘neurasthenic portraits’ in relation to discourses on modern psychiatry, modernity, and modern art, drawing attention to how they enrich our understanding of the social, cultural and artistic …
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The psychological underpinnings of collective climate action
We are in the midst of a dangerous climate crisis, and collective mobilization is needed to push for urgent global transformations. Many people already perceive the risk that human actions are driving increasingly catastrophic climate impacts, but only a few are taking actions such as asking …
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Child Care in the United States: Assessing Parental Preferences in the Selection of Nonparental Care
This study examined the relationship between child, respondent, parent/guardian, and household characteristics and the preferences of the availability of sick care, a small group size, a reasonable cost, and a caregiver who shares similar beliefs about raising children in the selection of …
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L’addiction recovery nelle comunità terapeutiche per le dipendenze come esperienza trasformativa
Il presente lavoro di ricerca indaga il processo di addiction recovery nelle comunità terapeutiche assumendo la prospettiva dell’apprendimento trasformativo di Mezirow. L’obiettivo generale è mostrare come il recovery possa essere interpretato come un percorso di apprendimento che coinvolge la …
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An interactive multiobjective dam management optimization methodology for flood risk protection [Modello interattivo per l’ottimizzazione multiobiettivo della gestione delle dighe ai fini della mitigazione del rischio idraulico]
L’ottimizzazione gestionale delle dighe è un complesso problema multiobiettivo, le cui attuali soluzioni faticano a diffondersi nella pratica operativa. La presente tesi propone una nuova metodologia di ottimizzazione evolutiva multi-obiettivo, capace di coinvolgere interattivamente i portatori di …
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A COURTIER'S LEGACY: CASTIGLIONE'S LITERARY INFLUENCE ON ELIZABETH ENGLAND
… examines the cultural influence of Baldesar Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier on European culture. Specifically, argue that the Courtier had a profound influence on Elizabethan England and its cultural development. I achieve this goal by examining various genres of literature during this …
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Genoese baroque painting
… Mortari’s <em>Strozzi</em> (1966); Percy’s <em>Castiglione</em> (1971) and Manzitti’s <em>Valerio Castello</em> (1972). The interest in Genoese art has extended to comprehensive exhibitions of the Genoese baroque period assembled in 1938 by Grosso, Bonzi and Marcenaro; in 1947 by Morassi; in …
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Performing photographs: memory, history, and display
In my study, I place concepts and practices of photography and performance in dialogue to enable our understanding of how photographs perform and how performance contains or can contain elements we attribute to photographs. The connection between photography and performance that most intrigues me …
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Memory in Early Modern Spanish Poetry and Poetics: Rhetorical Traditions, Philosophical Debates, Political Contexts
This doctoral thesis explores how early modern Spanish lyric poets and poetic theorists shaped sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish culture and thought through their cross- disciplinary engagement with contemporary theories and practices of memory. Focusing on the works of Juan Boscán (ca. …