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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Engravings"”.
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Material realities, belief and aspiration in the later 19th century rock engravings of the Williston District of the Karoo
This dissertation interrogates the process of culture change and continuity among the 19th century Khoesan in the Karoo who were the descendants of precolonial hunter-gatherer and pastoralist populations. It looks at how local Karoo dwellers experienced and possibly mediated global impacts through …
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"Virtuous love: messages for brides and grooms in the fifteenth-century ""Otto Prints"""
A series of forty-two circular and oval engravings dating from 1465 to 1475 depict playful scenes of lovers, putti, and exemplary women. These engravings, known to scholars as the “Otto prints,” were likely pasted onto small boxes called forzierini, which were presented to women after their …
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Arquétipos e memória: A gravura de Marcelo Grassmann
… as a memory rescuer, elaborating in the wood engravings, lithographies and metal engravings, the reconstruction through the memory. It is the rescue of the memory of the history of a past transformed into to present, in the privileged space that is the Art. The work contributes with an …
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The Prehistoric rock art of Morocco.
… site and subject diversity. Four main types of engravings were Identified, their Characteristics described and their distribution plotted. Climatic fluctuations, new animal species, the introduction of meth weapons, the chariot and writing established a chronological framework. A critical …
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"As Mind to the Body": Prudence and Artificial Memory in the Illustrations and Commentary of George Sandys' Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished (1632)
… and was illustrated by several full-plate engravings. This study examines the edition's elaborate utilization of the rhetorical practices of artificial memory and related concepts of rhetorical invention. It demonstrates that these rhetorical practices were chosen and implemented for their …
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WE SUBDUED THE BODY BUT NOT THE COURAGE': POPULAR LITERATURE, SOVEREIGN AUTHORITY, AND CEREMONIAL RITES OF POWER DURING THE DUTCH REVOLT, 1550-1598'
… vast body of pamphlet literature, rarely seen engravings and images, personal and official correspondence between leading figures, edicts and proclamations, visual renderings and written accounts of public ceremonials, and songs, poems, and placards published between 1550 and 1598, this …
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Gardens of the Restoration: a new approach to establishing the Englishness of gardens in England 1660-1680
… treatises, writings and visual evidence of engravings, paintings and estate maps, the principles, characteristics and features of English, French and Dutch garden design at this time are identified. This establishesa meansby which the extent of French, Dutch or English influence on gardens …
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Beyond the Classical Landscape: Representing Greece and Anatolia in British Illustrated Books, 1832-1882
… illustrated with lithographs and wood and steel engravings, and the sketches and watercolours created to produce them. On the one hand, this means asking what was distinctive about different Greek and Anatolian landscapes for British travellers, paying attention to agroecology, physical …
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A Performance Guide for Thomas Pasatieri's Bel Canto Songs for Voice and Piano
… vocal works and all of Blake’s written works, engravings, and other artwork. Letters of permission are also included.
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Inscrições contemporâneas: a palavra-imagem no projeto da visualidade pós-moderna
… Rosâgela Rennó (1962), in paintings, drawings, engravings, art installations and photographies.
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Envisioning Antiquity: Yi Bingshou and the Politics of Memory in the Qing Dynasty
… by the materiality and archaic scripts of these engravings, painters and calligraphers of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911) deployed prodigious efforts to interpret them in different media in pursuit of aesthetic originality. This stylistic revolution, later termed beixue, or the “stele tradition,” …
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A technical and historical analysis of the decorative paintings by Nicola Monachesi in the Richard Alsop IV house, Middletown, Connecticut
… examines Monachesi’s design sources and use of engravings. It also revisits prior attribution discussions and explores why Monachesi was chosen for the commission, placing the project within the broader context of his American career. The research explores Monachesi's complete painting process, …
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Shaping Religious and Cultural Aspiration: Engraved Sutras in Southwestern Shandong Province from the Northern Qi Dynasty (550-577 CE), China
… special focus of this study is on the Buddhist engravings at Mt. Hongding in Dongping, and at Mt. Tie in Zoucheng. Created in approximately 553-564 CE, the carvings at Mt. Hongding stand as the terminus a quo of the history of Buddhist sutras carved into the rocks of the Shandong mountains. The …
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Musical knowledge, material practices and the body politic in eighteenth-century France
… sources, including print, patents, paintings and engravings, and surviving instruments. Interweaving manifold cultural practices and social actors, it enquires how people defined and experienced what music was, what it did, and who was entitled to practice and appreciate it in eighteenth-century …
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Terroir after the terror : landscape and representation in nineteenth-century France
… by Joseph Vernet in the eighteenth century to engravings produced by his nineteenth-century successor, Louis Garneray, as a form of visual border control; the third, the impact of a stringent forestry code passed in 1827 on Barbizon artists' aesthetic and material choices; and finally, the …
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A study on laser engraving process parameters and performance characteristics for wood base materials
Nowadays, laser engravings have become the most innovative technology used to engrave or mark an object by removing materials layer by layer. This research presents a study on the parameter of laser engraving on pine wood and WPC materials by using EleksMaker Laser A5-Pro model with low diode laser …
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Representations of Crime, Justice, and Punishment in the Popular Press: A Study of the Illustrated Police News, 1864-1938
… the physical space of the page. Strikingly, wood-engravings continued to be used after the introduction of photographs in the press, and execution continued to be used as source of entertainment long after the abolition of public execution in 1868. Alongside these continuities in content, style, …
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Post-Byzantine Church Architecture in Cyprus, 1191-1571
… the literature, earlier photos, drawings, engravings and historical maps. An additional valuable source of information has been the fivsco-icons that illustrate models of the churches. The method of analysis was based on the classification of the churches according to their architectural …
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The Narrative Print in the Works of John William North (1842-1924), George John Pinwell (1842-1875) and Frederick Walker (1840-1875)
… concerned to look in detail at their wood engravings in connection with the 1860s periodical and Gift Book phenomenon which occurred a dozen years after the arrival of the Pre-Raphaelite artists in 1848 on the London art scene. The group awoke a regular critical response to Art in national …
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