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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Frescoes"”.
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Italian frescoes in German baroque palaces: visual culture and princely power in the Holy Roman Empire
… on three of the most crucial themes in the frescoes: martial prowess; cultural patronage; and Europe in a global setting. I relate these themes to the changing conditions and attitudes of the Imperial aristocracy, explaining why rulers shifted from emphasizing military heroism to stressing …
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Painting, performance, senses, and space: immersing the viewer in the Last Supper refectory frescoes of fifteenth-century Florence
… and development of the monumental Last Supper frescoes in Florence’s monastic refectories, a tradition known as i cenacoli fiorentini. I discuss the iconography, provide a brief catalogue of the paintings, and observe how Ghirlandaio moved the standard composition from reinforcing the …
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Visual theology in 14th and 15th century Florentine frescoes : a theological approach to historical images, sacred spaces, and the modern viewer
Although Christianity is a ’religion of the book’, visual art has played a crucial role in the history of theological communication, and the premise of this thesis is that historical images are a potentially rich, but underused, theological resource for modern Christians. Art historical analyses …
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Degradation studies on different pigments and binders: new approaches to diagnostics in cultural heritage
… as a new tool for stratigraphy analyses of frescoes. This work is carried out in collaboration with the research centre FORTH (Crete) and it has been tested on artificial frescoes mock-ups and on real frescoes fragments, in order to obtain compositional information and stratigraphic imaging …
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An Examination of the Place of Fresco in Contemporary Art Practice
… of works: 1) site-specific projects; 2) portable frescoes and fresco installations; and 3) fresco sculptures and frescoes in mixed media. Interviews with major fresco artists examine how their work contributes to the creation of contemporary fresco and its new aesthetics. This research was used as …
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Santa Caterina at Galatina: Late Medieval Art in Salento at the frontier of the Latin and Orthodox Worlds
… ‘Latin’ church, decorated with ‘Giottesque’ frescoes, commissioned by a ruthless and ambitious signore, built with the papacy’s approval, donated to the Franciscan order and founded with the aim of providing mass in Latin for those who did not speak Greek. This dissertation argues that that …
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Potential output and sources of economic growth: Korea 1962-1968
… to introduce a massive quality into his frescoes. More readily apparent is the reuse of Arnolfian motives in the frescoes at S. Francesco in Assisi, probably painted by several artists trained in Rome. Arnolfo’s influence may also be seen in the art of Giotto, particularly in the Arena …
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Arnolfo di Cambio: sculpture
… to introduce a massive quality into his frescoes. More readily apparent is the reuse of Arnolfian motives in the frescoes at S. Francesco in Assisi, probably painted by several artists trained in Rome. Arnolfo’s influence may also be seen in the art of Giotto, particularly in the Arena …
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Excavating the Catacomb of Santa Lucia
… took place at St. Lucy through an examination of frescoes, artifacts, and tombs as well as a spatial analysis of these datasets.
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The fresco cycle in the Lombard Church of Santa Maria di Castelseprio
… approach is limited by the damaged state of the frescoes. The history of the site seems to indicate that the construction of the church could have taken place between the sixth and the ninth centuries. The architectural structure of Santa Mana can be ascribed to approximately the eighth century, …
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The role of the traditional Mediterranean diet in the development of Minoan Crete : archaeological, nutritional and biochemical evidence
… taxonomically from faunal remains and Minoan frescoes) confirm good levels of both essential and other dietary fatty foods. An assessment of the nutritional benefits of the Minoan diet and its possible role in the development of Minoan Crete are investigated, using archaeological, demographic, …
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A Portrait of the Leadership of Women in Early Christianity: an Archaeological Study in Light of the Historical and Socio-Cultural Contexts
… archaeological material of different media (frescoes, inscriptions, mosaics, ancient texts …) with its own specificities. Each medium requires its own methodology for its correct interpretation. This variety can be quite profitable because the use of multiple methodologies and approaches tend …
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Gender Ambiguity in Early Modern English and French Art, 1530-1630
… Francesco Primaticcio’s complex and ambiguous frescoes of Hercules Cross-dressing, c.1535, in the context of fascination with ambiguous images and their potential to spark learned discussions, feeding the socially competitive court of François I. The next two chapters use French renaissance and …
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World Image after World Empire: The Ptolemaic Cosmos in the Early Middle Ages, ca. 700-900
… Umayyad Mosque of Damascus) and celestial (the frescoes of Qusayr „Amra) played a major role in the staging of Umayyad rule. Thus in the early Islamic state it was the symbolic function that predominated. This is related to the gulf between the Umayyad state and its host society, and the …
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Contemporary Art and Food: An Examination of Three Case Studies Using Anthropology and Diaspora as Key.
… mosaics, Egyptian banquet scenes, to Renaissance frescoes and Flemish still-life paintings, the depiction of food and meals has had multiple meanings. Food as a medium in Western contemporary art was introduced in the 1930s by the Italian Futurists’ banquets, which celebrated modernity and …
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Plague in the Graeco-Roman world, 430 B.C.-A.D. 600
… sources, and these are examined. Sculptures and frescoes show numerous chronic and acute disorders. Human remains have shown evidence of certain diseases, while animal and parasitic remains have helped to confirm the existence of certain species instrumental in the spread of a specific disease. …
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Genoese baroque painting
… outside Italy. Orlando Grosso’s 1910 book on the frescoes in Genoese palaces and his 1910 drawing exhibition in Milan also helped introduce the artistic heritage of Genoa to Europe. During the last few decades, a number of monographs have served to clarify the merits of Genoese painters: Suida’s …
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The Structural Role of Idolatry in The Works of Marcel Proust
… on transposing the lessons learned from Giotto's frescoes into a structural framework suitable for his own writing. Invoking the cliche that a cathedral can be "constructed" in much the same way as a novel, Proust reverses the argument: why cannot a novel be "constructed" like a cathedral, i.e., …
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Oriental Contributions to Franciscan Art in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
… exegesis, and material culture studies. Through frescoes, textiles, and manuscripts, the study reconstructs how images and objects circulated within the Eurasian networks opened by the Mongol Empire. Chapter One examines Italian martyrdom paintings such as St. Francis before the Sultan and The …
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<i>Cangianti</i> and Shot Silk: Material Influence on Artistic Practice in Central Italian Painting from 1300 to 1550
… when Michelangelo’s newly cleaned Sistine Chapel frescoes were revealed.</p> <p>Chapter 3 begins with a survey of ancient Greek concepts of color, especially those of Empedocles, Plato, Aristotle, and Theophrastus, whose ideas were inseparable from theories of sight. To gain a better understanding …
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