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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Genoa"”.
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The merchant of Genoa : the Crusades, the Genoese and the Latin East, 1187-1220s
The Merchant of Genoa is a study of the Genoese engagement in the affairs of the eastern Mediterranean during the late Middle Ages. In particular, the dissertation examines Genoa's involvement in three crusades following the fall of the first kingdom of Jerusalem as well as the role played by …
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The project for the historic center of Genoa : toward the integration of urban planning and design
… study of intervention in the historic center of Genoa that suggests ways of thinking about city design which deal with with the gap between architecture and planning. The case is documented from the point of view of a participant in the intervention process. Following a brief description of the …
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Genoese baroque painting
… and Florence, the many dissimilar tendencies in Genoa merged and created an artistic culture with its own characteristics of color and light. This phenomenon produced an activity more alive and vital than in almost any other part of Italy. Rubens and Van Dyck were among the many artists attracted …
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SET-UP OF INNOVATIVE EXPERIMENTAL METODOLOGIES FOR THE ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOL CHARACTERISATION AND SOURCE APPORTIONMENT
… with the group of the University of Genoa for elemental size distribution determination (see next paragraph); 2)application of the PMF (Positive Matrix Factorization) receptor model to a 4-hour resolved dataset already available. In this work, PMF resolved seven main sources affecting …
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Things in time: a digital synchronic analysis of manuscript newsletters (1575-76)
… coincide with an important political event in Genoa that is symptomatic for how the news system functioned. As the principal news genre of the sixteenth century the manuscript newsletter (or avviso) was created according to certain formal and textual properties that defined it as a genre. Its …
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Genoese women, family business practices, and maritime commerce, 1155-1216
… economy of the world today. The State Archive of Genoa holds the oldest and one of the largest collections of medieval notarial records in Europe. An examination of the earliest documents reveals that Genoese women were actively involved in their city's most important commercial operations through …
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The Relations of Saint Gregory the Great, while Pope, with the Imperial Exarch of Ravenna (590-604): Based on the Correspondences
… of Venetia, Modena, Parma, Tuscany, the coast of Genoa from Perugia to the Adriatic, Beneventum and the great port of Naples. |For sixty years, with short intervals of peace, savage wars, slaughter, bloodshed swept the land. Pestilence, famine, poverty did their part in making commerce and …
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Dante’s Hidden Sin - Wrath: How Dante Vindictively Used The Inferno Against Contemporaries
… that people from Bologna, Pistoia, Siena, Pisa, Genoa and even his beloved Florence, should be reviled or exterminated. He vindictively roots for ethnic cleansing. The lower construction of Dante’s Hell appears to have little to do with Christian theology but, rather, is a contrivance to house …
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In Savonarola's Shadow: Art, Agency, and Reform in the Dominican Nunneries of Central Italy
… to Corpus Christi and Santi Giacomo e Filippo in Genoa, Santa Caterina da Siena in Florence, San Vincenzo in Prato, and San Domenico in Lucca. It evaluates the impact of contemporary religious reforms on the construction of communal identities and the development of artistic workshops within these …
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Studies of exon scrambling and mutually exclusive alternative splicing
… exclusive exons (MXE) has been established with GENOA annotation software. Specific sequence features were analyzed. A genome-wide search for a special "tandem MEAS" events was undertaken and 10 such human genes were identified. A fluorescence reporting system was built to study intronic …
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LA CIRCOLAZIONE DELL¿EDITORIA SPERIMENTALE RELATIVA ALLE RICERCHE ARTISTICHE VERBOVISUALI DEL NOVECENTO
… at the center of the investigation. Founded in Genoa by Anna Bontempi, Martino Oberto, and Gabriele Stocchi, “Ana Eccetera” established itself, over its thirteen years of activity (1958-1971), as a crucial national and international platform promoting a complex theoretical and aesthetic …
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Jean Chrétien: policy etrepreneur : a case study of the 2002 G8 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta
… and political issues. At the G8 summits in Genoa, Italy (2001) and Kananaskis, Alberta (2002), the Liberal Government of Canada, led by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, ensured that African poverty reduction was a central concern to the group. In 2001, authors of the New Partnership for African …
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Rubens, van Dyck, and women's dress in Genoese portraiture, 1606-1627
… examines elite feminine dress in the Republic of Genoa and the politics of display in portraits by Flemish painters Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) and Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641). This thesis combines art and dress history to demonstrate how Genoese women harnessed clothes and images to negotiate …
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RICOSTRUZIONE STORICA DEL COLLEZIONISMO D'ARTE GIAPPONESE DI ERA MEIJI IN ITALIA SETTENTRIONALE. SVILUPPI DI UN MERCATO PARALLELO AGLI SCAMBI COMMERCIALI E DIPLOMATICI.
… Orio and Pietro Beretta who assisted the Duke of Genoa Tommaso di Savoia in acquiring artifacts in Japan. Others, like Enrico Andreossi, expanded their collecting interests to include Western art. This fascination with Japanese art extended to diplomats, politicians, and members of the Italian …
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The solo string works of J. S. Bach: the relationship between dance and musical elements
In 1685, the Doge of Genoa made a visit to the French court and asked Louis XIV to host a ball. Louis XIV responded affirmatively and arranged a magnificent dance in his private apartment. The type of dance that took place was a kind of social dancing which later became the standard included …
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Empreintes architecturales de femmes sur les routes de l'Europe : étude des couvents des annonciades célestes fondés avant 1800
… Annonciades Celestes (or Blue Nuns), founded in Genoa in 1602 by Vittoria Fornari, are particularly representative of the Catholic Reform. Extolling renunciation of the world in order to be better able to pray, the Annonciades Celestes could not design their spiritual project and their identity …
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The City Encomium in Medieval and Humanist Spain
… imitations of it on behalf of Milan, Basel and Genoa, were adapted by five Spanish humanist authors who wrote similar Latin prose encomia for Peninsular cities (Palencia on Seville, 'Geronimo' on Cordoba, Pau on Barcelona, Proaza on Valencia and Sobrarias on Alcaniz). To better illustrate this …
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DENTRO IL PARADOSSO COSTIERO. Un approccio transdisciplinare per un paesaggio instabile
… two chosen experimental spaces, the port city of Genoa and Carloforte, on the island of San Pietro in Sardinia, the doctoral research outlines the potential of art-based research in action to configure itself as a transdisciplinary epistemological and methodological process propaedeutic to the …
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"We Came Here for Work": Recollections of Globalisation and Changes to Work in a New Zealand Single Industry Town
… at Seattle in 2000 (Goodman, 2000), Genoa in 2001 ("Genoa Under Siege," 2001) and the London Riots of 2011 demonstrate acts of resistance at the level of the individual that are described in the work of Fleming and Sewell (2002) and Gabriel (2008). Structural critical analysts focus …