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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Leonardo da' Vinci"”.
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O desenho botânico como forma de expressão artística na obra de Margaret Mee
… illustration is exemplified in such artists like Leonardo da Vinci and the romantic naturalists and poets like Humboldt and Goethe. From this view, the work of Margaret Mee is a case study about illustrations of vegetable species as a knowledge's way to botany which is joined to a sensible …
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"A Journey from the Mind to the Soul" Museum of the Human Body
… philosophies as well as the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci in searching for the 'sensus communis' as the location of the soul within the body.
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DaVinci
DaVinci is an opera about the life of Leonardo da Vinci as told through four different characters, each representing a specific aspect of daVinci's personality. Bambino is the young dreamer, a boy of 8-10 years of age, curious and unsure of himself. Mona Lisa represents the artistic side of …
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Explorações virtuais
… visou desenvolver uma aplicação de realidade virtual interativa com objetivos pedagógicos e de divulgação sobre a vida e obra de Leonardo Da Vinci, um marco fundamental na história das técnicas e da tecnologia, que contribuísse para motivar os estudantes no sentido da aprendizagem da …
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Picturing the Writing Woman: The Representation of Three Early Vernacular Female Poets in Fifteenth-Century Italy
… (1427-1482), painted by Domenico Ghirlandaio in c.1475; Ginevra de’ Benci (1457-c.1520), painted by Leonardo da Vinci in c.1475; and Cecilia Gallerani (1473-1536), painted by Leonardo da Vinci in c.1490. Significantly, their portraits have all been recognised as innovative in the way the …
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Feasibility study of Leonardo da Vinci's bridge proposal over the Golden Horn in Istanbul
… feasibility of a masonry arch bridge proposed by Leonardo da Vinci (1452 -1519). Leonardo wrote a proposal in 1502-1503 for a masonry bridge spanning over the Golden Horn in present-day Istanbul, Turkey. The design was a response to an invitation by the Sultan Bayezid II (1447-1512) to construct a …
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The European art and Canadiana collections of Robert Wilson Reford (1867-1951)
… and the Madonna of the Yarnwinder attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. Collected between 1909 and 1948, the paintings were purchased primarily from a few well-known dealers in London, New York and Paris who were to add considerably to the quality of Reford's collection. His taste, therefore, is …
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Religious experience of the destined human being
… vision of life and humanity as a whole. They are Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt van Rijn, Johann Sebastian Bach, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, and, as an exception to some things which have been said, Pablo Picasso. It is hoped that this research demonstrates that these people understand …
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Dynamic friction: measurement and results
Friction has been known as a phenomenon since Leonardo da Vinci era. From that time and through the last four centuries, scientists tried to understand this phenomenon in an effort to overcome its undesired side effects which include energy loss, parts wearing, and errors in control systems. Much …
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The Trattato della pittura (Treatise of painting) by Leonardo da Vinci : a study of the English editions explaining their origins and development and comparing their structure and differences, with particular reference to the first English edition (1721), analysing its relationship to the other English editions, and defining the philosophy and significance of this Treatise
… The origins of the Treatise, how it evolved from Leonardo's Notes, leading up to the various printed editions with their variations. *The early English editions of the Treatise, with a comparison of their differences, and their development from the first edition. How were the early editions …
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Hydroelastic excitation of cylinders.
… with a periodic wake pattern was made by Leonardo Da Vinci, who observed and sketched the process of lternate periodic vortex shedding from a bluff body to form the staggered vortex trail in its wake. It is unlikely that prior to the nineteenth century many structural failures occurred due …
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Leading Edge
… I would spend hours working in the shop with my dad on airplanes and learning the specific structures that made up all sorts of different aircrafts. As I grew older I became fascinated with the history of aviation and where the idea of flight came from. It was this passion and knowledge that led …
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Approaches to Artistic Style Suppression: An Evaluation Framework for Copyright Compliance in Generative Artificial Intelligence
… artistic styles learned from training data. Parameter-based machine unlearning methods address these concerns by modifying model weights to reduce learned associations, but their computational requirements make them impractical in resource-constrained environments. This thesis …
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The Pleasure of the Senses: The Art of Sensation in Shelley’s Poetics of Sensibility
… imagery, or poetics of sensibility. To elucidate Shelley’s concept of sensibility which links his poetry to its ethical and aesthetic concerns, I combine close textual readings of Shelley’s imagery of the senses with his intellectual and cultural inheritance from the ‘Age of Sensibility’ …
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An exploration of pathography within phototherapy : an analysis of the photographic self-portrait
… by Sigmund Freud in 1910 in the final chapter of Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood, to describe the psychoanalytic study of an artist through the works produced by the artist. The specific method employed in the research involved myself as artist creating a photographic …
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Modeling Convergence Undercurrents in Brain Science via Statistics and Machine Learning
From Leonardo da Vinci to the Nobel laureates, the science exemplar changed from the polymath to the dedicated specialist in response to evolutionary pressures. It is now believed that we are in the early stages of yet another evolutionary adaptation, where specialists from different disciplines …
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Under(lining) Leh : the order of consciousness
… is beautiful, there must be a formal order." - Leonardo Da Vinci. The thesis is an investigation into the idea that nothing built evolves naturally, that there is an explicit or implicit structure and an order to things. This order may be a result of clear intentions or of a collective …
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<i>Cangianti</i> and Shot Silk: Material Influence on Artistic Practice in Central Italian Painting from 1300 to 1550
… by Cennino Cennini, Leon Battista Alberti, and Leonardo da Vinci.</p> <p>Chapter 4 traces the path of the<em> Bombyx mor</em>i silkworm from ancient China through Rome and Byzantium to the city-states of Italy. Beginning in the 13th century, <em>panni tartarici</em> found their way to Europe via …
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Tradición clásica en la Edad Moderna: el legado de Quintiliano y la cultura del Humanismo
Tradición clásica en la Edad Moderna: el legado de Quintiliano y la cultura del Humanismo Tesis doctoral elaborada por Guillermo Soriano Sancha y dirigida por Jorge Fernández López. Esta tesis ofrece una muestra de la influencia que la tradición clásica tuvo en el desarrollo de la cultura de …
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