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The Portrait Prints of Mehmed II
This thesis examines four European portrait prints of Ottoman sultan Mehmed II, dated 1470 to 1493. At the center of this study is a formal and iconographical analysis that indicated all are rooted in traditional artistic conventions of both Western princely portraiture and stereotypical imagery of …
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Fashioning identity : the Jan de Wasser prints and the Burgher class
… of Amsterdam began to publish and disseminate prints which depicted, with images and words, the fictional story of Jan de Wasser. Jan de Wasser is a hen-pecked husband: his wife Griet wears the pants in their household, and forces Jan to carry out numerous domestic tasks. In this way, Jan takes …
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An Art of Translation: French Prints and American Art (1848-1876)
… shift in the period's literature on reproductive prints from the notion of imitation to that of translation. The production, circulation, and consumption of reproductive prints were tied to the period's innovations in printing, and to broader patterns of transatlantic economic integration and …
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Spec2Fab : a reducer-tuner model for translating specifications to 3D prints
… these functional requirements to fabricable 3D prints is still an open research problem. Recently, several specific instances of this problem have been explored (e.g., appearance or elastic deformation), but they exist as isolated, monolithic algorithms. In this research, I propose an …
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The Danger of Visual Seduction: Netherlandish Prints of Susanna and the Elders
… intended to bolster the Council's decrees, prints of the biblical heroine Susanna proliferated in the Low Countries. The majority of these engravings, etchings, and woodcuts portray the attempted seduction of a provocative female nude by two old men, a scene which explicitly manifests …
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Analysis of the Effects of Basic Printer Settings on PLA 3D Prints
… 3D printers are capable of producing functional prints for an extremely wide variety of designs, but many hobbyist printers still struggle with print defects such as warping, stringing, and blobbing appearing on their prints. There are many existing recommendations for dealing with any of these …
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Exploring new work: a personal reflection art critique in the world of prints
… concepts. In viewing several examples of my own prints and exploring the makeup of these pieces, one can better understand the delicate balance between the earthly components of past artwork and the sleeker, more geometric designs of the future. These two attributes are utilized in my work to …
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"Virtuous love: messages for brides and grooms in the fifteenth-century ""Otto Prints"""
… These engravings, known to scholars as the “Otto prints,” were likely pasted onto small boxes called forzierini, which were presented to women after their betrothal by their future groom. The goal of this thesis is to place the “Otto prints” within the extensive network of fifteenth-century …
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Fact and sanctity : authenticating laudianism in the English Monasticon anglicanum's architectural prints (1655)
… religious spaces. Moreover, as a series of prints, these images form a collection of "paper monuments" that are recruited as artifactual evidence in support of a historical narrative that seeks to legitimize a Laudian vision of the Church, by demonstrating that it had deep roots in England's …
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From the Mouths of Babes: Putti as Moralizers in Four Prints by Master H.L.
… in the early sixteenth century. Among these prints four are tied together by their depiction of <italic>putti<italic>, and display his ability to work with previously established visual motifs while manipulating them idiosyncratically for his own purposes. Of these four, the first two decry …
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Aesthetics of colours in Japanese traditional paintings and woodblock prints in the Edo Period
The aim of this thesis is to examine and study Japanese traditional colours: gold and red for the Kanō school, blue and purple for the ukiyoe, including their symbolic meanings, pigments, how they were applied in art works and how they were related to Japanese aesthetics. This thesis is comprised …
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A Series of Original Prints with the Human Image as an Important Compositional Element
… a compositional element in a series of original prints. All of the available printmaking techniques within the knowledge of this artist were called upon to best express concepts and forms which he desired to portray. Three avenues of approach were used in the development of the print: (1) …
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The twelve large colour prints of William Blake: a study on techniques, materials and context
… to study in entirety the group of large colour prints which William Blake made between 1795 and 1805. The series of prints represents the single most important and complete development of Blake’s skill as an innovative printmaker. Although they include some of Blake’s best-known images, they …
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Soho depicted: prints, drawings and watercolours of Matthew Boulton, his manufactory and estate, 1760-1809
… information is rarely available when studying prints and allows consideration of these images in a new light but also contributes to a wider debate on British eighteenth-century print culture. The first chapter argues that Boulton used images to convey messages about the output of his …
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"The Development Of Anton Ulrich's Narrative Prose On The Basis Of Surviving ""octavia"" Manuscripts And Prints"
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T17:56:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7412045.pdf: 15223951 bytes, checksum: 53721aeeac154073b37d16b8873bd3dd (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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Preferred levels of image sharpness and their relation to image structure in thermal dye transfer prints
… image sharpness for thermal dye transfer prints and (2) to relate these scales to an objective measurement of image quality. Interval scales were developed using two different indirect scaling techniques, paired comparison and rank ordering, for three groups of participants (novice …
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A Series of Intaglio and Mixed-media Prints portraying the Negative Consequences resulting from Man's Inhumanitarian Actions
<p>It is the purpose of this study (1) to portray in visual, graphic form the negative consequences resulting from inhumanitarian acts man inflicts upon himself and others; (2) to delineate these actions in a revealing, subtle manner that is still representative of the facts of reality; (3) to …
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