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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Terracotta"”.
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The Terracotta Altars of Morgantina: A Study of the Form, Production, Use, and Development of Arulae from Hellenistic Sicily
… and comprehensive study of cylindrical terracotta altars, often referred to as arulae. Arulae are considered characteristic of the material culture of Hellenistic Sicily and thought to represent a significant body of evidence for domestic cult practice. However, no comprehensive …
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Il deposito votivo di Piazza San Francesco a Catania: produzione, contesto e diffusione.Le offerenti in terracotta dall’età protoclassica all’età tardoclassica
… spicca un numero consistente di statuette in terracotta (1812 frammenti), riferibili per lo più ad offerenti di porcellino, grazie alle quali è stato possibile identificare il santuario catanese come un'area sacra dedicata a Demetra e Core. Il presente progetto si pone come obiettivo …
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Daedala Tecta: Architectural Terracottas And Cultural Memory In Republican Italy
… decoration was dominated by brightly painted terracotta sculpture. This body of material has been surprisingly neglected in scholarship on Republican art, but has much to tell us about the visual culture of towns, as well as how communities chose to represent themselves in the face of sweeping …
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Auspicious Generation: The Bamboo LIfe Cycle of a Chinese Cultural Center
… force to the ephemeral nature of the bamboo. The terracotta bearing walls buffer the peaceful inside from the outside. Their roles serve as stage to the street, gatehouse to the garden, and armature for the bamboo structures to be built upon. Their solidity holds in and allows the movement of time …
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USE OF GAS EMISSION BY BIOELECTROCHEMICAL APPROACHES FOR POWER-TO-X
… up of this system. Experimentally, low-cost terracotta bioreactors were developed to capture CO2 in natural degassing areas. Although methane productivity remained low (8.5 ± 4.9 mL L-1 d-1) due to gas leakage, salt precipitation, sulphate-reducing bacteria competition, and CO2 dosing …
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"Il nostro moderno Algardi": Giuseppe Maria Mazza, scultore bolognese tra Sei e Settecento
… numerose opere di piccolo formato perlopiù in terracotta ma anche in marmo. Seguendo la geografia della carriera artistica dello scultore, il raggio dello studio è stato ampliato alle altre numerose località in cui egli risulta attestato: dagli altri centri dell’Emilia Romagna (Parma, Modena, …
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The Art of Invention: Antonio Canova's Bozzetti
… Antonio Canova (1757-1822) modeled sketches in terracotta and wax, known as bozzetti, that serve as unique and invaluable witnesses to his creative process. In stark contrast to his exquisite marble sculptures, those palpitating sketches reveal Canova’s complex method of invention, which can be …
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Natus Diformis: Hermaphrodites in Greek and Roman Art
… sculpture and reliefs, in marble, bronze and terracotta figurines, wall paintings, in a few mosaics and on gems. The distribution of these objects ranges from points in Italy, Austria, France, and England to Greece, Cyprus, Asia Minor and North Africa. Through this survey of Hermaphroditos in …
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The Business of Sculpture in Venice, 1525-1625
… stone, bronze, stucco and clay in the form of terracotta. It assesses the practicalities of sourcing, supply, cost and transportation, and then considers the aesthetic and pragmatic reasons for material choices and what these choices would have signified to the patron, sculptor and Venetian …
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Origins of Roman art
… on Etruscan art. These include wall painting, terracotta sculpture, and basic architecture, and how the Etruscan approach to Greek inspirations later became the same pattern followed by the Romans. The next two chapters deal with Roman cultural cha-racteristics that brought about their …
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A Sign in the Pattern: The Creation of Mary Seton Watts’s Ideal Design in the Compton Mortuary Chapel (Surrey, England, 1898)
This dissertation addresses the hierarchal categorization and canonization of the arts as influenced by dominant power structures through the work of turn of the century artist Mary Seton Fraser-Tytler Watts and the Compton mortuary chapel, or Watts Chapel, project in the Guildford district of …