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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"The Madonna"”.
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Eve and the Madonna in Victorian Art
… and addresses representations of Eve and the Madonna exhibited at seven well-known London venues during the Victorian era (1838-1901). The subjects of Eve and the Madonna are here selected for detailed analysis from the broader context of Victorian religious subject pictures, a category of …
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The European art and Canadiana collections of Robert Wilson Reford (1867-1951)
Robert Wilson Reford, a Montrealer engaged in the shipping business, amassed a large collection of Old Master and European pictures which included a significant number of British paintings of the eighteenth century, and showed a preference for portraits. Highlights included portraits by Bronzino, …
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“I can't completely run free”: understanding the lived experience of the menstrual cycle for female clients working with male psychotherapists: An interpretative phenomenological analysis with a critical feminist phenomenological lens
Little is known about how psychotherapy can be used to support women across their menstrual cycle as it remains a glaring omission from theory, research, and practice. The literature review examines why this is the case by illuminating how male-authored knowledge has marginalised and …
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The Birth of Sacrifice: Iconographic Metaphors for Spiritual Rebirth in Master Matthias' Isenheim Altarpiece
While little is known concerning the events surrounding the commission of the Isenheim Altarpiece or of the artist known to us as Master Matthias Grünewald, much can be ascertained about the message of the Altarpiece through careful study of the socio-historical-religious context from which the …
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Shape-shifting: Reimaging mothering and mother-being
… my lived experience, this body of work reimages the representation of mothering, motherbeing and the space in between through a visual exploration within photography. The overlooked space between mothering and mother-being renders it invisible as the two positions are frequently conflated. My …
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Fractious Form: The Trans/Mutable Post-Apartheid Novel
The question which I explore is to what degree, and in what way, the paradigm of anti-apartheid literature gives way to its post-apartheid successor. More particularly, I explore how post-apartheid South African novels perpetuate, displace or transmute the narrative forms and conventions …
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The carbon speciation in the Earth’s interior as function of pressure, temperature and oxygen fugacity
The redox state of the Earth’s interior will influence the speciation of volatile elements both in the mantle and in mantle derived magmas. Carbon is one of the principal elements to be affected in this way because under reducing conditions it forms graphite or diamond, and under oxidizing …
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'The Sancity Of Womanhood': John Ruskin And The Medieval Madonna
… essay examines how art and gender become one and the same for British art and social critic John Ruskin. His complexly layered rhetoric, most poignantly expressed through the sanctified image of the medieval Madonna, serve as one interesting and much-judged example of many reactions to the …