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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"illuminated manuscripts"”.
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Schemata: The Language of the Body in Middle Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts
… an individual manuscript or a small group of manuscripts. These books all contain lavish, narrative illustrations, and so they are an ideal context in which to study the forms and meanings of figural programs. The three chapters deal, in turn, with posture, gesture, and repeated iconic …
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From Manuscript to Multimedia: Illuminating Memory and Re[image]ning Composition
… texts are ""closer in spirit to the medieval illuminated codex than [they are] to either ancient speech or the modern printed book"" (Bolter, 1993), I turn to these illuminated manuscripts, and their underlying rhetorics, to begin the work of interrogating and substantiating these …
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Warrior Women and the Shaping of Narrative in Medieval French Literature
… is still narrative-based, showing the impact of illuminated manuscripts on visual culture. The study looks at a specific character in medieval French literature – the woman warrior – in order to see how her existence in a text contributes to its narrative shape and to the production of the text …
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Anisotropic variational models and PDEs for inverse imaging problems
… detection and inpainting of defects in damaged illuminated manuscripts.
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Recovering the lost context of the Roverella altarpiece by Cosmè Tura. The Olivetan church of San Giorgio fuori le mura in Ferrara
… Pala Roverella, including liturgical items and illuminated manuscripts. Chapter Three is devoted to the Roverella family and their important role as patrons in San Giorgio in the 1470s and 1480s. By reconsidering the tomb of Lorenzo Roverella, still in the cappella maggiore of San Giorgio, we …
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THE HERMENEUTICS OF THE ARABIAN SŪQ
… cultural products (architecture, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts and puppet shows) and everyday dialogues (interviews, social survey and anecdotes). By doing so, the research attempts to discover something new about Arabian Sūqs through its own dwellers’ ‘in-time’ experiences, descriptions …
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Sùilean Gàidhlig, Speuclairean Beurla - Dathan ann an Litreachas agus Dualchas Nitheil
… home dyeing recipes, to the use of colour in illuminated manuscripts.<br/>The study of applied colour gives context to the terms used, demonstrating among other<br/>things that Gaelic culture did distinguish between the hues that in English are termed blue and green, despite lacking clearly …
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The Artistic Patronage of the Augustinian Friars in Central Italy (1256-c. 1370)
… considers the use of different media – illuminated manuscripts, panel paintings, wall paintings, and shrines – both as individual pieces, and combined as part of the church interior. By building on extensive field work, my research brings into conversation a wide array of dispersed …
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Oriental Contributions to Franciscan Art in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
… culture studies. Through frescoes, textiles, and manuscripts, the study reconstructs how images and objects circulated within the Eurasian networks opened by the Mongol Empire. Chapter One examines Italian martyrdom paintings such as St. Francis before the Sultan and The Martyrdom of the …
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A MOBILE XRF SCANNER FOR A REAL-TIME ELEMENTAL IMAGING OF PAINTED ARTWORKS
… Museo Egizio in Torino (Italy); and an Italian illuminated manuscripts manufactured in the 14th century at the Fitzwilliam Museums (Cambridge) are presented and discussed.
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Pierre Salmon's Message to Charles VI Portrayed through a Miniature of Old Testament Kings David and Solomon.
… Pierre Salmon created the <em>Dialogues</em>, an illuminated manuscript, for Charles VI of France. The miniature of David and Solomon, found in the <em>Dialogues</em>, compared King Charles VI to the two Old Testament Kings of Israel. An exploration of this comparison reveals the inability of the …
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Reassembling the Sacred: The Murano Master and the Illuminated Choir Books of Camaldolese House of San Mattia di Murano
… of a now-dismembered series of lavishly illuminated and large-scale choir books made for the Camaldolese monastery of San Mattia di Murano ca. 1400–ca. 1445. These manuscripts are attributed to Cristoforo Cortese and the so-called ‘Master of the Murano Gradual,’ and now exist as two …