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Wilhelm Vöge’s sonnet “On the platform of Strasbourg Cathedral” and his monograph on Niclas Hagnower [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2021
Wilhelm Vöge (1868–1952) was a pioneer of German art history whose scientific work connects profound historical research with a language of description very close to poetry, meant to concentrate his scientific findings in order to get into contact with ...
Stefanie Leibetseder
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Un «Re di fiori» per Nerone : modelli desunti dalle stampe nelle botteghe sardo-catalane (1488-1518) [PDF]

, 2016
In epoca tardomedievale un modello artistico, inteso come immagine o forma esemplare da imitare e riprodurre, nasceva grazie all'azione innovatrice degli artisti capaci di trasferire in immagini i linguaggi, le suggestioni, i racconti generati dalle ...
Pusceddu, Enrico
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Ecologies of Blue Paper

21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, 2023
This article examines blue paper as an ecological solution in drawing practice by investigating the questions of when and under which circumstances German artists in the early sixteenth century decided to use blue paper. Blue paper had several aesthetic,
Iris Brahms
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Traces of the Rosary Confraternity, Albrecht Dürer, and Two Emperors in the Frescoes of the Church of St. Primus above Kamnik

Acta Historiae Artis Slovenica, 2019
The essay addresses the complex background of the origins of the high quality frescoes in the succursal church of St. Primus and Felician above Kamnik from the beginning of the 16th century.
Mija Oter Gorenčič
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The Painterly Materiality of Clouds in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the cloud‐gazing scenes in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet through the lens of early modern artistic theory and material practices, particularly the art of limning. Building upon existing philosophical and poetic interpretations of Shakespearean clouds as metaphors for ephemerality and memory, the essay argues that the ...
Anne‐Valérie Dulac
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Renaissance self-portraits and the moral judgement of taste [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2017
The following comments are concerned with a special feature of the portrait: clothing and its profound significance. Two artist’s portraits are exemplary for a view at artists who refer to their social standing.
Philipp Zitzlsperger
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The polyhedron on Duerer's "Melencolia I"

Acta Neophilologica, 1994
The polyhedron with triangular and pentagonal faces on the Duerer's "MELENCOLIA I" engraving is said to be a cube with two opposite corners cut off.  A cube has 6 faces, 12 sides and 8 corners.
Tine Kurent
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A misura d’uomo. Disegno e proporzione della figura vitruviana

Diségno, 2020
Tra le immagini che descrivono le proporzioni del corpo umano quella di Leonardo da Vinci è sicuramente la più efficace, nonostante l’iconico disegno non segua fedelmente le misure indicate da Vitruvio.
Veronica Riavis
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Albrecht Dürer: changes in his artwork during the Reformation [PDF]

, 2013
poster abstractThe research conducted is to explain the stylistic changes that occurred in Albrecht Dürer’s art during the transitioning period from medieval to Renaissance.
Schendel, Tory L.
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Artifex Ars Cartographica: Collaboration Between Portuguese Painters and Cartographers in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was no statutory difference between cartography, drawing and painting. These activities were performed then by craftsmen who were part of a vast group under the umbrella of ‘mechanical arts’ and fell under the ‘artifex’ category. Artifex were experts in any particular art, whether a craftsman,
Vasco Medeiros
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