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Artifex Ars Cartographica: Collaboration Between Portuguese Painters and Cartographers in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

open access: yesRenaissance 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
wiley   +1 more source

The people of Calicut: objects, texts, and images in the Age of Proto-Ethnography

open access: yesBoletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas
Some early sixteenth-century works by artists from southern Germany (Albrecht Dürer, Hans Burgkmair, Albrecht Altdorfer, Jörg Breu) representing the 'people of Calicut' (which was then supposed to be accessible from Europe both in an eastward and ...
Christian Feest
doaj   +1 more source

Renaissance self-portraits and the moral judgement of taste [PDF]

open access: yesJournal 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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A misura d’uomo. Disegno e proporzione della figura vitruviana

open access: yesDiségno, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Intersex Across the Interstellar: The Andromeda Constellation in Medieval and Early Modern Astronomical and Astrological Treatises

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the iconography of the Andromeda constellation as an intersex figure within medieval and early modern astrological traditions. It focuses on the origins of this imagery in the thirteenth‐century astrological writings of Scot and its reappearance nearly three centuries later in Ratdolt's illustrated 1482 edition of Hyginus'
Bar Leshem
wiley   +1 more source

The Painterly Materiality of Clouds in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 589-608, September 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

The polyhedron on Duerer's "Melencolia I"

open access: yesActa 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
doaj   +1 more source

The contribution of the humanities to the theory and practice of public administration in the 21st century

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, Volume 85, Issue 2, Page 392-412, June 2026.
Abstract This Forum Article integrates a range of four contributions which are all underpinned by the conviction that the rediscovery of the humanities may be beneficial to the field of public administration. The first piece examines the contribution that philosophy, as a key discipline of the humanities, can provide to the field of public ...
Edoardo Ongaro   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A REPRESENTAÇÃO DA FIGURA DO DIABO NA OBRA “O CAVALEIRO, A MORTE E O DIABO” DE ALBRECHT DÜRER (1513): análise narrativa e iconográfica

open access: yesCadernos de Pesquisa, 2011
Estudo acerca da representação da figura do Diabo na obra "O cavaleiro, a Morte e o Diabo", 1513, de Albrecht Dürer. Nesse trabalho expomos uma abordagem que envolve estruturas religiosas e a ascensão do Cristianismo, expressão religiosa que atinge ...
Weeslem Costa de Lima   +1 more
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Os Perspectógrafos de Dürer na educação matemática: história, geometria e visualização [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Científica e Tecnológica, Florianópolis, 2009No presente trabalho, fazemos um estudo sobre os perspectógrafos de Albrecht Dürer, que durante o ...
Meneguzzi, Thatieli
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