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Moral Instruction by Bad Example: The First Latin Translations of Theophrastus’ Characters☆

, 2022
Renaissance Studies, Volume 36, Issue 5, Page 668-685, November 2022.
Katie Ebner‐Landy
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Word and Image. Polish Medieval and Renaissance Religious Writings in the European Context

Verbum Vitae, 2021
The article presents the Polish religious writing of the Middle Ages and Renaissance as an expression of correspondence between the word and image. It also demonstrates the impact of European graphics, including Albrecht Dürer’s woodcuts, upon Polish ...
Katarzyna Agnieszka Kaczor-Scheitler
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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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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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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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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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Reading Dürer in Late Sixteenth‐Century Padua: Matteo Macigni (ca. 1510–1582), His Library and the Annotated Institutionum geometricarum (Paris, 1535)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to the history of material culture and intellectual biography by definitively identifying the Paduan scholar Matteo Macigni (ca. 1510–1582) as the author of the annotations found in a 1535 copy of Albrecht Dürer’s Institutionum geometricarum currently preserved in Vicenza.
Laura Moretti
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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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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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