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

Boletim 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
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ALL THAT GLITTERS: THE MANY OBJECTS OF ROME'S MUSEUM OF CIVILIZATIONS

History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 422-452, September 2025.
ABSTRACT This review article examines the various methodologies practiced by Rome's Museum of Civilizations (Museo delle Civiltà) to discuss the contemporary curatorial approaches of traditional ethnographic museums. It adopts a historical and comparative perspective to situate the diverse collections within ongoing debates about art restitution.
Arielle Xena Alterwaite
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A REPRESENTAÇÃO DA FIGURA DO DIABO NA OBRA “O CAVALEIRO, A MORTE E O DIABO” DE ALBRECHT DÜRER (1513): análise narrativa e iconográfica

Cadernos 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, Maria Mirtes dos Santos Barros   +1 more
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Bildniszeichnungen als Tauschobjekte und Freundschaftsgaben: Dürers Strategien der Beziehungspflege in den Niederlanden [PDF]

, 2013
Der Beitrag untersucht die Funktionen der Bildniszeichnungen, die Dürer auf der niederländischen Reise 1520/21 anfertigte. Anhand seines Reisetagebuchs wird gezeigt, dass Dürer in erster Linie Personen porträtierte, mit denen er engen Umgang pflegte oder
Hirschfelder, Dagmar
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Locating Traces of Arboreal Beings: Connecting the Tree and the Woodblock

Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 145-155, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Woodblocks for printmaking are multi‐perspectival communicators inscribed with layered narratives. The artistic process of cutting excavates the surface of a woodblock, making visible lesser‐seen traces of the past, reflective of the practice of archaeology.
Julian Laffan
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Uma experiência pedagógica

Revista Digital do Laboratório de Artes Visuais, 2010
O presente texto é um relato de uma experiência pedagógica desenvolvida junto a uma turma de alunos da oitava série do Ensino Fundamental de uma escola pública municipal.
Rosana Soares
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No Banzo da Negra, a Penca de Balangandãs

Art&Sensorium: Revista Interdisciplinar Internacional de Artes Visuais, 2019
No banzo, a saudade da terra natal; na cintura, o sí­mbolo de sua existência. Como um signo pictórico pode denunciar a identidade e a transformação social de uma negra? Esta é a perspectiva da narrativa que propomos neste artigo.
Anderson Diego Almeida, Eduardo Ferreira Veras   +1 more
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Écfrasis líricas y relaciones intertextuales a partir de la Melancolía I de Alberto Durero

Compendium, 2022
Melencolia I (1514), an engraving made by the german painter Albrecht Dürer, is certainly one of the most widespread and analyzed engravings in the history of art until today.
Jorge García Fernández Arroita
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‘Furnisht with such members as are after a sort burthensome unto them’: White Traveller Perceptions of Black Male Bodies and the Construction of Race, 1450–1730

Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 72-90, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores how European travellers to Africa perceived African masculinity, the male body and sexuality during the period of 1450–1730. It argues that their observations helped Europeans construct early notions of racial difference at a time when skin colour was not the most important marker of difference classifying people.
Sergio Lussana
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No evidence for fractal scaling in canopy surfaces across a diverse range of forest types

Journal of Ecology, Volume 112, Issue 3, Page 470-486, March 2024.
Is a tree a forest? Is a forest a landscape? Fractal self‐similarity of forest canopies is often hypothesized, but rarely tested. Here, the authors examine this question with airborne laser scanning data from a wide range of ecosystems. They conclusively show that canopy surfaces are not fractal beyond the scale of individual trees, but that deviations
Fabian Jörg Fischer, Tommaso Jucker
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