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Locating Traces of Arboreal Beings: Connecting the Tree and the Woodblock
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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No Banzo da Negra, a Penca de Balangandãs
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 +1 more
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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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Introduction: A Mnemosyne of Art & Science
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Ana Duarte Rodrigues +2 more
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No evidence for fractal scaling in canopy surfaces across a diverse range of forest types
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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The publication of two works (Andrea Bubenik, Mitchell B. Merback) devoted to Melencolia I by Albrecht Dürer (1514) is an opportunity to consider the fate and relevance of one of Western modernity’s most celebrated image.
Rémi Labrusse
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Writ in water—Unwritten histories obtained from carbonate deposits in ancient water systems
Abstract Calcium carbonate deposits from ancient water systems such as aqueducts are a hidden archive for archaeology and environmental sciences. These deposits formed wherever carbonate‐rich water was in contact with a water‐containing structure and recorded water composition, temperature, biological content, the operation or nonoperation of a water ...
Gül Sürmelihindi, Cees Passchier
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On the road with Luther: Thoughts on a few jubilee exhibitions [PDF]
The 500th celebration of the advent of the Protestant Reformation inspired a remarkable number of exhibitions in Germany and, indeed, around the world. The Lutherjahr or Luther Year was, more correctly, a Luther decade with different themes and programs ...
Jeffrey Chipps Smith
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O estrangeiro aprendera a falar a língua do imperador... A lógica do traçado
Este artigo intenta analisar como saberes em desenho e matemática são mobilizados em tratados militares, especificamente, nas obras: Tratado sobre a Fortificação de Cidades, Fortalezas e Vilas (1527), escrito por Albrecht Dürer; Methodo Lusitanico de ...
Rosilene Beatriz Machado +1 more
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THE ORGAN CONCERTO BY DMITRY KITSENKO: PECULIARITIES OF ITS MULTIMEDIA VERSION [PDF]
The article presents the multimedia version of the Organ concerto by composer Dmitry Kitsenko – the work presented at different stages of his creation in various genre forms, as a result there appeared a kind of supercycle, consolidated by intertextual ...
COCEAROVA GALINA
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