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Constructing Melchior Lorichs's 'Panorama of Constantinople' [PDF]
, 2010 In Constructing Melchior Lorichs's Panorama of Constantinople, Nigel Westbrook, Kenneth Rainsbury Dark, and Rene Van Meeuwen propose that Melchior Lorichs's 1559 Panorama of Constantinople was created by using a viewing grid.
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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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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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The people of Calicut: objects, texts, and images in the Age of Proto-Ethnography
Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências HumanasSome 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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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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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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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.
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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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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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