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

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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Nueva aproximación al estudio de varias piezas suntuarias islámicas metálicas del Museo Arqueológico Nacional [PDF]

Boletín del Museo Arqueológico Nacional, 2017
En este artículo presentamos los resultados obtenidos tras el estudio de varias piezas suntuarias metálicas de origen islámico pertenecientes a la colección del Museo Arqueológico Nacional (MAN), algunas de ellas catalogadas como nazaríes.
Francisco Hernández Sánchez
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"Claustrum animae" or the Edification of the Soul. The Building Scenes in the Cloister of Santa Maria la Real de Nieva (Segovia)

Anales de Historia del Arte, 2015
This paper aims to examine the building scenes preserved in the cloister of the former Dominican convent of Santa Maria la Real de Nieva in Segovia, founded by Catherine of Lancaster in 1399.
Diana Lucía Gómez-Chacón
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The inventions of Sir Thomas Urquhart [PDF]

, 2018
Perhaps the most famous – or notorious – practitioner of baroque prose in the Scottish literary ‘canon’ is Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty (1611-1660). Urquhart was seen by contemporaries as primarily a humorous writer, a reputation he has sustained, and
Smith, Jeremy
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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
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Medieval American Art [PDF]

The Journal of American Folklore, 1943
J. Alden Mason, Pal Kelemen
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Spanish Treatises on Musica Practica c. 1480-1525: Reflections from a Cultural Perspective [PDF]

, 2017
Se estudian los tratados de música práctica ibéricos entre 1480-1535, atendiendo en primer lugar a la distribución y orden de los contenidos, y a las autoridades y ejemplos de composiciones mencionados.
Ramos López, Pilar
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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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A New Look at Medieval Hispanic Sumptuary Arts

Anales de Historia del Arte, 2015
As an introductory essay, this article reviews current issues in the study of medieval sumptuary arts in order to frame the articles collected in this volume around contemporary art-historical debates.
Francisco de Asís García García
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A small intruder. A Medieval marble winged lion from Ravello [PDF]

, 2018
An image of a 12th century marble winged lion was provocatively included among the slides accompanying a lecture by the author at a recent conference at the American Academy in Rome to illustrate Umberto Scerrato’s work on Islamic archaeology and art ...
Fontana, Maria Vittoria
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