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What Does Intarsia Say? Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo☆
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Upon entering the Urbino studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, the visitor is struck by a material‐charged environment. Surprisingly, only a few scholars have addressed one prominent aspect of the decorative scheme, namely, the feature of intarsia as a medium. Even so, it remains on the sidelines of the discussion.
Matan Aviel
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Producción artística en la Baja Edad Media. Originalidad y/o copia
Anales de Historia del Arte, 2012 During the last period of the Middle Ages, there was a marked increase in the production of art objects. This quantitative increase was made possible by the two forms of artistic production materialized in the period: the commissioned work by renowned ...
Olga Pérez Monzón
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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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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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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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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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Pigment analysis by Raman microscopy and portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) of thirteenth to fourteenth century illuminations and cuttings from Bologna [PDF]
, 2016 Non-destructive pigment analysis by Raman microscopy (RM) and portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) has been carried out on some Bolognese illuminations and cuttings chosen to represent the beginnings, evolution and height of Bolognese illuminated ...
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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 iconographic transformation of the “tail of the dragon of the eclipse” into the “hunting cheetah” [PDF]
, 2018 Medieval Islamic iconography includes many depictions in which the tail of Sagittarius takes the form of the “dragon of the eclipse”. The current paper examines the gradual transformation of this imagery into that of a quadruped, eventually detached from
Fontana, Maria Vittoria
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