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The genome-wide legacy of Baroque horse breeds
Italian Journal of Animal ScienceThe Baroque horse breeds, originating from Southern Europe, are known for their unique characteristics and roles in High School dressage and ceremonial contexts.
Ruth I. Alvarez-Quiñónez +9 more
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Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast Novels: a Baroque Hostility to Straight Lines
Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2005 Can Peake’s Gormenghast novels be termed baroque? This paper suggests the beginnings of an answer by examining one aspect which is usually considered a distinguishing feature of baroque art, namely, its marked preference for curves, broken lines, spirals
Sophie Mantrant
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How Many Worlds Could There Be? David Lewis and Advanced Modalizing
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Advanced modalizing, namely, possibilities and necessities concerning modal space itself, is problematic for a Lewis‐style analysis of modality. A popular solution, proposed by Divers, postulates explicit semantic clauses for a collapse of advanced modalizing, to the conclusion that all such matters are, if true in the first place, both ...
Lorenzo Azzano +2 more
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, 2013 La recherche d’une unité dans le baroque est une gageure. Les termes sont trop éloignés. Entre l’artisan d’aujourd’hui qui, dans la banlieue de Barcelone, peint et dore des armoires, ou même des rétables, et Michel-Ange vieilli donnant forme d’église à ...
Courtès, Francis
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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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Nathaniel Culverwell's stoic theory of common notions
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract This article takes a closer look at the theory of knowledge developed by Nathaniel Culverwell in his 1652 Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature. Based on Culverwell's endorsement of Edward Herbert of Cherbury against Plato and Aristotle, his critical reception of René Descartes, and his contributions to a controversy between ...
Mogens Lærke
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Remarques sur la genèse et les utilisations de la notion de « baroque » en Allemagne
Les Dossiers du GRIHL, 2012 La contribution retrace l’évolution des significations attribuées à la notion de « baroque » dans le domaine de la recherche allemande depuis ses premières utilisations esthétiques dans l’histoire de l’art au xixe siècle chez Jacob Burckhardt et Heinrich
Hartmut Stenzel
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 5, Page 1116-1132, September 2026.Abstract This article examines the Yeditepe Biennial—Turkey's first Islamic and traditional arts biennial—as a creative festival shaped by the socio‐political and spatial dynamics of Turkish‐Islamist nationalism. Counterposed against the Istanbul Biennial and the Western‐oriented secular cultural legacy of the Turkish Republic, the Yeditepe Biennial ...
Hulya Arik, Sabrien Amrov
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Meno Istorija ir Kritika, 2022 The article analyses for the first time the décor motifs of the bronze chandeliers from Lithuania and Latvia in the 16th–18th century. More abundant objects in Latvia are used to reconstruct the lost heritage of chandeliers in Lithuania, and the variety,
Valtaitė-Gagač Alantė
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