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Medicine and Disease in Baroque Art

Actas Dermo-Sifiliográficas (English Edition), 2007
In the Middle Ages, medicine experienced centuries of decadence and obscurantism. The humoral doctrines based on the work of Galen in the second century were doggedly repeated, and empirical medicine was practiced, frequently on the basis of unproven suppositions Even the anatomy of the human body was not well understood, as the Catholic Church was ...
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Molière baroque : « définir contre » ?

Etudes Epistémè, 2006
« Molière, Baroque »? Not so long ago, this statement itself might have seemed « baroque », in the sense the word would have had in the period. To make of Molière, the great Classical author, the spokesman for French values par excellence (reason ...
Carol Clark
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DECOLONIZING CREATIVE GEOGRAPHIES OF ART BIENNIALS: A Study of Istanbul's Yeditepe Biennial through the Cultural Politics of Turkish Islamic Nationalism

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
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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‘German Baroque and ‘Sonderrokoko’: canonising and ‘nationalising’ the arts in Germany during the long nineteenth century’. Review of: Ute Engel – Stil und Nation. Barockforschung und deutsche Kunstgeschichte (ca. 1830-1930), Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2018 [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2019
In her book on the historiography of German Baroque and Rococo art during the period 1830-1930, Ute Engel discusses how the rediscovery of the German Baroque led to the canonization of many monuments and artists.
Arnold Witte
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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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The Diremption of Meaning

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining work by Rowan Williams, this essay explores what he often refers to as the ‘difficulty’ of writing theology. The difficulty of theology lies in engaging the ruse of having ultimate answers to ultimate questions. The stakes are high: ‘God‐talk’ must concern itself with truth, with reality.
Graham Ward
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Jacques Maritain, Maurice Blondel, and the Ends of Art

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reconsiders Jacques Maritain's philosophical poetics by situating it within his longstanding debate with Maurice Blondel over the nature and unity of intellect. I argue that Maritain's influential defence of artistic autonomy, first articulated in Art et scolastique (1920), is ultimately unsound.
Steven Toussaint
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Chopin's Craft of Musical Form: Making Romantic Music with Classical Theme Types and Galant Schemata

Music Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Frédéric Chopin adhered to traditional practices in musical form to a far greater extent than hitherto acknowledged. He took certain standard formal paths with remarkable consistency throughout his compositional career and across almost all his favoured genres.
Matthew Riley
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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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Exhibitions on the Baroque as media of the construction of Austrian identities in the 20th century [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2016
This essay deals with the construction of national identity in Austria through museum presentations and exhibitions of Baroque art between 1900 and 1960. The approach understands museums and exhibitions as ‘media’ providing visual expression of a variety
Andreas Nierhaus
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