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Framing children through observation practices: using art theory to re-think ways of looking at children.

open access: yesReconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology, 2011
This paper looks at methodological questions that are raised through the practice of observation to consider how researchers ‘keep an eye on the world’, and particularly how early years practitioners keep an eye on children.
Christina MacRae
doaj   +1 more source

Peroxisome Proliferator‐Activated Receptor ‐β/δ, ‐γ Agonists and Resveratrol Modulate Hypoxia Induced Changes in Nuclear Receptor Activators of Muscle Oxidative Metabolism

open access: yesPPAR Research, Volume 2010, Issue 1, 2010., 2010
PPAR‐α, PPAR‐β, and PPAR‐γ, and RXR in conjunction with PGC‐1α and SIRT1, activate oxidative metabolism genes determining insulin sensitivity. In utero, hypoxia is commonly observed in Intrauterine Growth Restriction (IUGR), and reduced insulin sensitivity is often observed in these infants as adults.
Timothy R. H. Regnault   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Paradisi e voli angelici nello spettacolo e nell’iconografia in Italia nel lungo Quattrocento

open access: yesDrammaturgia, 2022
At the beginning of the 15th century, stage machines were developed in Florence to set up the mysteries of the Annunciation, Ascension and Pentecost in some churches of the city.
Paola Ventrone
doaj   +1 more source

What Does Intarsia Say? Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo☆

open access: yesRenaissance 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
wiley   +1 more source

En los inicios del Renacimiento. La cúpula brunelleschiana y reflexiones sobre Paolo Uccello

open access: yesAnales de Historia del Arte, 2015
Tomando como eje el año 1436 en que es inaugurada solemnemente, a falta de su linterna, la cúpula de la catedral de Florencia y, siendo además este año el de la realización del Acuto de Paolo Uccello, se trata de glosar y reflexionar, unos quinientos ...
Diego Suárez Quevedo
doaj   +1 more source

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

open access: yesRenaissance 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
wiley   +1 more source

Contextualizing the Cappella Cesi: Sangallo, Façades, and Renaissance Collaboration

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 489-506, June 2026.
Abstract This article reframes Antonio da Sangallo the Younger's oft‐overlooked cappella Cesi nave façade in Santa Maria della Pace not as an isolated design deviation but as part of a broader architectural and artistic conversation among major players in early sixteenth‐century Rome.
Alexis Culotta
wiley   +1 more source

Architetti italiani

open access: yesAnd, 2020
The Florentine example of the abstraction created by Brunelleschi condenses in itself many of the pomposities of obliquity: the knowledge of the rules of a site to be able to add, through recalculation, new "words" and not episodes.
Paolo Di Nardo
doaj  

Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of a Medieval Urban Cluster Identified as a Complex Historical Palace: Palagio di Parte Guelfa in Florence

open access: yesHeritage, 2022
This paper presents the results of the application of a holistic procedure for a seismic vulnerability analysis of complex masonry aggregates which are ascribable as cultural heritage buildings.
Anna Caranti   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mapping the Nation, Building the Empire: The Development of Popular Maps and Atlases in Post‐Unification Italy (Ca. 1860–1915)

open access: yesGeography Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT This article explores the development of Italian popular and educational cartography following the national unification of 1861. While Italy had a long‐standing cartographic tradition dating back to the Renaissance, this tradition had rapidly declined in the late modern age due to political fragmentation. The late 19th century saw a revival of
Matteo Proto
wiley   +1 more source

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