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A Book of Cities: Mapping Urban Space in Braun and Hogenberg’s Civitates Orbis Terrarum (1572-1617)
The present article sets out to explore the tradition and the innovative forces involved in the production of the first city atlas, Civitates orbis terrarum, a six-volume collection of town images published by Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg between 1572
Năiduţ Petruţa
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Plagio e commercio nelle guide tardocinquecentesche dedicate a Napoli e Pozzuoli
Plagiarism and commerce in late sixteenth-century guides to the city of Naples and its districtThis essay illustrates how strongly chorographical texts depend on intertextual borrowings from previous materials, up to the point of becoming a patchwork of ...
Harald Hendrix
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The Chorography of the Modern City [PDF]
Until the nineteenth century, space was represented and produced through mathematically constructed drawings: plans and sections captured buildings and the scientific map recorded the territory. The development of technologies of transport brought crisis into this static and balanced world as speed and displacement radically reconfigured the subject’s ...
Garcia De Cortazar Galleguillos, Gabriela
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Looking Beyond Jerusalem: A Fifteenth‐Century Exercise in Image Comparison
Critical image comparison is a widespread art‐historical practice. This essay explores why a Brabantine artist encouraged viewers to exercise it in the late fifteenth century. At the time, northern European artists tested out how images could be means of transcending the visible world while simultaneously showcasing their very constructedness. The self‐
Hanna Vorholt
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Falstaff on Tour: County, Town and Country in the Late Elizabethan Theatre
Abstract Why does Falstaff travel to York via Gloucestershire in Henry the Fourth, part two? And why does Shakespeare interrupt his second tetralogy of history plays to take his most famous comic character to Windsor in the Merry Wives? This article uses Falstaff's tour of England in these two plays to explore an idea of the country founded upon local ...
Neil Rhodes
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Following the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020 and inspired by the actions of the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, in June 2020 a wave of protest events spread across Europe as well. Based on in‐depth interviews with key informants involved in the BLM campaign and a systematic mapping of protest events, the article analyses the ...
Donatella Della Porta +2 more
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Abstract Human civilization prospers along rivers worldwide. Here, we investigated human–river relations by revealing the linkage between water and habitability for human settlements, and socioeconomic and cultural development across China. We found that human–water co‐occurrence relationships are self‐similar over sub‐basins for different scales of ...
Yichu Wang +2 more
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Influence of Wheatgrass Juice on Techno‐Functional Properties and Bioactive Characteristics of Pasta
Pasta is an excellent source for fortification of ingredients and wheatgrass juice (WGJ) as a natural source of vital nutrients and antioxidants; the study was taken to develop WGJ‐rich functional pasta. Wheatgrass juice (WGJ) was added at the rate of 33, 66, and 100% by replacing water during the mixing process of pasta.
Keshavdeep Bawa +5 more
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The Innovative Practice of Artificial Intelligence in the Inheritance of Chinese Xiangjin Art
This paper attempted to study the cultural characteristics and intelligent inheritance of Chinese Xiangjin brocade. Qualitative data was collected by in‐depth interview method, and more than 1000 pieces of Xiangjin brocade of Suzhou Archives in China were measured for analyzing artistic features of their pattern design, color matching skills, and ...
Zhao Wenji +3 more
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Abstract Reproductive dynamics of three important clupeiform food fishes (Gray’s Grenadier Anchovy Coilia grayii, Osbeck’s Grenadier Anchovy Coilia mystus, and Chinese Gizzard Shad Clupanodon thrissa) were studied in the largest estuary of Fujian Province, China: the Min River estuary and its adjacent nearshore waters.
Qing Xu +4 more
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