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Les Cahiers de l'École du Louvre, 2014 The collection of supposedly “Byzantine” enamels belonging to Mikhail Petrovich Botkin (1839-1914) is a remarkable case in the history of collecting, particularly if one is interested in the collector’s motivation.
Aglaé Achechova
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Delivering Results for Canadians: Improving the Contributions of Enabling Functions
Canadian Public Administration, Volume 67, Issue 4, Page 585-597, December 2024.Abstract Implementing a results‐oriented management system has been a long‐term goal and a challenge for federal public sector organizations in Canada. This article highlights the efforts by the Government of Canada to improve performance measurement, evaluation, and audit (PMEA) functions over time. The article traces administrative reforms since 2000,
Robert P. Shepherd, Eric Champagne
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A Precious Belt Set from the Nomadic Elite Burial near the Village of Kosika
Нижневолжский археологический вестник, 2018 The paper is devoted to the study of the belt set (a buckle and a belt tip made of gold in the form of hedgehogs with inlays of color stone, glass, paste and with the use of cloisonné technique) from the ruined elite burial of the Middle Sarmatian time ...
Mikhail Yu. Treister
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Archaeometry, Volume 66, Issue 4, Page 860-876, August 2024.Abstract Raman spectroscopy and laser ablation‐inductively coupled plasma‐mass spectrometry were used to characterize the chemical composition of 34 red garnet beads from Lower Nubian sites, dated between about 3200 BCE and 600 CE. All beads from the A‐Group to the Meroitic period feature a similar calcium‐poor almandine composition (69%–78% almandine,
H. Albert Gilg +2 more
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Late Ancient Adornments on the Territory of Romania – a Means of Religious Propaganda at the Beginning of Christianity [PDF]
Anastasis: Research in Medieval Culture and Art, 2014 Though unjustly considered minor, miniature arts served political propaganda, bringing the Roman artistic concepts to the provinces of the Empire. In the late ancient period, the phenomenon of religious propaganda appeared, this propaganda was done by ...
Ioana-Iulia Olaru
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 337-386, August 2024.The early medieval coin‐using economy is traditionally conceptualized as a masculine sphere with minimal female involvement. This article examines a corpus of 135 gold and pale gold coins of the later sixth and seventh centuries that underwent modification as coin‐pendants, a form of jewellery that belongs almost exclusively to feminine contexts ...
Katie D. Haworth +1 more
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Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes, Volume 68, Issue 2, Page 234-246, Summer / été 2024.Résumé La pénurie de main‐d'œuvre au sein de la fonction publique dans les communautés autochtones du Nord pose un double problème, celui d'engager sur‐le‐champ des professionnel·le·s, souvent des allochtones en provenance du Sud, et de s'assurer que leur intégration outrepasse les fondements du racisme systémique.
Charlotte Bellehumeur, Laurie Guimond
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Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, Volume 55, Issue 2, Page 161-183, February 2024.Lead‐tin/antimony pigments provide a bright yellow color, which is also often used in combination with a blue‐colored glass to obtain a variety of green hues. From the analysis of the yellow pigments of enameled objects from 18th century French and Chinese productions, the most representative Raman signatures were categorized with those previously ...
Jacques Burlot +3 more
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Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, Volume 55, Issue 2, Page 184-199, February 2024.Arsenic‐based opacifiers associated or not with blue colour are detected in 18th century French and Chinese enamelled artefacts. The most representative Raman signatures were categorized with those previously published on “reference” phases. The most relevant PCA classifications are obtained by exploiting the parameters extracted from the spectral ...
Jacques Burlot +3 more
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Victorian women travellers and amateur art collecting in Japan, 1863–1893
Literature Compass, Volume 21, Issue 1-3, January-March 2024.Abstract The majority of interdisciplinary studies on nineteenth‐century Japonisme perpetuate an assumption that most connoisseurs of Japanese art in Victorian Britain were men. Despite recent feminist studies which have restored women to histories of private collecting and curatorship across Europe, there is a lack of consideration of how travelogues ...
Margaret K. Gray
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