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Positivism, Impressionism and Magic: modifying the modern canon in America and France from the 1940s [PDF]
This article narrates for the first time the competing views over Impressionism in America and France in the 1940s and 1950s, between modernist art history led by Clement Greenberg, on the one hand, and Surrealism led by André Breton, on the other.
Gavin Parkinson
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Image Sources: A guide to finding photographs, pictures and graphics [PDF]
A Library Research Guide to finding and using print, electronic and web images for use in ...
Chris Fowler
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What does it mean to correlate art and art history with “nation”? At the time of publication, the full impact and effects of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union are just beginning to manifest. In this feature, we are interested in the
Jenny Gaschke +11 more
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Signs of a Struggle: Process, Technique, and Materials in the Early Work of Mark Gertler, 1911–18
This paper describes a collaborative technical and art-historical study by a conservation scientist and an art historian of paintings by Mark Gertler (1891–1939) produced between 1911 and 1918, sparked by the discovery through X-radiography of a painted ...
Aviva Burnstock , Sarah MacDougall
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T’amar Bagrationi, Queen of Georgia (1184–1210). T’amar Bagrationi was the ninth monarch from the royal house of Bagrationis who ruled over the united Georgian Kingdom.
Irakli Tezelashvili
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The deterioration of cadmium yellow paints in artworks by Joan Miró (1893–1983) and in painting materials from his studios in Mallorca (Spain) was investigated.
Mar Gomez Lobon +10 more
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Quantifying and visualising change: strain monitoring of tapestries with digital image correlation [PDF]
A three-year research project at the University of Southampton (2007–2010) investigated whether monitoring techniques commonly used by engineers to assess the strength and durability of materials could be usefully applied to inform the condition ...
Dulieu-Barton, Janice M. +1 more
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Countenances of the deepest attentiveness: the historical reputation of Jan van Scorel’s portraits [PDF]
This study examines portraits produced by the Netherlandish artist Jan van Scorel (1495-1562) and the pictorial, aesthetic and cultural sources from which they both emerged and departed.
Albert Godycki
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The Englishness of English Sedilia
Sedilia are the ceremonial seats of the priest, deacon, and subdeacon placed to the south of the altar. In Gothic church architecture, they typically take the form of three deep niches, recessed into the thickness of the wall, surmounted by arches and ...
James Alexander Cameron
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'Magic coins' and 'magic squares': the discovery of astrological sigils in the Oldenburg Letters [PDF]
Enclosed in a 1673 letter to Henry Oldenburg were two drawings of a series of astrological sigils, coins and amulets from the collection of Strasbourg mathematician Julius Reichelt (1637–1719). As portrayals of particular medieval and early modern sigils
Anna Marie Roos +30 more
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