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Three Men and an Abbey: The Cornaro Triple Portrait☆
Abstract This paper builds on the author’s recent identification of an early sixteenth‐century painting in the National Gallery of Ireland as containing rare portraits of Giorgio Cornaro (brother of Caterina, Queen of Cyprus) and his son Cardinal Francesco.
Rachel Healy
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Mannerist architects in the Cinquecento created what can be called “tropic architecture.” They set out to break the rules of classical architecture, but the rule-breaking was done systematically, by applying rhetorical tropes, or figures of speech, to ...
Hendrix, John S
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Within the ‘Making History’ project, the British Museum investigated the materiality of the Vindolanda ink writing tablets for the first time, with a particular focus on the possible differentiation of the ink sources employed. Thanks to the application of complementary scientific techniques, it was possible to develop an analytical protocol for the ...
Giovanna Vasco +4 more
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Immune cells from human peripheral blood and immune cells from murine spleen have been analyzed for their proteasome composition. All analyzed immune populations express almost solely immunoproteasome subunits and rather small proportions of standard proteasome subunits.
Katharina Inholz +7 more
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This article proposes a new framework for examining the empirical research of early modern architects. It explores the rise of nature study in sixteenth-century architectural theory and practice through the works of physician and architecture expert ...
Elizabeth J. Petcu
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“Noah´s Ark”: the art of humanising the greater number [PDF]
1962. Royaumont (Francia). Debate del Team 10 entorno a las grandes estructuras urbanas. Van Eyck presentó la propuesta “Noah´s Ark”, obra de su mejor estudiante, Piet Blom, como ejemplo que aunaba arquitectura y urbanismo para afrontar la gran escala ...
Palacios Labrador, Luis
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Writ in water—Unwritten histories obtained from carbonate deposits in ancient water systems
Abstract Calcium carbonate deposits from ancient water systems such as aqueducts are a hidden archive for archaeology and environmental sciences. These deposits formed wherever carbonate‐rich water was in contact with a water‐containing structure and recorded water composition, temperature, biological content, the operation or nonoperation of a water ...
Gül Sürmelihindi, Cees Passchier
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Materials Science in Ancient Rome [PDF]
Two books, the "De Architectura" by Vitruvius and the "Naturalis Historia" by Pliny the Elder, give us a portrait of the Materials Science, that is, the knowledge of materials, in Rome at the beginning of the Empire.
Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
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The Concepts of Space in the Spanish Translations of Vitruvius (1564, 1582, 1761 and 1787). Their Differences from Gottfried Semper’s Idea of Space as Developed in Der Stil (1860, 1863) [PDF]
The meanings of the term ‘space’ in four translations into Spanish of De architectura by Vitruvius are analysed here in order to clarify a piece of the ‘prehistory’ of the concept of space in Architectural Theory before Gottfried Semper.
Daniel Dávila Romano
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Arquitectura i música en Vitruvi. L'harmonía musical al "De architectura libri decem" [PDF]
En alguna ocasión se ha atribuido a Vitruvio una teoría de las proporciones arquitectónicas basada en las razones numéricas de las consonancias musicales.
Gomis Corell, Joan Carles
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