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Ruin lust in George Gissing's Veranilda
Abstract Ruinenlust (‘ruin lust’) or ruin aesthetics is a prominent feature of George Gissing's unfinished historical novel, Veranilda (1904), which is set in sixth‐century Italy and contains many memorable images of ruins. Drawing on the work of Georg Simmel, Rose Macaulay, Brian Dillon, and others, this article argues that, by examining these images ...
Gareth A. Reeves
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Walking, and Knowing the Past: Antiquaries, Pedestrianism and Historical Practice in Modern Britain
Abstract How do those who write history know the past? This article addresses this question by examining the work of late eighteenth‐ and nineteenth‐century antiquaries, whose historical practice was closely tied to their embodied experience of the places about which they wrote.
PAUL READMAN
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Ancient Art and the Eighteenth‐Century Auction: Collecting, Catalogues and Competition
Abstract This article explores the role of the auction in the formation and dispersal of collections of ancient art in late‐eighteenth‐ and early‐nineteenth‐century Britain. I demonstrate that competitive collecting, as well as the culture of acquiring and fragmenting collections at auction, had a profound effect on the way in which British buyers ...
Nicole Cochrane
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Relevamiento del Sector de la Cerveza Artesanal Villa María-Villa Nueva [PDF]
El presente informe sectorial surge desde la articulación entre la Cámara de Cerveceros de Villa María y la región (C.E.R.C.A.) y la Plataforma para el Desarrollo Productivo Territorial (PRODET), perteneciente al Instituto Académico Pedagógico de ...
Gasparrini, Guido
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Starting from the late Domitian age, during Nero’s Empire and finally Hadrian’s principate, an increasing technological shift concerning both opus caementicium and centering work made it possible to build cupolas with unprecedented technical solutions ...
BERTACCHI, SILVIA +2 more
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VARIABLE LEVEL OF DETAIL IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL 3D MODELS OBTAINED THROUGH A DIGITAL SURVEY
This paper focuses on the use of information technologies in the field of archaeological representation. It is part of a series of studies on the Villa Adriana in Tivoli which have led us to investigate the decoration of the Maritime Theatre (Emperor ...
Filippo Fantini
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To speak about restoration and enhancement of the great archaeological sites such as Pompei, Herculaneum, Agrigento, and Villa Adriana in Tivoli, just to name a few, means to raise questions regarding protection and safeguarding that often are not easily
Stefano Bertocci, Giovanni Minutoli
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The Aqueducts and Water Supply of Ancient Rome
Groundwater, Volume 58, Issue 1, Page 152-161, January/February 2020.
by David Deming
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The Bioclimatic design of Hadrian’s Villa
URL del artículo en la web de la Revista: https://www.upo.es/revistas/index.php/romula/article/view/7965E’ noto come l’architettura antica fosse progettata in stretta relazione con il contesto ambientale di inserimento (clima, venti), e come gli elementi
Renzoni, Cristina
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Hadrian’s Villa is an ancient Roman archaeological site built over an ignimbritic tuff and characterized by abundant iron oxides, strong remnant magnetization, and elevated magnetic susceptibility.
Annalisa Ghezzi +9 more
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