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Roman Gardens, Imagination, and Cognitive Structure [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The article deals with the Roman garden and sets it in the context of identity, imagination, and cognitive development. Although the implications of the argument are empire-wide, the focus here is primarily on the urban gardens of the city of Rome ca. 60
Jones, FMA
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Allegories of Temporal Experience: The Late Work of Frederic Leighton [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The late paintings of Victorian artist Frederic Leighton generally embody an abstract idea or concept instead of a specific story or moral. Many of these images express humanity\u27s experience of the passage of time as it relates to life, death, and ...
Leonard, Sarah V
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American Gardens and their European Precedents [PDF]

open access: yes, 1986
The study of American gardens and their European precedents has yielded two essential ideas. One is a way of categorizing garden form, the other an elaboration of the parts of American gardens that seem distinct and shared..
Lombard, Joanna
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The Function of Lethe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
When, in the last canto of the 'Purgatorio', Dante-character claims not to remember having ever estranged himself from Beatrice, she reminds him that he has just drunk of Lethe, and adds that his inability to remember is proof of his estrangement.
Coassin, Flavia
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Rome: the city of memories [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
It is necessary to discuss reconstructions of ancient Rome not only because the buildings of this period have only survived in part but also because there are so many different perspectives on reconstruction.
Häuber, Chrystina
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Relics of Roman Identity: Antiquities Collection and Cultural Memory in the Palazzo del Bufalo, Rome, c. 1450 – 1600 CE [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The rapid urban development in Renaissance Rome meant constant excavation and the daily (re)discovery of antique arts and artefacts from the city’s rich classical past.
Coleman, Matthew
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(Un)dress and (Dis)empowerment): The Relationship Between Women and Dress from the Cavaliers to the Romantics [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
References to women and their dress continually recur in British literature, especially predominant between the mid-seventeenth century (the Cavaliers) and the early nineteenth century (the Romantics).
Elashik, Kimberly A.
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An iconographical study of the works of the Meidas painter and his associates [PDF]

open access: yes, 1982
The Introduction surveys previous work on the Meidias Painter and his Associates, and outlines the form that the present study is to take. In Chapter I the Painter and his Associates are introduced; their style is briefly assessed, and an attempt is made
Burn, Lucilla, Burn, Lucilla.
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Cultivating myth and composing landscape at the Villa d’este, Tivoli [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This thesis presents a new reconstruction and interpretation of the ideological programmes at the Villa d’Este in Tivoli, devised by Pirro Ligorio for Cardinal Ippolito II d’Este from 1560 to 1572.
Bay, Miriam Susannah Deborah
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Myth In Reception: Insights From Stourhead Gardens [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The focus of my thesis is the reception of classical myth in Georgian Britain as exemplified by responses to the garden imagery at Stourhead, Wiltshire. Previous explanations have tended to the view that the gardens were designed to recapitulate Virgil’s
Harrison, John Edward
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