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This study explores the chemical and physical mechanisms behind the distinct cracking patterns observed in the black‐painted areas of five works by Antonio Saura. Multiband imaging and portable digital microscopy were employed to document the morphology and distribution of crack patterns.
Margherita Gnemmi +7 more
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TOWARD A CONJECTURAL HISTORY OF CONJECTURAL HISTORIES
ABSTRACT Most intellectual historians use the term “conjectural history” to designate a new form of speculative history created in eighteenth‐century Scotland by Adam Smith and a few others. These writers traced the development of human society and culture through conjectural reasoning based on philosophers’ views about human nature and travelers ...
ANTHONY GRAFTON
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Introduction: A Mnemosyne of Art & Science
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Ana Duarte Rodrigues +2 more
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TEACHING SPANISH IN THE UNIVERSAL MONARCHY: TOMÁS PINPIN'S GRAMMAR FOR TAGALOGS (1610)
ABSTRACT In 1610, a Tagalog printer named Tomás Pinpin published a Spanish grammar in Tagalog that was intended to help natives avoid errors and misunderstandings in their interactions with Spanish colonizers. This article attempts to clarify the book's genesis and to contextualize it within the global expansion of Spanish. Pinpin exemplifies a pattern
ALAN DURSTON
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Byzantium and the Crusades: Constantine X's Embassy to Honorius II in 1062
Abstract The Byzantine emperor Alexios I's 1095 embassy to Pope Urban II has been characterized in three different ways: as a request for troops that inadvertently triggered the First Crusade, as a manipulation of western reverence for the Holy Sepulchre and as active Byzantine–papal collaboration.
JONATHAN HARRIS
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Ana Jotta em auto-representação
Ana Jotta (Lisboa, 1946) é uma relevante artista portuguesa com boa recepção crítica, articulada com a realização de exposições regulares desde a década de 1980 e representação nas principais colecções públicas e particulares portuguesas.
Raquel Henriques da Silva
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The radical Pietist Johann Conrad Dippel was a self‐proclaimed adept – a maker of gold and the philosophers’ stone. He was also a magister of theology, a doctor of medicine, and a self‐taught chemist, who coinvented the pigment Prussian Blue together with Johann von Diesbach, became known for his animal pyrolysis oil, his wonder‐wound balm, his ...
Curt Wentrup
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A forma excessiva da falta: retórica nacionalista e pensamento plástico
This article’s aim is to present the theme of the Brazilian art, from the contemporaneous critiques in the circuit of the artistic production to the synthesis proposed by the modernists through the category of brasilidade, with all their posterior ...
Vera Beatriz Siqueira
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Abstract Archaeological campaigns carried out at the emporic sanctuary of Gravisca (Tarquinia, Italy) have revealed extraordinary evidence for ritual depositions and ceremonies linked to the divinities/guarantors of the sanctuary. The ritual of one such deposition was reconstructed using a multidisciplinary approach, comprising an in‐depth analysis of ...
Giulia Patrizi +7 more
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In 1547, D. João de Castro, viceroy of India, commissioned Gaspar Correia to execute the painting portraits of the rulers who preceded him in the task of represent the Portuguese sovereignty in that part of the world.
Vera Félix Mariz
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