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Effigy Pottery in the Joint Educational Consortium’s Hodges Collection [PDF]
, 2017 As part of on-going documentation of the Joint Educational Consortium’s Hodges Collection, 31 ceramic effigy vessels or vessel fragments are described. Most were dug by Thomas and Charlotte Hodges or Vere Huddleston in the 1930s-1940s from sites in the ...
Trubitt, Mary B.
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What Does Intarsia Say? Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo☆
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Upon entering the Urbino studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, the visitor is struck by a material‐charged environment. Surprisingly, only a few scholars have addressed one prominent aspect of the decorative scheme, namely, the feature of intarsia as a medium. Even so, it remains on the sidelines of the discussion.
Matan Aviel
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Akroterion, 2012 Thanks to a generous donation by Ms. Joan Law, the Museum of Classical Archaeology has been able to purchase five Roman coins. Each of the coins illustrates an interesting aspect of Imperial culture and may be used to illustrate various aspects of Roman ...
A.J. Ryan, A. Gosling
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how late bardic poetry transforms the condition of exile into a literary mode that reimagines community and tradition. I argue that poetry of lament, blessing and devotion articulates a broader literary consciousness that anticipates modern notions of a national consciousness. The compilation of bardic verse in manuscript
Daniel T. McClurkin
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The Soteriological Aspect of the Murals in the Kaliningrad Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
Слово.ру: балтийский акцент, 2017 The article explores the main principles behind modern church paintings. The author examines the key factors affecting the structure of mural paintings and pays special attention to their semantic content.
Apolonskaya I. V.
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Addiction, Volume 121, Issue 2, Page 388-399, February 2026.Abstract Background and aims Restricting alcohol advertising may reduce alcohol consumption and related ill‐health. However, advertisements for alcohol‐free and low‐alcohol drinks (NoLos) with brand‐matched alcoholic versions are typically exempt from restrictions, which could lead to surrogate marketing (adverts for NoLo beverages also promoting brand‐
Ru Jia +5 more
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Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 1, Page 132-143, February 2026.ABSTRACT In icon painting, chalk whiting is key to creating a gesso ground, providing a smooth, absorbent surface for paint. Calcareous nannofossils, tiny marine skeletons found in chalk, are an ideal tool for analyzing the origin of an icon's chalk ground, often the only reliable information about where the icon came from.
Mariusz Kędzierski, Mirosław P. Kruk
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Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) from Motya and its deepest oriental roots [PDF]
, 2018 Pomegranate remains and representations found in the Phoenician site of Motya in Western Sicily give the cue for a summary study of this plant and its fortune in the Near East and the Mediterranean.
Nigro, Lorenzo, Spagnoli, Federica
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 6-24, February 2026.Abstract The so‐called Liber Iesus, a Latin prayer book commissioned for the young Massimiliano Sforza by his father Ludovico il Moro in the 1490s, features a splendid miniature depicting a meeting between the child count and Emperor Maximilian I. It is accompanied by a brief dialogue in German with an interlinear version in Italian on the topic of the
Michael Berger
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Symbolic and Imaginative Source of Mudra and Asana in Buddhist Art
Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные наукиThis article reveals the meaning of one of the key elements of Buddhist iconography, i.e. the phenomenon of mudra (folding of fingers) and asana (body posture).
Victoria Vladimirovna Demenova
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