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Out of the wilderness : a fourteenth-century English drawing of John the Baptist [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
London, British Library, MS Royal 10 B XIV contains a large drawing of St. John the Baptist that is both exceptional for its quality and iconographically unique.
Luxford, Julian Marcus
core   +1 more source

Towards a New Reference Dataset for Northwest Arabian Pottery: A Preliminary Characterization of the Fabrics, Techniques, Shapes and Decoration of the Pre‐Islamic Pottery From Dadan (Third Millennium bce–Early First Millennium ce)

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The site of Dadan, in the al‐ʿUlā valley, is one of the major and longest‐settled ancient oasis settlements in northwest Arabia. As part of the Saudi‐French Dadan Archaeological Project (CNRS/RCU/AFALULA), a study of its pre‐Islamic ceramic assemblage has been underway since 2020.
Shadi Shabo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Images of the Crowned Buddha along the Silk Road: Iconography and Ideology

open access: yesHumanities, 2018
The interpretation of early Buddha images with a crown has long been a source of debate. Many scholars have concluded that the iconography of the crown is intended to denote Śākyamuni as a cakravartin or universal Buddha.
Rebecca L. Twist
doaj   +1 more source

Capturing light in Late Antique Ravenna a new interpretation of the archbishops’ chapel [PDF]

open access: yesZograf, 2013
Analysing the cultural context in which the archbishops’ chapel in Ravenna was built, the article proposes a new interpretation of the structure. Designed in a period when the Catholic Church and the Arian court were clashing, and displaying ...
Ivanovici Vladimir
doaj   +1 more source

“Laid to Rest in Australian Soil”: The Legacies of Repatriation Policy Change during the Vietnam War

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
For the first half of the twentieth century, Australia maintained a firm policy of non‐repatriation. Military personnel who died overseas were buried in vast military cemeteries administered by the Imperial (later Commonwealth) War Graves Commission. In 1966, however, the Australian government decreed that Australia's war dead could be repatriated, at ...
Kristen Alexander, Kate Ariotti
wiley   +1 more source

Iconographic Image Captioning for Artworks [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2021
Image captioning implies automatically generating textual descriptions of images based only on the visual input. Although this has been an extensively addressed research topic in recent years, not many contributions have been made in the domain of art historical data.
arxiv  

High tin or high lead: distinctive alloying practices of the pastoral Yuhuangmiao culture in Northeast China during the first millennium BCE

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract The Jundushan cemetery, located on the northern boundary of the present‐day Beijing, sits at a crucial nexus between the Yan and Taihang mountains linking northern and central China. This strategic location provides an interesting case for examining interactions between pastoralism and agriculture around the early half of the first millennium ...
Wenxun Ren   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

SVGDreamer: Text Guided SVG Generation with Diffusion Model [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
Recently, text-guided scalable vector graphics (SVGs) synthesis has shown promise in domains such as iconography and sketch. However, existing text-to-SVG generation methods lack editability and struggle with visual quality and result diversity. To address these limitations, we propose a novel text-guided vector graphics synthesis method called ...
arxiv  

Iconography [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. I have always considered myself an artist even though my artistic endeavors had been limited to literature and music.
Costik, Michael
core   +1 more source

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