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Images of the Crowned Buddha along the Silk Road: Iconography and Ideology
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
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The iconography of the English town
The iconography of the English ...
Virginia Cameron (10809734)
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A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
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Iconography of the Labour Movement. Part 1: Republican Iconography, 1792–1848
This is the first article in a two-part study of the background and development of the iconography of the international socialist labour movement. With the breakthrough of modern political ideologies after the American and French revolutions, the symbols
Fred Andersson
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Legitimacy and Persuasion in the Anglo‐Scottish Wars of the 1540s
Abstract The considerable efforts of the invading English to justify their activities and garner support during the Anglo‐Scottish wars of the 1540s are well known. Recent welcome attention to Scottish texts produced during the conflict has begun to correct a previous historiographical imbalance towards English materials.
Amy Blakeway
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Iconography of the Labour Movement. Part 2: Socialist Iconography, 1848–1952
This is Part 2 of a two-part study which aims at preliminary conclusions regarding the iconography of the international labour movement. Earlier research in the fields of social history, art history and visual rhetorics has been consulted for this ...
Fred Andersson
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Hunting in the Ghaznavid State: Courtly Culture, Military Practices and Political Power
Abstract Hunting occupied an important place in the royal court culture of the Ghaznavid state (963–1186 CE). Ghaznavid hunting culture developed through the interaction of Turkic‐Islamic political traditions, Persianate models of kingship and local ecological settings. Rather than constituting a fully formalized institution, Ghaznavid hunting practice
Arslan Durdu
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Interpreting breast iconography in Italian art, 1250-1600 [PDF]
The motif of the uncovered female breast is ubiquitous in art of all ages and cultures. Modern analysis of breast imagery tends to be biased by the sexual significance that breasts have now.
Ashton, Anne M.
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This article is about the the meanings and iconography of Padma as a red lotus, Vajrayana deity, yogini, a Auspicious Emblem, one of the Eight Nagas (snakes), one of the incarnations of Avalokiteshvara. Famous images from Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian and
Chandra, L., Belokurova, S.M.
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ABSTRACT The increasingly close integration of analytical techniques in the study of Greek and Roman wall paintings has shown that Egyptian blue was a common pigment, widely documented in the production of blue and greenish hues in ancient painted production.
Simone Dilaria +5 more
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