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Contextualizing the Cappella Cesi: Sangallo, Façades, and Renaissance Collaboration
Abstract This article reframes Antonio da Sangallo the Younger's oft‐overlooked cappella Cesi nave façade in Santa Maria della Pace not as an isolated design deviation but as part of a broader architectural and artistic conversation among major players in early sixteenth‐century Rome.
Alexis Culotta
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Abstract In the late fifteenth century, the Hungarian royal court at Buda was home to a cosmopolitan community of humanists. In early modern historiography, this cultural milieu has often been interpreted as one of the new, emergent ‘centres’ of the Renaissance in East Central Europe.
Eva Plesnik
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What Does Intarsia Say? Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo☆
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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Government debts and credit markets in Renaissance Italy [PDF]
At first sight a marked difference turns out among the Italian governments of early Renaissance: the means of financing their deficit. There are, on the one hand, communal cities and republics, raising money from citizens through the system of forced or ...
Luciano Pezzolo
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The ‘unequalled artist and architect Senior Anthonio, il maltese’, pioneer of Renaissance architecture and military engineering in Europe [PDF]
In the 1530s and 1540s the Maltese architect and military engineer Antonio (‘Fauczun’, ‘Anthoni Faissant’) signed responsible for the construction of several prestigious fortifications, fortresses, public edifices, and palaces in the German towns of ...
Freller, Thomas
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Journal of African Christian Biography [PDF]
A publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography with U.S. offices located at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. This issue focuses on: WOMEN --- 1.
Belcher, Wendy Laura +6 more
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Critical Camp Studies: A State of the Art
ABSTRACT Scholarship on camps is extensive yet highly fragmented, structured around disciplinary, geographical, and theoretical silos that rarely enter into sustained dialogue. While numerous studies and literature reviews have examined camps through specific lenses (humanitarian governance, sovereignty, biopolitics, architecture) no comprehensive ...
Alex T. Fusco
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Hospitaller activities in medieval Malta [PDF]
The Medieval Period in the Mediterranean World is generaly considered to cover a period of about a thousand years, and is considered to initiate with the end of the Roman era heralded by the division of the Roman Empure into two parts between the sons of
Savona-Ventura, Charles
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Constructing National Higher Education Brands: Korea, India and Israel Compared
ABSTRACT This study examines the websites of the national higher education (HE) brands of Study in Korea, Study in India and Study in Israel, exploring how these ‘offbeat’ destinations position themselves in the global HE market. Drawing on rhetorical analysis and employing a qualitative comparative case study approach, it reveals the key identity ...
Annette Bamberger +2 more
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ABSTRACT Objectives The assessment of cortical bone loss in archeological populations can give insights into past lifeways and bone health. The second metacarpal index (MCI) is assessed via radiogrammetry to quantify cortical thickness. However, as this method is limited to a single‐point measurement, this study explores the use of micro‐computed ...
Luisa Leiss +2 more
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