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The golden ratio as an ecological affordance leading to aesthetic attractiveness. [PDF]
Psych J, 2022 Abstract The golden ratio (GR) is an irrational number (close to 1.618) that repeatedly occurs in nature as well as in masterpieces of art. The GR has been considered a proportion perfectly representing beauty since ancient times, and it was investigated in several scientific fields, but with conflicting results.
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The enigmatic figure of Leon Pierce Clark and his contribution to epilepsy. [PDF]
Epilepsia Open, 2023 Abstract Leon Pierce Clark (1870‐1933) was a prominent American neurologist and psychiatrist and an enigmatic figure. He made enduring contributions to status epilepticus and to epilepsy. In the 1910s and 1920s, his chief focus was on the psychological mechanisms of epilepsy and on the personality of those with idiopathic epilepsy which he interpreted ...
Shorvon SD.
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The Sun Also Rises: Tracing the evolution of humanistic values in anatomy pedagogy and research, including cadaveric acquisition practices. [PDF]
J Anat, 2023 The Cave of the Hands (Cueva de las Manos) in Argentina, where the paintings of multiple human hands are visible. Considered an iconic symbol throughout the planet, it depicts a message from an unknown lost generation to us while symbolising the existence of humanity.
Bhattacharjee S, Ghosh SK.
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Leonardo da Vinci and dental anatomy. [PDF]
J Anat, 2022 Leonardo da Vinci, the Renaissance polymath, conducted detailed anatomical studies. His anatomical drawings and notes address the human dental formula, describe the morphology of the different types of teeth, and highlight the relationship between tooth shape and function.
Schuez I, Alt KW.
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Today as history: Vasari’s Naples Resurrection and visual memory [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2021 Giorgio Vasari’s (1511-74) literary contributions to the discipline of art history are incontestable. Rarely has scholarly literature given commensurate weight to his paintings.
Allison Kim
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Max Dvořák’s Michelangelo [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2021 It has been shown that it was Max Dvořák who introduced into art-historical research the concept of Mannerism as an independent style that dominated the second half of the 16th century.
Tomáš Murár
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Quaderns d'Italià, 2021 Il saggio si propone di individuare la peculiare prospettiva dell'umanista Benedetto Varchi in relazione all'uso che della Commedia dantesca fa Michelangelo Buonarroti.
Alessandra Tramontana
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(Not an) ambivalence toward Michelangelo in Federico Borromeo’s De pictura sacra and Musaeum
Literatūra (Vilnius), 2020 This article discusses the role of Michelangelo Buonarroti in the Seventeenth-century art theory treatises of Cardinal Federico Borromeo De pictura sacra and Musaeum.
Tomas Riklius
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Baccio del Bianco and the artistic fortuna of Galileo’s Il Saggiatore
Galilæana, 2023 This contribution takes into consideration Galileo’s Il Saggiatore as an overlooked source for the arts in Florence during the first part of the seventeenth century.
Eva Struhal
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Undici sonetti per una suite. Michelangelo e Šostakovič [PDF]
Parole Rubate, 2022 The essay analyzes Shostakovich’s Suite on verses by Michelangelo Buonarroti for bass and piano (op. 145), composed in 1974, drawing upon the theory on hypertext and literary translation by the semiologist Augusto Ponzio.
Giuseppina Giuliano
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