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Ulcus Rodens on Canvas: Cutaneous Malignancy in Ivanov's Heads of Slaves
JEADV Clinical Practice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (1806–1858), a central figure of Russian academic painting, devoted more than two decades to preparatory studies for his monumental canvas The Appearance of Christ to the People. Among these works, Heads of Slaves (Figure 1) stands out for its intense physiognomic realism and ethnographic attention.
Mario Shuchleib Cukiert +1 more
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Nietzsche, Hölderlin, Kant. L’arte e il vivente
Aisthesis, 2012 Moving from the analysis of «kitsch», one of the most widespread trends in contemporary art, this essay goes back to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century roots of aesthetics and focuses particularly the relationship between art and the concept of «live,
Mariagrazia Portera
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract The first edition of the Ordnance Survey's 1:2500 County Series is marked with treed areas, such as woodlands and orchards, and, remarkably, freestanding trees. Consequently, it is an unparalleled source of information on the distribution of trees across Britain in the mid‐late nineteenth century, when the maps were first surveyed. In order to
Toby Pillatt, William A. P. Smith
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Conjugated Polymers Engineered for Flexible/Stretchable Electronics
Journal of Polymer Science, EarlyView.This review highlights glass transition temperature (Tg) as the central parameter linking molecular structure to device performance in conjugated polymers. By tuning backbone rigidity, side‐chain architecture, and dynamic bonding, Tg governs the balance between π–π stacking–enabled charge transport and mechanical compliance.
Yunchong Yang +5 more
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European encounters with ‘primitive art’ during the late nineteenth century [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2015 This is an introduction to the present Journal of Art Historiography’s special issue on the European reception of so-called primitive art in around 1900.
Raymond Corbey , Wilfried Van Damme
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Review: Sarah Bartels, The Devil and the Victorians: Supernatural Evil in Nineteenth-Century English Culture [PDF]
, 2023 Book review of Sarah Bartels, The Devil and the Victorians: Supernatural Evil in Nineteenth-Century English ...
Smith, H.
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Early modern herbaria house important and useful data on historic environments. However, their contents are often inhospitable to scientific use. Despite this challenge, once their contents have been deciphered, such specimens present novel research opportunities.
Madeline E. White, Stephen A. Harris
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Imagining Venetian Hydro-Peripatetics with Ciardi, Favretto, Lansyer, and Pasini
Lagoonscapes, 2021 This article proposes a sensory approach to physical and representational environments based on a pedestrian perspective. With a view to bringing arts-based considerations to bear on UN Sustainable Development Goal 6.6, concerned with the protection ...
Finch-Race, Daniel A.
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Using art history to explore society's changing connections with agriculture
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Food insecurity is a looming challenge that especially affects those least fortunate. Consumer food choices have a substantial impact on the sustainability of current food systems. Here, we use art as a lens through which to consider our contemporary and historical relationship to one of the world's most crucial crops, the potato, in the context of the
Edward F. Hill‐King +2 more
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Panorama, 2020 In finding out more information about Banks’s life, might I somehow redress the bodily and archival violence that rendered her an unnamed figure in a museum display?
Anne Strachan Cross
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