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Ritratto fotografico degli attori a Milano tra Otto e Novecento. Strategie di rappresentazione
Throughout its history, photography has always been in balance between opposite conventions, the technical conventions and the artistic ones, and photographic portrait has been mostly conditioned by these features.
Silvia Paoli
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Literary character of the Despot Stefan Lazarević in The Lives of Constantine Philosopher [PDF]
Lives of the Despot Stefan Lazarević of Constantine Philosopher is, as the author says, the first example of secular biography in the old Serbian literature.
Mihailović-Milošević Sena
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This text presents my series of performative photographs called Les Transparences (“Transparencies”), 2007. By staging drag queens models, this series brings face-to-face the biological nature of sex and the performative nature of genders.
Lorraine Alexandre
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Dans l’excès de visibilité : jeu du montrer / cacher dans les photographies de Lorna Simpson
In Lorna Simpson’s complex and multifaceted work, words and images are often set side by side and they collide with each other. A double tension is at work which emerges on the one hand, from the interaction of the verbal and the iconographic and on the ...
Claudine Armand
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Emperor Julian: official image and political communication
The article examines the official image of the Roman emperor Julian (Caesar 359-361; Augustus 361-363), known to us mainly from numismatic evidence. The analysis of the changes in Julian’s appearance over time, accompanied by the reading of some key ...
Fabio Guidetti
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« A reality that almost amounts to illusion »
Walter Pater’s description of Mona Lisa in The Renaissance (1873) turns the famous picture – which as a portrait gives the faithful image of a real person – into a symbol of human aspirations.
Martine Lambert-Charbonnier
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ABSTRACT Objective Building on our prior Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System analysis identifying adults aged 18–39 as the primary driver of the national increase in self‐reported cognitive disability, we examined factors associated with this rise using 2013–2024 U.S. BRFSS data. Methods We analyzed U.S.
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Distortions in contemporary art (painting) [PDF]
The article highlights the connection between inner and outer world, between portrait, as a classical artistic genre in painting, and particular psychological aspects which exerts influence upon painting style, technique, methodological procedure and ...
Smaranda Moldovan, Ioana Palamar
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Ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals (FNLCs) offer fast, tunable polarization and low‐voltage operation but suffer from poor polarization retention at zero field. Semiconductor‐modified FNLCs enhance polarization retention and exhibit short‐ and long‐term electro‐optical responses, while also supporting spike‐type signal integrations.
Kutay Sagdic, Weiming Yao, Danqing Liu
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“Handsome blowsy Caroline”: ritrarre Caroline Fitzgerald
With this review, we aim to show the value of a recently published volume, that portrays a 19th-century American lady, Caroline Fitzgerald, living in Henry James’ cultural and intellectual environment.
Maria Chiara Brandolini
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