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Portraits of Imam Ali bin Abi Talib on Iranian Qajar and Pahlavi Artefacts Compared with its equivalents in historical sources [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science
This research aims to study and publish a group of Artefacts bearing the Portraits of Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib during the Qajar and Pahlavi eras. The pictures executed on artistic masterpieces are similar to the descriptions that we have received from ...
Mohamed Kotob Abo el ala
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From Symbol to Likeness: The Emergence of the Coin Portrait in the Greek-Persian Tradition

open access: yesGephyra, 2020
The rendition of living (or just deceased) persons with clearly recognizable individual features on coins was developed at the intersection of Greek and Persian cultural areas as a result of the grown complexity of political power-structures.
Wilhelm MÜSELER
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Portraits of Violence. Critical Reflections on the Graphic Novel

open access: yesSociologica, 2021
This essay provides a critical reflection on the graphic novel. Addressing the pedagogical importance of the genre and it’s wider cultural influences, it also attends to the lessons learned from the production of the Portraits of Violence book.
Brad Evans
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The portraits of Robert of Anjou: self-presentation as political instrument? [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Art Historiography, 2017
The slightly curved nose and hanging chin came to be characteristics of the portraits of Robert of Anjou and made him ‘the most recognizable of all medieval monarchs’.
Katharina Weiger
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De la miniature au Portugal : peintres et objets voyageurs, entre l’Europe et l’Amérique 

open access: yesEtudes Epistémè, 2019
Even though presiding over a large transatlantic empire from the 15th to the 19th centuries, Portugal remains relatively unknown, particularly in regards to miniature painting.
Patricia Telles
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On portraits in Ravanica [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2012
This research examines a badly washed-out portrait composition of Prince Lazar, Princess Milica and their sons, Stefan and Vuk, in the Ravanica church.
Starodubcev Tatjana
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Piety, Power, or Presence? Strategies of Monumental Visualization of Patronage in Late Antique Ravenna

open access: yesReligions, 2021
Between Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, lay and cleric alike felt the need to be remembered in the monuments they sponsored. Accordingly, specific elements of the décor were designed as means capable of bearing the patron’s memory.
Maria Cristina Carile
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Davorin Hotko – a Contribution to the Sculptural Oeuvre

open access: yesPeristil, 2019
The artistic personality of Croatian sculptor Davorin Martin Hotko (Zagreb, 1890 – Zagreb, 1962) has long been neglected, as information on his life is scarce and his sculptural oeuvre remains understudied and underassessed.
Enes Quien
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Les compositions votives sur la façade sud de l’eglise du Taxiarque Michel a Kastoria [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2014
One of the oldest churches in Kastoria, dedicated to Taxiarches Michael, is specially revered due to his role on Judgement Day. On the south facade there was painted a series of deceased prominent members of the old society that continued its ...
Subotić Gojko
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Portrait of an optimist [PDF]

open access: yesHuman Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2017
I come from a family of lawyers. When I was growing up, the only scientist in the family was my uncle, who was a physicist.
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