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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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Restorativeness and pleasantness shape tranquility in high-density urban residential soundscapes. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Zhao W, Wang J, Zhu X, Liu F, Wang W.
europepmc   +1 more source

Utopia Remembers: The Soviet Past in the Imagined Communist Future

The Russian Review, EarlyView.
Abstract After a twenty‐five‐year hiatus, the reappearance of utopian literature in 1957 prompted Soviet literary watchdogs to corral the subgenre into an ideologically‐acceptable mold. A key requirement was for future generations to be depicted as reverently commemorating the past.
Antony Kalashnikov
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Shedding new light on the context and temporality of Iberian warrior stelae: The Cañaveral de León 2 Stela and Las Capellanías burial complex (Huelva, SW Spain). [PDF]

PLoS One
García Sanjuán L, Rivera-Jiménez T, Díaz-Guardamino M, Wheatley D, Lozano Rodríguez JA, Donaire Romero T, González-García AC, Montero Artús R, Ruiz Flores J, Bermejo Meléndez J, Rogerio-Candelera MÁ, Ling J, Andrieux E, Bailiff I.   +13 more
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The National Transformation of the Historical Memory of Minor Jewish Holidays During the Period of Hibbat Zion

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT From its very inception, the Jewish National Movement Hibbat Zion turned to the collective past to advance its goals in the present. One of their activities was to reinterpret Jewish holidays and festivals, especially those that did not take a central place in the Jewish calendar.
Asaf Yedidya
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The Levantine Megalithic Building Techniques: A Groundbreaking Method Applied to Menjez's Monuments (Akkar, Lebanon) from the 4th-3rd Millennium BCE. [PDF]

J Archaeol Method Theory
Defours Rivoira M, Cousseau F, Steimer-Herbet T.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

“The future of death in the present of love”: Eros as an ethical pas encore in Levinas's Totality and Infinity

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reinterprets Levinas's account of ethical subjectivity by centering the temporality of the pas encore (“not yet”) and drawing on new materials in Œuvres complètes. I argue that, in Totality and Infinity, eros and ethics are internally continuous: eros generates a responsible not yet of time, secured by fecundity and oriented to ...
Huaiyuan Zhang
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A case study on litter management and clean environment index in small tourism cities. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Rahimi Hezarvand S, Morovati M, Parsa S, Torkashvand J.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Facilitating Feeling?: The Relationship between Memorials and Emotions

Sociological Inquiry, EarlyView.
This article explores if and how national memorials impact collective emotions among local residents, focusing on the National Memorial for Peace and Justice (NMPJ) in Montgomery, Alabama. This understudied question is of sociological importance given the change in federal policy regarding public memorials, particularly the removal of references to ...
Ashley V. Reichelmann, James E. Hawdon
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