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The art of pain: A quantitative color analysis of the self-portraits of Frida Kahlo. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Hum Neurosci, 2022
Turkheimer FE   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Remembering Independence, Debating the Nation: Ghana's National Days

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Ghana, Independence Day is the most important national day and has been annually observed since the attainment of independence in 1957. Additional national days that various military governments introduced to commemorate their ascension to power have been rather short‐lived. Other holidays like Republic Day or Founder's Day have been longer
Carola Lentz
wiley   +1 more source

The Painterly Materiality of Clouds in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the cloud‐gazing scenes in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet through the lens of early modern artistic theory and material practices, particularly the art of limning. Building upon existing philosophical and poetic interpretations of Shakespearean clouds as metaphors for ephemerality and memory, the essay argues that the ...
Anne‐Valérie Dulac
wiley   +1 more source

‘Why Did You Go to Buda?’: The Humanist Sodality and Mantuan’s Rustic Idyll in Bohuslaus of Hassenstein’s Ecloga sive Idyllion Budae (1503)☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In the late fifteenth century, the Hungarian royal court at Buda was home to a cosmopolitan community of humanists. In early modern historiography, this cultural milieu has often been interpreted as one of the new, emergent ‘centres’ of the Renaissance in East Central Europe.
Eva Plesnik
wiley   +1 more source

Body Models in Roman Nude Portraits: Restaging Polykleitos?

open access: yes, 2018
The paper extends the discussion to Roman male nude portraits that have been variously traced back to Polykleitos and his school, proposing a critical approach to the ongoing tendency to describe them only in terms of their relationship to types, or ...
Mariateresa Curcio
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Marius Popa, Le roman français au XIXe siècle : Microanalyses d’une galerie de portraits, Brașov, Creator, 2022, 91 p.

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia
L’ouvrage de Marius Popa, Le roman français au XIXe siècle : Microanalyses d’une galerie de portraits, propose la radiographie critique d’une « galerie de personnages » qui représentent des archétypes actantiels du XIXe siècle français. Le livre insiste
Robert Constantin NOTAR
doaj  

What Does Intarsia Say? Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Upon entering the Urbino studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, the visitor is struck by a material‐charged environment. Surprisingly, only a few scholars have addressed one prominent aspect of the decorative scheme, namely, the feature of intarsia as a medium. Even so, it remains on the sidelines of the discussion.
Matan Aviel
wiley   +1 more source

Two portraits of Roman B. J. Kwasniewski's daughter, Adele, and another girl

open access: yes
Roman B. J. Kwasniewski's daughter, Adele, is the child on the right in both portraits.Kwasniewski: ""Adelcia & Victoria"
Kwasniewski, Roman B.J., 1886-1980
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