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The Royal Summer Palace, Ferdinand I and Anne [PDF]
Historie - Otázky - Problémy, 2015 This essay examines the iconography of the best-known relief from the renaissance Royal Summer Palace at the Prague Castle, depicting Ferdinand I of Habsburg and his wife Anne Jagiello. It highlights its marriage symbolism and the question of the dowry.
Sylva Dobalová
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Radovi Instituta za Povijest Umjetnosti, 2019 On the basis of the Chronica Hungarorum of Johannes de Thurocz, the Epitome rerum Hungaricarum of Pietro Ransano, and the Rerum Ungaricarum decades of Antonio Bonfini that were compiled within ten years, between 1488 and 1498, my paper forms a multi ...
Anna Boreczky
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior
Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 777-798, October 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
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ICO Iconographisk Post, 2019 Title in English: The donor couple painted in the Rotunda of St. Catherine in Znojmo (Czech Republic) in 1134 is the best iconographical parallel to the Danish royal donors in Vä Church, Sweden (1121) In this paper the author introduces an ...
Ulla Haastrup
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Pamiętnik Teatralny, 2018 The article discusses the inauguration of the Royal Theatre in the Old Orangery that took place on 6 September 1788 and was an impressive spectacle with a well thought out composition. The author analyses closely the opening of the king’s private theatre
Joanna Szumańska
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What Does Intarsia Say? Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 712-738, September 2026.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
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 764-780, September 2026.Abstract This article examines how late bardic poetry transforms the condition of exile into a literary mode that reimagines community and tradition. I argue that poetry of lament, blessing and devotion articulates a broader literary consciousness that anticipates modern notions of a national consciousness. The compilation of bardic verse in manuscript
Daniel T. McClurkin
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Cultural geography of heat: Artistic experiments with heat’s animacies
Geographical Research, Volume 64, Issue 3, August 2026.A sustained, cultural geographical engagement with heat is long overdue. I advance this agenda by engaging with the work of contemporary artists. Artists are responding to uneven conditions of global heating by exploring heat’s animacies: how heat interweaves with the practices and textures of life.
Sasha Engelmann
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German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 419-436, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article considers how trans lives are mediated across literary, painterly and filmic registers in Paul B. Preciado's Orlando, My Political Biography (2023). My analysis draws on Andrew Webber's development of reading practices applied to intertextual works that also exhibit interpictorial and interfilmic dynamics in his reading of a scene
Lawrence Alexander
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ICO Iconographisk Post, 2016 Title in English: Donor pictures and their iconography in Danish frescos from the 12th century. – The article deals principally with the royal donor images, their interpretation and context, in the Romanesque church of Vä in southern Sweden (Scania).
Ulla Haastrup
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