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Du jugement de Pâris au triomphe du prince : Minerve, une déesse dans l’amphithéâtre

Pallas, 2016
That her worship statue be led from the temple up to the amphitheater during the pompa, whether she’s present in the entertainment building’s decoration, or still that she protects the gladiators through their weapons, the goddess Minerva is present ...
Matthieu Soler
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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
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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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The Architectural Decoration of the Capitolium of Brescia: Catalogue of the Materials

Lanx, 2013
Known since the since the twenties of the nineteenth century, when the temple was completely taken to the light and rebuilt to host the “Museo patrio”, the Capitolium of Brescia has been object of many studies, first of all the volume “Museo bresciano ...
Antonio Dell'Acqua
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Notation in Early Modern Language Teaching

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the use of musical notation as a pedagogical tool in early modern language teaching, focusing on Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and briefly, Turkish. While musical notation is typically associated with performance and composition, the sources discussed here demonstrate its broader application as a visual and conceptual system for ...
Elisabeth Giselbrecht
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National Relics: Secular Sacrality, Museums, and Heritage‐Making in Nineteenth‐Century Chile

Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how objects and bodily remains are transformed and ritualized into national relics through collecting and exhibiting practices in museums. Focusing on nineteenth‐century Chile, it draws on archival sources, material culture theory, and the anthropology of religion to argue that objects associated with Chile's nation‐state
Hugo Rueda Ramírez
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False Windows in Ancient yemen

Journal of General Union of Arab Archaeologists
This article aims to examine the phenomenon of false windows in ancient Yemen by analyzing their distribution, architectural design, and symbolic significance within religious and architectural contexts, while exploring their relationship to similar ...
Wael Fathi Hamada
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Vitruvius Neerlandice. Een nieuwe vertaling van het Romeinse 'handboek bouwkunde'

Bulletin KNOB, 1998
The significance of Vitruvius's manual for the later periods of art history is unmistakable. The Latin text - often elaborate and quite lapidary in style - poses translation problems for even the most expert classicist or archaeologist.
J.A.K.E. de Waele
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Constructing National Identity Through Museums in Early Republican Turkey: Historical Narrative, Spatial Transformation, Exhibiting Modernity, and Monumentality

Curator: The Museum Journal, Volume 69, Issue 3, Page 373-389, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the role of museums in the construction of national identity during the Early Republican Period in Turkey (1923–1950). Drawing on theoretical approaches that interpret museums as spaces in which collective memory and national identity are materially organized and publicly communicated, the study analyzes museums as key ...
Duygu Atalay Şimşek
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The underappreciated roles of fog and dew on vegetation and biocrusts

New Phytologist, Volume 251, Issue 1, Page 46-63, July 2026.
Summary Fog and dew represent minor components of ecosystem water budgets in most ecosystems. However, fog and dew can play an essential role in ecosystem dynamics and are particularly important for water‐limited systems. In addition to serving as direct water inputs, fog and dew can influence microclimate and water redistribution, thereby promoting ...
Lixin Wang, Yue Li, Mengyun Sun, Na Qiao
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