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Bulletin de l’Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique, 2022 Among the many remnants of early stained glass in the possession of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, some can be identified as originating from the studio collection of Jean-Baptiste Capronnier (1814-1891), one of the main glass painters active ...
Isabelle Lecocq, Guy-Michel Leproux
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Polarization-Dependent Elliptical and Rectangular Mie Voids. [PDF]
SmallPolarization‐dependent Mie void resonances are realized by introducing anisotropic low‐index inclusions embedded in high‐index materials. Elliptical and rectangular void geometries enable controlled tuning of resonance behavior and optical mode formation.
Arslan S +9 more
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Revealing patterns of endemism in the transatlantic family Chelodesmidae (Polydesmida: Diplopoda). [PDF]
CladisticsAbstract With fossil records dating back to the Silurian/Late Ordovician, millipedes stand out as one of the earliest terrestrial animal groups. Their limited vagility and high endemism make them valuable tools for formulating and testing biogeographic hypotheses, including those related to macro‐vicariance events.
Bouzan RS +4 more
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Traits Explain Canopy Tree Occurrence Along Regional Environmental Gradients: A Subset Combine to Be Useful. [PDF]
Ecol EvolOur paper addresses the problem of “How to predict where a tree can be found from its traits?” We show that wood density, bark thickness, maximum height and seed mass combine for a useful model of tree distributions. ABSTRACT Trait‐Species Distribution Models (trait‐SDM) help to understand the importance of plant strategies to niches, assess their ...
Vesk PA +6 more
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Slavic ornaments in the decoration of the costume of Islamic Egypt
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2022 The article is devoted to the analysis of a group of fabrics from the collection of the Ashmolean Museum - the Center for Islamic and Asian Art. Yousef at Oxford University (Ashmolean - Eastern Art Online, Yousef Jameel Center for Islamic and Asian Art).
Savenkova, M.
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An Actor-Network Perspective on Collections Documentation and Data Practices at Museums
Museum & Society, 2021 The improvement of digital technology over recent decades has advanced the ability of museums to manage records of their collections and share them online.
Juhee Park
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G.B. Giorgini: Fashion, Florence and Diplomacy, 1950-55
ZoneModa Journal, 2021 Three key factors contributed Florence’s mid-century reign as Italy’s premier fashion city. Chief among them was the active championing of Florence by fashion impresario, Giovanni Battista Giorgini (1898–1971) whose bi-annual fashion shows associated ...
Sonnet Stanfill
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George Salting (1835-1909) and the discovery of Islamic ceramics in 19th-century England
Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2012 This paper gives a biographical and artistic presentation of George Salting, a British art collector who bequeathed the largest part of his collections to various London museums.
Isabelle Gadoin
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19, 2021 Lady Dorothy Nevill gained acclaim as a botanist, a political hostess, one of the founding members of the Conservative Primrose League, an art collector, and a supporter of writers, scholars, and artists, many of whom she patronized.
Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth
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Heritage, 2023 This paper describes the Climate Toolbox—a set of utilities for assessing and comparing real internal climates in terms of hazards they pose to museum collections.
Boris Pretzel
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