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Book review: Museums and Design Education: Looking to Learn, Learning to See [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This timely book, exploring a range of conceptual connections between HE learning and museum settings, is edited by three colleagues (two Research Fellows and an HE Officer) from the Centre for Excellence in Design (CELTD).
Butcher, John
core  

One‐Class Autoencoders for Porcelain Art Attribution: The Case of William Billingsley

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This comprehensive study explores the application of advanced machine learning techniques, specifically one‐class autoencoders, for the authentication and attribution of English porcelain artworks. Focusing primarily on the works of William Billingsley (1758–1828), one of England's most celebrated porcelain decorators, we demonstrate how ...
Hassan Ugail   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Er:YAG Laser Cleaning of Micromosaics from the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum

open access: yesHeritage
Conserving micromosaics from the Gilbert collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum is a challenge due to their complex structure and fragility. Their highly polished decorative surface prevents access to the substrate, yet deterioration can affect ...
Julia Brand, Carmen Vida, Lucia Burgio
doaj   +1 more source

Investigating the impact of cleaning treatments on polystyrene using SEM, AFM and ToF–SIMS

open access: yesHeritage Science, 2017
Concerns about the stability of plastic artefacts are commonly expressed when discussing the conservation of modern materials. One of the factors affecting the degradation of plastics is the presence of soil, degradation products and other contaminants ...
Anna L. Fricker   +3 more
doaj   +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

Pellegrino Tibaldi and the drawing for the main façade of the Sanctuary of Saronno in the Victoria and Albert Museum

open access: yesArcHistoR Architettura Storia Restauro: Architecture History Restoration, 2015
The drawing for the main façade of the Sanctuary of Saronno in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London is quite unknown, except for a mention by Maria Cristina Loi.
Francesco Repishti
doaj   +1 more source

Traits Explain Canopy Tree Occurrence Along Regional Environmental Gradients: A Subset Combine to Be Useful

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 5, May 2026.
Our 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 ...
Peter A. Vesk   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mostre a Londra

open access: yesTesto & Senso, 2008
Nota sulla mostra di arte grafica cinese China Design Now al Victoria and Albert Museum e sulla città di Shenzhen.
Lina Unali
doaj  

The Use of Scanning XRF to Map the Reduction in Foxing Stains on Paper with Chelating Agents

open access: yesApplied Sciences
To reduce staining, paper conservators have increasingly treated artworks on paper with enhanced washing using chelating agents, which form complexes with metallic ions, thus facilitating the removal of stains.
Elizabeth La Duc, Kiri Douglas
doaj   +1 more source

Archives of impact: The politics of craters on Earth

open access: yesGeographical Research, Volume 64, Issue 2, May 2026.
This paper examines Earth’s 195 confirmed impact craters as archives, exploring their cataloguing and presentation as heritage sites. It argues Western scientific framings using military language and emphasising catastrophe overlook settler colonialism’s violent histories and marginalise indigenous earth‐sky cosmologies.
Gareth Hoskins
wiley   +1 more source

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