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When lived ancient religion and lived ancient medicine meet: the household Gods, the household shrine and regimen [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper argues that there was a strong connection between Roman domestic religious belief and practice and Roman domestic medical practice through the association of the household gods with the household’s health and well-being.
Draycott, Jane
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Treating Smalt: A Preliminary SEM-EDX Study of the Effects of Aqueous-based Alkaline Conservation Treatments on Smalt in Wall Paintings

open access: yesStudies in Conservation, 2021
Smalt is a blue cobalt-coloured glass pigment used in European wall paintings from the early Renaissance period that became a popular choice for artists due to its unique tone, availability, and versatility. The pigment has long been considered as stable
E. Manship   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Application of shearography and the percussion method for the structural inspection of wall paintings: a case study of St. Christopher in Maria Church, Nisse

open access: yesOptical Metrology, 2021
Structural delamination in mural paintings is a complex phenomenon and is considered among the most frequent types of damage. In conservation practice, the most common technique to identify structural detachments in wall paintings is the percussion ...
V. Gatto   +6 more
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Street Art and Space [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Various forms of street art, such as murals, anamorphic painting or urban interventions, become an important component of urban space. The paper examines examples of selected works of urban art in the context of space and its reception. These unexpected “
Gralińska-Toborek, Agnieszka
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Wall Paintings in Ancient Cyprus: The Hellenistic and Roman Tombs of Paphos and Its Region

open access: yesÉtudes et Travaux (Institute des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences), 2021
This paper presents the wall paintings decorating a number of Hellenistic and Roman tombs, of various architectural types, in Paphos and the region. The paper gathers together for the first time all the known published and unpublished painted tombs of ...
Vasiliki Lysandrou   +1 more
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Characterization of Wall Painting Fragments from the West Courtyard Passage at St. Nicholas Church in Demre

open access: yesArt-Sanat, 2023
This paper presents archaeometric analyses of representative wall painting fragments (dated to middle Byzantine period) from the West Courtyard Passage at Demre St. Nicholas Church (in ancient Myra), which is located in Antalya province today.
Oğuz Emre Kayser   +2 more
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Cooperation of Nature and Physiologically Inspired Mechanism in Visualisation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
A novel approach of integrating two swarm intelligence algorithms is considered, one simulating the behaviour of birds flocking (Particle Swarm Optimisation) and the other one (Stochastic Diffusion Search) mimics the recruitment behaviour of one species ...
Aber, Ahmed   +2 more
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“Bildtapeten” and the conservation of medieval wall paintings at the turn of the twentieth century in Germany

open access: yesCeROArt : Conservation, Exposition, Restauration d'Objets d'Art, 2013
In the last decades of the nineteenth Century, a paradigm change in the preservation of medieval wall painting conservation took place. Restoration as equivalent of repainting was definitely refused.
Ursula Schädler-Saub
doaj   +1 more source

Creating an Art Tourist Space in the Urban Sphere of Lodz – a Theoretical Approach Based on the Example of the Urban Forms Gallery of Murals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The Urban Forms Gallery of murals in Lodz, Poland, is a “live gallery” of more than 30 large-format paintings made directly on the façades of the buildings. This unique street art exhibition changes the appearance of Lodz’s public space and constitutes a
Mokras-Grabowska, Justyna
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Wall Painting Decoration from the North-West Church in Hippos-Sussita of the Decapolis

open access: yesÉtudes et Travaux (Institute des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences), 2017
Excavations in the North-West Church yielded numerous fragments of plain and painted wall plaster, which suggest that the entire interior of the church was plastered, and in large part, decorated with wall paintings.
Julia Burdajewicz
doaj   +1 more source

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