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Camille Flammarion’s Pythagorean Moment
Revista Brasileira de História da Matemática, 2020 Flammarion’s Woodcut is a frequently discussed engraving in Camille Flammarion’s 1888 work on meteorology. It is interpreted herein as a symbolic presentation of the (Pythagorean) thesis that mathematics is the key to knowledge and, specifically, that ...
John A. Fossa
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Dürers Nashorn und die Nahrung von Eresus cinnberinus (Olivier) (Araneae: Eresidae)
Arachnologische Mitteilungen, 1999 The first rhinoceros of the post-roman era reached Europe in 1513. Albrecht Dürer, who had not seen the animal himself, made a woodcut that contained several odd features. This woodcut determined the appearance of rhinocerus for the next two centuries. -
Walter, Jakob E.
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Komurasaki. Legenda i jej wieczni kochankowie
Litteraria Copernicana, 2014 The focus of the paper is the analysis of the story about the courtesan Komurasaki and the samurai Shirai Gonpachi. The story, recurring in Japanese literature, appears also in Czech literature – the writings of Juliusz Zeyer – and in Polish literature ...
Adam Jarosz
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior
Gender &History, EarlyView.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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Bulletin du Centre d’Études Médiévales d’Auxerre, 2023 A Crucifixion with Holy Women, from the Grand séminaire in Strasbourg – on deposit at the Musée de l’Œuvre Notre-Dame –, completely absent from the scientific bibliography, is an important work of German painting, circa 1520.
Christian Heck
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Cladistics, EarlyView.Abstract Historical biogeography faces a persistent conceptual and methodological dilemma concerning the nature of its central analytical units. Using the recent proposal by Schultz and Cracraft (Cladistics 40, 653) as a catalyst, this article critiques the argument that causal inference necessitates the replacement of areas of endemism with barriers ...
Augusto Ferrari
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The Image of Death in Alfred Rethel’s Graphic Sheets in the Context of Sociopolitical Events in Germany in the Mid-19th Century [PDF]
Художественная культураThe article examines the relationship between the graphic works of Alfred Rethel (1816–1859) dedicated to the image of Death and the revolutionary historical events in Europe in the mid-19th century. His work reveals a rethinking of the medieval genre in
Bulgarov Vyacheslav S.
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International Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.Abstract In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the Mokuhanga technique, a traditional Japanese printmaking method, and its contemporary evolution. This article explores the history of this discipline, its technical uniqueness, and its resurgence in the current context, with particular attention to its development in Spain.
Macarena Moreno Moreno
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Кёка-суримоно Ясимы Гакутэя из фондов Сахалинского областного художественного музея
Искусство ЕвразииСтатья посвящена творчеству японского художника, поэта и переводчика с китайского языка Ясимы Гакутэя и вводит в научный оборот его произведение из коллекции Сахалинского областного художественного музея — суримоно «Китайская красавица, заглядывающая в ...
Малькова, И.Г.
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Новые исследования Тувы, 2019 This publication discusses a woodcut compilation of Buddhist texts from the collection of the National Museum of the Republic of Tuva, also providing a transliteration and Russian translation of the text. This woodcut collection in Mongolian (code M–143)
Delyash N. Muzraeva, Rita P. Sumba
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