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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
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Исследуя истоки русского патриотизма: летописи и былины в графике Сергея Тимохова

open access: yesИскусство Евразии
Статья посвящена творчеству одного из ведущих сибирских графиков, члена Красноярской школы ксилографии Г.С. Паштова — Сергея Владимировича Тимохова, мастерство которого поражает невероятным разнообразием.
Коперсак, Е.В.
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Charles Lyell’s Churches and the Erosion of Faith in Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach”

open access: yesLinguae &: Rivista di Lingue e Culture Moderne, 2014
The author discusses how in the poem “Dover Beach” (1851-52) Matthew Arnold engages with literary texts of the past as well as with works of contemporary writers.
Ivo Klaver
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An Illustrated Haggadah for Sefardi Exiles in Istanbul

open access: yesReligions, 2023
The first illustrated haggadah of the print era was published around 1505 by David and Samuel ibn Nahmias in Istanbul (henceforth “Istanbul Haggadah”). It was embellished with woodcuts that had been commissioned in 1492 in Naples.
Katrin Kogman-Appel
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Notation in Early Modern Language Teaching

open access: yesRenaissance 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
wiley   +1 more source

Une leçon japonaise : la gravure sur bois en couleurs en France, 1889-1939

open access: yesEbisu: Études Japonaises, 2014
The use of Japanese printmaking techniques by a handful of French engravers was part of a dual process involving the revival of the original woodcut and the advent of colour in Western printmaking.
Philippe Le Stum
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Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, Volume 7, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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The Cutting Edge in Print

open access: yesActa Periodica Duellatorum, 2023
This article explores how Scholastic notions of the body, mind and cognition inform the didactic principles structuring the Opera nova (1536) by Achille Marozzo (1484-1553).
Miente Pietersma
doaj   +1 more source

Reconstructing post‐crisis recovery in the hinterlands of Constantinople: A high‐resolution first‐millennium CE pollen record from Lake Yeniçağa (NW Türkiye)

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 520-539, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Facing a novel plague pandemic, military invasions, and political–economic transformations, societies of the eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire had to adapt to a variety of pressures and new ways of exploiting their natural environments during the mid‐1st millennium CE.
Cristiano Vignola   +7 more
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Introduction: The (Im)material Spectrum of Manuscript and Print Interaction☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 148-165, April 2026.
Abstract This introductory essay to the special issue on Early Modern English Textual Cultures Between Manuscript and Print first outlines previous research into different kinds of interaction between manuscript and print. Examples of this interplay include, for instance, the transmission of text and images from one medium into another, the use of ...
Sara Norja, Mari‐Liisa Varila
wiley   +1 more source

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