Analysis of sculptures using XRF and X-ray radiography

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Calza, C.; Oliveira, D. F.; Freitas, R. P.; Rocha, H. S.; Nascimento, J. R.; Lopes, R. T.

2015-11-01

This work reports the analysis of two sacred images on polychrome wood using X-ray Radiography and Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence. The first case is the analysis of a sculpture portraying Saint Sebastian, the patron saint of Rio de Janeiro, which is considered the second most ancient sacred image of Brazil. This sculpture was made in Portugal and was transported to Brazil by Estácio Sá, founder of the city of Rio de Janeiro, in 1565. Nowadays, it is located on the main altar of the Church of Capuchin Friars. The second case is the analysis of a sculpture representing Our Lady of Conception, which is located in the D. João VI Museum (EBA/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro). The objective of these analyses was to evaluate the general conditions of the sculptures, identifying possible problems and internal damages, areas that revealed signs of previous retouchings and the materials and pigments employed by the artists, in order to assist its restoration procedures. EDXRF measurements were carried out with a portable system, developed at the Nuclear Instrumentation Laboratory, consisting of a Si-PIN XR-100CR detector from Amptek and an Oxford TF3005 X-ray tube with W anode. An X-ray source, a CR System GE CR50P and IP detectors were used to perform the radiographs. The XRF analysis of the sculptures identified the original pigments in both cases and the radiographic images revealed details of the manufacture; restored regions; extensive use of lead white; presence of cracks on the wood; use of nails and spikes, etc.

Inspection of a Medieval Wood Sculpture Using Computer Tomography

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Kapitany, K.; Somogyi, A.; Barsi, A.

2016-06-01

Computer tomography (CT) is an excellent technique for obtaining accurate 3D information about the human body. It allows to visualize the organs, bones and blood vessels, furthermore it enables to diagnose anomalies and diseases. Its spatial reconstruction capability supports other interesting applications, such as inspecting different, even valuable objects like ancient sculptures. Current paper presents a methodology of evaluating CT and video imagery through the example of investigating a wood Madonna with infant Jesus sculpture from the 14th century. The developed techniques extract the outer boundary of the statue, which has been triangulated to derive the surface model. The interior of the sculpture has also been revealed: the iron bolts and rivets as well as the woodworm holes can be mapped. By merging the interior and outer data (geometry and texture) interesting visualizations (perspective views, sections etc.) have been created.

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ASOGWA IFEANYI

2017-02-02

Feb 2, 2017 ... to develop both new methods of inquiry and appropriate forms of ... sculpture, music, dance, poetry, movement, dialogue and painting. ... were feared and respected by everybody in the society, including women and children.

INSPECTION OF A MEDIEVAL WOOD SCULPTURE USING COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY

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K. Kapitany

2016-06-01

Full Text Available Computer tomography (CT is an excellent technique for obtaining accurate 3D information about the human body. It allows to visualize the organs, bones and blood vessels, furthermore it enables to diagnose anomalies and diseases. Its spatial reconstruction capability supports other interesting applications, such as inspecting different, even valuable objects like ancient sculptures. Current paper presents a methodology of evaluating CT and video imagery through the example of investigating a wood Madonna with infant Jesus sculpture from the 14th century. The developed techniques extract the outer boundary of the statue, which has been triangulated to derive the surface model. The interior of the sculpture has also been revealed: the iron bolts and rivets as well as the woodworm holes can be mapped. By merging the interior and outer data (geometry and texture interesting visualizations (perspective views, sections etc. have been created.

' "Life is Movement": Vernon Lee and Sculpture'

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Østermark-Johansen, Lene

2018-01-01

How do living, breathing human bodies respond to the inert bodies of sculpture? This article examines some of the art-theoretical and psychological writings of Violet Paget (‘Vernon Lee’) and Clementina Anstruther-Thomson of the 1880s and 1890s in an attempt to map the evolution of their formalist...... art criticism. Engaging with the eighteenth-century ghosts of Johann Joachim Winckelmann and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Lee and Anstruther-Thomson created their very own exploration of art forms evolving in space and in time. Questioning how our reading of literature affects our reading of sculpture...... from Lee’s early essays in Belcaro: Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions (1881) to the late collaborative volume Art and Man (1924)....

Eurasia International Sculpture Biennale, Kazakhstan

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Heywood, Anthony

2017-01-01

The first Eurasia International Sculpture Biennale was held from 4 July to 4 August 2017 in the atrium of the Palace of Peace and Reconciliation as one of the most important events of the cultural program EXPO-2017, commissioned by the Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Sculpture africaine. Blessures et altérité

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Gaetano Speranza

2009-03-01

Full Text Available Au delà de la notion de “blessure” relative à l’objet, l’auteur s’attache aux traumatismes culturels résultant de la rencontre entre la sculpture africaine et le monde occidental. Un exemple particulier est celui des instruments de musique ethnographiques, dont la restauration est souvent tributaire des conceptions occidentales.Beyond the notion of « injury » for the object, the author dwells on cultural traumatisms resulting from the meeting between African sculpture and the western world. A particular example is the one of ethnographical musical instruments for which restoration is often tributary of western conceptions.

Instructional Resources: Issues in Public Sculpture.

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Hill, Julie Lasater; And Others

1988-01-01

Presents four lesson plans for teaching K-12 students about public sculpture and contemporary sculptors. Highlights the following works: "Playscapes" by Isamu Noguchi, "The Dallas Piece" by Henry Moore, "Old Glory" by Mark di Suvero, and "Face of the Earth" by Vito Acconci. Includes background information on…

THE DANCING SCULPTURES OF THE 19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN ART

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Sibel ALMELEK ISMAN

2015-04-01

Full Text Available Dance has been an indispensable element of human life for centuries. Painters and sculptors have created the dynamism of dance steps either on the canvas or stone with the same excitement. Charits, Nymphs, Bacchantes and Satyrs, the Greek and Roman mythological figures who attract attention with their dances have been a source of inspiration for artists. In this research, the dancing sculptures of the 19th century which is an interesting period in European art because of its witnessing of long term styles like Neoclassicism and Romanticism and short term movements such as Realism and Impressionism are examined. Examples of sculptures which brings dance to life before and after the 19th century have also been mentioned. The likenesses as well as dissimilarities in the way the arts of painting and sculpture approach to the theme of dance has been briefly evaluated.

Waiting for Art: The Experience of Real Time in Sculpture

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Elizabeth Buhe

2011-05-01

Full Text Available Why and how does some contemporary art make us wait, and why does the beholder choose to stay? This study seeks to answer this question by exploring what happens to the viewer while waiting in front of a “time sculpture,” a term coined here to mean a three-dimensional artwork that is dynamic over a set period of time. Through an analysis of select works by artists Anish Kapoor, Amelia Whitelaw, Michael Sailstorfer, and Roman Signer, the article posits that while in front of these time sculptures, the viewer experiences an anxiety of waiting and temporal confusion that glues him to the spot. Ultimately, by drawing upon Henri Bergson’s concept of duration, the essay suggests that the viewership of time sculpture allows for a heightened state of perception. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE

The Golden Beauty: Brain Response to Classical and Renaissance Sculptures

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Di Dio, Cinzia; Macaluso, Emiliano; Rizzolatti, Giacomo

2007-01-01

Is there an objective, biological basis for the experience of beauty in art? Or is aesthetic experience entirely subjective? Using fMRI technique, we addressed this question by presenting viewers, naïve to art criticism, with images of masterpieces of Classical and Renaissance sculpture. Employing proportion as the independent variable, we produced two sets of stimuli: one composed of images of original sculptures; the other of a modified version of the same images. The stimuli were presented in three conditions: observation, aesthetic judgment, and proportion judgment. In the observation condition, the viewers were required to observe the images with the same mind-set as if they were in a museum. In the other two conditions they were required to give an aesthetic or proportion judgment on the same images. Two types of analyses were carried out: one which contrasted brain response to the canonical and the modified sculptures, and one which contrasted beautiful vs. ugly sculptures as judged by each volunteer. The most striking result was that the observation of original sculptures, relative to the modified ones, produced activation of the right insula as well as of some lateral and medial cortical areas (lateral occipital gyrus, precuneus and prefrontal areas). The activation of the insula was particularly strong during the observation condition. Most interestingly, when volunteers were required to give an overt aesthetic judgment, the images judged as beautiful selectively activated the right amygdala, relative to those judged as ugly. We conclude that, in observers naïve to art criticism, the sense of beauty is mediated by two non-mutually exclusive processes: one based on a joint activation of sets of cortical neurons, triggered by parameters intrinsic to the stimuli, and the insula (objective beauty); the other based on the activation of the amygdala, driven by one's own emotional experiences (subjective beauty). PMID:18030335

The golden beauty: brain response to classical and renaissance sculptures.

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Cinzia Di Dio

Full Text Available Is there an objective, biological basis for the experience of beauty in art? Or is aesthetic experience entirely subjective? Using fMRI technique, we addressed this question by presenting viewers, naïve to art criticism, with images of masterpieces of Classical and Renaissance sculpture. Employing proportion as the independent variable, we produced two sets of stimuli: one composed of images of original sculptures; the other of a modified version of the same images. The stimuli were presented in three conditions: observation, aesthetic judgment, and proportion judgment. In the observation condition, the viewers were required to observe the images with the same mind-set as if they were in a museum. In the other two conditions they were required to give an aesthetic or proportion judgment on the same images. Two types of analyses were carried out: one which contrasted brain response to the canonical and the modified sculptures, and one which contrasted beautiful vs. ugly sculptures as judged by each volunteer. The most striking result was that the observation of original sculptures, relative to the modified ones, produced activation of the right insula as well as of some lateral and medial cortical areas (lateral occipital gyrus, precuneus and prefrontal areas. The activation of the insula was particularly strong during the observation condition. Most interestingly, when volunteers were required to give an overt aesthetic judgment, the images judged as beautiful selectively activated the right amygdala, relative to those judged as ugly. We conclude that, in observers naïve to art criticism, the sense of beauty is mediated by two non-mutually exclusive processes: one based on a joint activation of sets of cortical neurons, triggered by parameters intrinsic to the stimuli, and the insula (objective beauty; the other based on the activation of the amygdala, driven by one's own emotional experiences (subjective beauty.

Introduction to British Sculpture Abroad in the 1960s

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Jon Wood

2016-07-01

Full Text Available In the 1960s, British sculpture enjoyed a complex transitional life, taking on a new, bold, and increasingly internationalized profile, at the very same time that its forms and meanings were being challenged and contested. Both in Britain and beyond its shores, sculpture experienced substantial reorientation at the same time as it developed a rich and complicated “import” and “export” life, conceptually, commercially, and curatorially. When “Sculpture” was “British” and “Abroad”, its “abroad-ness” was not always so explicitly visible, since its forms and concerns frequently chimed with sensibilities and approaches that were emerging elsewhere too, whether they were figurative or abstract, Constructivist or Pop. At the same time, when sculpture was being displayed in Britain, whether in terms of groups, schools, and/or recent tendencies, it was increasingly described as “British Sculpture”. Visual evidence of foreign impact and exchange gradually emerged at the same time as this national and generational trope became a cultural identifier on a broader cultural landscape.

Ultrastructure of pollen grain sculpturing in several species of the Rosaceae family

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Józef Kocoń

2014-01-01

Full Text Available The sculpturing patterns of pollen grains in some species of the Rosaceae family were analyzed by SEM. Three patterns are described, typical for Prunus spinosa, Pyrus elengrifolia and Crataegus sp. The role of SEM analysis of sculpturing patterns in taxonomy can be compared to the "finger print" method in chemical plant taxonomy.

The Open Space Sculptures Used in the Gençlik Park towards Visual Perception of Park Users

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Ahmet Polat

2012-11-01

Full Text Available Urban parks are the most important areas that allow recreational activities in our towns. Increasing the visual quality of urban parks provides positive impacts on urban quality. Besides the artistic and technical features of open space sculptures which are used for urban park designs are the visual perceptions and preferences of park users are also important. In the context of this study, six sculptures in Gençlik Park which is in the boundaries Ankara have been considered. The aim of the study, to measure the visual quality of the sculptures in the urban parks through park users and to reveal the relationship between visual landscape indicators (of being interesting, coherence, complexity, meaningfulness, and mystery and the visual quality. For this purpose, the six pieces in Ankara Youth Park of sculpture were evaluated the scope of research. According to the results of the study; it was realized that park users like sculptures visually. A statistically significant relationship was found between the visual quality of the sculptures and some landscape indicators (to be interesting, mystery and harmony. In addition to these, some suggestions were made regarding the use of sculptures in urban parks.

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2016-06-02

Jun 2, 2016 ... technologies in textiles as well as the social and economic activities of the people who make ... reality”. It is obvious that the basic principles which apply to all the other arts ... textile work which acts as mixed media sculpture.

Rock Engravings and Sculptures of North Guwahati, Assam

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Dwipen Bezbaruah

2016-02-01

Full Text Available Evidences of rock engravings and sculptures, in Assam, are predominantly found to occur in the vicinity of the temples. Incidence of images of Gods and Goddesses, faunal and floral motif are invariably more. Apart from these, some geometric designs are also perceived. Such tangible archaeological heritages are considered important evidences for understanding the past in a more meaningful way. Therefore, it is pertinent to systematically document these sites and the remains before natural and anthropogenic obliteration. The objective of the present paper is to record and document the rock engravings and sculptures observed in the archaeological sites, namely Dirgheswari, Aswakranta, Manikarneswar, Rudreswar and Kanai Boroshi bowa of North Guwahati in Kamrup district, Assam, which are protected and preserved by the Directorate of Archaeology, Assam and to understand the archaeological context of the sites and their remains. The data for the present paper have been collected through field visit and Exploration was conducted in dry and winter season. The findings of the present work comprises of some sculptures of Ganesa, Yama, Sage, Kali, deities, bull without head, human figures, broken piece of a tiger, remains of door frame or pillar and shrines. Series of dot marks, cut marks, inscription, image of Shiva, foot impression, chess board, square, bow, signs, female figurine, and elephant engravings constitute the rock engravings observed in the area.

Applications of petrography and electron microprobe analysis to the study of Indian stone sculpture

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Newman, R.

1992-01-01

Examples of research on ancient Indian stone artefacts utilizing petrographic examination coupled with qualitative and quantitative electron beam microprobe analysis of specific minerals are described. Types of artefacts discussed include Gandharan schist sculptures, Pala dynasty phyllite and schist objects from eastern India. Hoysala sculptures from Karnataka state (southern India), and sandstone objects from northern India. In spite of the rich history of stone sculpture in the Indian subcontinent, characterization studies to date have been limited in scope, typically involving unprovenanced artefacts. The examples described point to areas in which more extensive research could produce useful information for the provenancing of artefacts. (author)

The StorySpinner Sculptural Reader

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Hooper, Clare; Weal, Mark

2005-01-01

This demo is of a hypertext reading system called StorySpinner. It follows the sculptural hypertext methodology and has been used as a test bed for experimenting with the authoring of narrative flow in automatically generated stories. Readers are able to select and read one of two available stories. Reading a story involves selecting tarot cards which are mapped to chunks of story text based on possible interpretations of the cards and information concerning current story state.

Allergic contact dermatitis from sculptured acrylic nails: special presentation with an airborne pattern

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Maio, Paula; Carvalho, Rodrigo; Amaro, Cristina; Santos, Raquel; Cardoso, Jorge

2012-01-01

Methylmethacrylate was first reported in 1941 as a cause of contact dermatitis. Since then, occupational contact allergies to acrylates in dentistry, orthopedic surgery, printing industry and industry have been reported, but few reports are found in the literature as a consequence of the contact with sculptured artificial acrylic nails which are increasingly popular. We describe here 3 patients with contact allergy to acrylates in artificial sculptured nails. Patch tests were performed with the Portuguese baseline series of contact allergens and an extended series of acrylates were applied. In particular, we tested three female patients with allergic contact dermatitis from sculptured acrylic nails. Two of these patients were both customers and also technical nail beauticians. Two patients developed periungual eczema; one presented only with face and eyelid dermatitis had no other lesions. The tests showed positive reaction to 2-hydroxyethylmethacrylate (2-HEMA) and 2-hydroxypropylmethacrylate (2-HPMA) in all the three patients. Our cases demonstrate the variety of clinical presentations of allergic contact dermatitis from acrylic sculptured nails. They show the need to warn patients of persistent and sometimes permanent side effects of these products. They also emphasize the importance of cosmetic ingredient labeling. PMID:25386316

Afterword: Victorian Sculpture for the Twenty-First Century

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David J. Getsy

2016-06-01

Full Text Available Commenting on the directions proposed by this issue of '19', the afterword discusses the broad trends in twenty-first century studies of Victorian sculpture and the opportunity for debate arising from the first attempt at a comprehensive exhibition.

Effects of sculpture based art therapy in dementia patients-A pilot study.

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Seifert, Kathrin; Spottke, Annika; Fliessbach, Klaus

2017-11-01

Art and art therapy open up interesting possibilities for dementia patients. However, it has not been evaluated scientifically so far, whether the art of sculpting has any benefits. In this non-randomized pilot study with twelve participants, we investigated the feasibility and acceptance of sculptural activity in patients with dementia and the effects on their well-being. A questionnaire was custom-designed to investigate five key aspects of well-being: mental state and concentration, corporeal memory, self-reliance, self-esteem and physicality. Remarkable improvements were seen in several subscales in the sculptural activity group, but not the control group: Mental state and concentration (nine of thirteen key aspects), self-reliance (four of five), self-esteem (one of one) and physicality (two of two). The results of this pilot study indicate the multidimensional effects of sculptural activity on patients living with dementia. The field would benefit greatly from further research.

American Sculpture and the Library of Congress

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Somma, Thomas P.

2010-01-01

The Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress is one of the more significant public structures in American architecture, due for the most part to its wealth and quality of decoration, including an extensive sculptural program executed in 1894-97. The architects entrusted the program to a committee of three prominent sculptors, J. Q. A.…

Sculptured platinum nanowire counter electrodes for dye-sensitized solar cells

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Lee, Hyeonseok [Department of Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802 (United States); Horn, Mark W., E-mail: MHorn@engr.psu.edu [Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802-6812 (United States)

2013-07-01

Sculptured platinum nanowire thin films were formed by oblique angle electron beam evaporation with a 5° vapor incidence angle and incorporated as counter electrodes for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). For the comparison of the performance, bare fluorine doped tin oxide, planar Pt electrodes and counter electrodes treated with chloroplatinic acid were prepared. The sculptured Pt nanowire electrodes showed five times lower charge transfer resistance (0.121 [Ω∗cm{sup 2}]) than that of Pt planar electrode (0.578 [Ω∗cm{sup 2}]) and when the Pt nanowire electrodes are treated with an H{sub 2}PtCl{sub 6} solution have more than ten times lower charge transfer resistance (0.04025 [Ω∗cm{sup 2}]). Moreover, Pt nanowire films used as a counter electrode lead to enhancement in current density and efficiency in comparison with Pt planar counter electrodes. The conversion efficiency with planar electrodes was 5.1 [%] while the efficiency of DSSC with platinum nanowire counter electrodes reached to 5.63 [%] under AM 1.5 illumination. - Highlights: • Pt sculptured thin films (STFs) fabricated by electron beam evaporator. • The STFs featured higher roughness and lower charge transfer resistance. • Improved performance of dye-sensitized solar cells by Pt STFs counter electrodes.

Photographs of Sculpture: Greek Slave’s ‘complex polyphony’, 1847–77

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Patrizia Di Bello

2016-06-01

Full Text Available This article explores some of the representations, iterations, and appearances of Hiram Powers’s 'Greek Slave' in London in the decades after its first exhibition in 1845, years in which a variety of new ‘engines of the fine arts’ were fuelling a widening market for art objects of all kinds, and popular culture could turn statues into celebrities appearing everywhere — exhibitions, photographers’ studios, newspapers, 'tableau-vivant' shows, even confectionery shops. The article’s focus is on how sculpture was used in the reception and understanding of photography as a new medium of reproduction, and how the materiality of specific photographic ‘objects’ — daguerreotypes, paper prints, and stereographs — interacted with that of sculpture to affect the viewer, at a time when sculptural objects themselves blurred the boundaries between original and reproduction. The article ends with an analysis of stereoscopic cards of 'Greek Slave', as the first photographic reproductions that could really compete with wood engravings and statuettes in the dissemination and circulation of statues, arguing for their pleasurable interactivity as key to their success.

a Target Aware Texture Mapping for Sculpture Heritage Modeling

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Yang, C.; Zhang, F.; Huang, X.; Li, D.; Zhu, Y.

2017-08-01

In this paper, we proposed a target aware image to model registration method using silhouette as the matching clues. The target sculpture object in natural environment can be automatically detected from image with complex background with assistant of 3D geometric data. Then the silhouette can be automatically extracted and applied in image to model matching. Due to the user don't need to deliberately draw target area, the time consumption for precisely image to model matching operation can be greatly reduced. To enhance the function of this method, we also improved the silhouette matching algorithm to support conditional silhouette matching. Two experiments using a stone lion sculpture of Ming Dynasty and a potable relic in museum are given to evaluate the method we proposed. The method we proposed in this paper is extended and developed into a mature software applied in many culture heritage documentation projects.

Examinations of wooden sculptures from the altar of Veit Stoss in Cracow

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Braziewicz, J.; Dudzik, R.; JaskoIa, M.; Kubala-Kukus, A.; Kretschmer, W.; Rutkowski, J.; Semaniak, J.; Scharf, A.; Stankiewicz, M.; Uhl, T.

2005-01-01

The AMS facility at Erlangen University was used for dating samples from a wooden coping of the Veit Stoss's altar, one taken from its component originating from the 15th century and another one taken from its newer renovated part. The XRF method has been used to investigate trace element distribution inwards the sculptures. Concentrations of some elements, including Cl and Pb, show systematic increase while approaching the front or back side of the sculptures. The measured distributions are discussed in the context of history of the altar, in particular renovation and restoration procedures it underwent over the years

Chrysallis public lighting sculpture, NHS, Oswestry

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Panneels, Inge

2005-01-01

“Chrysalis” is an interactive lighting sculpture which pulsates as if breathing. The lighting is especially visible at night, when patients can come and use the nearby public room or wander up and down the corridor. The cocoon shape was informed by workshops with patients and staff at the RJAH in Gobowen, Shropshire. As this is an orthopaedic Hospital, most patients are there for long periods of time recovering from severe life changing injuries. The recurrent theme of ‘circle’; of family, fr...

Effects of Photography on Acquisition of Sculpture Skills among ...

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Abstract. The study investigated the effects of photography on acquisition of sculpture skills among Junior Secondary School Students in Osun State. Forty students were randomly selected from two schools. The two schools were purposefully selected from fifty secondary schools in Ife Central Local. Government Council ...

Vessel guardians: sculpture and graphics related to the ceramics of NorthEastern European hunter-gatherers

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Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Kashina

2015-12-01

Full Text Available North-Eastern European hunter-gatherer ceramic sculptures, relief sculptures and graphic images on vessels are discussed. Five groups of finds are distinguished according to their chronology (4000–2500 BC cal and represented subject (birds, human head, human figure, mammal head etc.. Their production believes to be a female craft, their making had ritual aims and their emerging was independent from any influences of pastoral/agricultural societies.

Effects of Photography on Acquisition of Sculpture Skills among ...

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The study investigated the effects of photography on acquisition of sculpture skills among Junior Secondary School Students in Osun State. Forty students were randomly selected from two schools. The two schools were purposefully selected from fifty secondary schools in Ife Central Local Government Council Area of Osun ...

Archaeometric characterization and provenance determination of sculptures and architectural elements from Gerasa, Jordan

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Al-Bashaireh, Khaled

2018-02-01

This study aims at the identification of the provenance of white marble sculptures and architectural elements uncovered from the archaeological site of Gerasa and neighboring areas, north Jordan. Most of the marbles are probably of the Roman or Byzantine periods. Optical microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and mass spectrometry were used to investigate petrographic, mineralogical and isotopic characteristics of the samples, respectively. Analytical results were compared with the main reference databases of known Mediterranean marble quarries exploited in antiquity. The collected data show that the most likely main sources of the sculptures were the Greek marble quarries of Paros-2 (Lakkoi), Penteli (Mount Pentelikon, Attica), and Thasos-3 (Thasos Island, Cape Vathy, Aliki); the Asia Minor marble quarries of Proconessus-1 (Marmara) and Aphrodisias (Aphrodisias); and the Italian quarry of Carrara (Apuan Alps). Similarly, the Asia Minor quarries of the fine-grained Docimium (Afyon) and the coarse-grained Proconessus-1 (Marmara) and Thasos-3 are the most likely sources of the architectural elements. The results agree with published data on the wide use of these marbles for sculpture and architectural elements.

Henry Moore’s Public Sculpture in the US: The Collaborations with I. M. Pei

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Alex Potts

2016-07-01

Full Text Available The many commissions Henry Moore received for public sculpture in the United States provided the occasion for several quite distinctive works. While not site specific, these were unique, and their final form, scale, and disposition was elaborated with a particular setting in mind. This aspect of Moore’s work in the US, which began with the monumental piece he designed for the Lincoln Center in New York in 1963–65, is examined here by focusing on the productive relationship he forged with the architect I. M. Pei in the 1970s. The sculptures Moore produced in collaboration with Pei respond in suggestive ways to the spatial environments created in American cities by late modern architectural developments. They also realize an oddly effective combination of the biomorphic and abstract that differs both from the bodily conception of Moore’s earlier work and the non-figurative character of much public sculpture of the time.

37 CFR 202.10 - Pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works.

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... 37 Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights 1 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Pictorial, graphic, and... Pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works. (a) In order to be acceptable as a pictorial, graphic, or... utility or design patent will not affect the registrability of a claim in an original work of pictorial...

Looking for Colour on Greek and Roman Sculpture

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Amanda Claridge

2011-01-01

Review of: Vinzenz Brinkmann, Oliver Primavesi, Max Hollein, (eds), Circumlitio. The Polychromy of Antique and Medieval Sculpture. Liebighaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt am Main, 2010. New scientific methods now being applied to the analysis of traces of pigments and gilding on ancient Greek and Roman marble statuary, and other marble artefacts, have the potential to revolutionise our understanding of the relationship between form and colour in antiquity. At present the enquiry is still...

DOUBLE BOSS SCULPTURED DIAPHRAGM EMPLOYED PIEZORESISTIVE MEMS PRESSURE SENSOR WITH SILICON-ON-INSULATOR (SOI

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D. SINDHANAISELVI

2017-07-01

Full Text Available This paper presents the detailed study on the measurement of low pressure sensor using double boss sculptured diaphragm of piezoresistive type with MEMS technology in flash flood level measurement. The MEMS based very thin diaphragms to sense the low pressure is analyzed by introducing supports to achieve linearity. The simulation results obtained from Intellisuite MEMS CAD design tool show that very thin diaphragms with rigid centre or boss give acceptable linearity. Further investigations on very thin diaphragms embedded with piezoresistor for low pressure measurement show that it is essential to analyse the piezoresistor placement and size of piezoresistor to achieve good sensitivity. A modified analytical modelling developed in this study for double boss sculptured diaphragm results were compared with simulated results. Further the enhancement of sensitivity is analyzed using non uniform thickness diaphragm and Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI technique. The simulation results indicate that the double boss square sculptured diaphragm with SOI layer using 0.85μm thickness yields the higher voltage sensitivity, acceptable linearity with Small Scale Deflection.

Neutron activation analysis applied to assemblage problems in fragmented marble sculptures

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Sangermano, L.R.

1976-01-01

One of the major problems encountered in assemblage work on fragmented marble sculptures is determining if two pieces were originally joined together when there are no remaining material links between the two. This work deals with solving this problem by using Neutron Activation Analysis techniques. Samples from a block of sculpture grade Georgian marble were analyzed. The following trace elements were identified on the basis of their gamma ray energies and their half-life studies: 165 Dy, 155 Sm, 152 Eu, 56 Mn, 24 Na, 85 Sr, 51 Ti, 80 Br, 27 Mg, 52 V, 42 K, 28 Al, 46 Sc, 141 Ce, 198 Au, 140 La, 122 Sb, and 124 Sb. The next step in this work was to determine whether the trace elements, which were originally trapped in the marble during metamorphosis, formed concentration patterns which extended over short distances in the stone. A block of sculpture grade Colorado marble was cut into a number of slices and these slices were analyzed for the trace elements they contained. The concentration patterns formed by these impurities were followed through successive layers of the stone. The ability to follow these ''fingerprint'' concentration patterns over short distances in marble was further tested by analyzing two adjoining segments of a Roman wall relief at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California. The trace impurity ''fingerprints'' were successfully matched between the wrist and hand segments of this piece

IMPACT EFECTS OF TWO LANGUAGES: PLASTIC (SCULPTURAL AND CINEMATOGRAPHIC

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OLĂRESCU DUMITRU

2016-12-01

Full Text Available It is known that art and culture constitute the expression of the spiritual civilization of a nation and that the Man – the creator of beauty – is in its centre. Art is a diff erent way of presenting the essence of the world or how it was expressed by Lucian Blaga, it is a pulling out from the immediate and a permanent transposition into the immediate, as a present eternal horizon. All these ideas have always drawn the attention of fi lmmakers, establishing themselves as complex topics for various cinematographic investigations and occupying a space in the evolution of nonfi ction fi lms about art, starting with the European fi lmmakers of the 20s of the last century up to the present, in the era of the image. We’re interested in the conditions and aesthetic implications of the process of assimilation of the art languages of plastic arts, especially that of sculpture by the cinematic language. We refer to the artwork of the famous sculptor Constantin Brancusi, who would have turned one hundred and forty years in 2016. If the sculpture is static, static par excellence, centrifugal, the fi lm belongs to the fi eld of centripetal movements that can be performed and followed through by the camera in its own motion. Th e centring of the image permits to select and emphasize the important aspects of the work and determines the distance from which they are viewed, establishing the contents and the delimitation of the fi eld of vision. Thus, the language of cinema gives us the possibility to study the same sculpture from diff erent aspects: general plan, environmental plan, foreground plan, detailed shot. In a movie dedicated to sculpture the expressiveness of the image depends on the angle of shooting, lighting, and of course, on editing. The famous opera of Brancusi „Th e Endless Column” (the full-length fi lm „Sculptor”, directed by Cornel Mihalache gets new dimensions owing to the high shot angle on the background of a cloudy sky and a

The microbial community characteristics of ancient painted sculptures in Maijishan Grottoes, China.

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Duan, Yulong; Wu, Fasi; Wang, Wanfu; He, Dongpeng; Gu, Ji-Dong; Feng, Huyuan; Chen, Tuo; Liu, Guangxiu; An, Lizhe

2017-01-01

In this study, a culture-independent Illumina MiSeq sequencing strategy was applied to investigate the microbial communities colonizing the ancient painted sculptures of the Maijishan Grottoes, a famous World Cultural Heritage site listed by UNESCO in China. Four mixed samples were collected from Cave 4-4 of the Maijishan Grottoes, the so-called Upper Seven Buddha Pavilion, which was built during the Northern Zhou Dynasty (557-581AD). The 16/18S rRNA gene-based sequences revealed a rich bacterial diversity and a relatively low fungal abundance, including the bacterial groups Actinobacteria, Acidobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Cyanobacteria, Chloroflexi, Firmicutes, Proteobacteria and Verrucomicrobia and the fungal groups Ascomycota, Basidiomycota and Chytridiomycota. Among them, the bacteria genera of Pseudonocardia and Rubrobacter and unclassified fungi in the order of Capnodiales were dominant. The relative abundance of Pseudonocardia in the painted layer samples was higher than that in the dust sample, while Cyanobacteria dominated in the dust sample. Many of them have been discovered at other cultural heritage sites and associated with the biodeterioration of cultural relics. The presence and activity of these pioneering microorganisms may lead to an unexpected deterioration of the painted sculptures that are preserved in this heritage site. Thus, proper management strategies and potential risk monitoring should be used in the Maijishan Grottoes to improve the conservation of these precious painted sculptures.

Politics of Participation in Benoît Maubrey’s Speaker Sculptures

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Keylin, Vadim

a designated number, or using Bluetooth or WiFi technologies, and express themselves freely through the sculpture. In my paper, I investigate the strategies of audience engagement the Maubrey employs and their applicability to the acoustic design of urban spaces. Through their numerous loudspeakers, Speaker...

IMPLEMENTING TQM IN RURAL MONUMENTAL BAROQUE SCULPTURE IN THE BANAT AREA

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I. PETROMAN

2008-05-01

Full Text Available The cultural patrimony preserves the memory and identity of the Banat’s rural area, defining the personality specific to each locality depending on the colonizing ethnic group after the liberation from the Turkish yoke. Steadily degrading, this baroque sculptural patrimony must be saved and integrated into a tourist circuit through the development of a managerial strategy and the implementation of a total quality management that cover the widest area possible of issues related to the intact preservation of monuments and to their conservation. The valorisation of monumental baroque sculpture in the rural area must be done together with the development of a managerial strategy of sustainable development thus contributing to the making up of an emblematic image specific to the Banat village and to the inclusion into regional, national, and international tourist circuits through such modern forms of tourism as cultural tourism, rural tourism, heritage tourism, interethnic tourism, religious tourism, and business tourism.

The history of the "Virgin with Child" sculpture (Ottaviano, Naples, southern Italy)

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Balassone, Giuseppina; Toscano, Maria; Cavazzini, Giancarlo

2014-01-01

A life-size whitish marble statue of a "Virgin with Child" has been recently rediscovered in the St.Rosario church located in Ottaviano, a small town near Naples (southern Italy). This artwork shows stylistic features of the Tuscan-Roman school of the 16th century, and is framed in an intriguing...... historical context. Historical documents testify that the sculpture was a property of the cadet branch of noble Tuscan family of the Medici, the Medici of Ottaviano. A multianalytical approach has been used to try to indicate the supply area of the white marble of the studied sculpture. Considering the whole...... mineralogical, petrographic and geochemical data, the source rock can be possibly limited to the main classical white marbles of the Mediterranean district, as the classical marble of Aphrodisias. A reuse practice of a former artwork can be also hypothesized....

Nature and sculpture in the creation of African theatre scenery | Iwuh ...

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The meaning of space is defined by the images contained in that space. Creating scenery for the theatre as an indoor activity involves either the creation of imaginary forms or the replication of existing images around the creator's environment. These imported items include natural vegetation, architecture, sculpture and ...

High Rise Building: The Mega Sculpture Made Of Steel, Concrete and Glass

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Stefańska, Alicja; Załuski, Daniel

2017-10-01

High rise building has transformed from providing not only the expansion of floor space but functioning as mega sculpture in the city. The shift away from economic efficiency driven need is only expected to grow in the future. Based on literature studies; after analysing planning documents and case studies, it was examined whether the presumption that gaining the maximum amount of usable area is the only driving factor; or if the need for the creation of an image for the city provided a supplementary reason. The results showed that forming high rise buildings as three-dimensional sculptures is influenced not only by aesthetics, but also marketing. Visual distinction in the city skyline is economically beneficial for investors gaining not only functionality but art, enriching the cultural landscape. Organizing architectural competitions, public debates and following the latest art trends is therefore possible due to large budgets of such projects.

"Lesbians are not women": feminine and lesbian sensibilities in Harmony Hammond's late-1970s sculpture.

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Thompson, Margo Hobbs

2008-01-01

Harmony Hammond's wrapped fabric sculptures are placed in context of the theories of gender and sexuality that circulated among lesbian and straight feminists at the time they were made, the late 1970s. Hammond has cited in particular Monique Wittig's novels, such as The Lesbian Body, and her essays including "The Straight Mind" where Wittig concludes that the lesbian is not a woman. The critique to which Wittig's lesbian separatism has been subjected by Judith Butler in her consideration of the appeal and limitations of essentialism also applies to Hammond's art. Hammond's use of vaginal imagery was instrumental to visualizing a lesbian sensibility, but the proposition of such a sensibility established a new problematic: a new essential category. The article concludes that because Hammond's work was produced in the context of a complex set of discourses, lesbian, feminist, and aesthetic, it resisted reduction to a singular meaning. Her sculptures avoided the pitfall of substituting one essence for another, lesbian for feminine sensibility, but activated both. The sculptures effectively queered vaginal imagery: When Hammond used vaginal imagery to represent lesbian sensibility, she subverted the equation of sex and gender and the essentialist notion of feminine sensibility.

Spines vs. microspines: an overview of the sculpture exine in selected basal and derived Asteraceae with focus on Asteroideae.

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Tellería, María C

2017-11-01

This study presents a detailed examination of the echinate and microechinate sculpturing in relation to the size of pollen grains in 31 selected species of Asteraceae belonging to the subfamilies Barnadesioideae, Mutisioideae, Carduoideae and Asteroideae. The aims were to recognize sculpturing patterns, under LM and SEM, within large and small pollen of both basal and derived species and to explore the features that could have taxonomic value to apply in palynological disciplines. The detailed examination of the exine surface showed both the relevance and limits of sculptural patterns for taxonomy. Under LM, the microechinate sculpture gave little taxonomic information, whereas in the echinate sculpture, three exine types and two subtypes were recognized. Type I included microechinate exine, which is commonly present in large pollen grains of the basal lineages. Types II (subtypes IIa and IIb) and III included echinate and smaller pollen grains. In these types, spines were always regularly arranged and, were characterized by the length, shape, tip, perforations and distribution. Type IIa included more or less conical spines usually with a distended base, less than 4 µm in length, present in species of different tribes like Astereae, Eupatorieae, Helenieae, Gnaphalieae, Senecioideae and Heliantheae to a lesser extent. Type IIb includes slender spines with narrower bases, longer than 4 µm, present in species of Coreopsideae, Heliantheae, Tageteae and Eupatorieae to a lesser extent. Type III included spines with swollen base, blunt tip and perforations over their entire surface. This type was present in only one of the basal species-Carduus thoermeri-and in one species of the derived tribe Helenieae, Gaillardia megapotamica. Probably, this is due to evolutionary convergence.

Visiting Richard Serra’s Promenade sculpture improves postural control and judgment of subjective visual vertical.

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Zoï eKapoula

2014-12-01

Full Text Available Body sway while maintaining an upright quiet stance reflects an active process of balance based on the integration of visual, vestibular, somatosensory and proprioceptive inputs. Richard Serra’s Promenade sculpture featured in the 2008 Monumenta exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris, France is herein hypothesised to have stimulated the body’s vertical and longitudinal axes as it showcased 5 monumental rectangular solids pitched at a 1.69° angle.Using computerised dynamic posturography we measured the body sway of 23 visitors when fixating a cross, or when observing the artwork (fixating it or actively exploring it with eye movements before and after walking around and alongside the sculpture (i.e., before and after a promenade. A first fixation at the sculpture increased medio-lateral stability (in terms of spectral power of body sway. Eye movement exploration in the depth of the sculpture increased antero-posterior stability (in terms of spectral power and cancelling time of body sway at the expense of medio-lateral stability (in terms of cancelling time. Moreover, a medio-lateral instability associated with eye movement exploration before the promenade (in terms of body sway sensu stricto was cancelled after the promenade. Finally, the overall medio-lateral stability (in terms of spectral power increased after the promenade.Fourteen additional visitors were asked to sit in a dark room and adjust a luminous line to what they considered to be the earth-vertical axis. The promenade executed within the sculpted environment afforded by Serra’s monumental statuary works resulted in significantly improved performances on the subjective visual vertical test.We attribute these effects to the sculpted environment provided by the exhibition which may have acted as a kind of physiologic training ground thereby improving the visitors’ overall sense of visual perspective, equilibrium and gravity.

Study of Italian Renaissance sculptures using an external beam nuclear microprobe

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Zucchiatti, A.; Bouquillon, A.; Moignard, B.; Salomon, J.; Gaborit, J. R.

2000-03-01

The use of an extracted proton micro-beam for the PIXE analysis of glazes is discussed in the context of the growing interest in the creation of an analytical database on Italian Renaissance glazed terracotta sculptures. Some results concerning the frieze of an altarpiece of the Louvre museum, featuring white angels and cherubs heads, are presented.

Study of Italian Renaissance sculptures using an external beam nuclear microprobe

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Zucchiatti, A.; Bouquillon, A.; Moignard, B.; Salomon, J.; Gaborit, J.R.

2000-01-01

The use of an extracted proton micro-beam for the PIXE analysis of glazes is discussed in the context of the growing interest in the creation of an analytical database on Italian Renaissance glazed terracotta sculptures. Some results concerning the frieze of an altarpiece of the Louvre museum, featuring white angels and cherubs heads, are presented

ART AND ENGINEERING IN METAL SCULPTURES

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COSTIN Georgiana Alexandra

2016-07-01

Full Text Available This paper shows how engineering and art are combined in making metal sculptures, referring to artistic creations exhibited in the “Dunărea de Jos” University campus in Galați, in the tradition existing between the Faculty of Engineering and the Visual Art Museum of Galați, with a significant contribution of prestigious artists of Galaţi and beyond. In this context, in order to develop the conception and design of some artistic products, many 2D and 3D graphical representation systems of information have appeared in a virtual environment, in which shaping using dedicated software applications, required that these artworks can be described by a series of shaping operation sequences, package design tools Autodesk Inventor CAD being such a solution.

3D Reconstruction and Restoration Monitoring of Sculptural Artworks by a Multi-Sensor Framework

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Sandro Barone

2012-12-01

Full Text Available Nowadays, optical sensors are used to digitize sculptural artworks by exploiting various contactless technologies. Cultural Heritage applications may concern 3D reconstructions of sculptural shapes distinguished by small details distributed over large surfaces. These applications require robust multi-view procedures based on aligning several high resolution 3D measurements. In this paper, the integration of a 3D structured light scanner and a stereo photogrammetric sensor is proposed with the aim of reliably reconstructing large free form artworks. The structured light scanner provides high resolution range maps captured from different views. The stereo photogrammetric sensor measures the spatial location of each view by tracking a marker frame integral to the optical scanner. This procedure allows the computation of the rotation-translation matrix to transpose the range maps from local view coordinate systems to a unique global reference system defined by the stereo photogrammetric sensor. The artwork reconstructions can be further augmented by referring metadata related to restoration processes. In this paper, a methodology has been developed to map metadata to 3D models by capturing spatial references using a passive stereo-photogrammetric sensor. The multi-sensor framework has been experienced through the 3D reconstruction of a Statue of Hope located at the English Cemetery in Florence. This sculptural artwork has been a severe test due to the non-cooperative environment and the complex shape features distributed over a large surface.

Thin-section microscopy of decayed crystalline marble from the garden sculptures of Schoenbrunn Palace in Vienna

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Weber, J.; Beseler, S.; Sterflinger, K.

2007-01-01

Sterzing marble, a crystalline white marble used in the late-Baroque garden sculptures of Schoenbrunn Palace in Vienna, was studied by means of thin-section and scanning electron microscopy in order to obtain a better understanding of its surface decay caused by atmospheric weathering. Following the classification of distinct phenomena of deterioration by visual on-site inspection, the microstructural features including surface erosion, micro-cracking, soiling, black crust formation, and microbiological infestation are exemplified by microscopical images and are briefly discussed. The results proved useful for evaluating and understanding the various types of marble decay for creating a safer basis for establishing the procedural principles aimed at conservation and maintenance of the sculptures

Looking for Colour on Greek and Roman Sculpture

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Amanda Claridge

2011-12-01

Full Text Available Review of: Vinzenz Brinkmann, Oliver Primavesi, Max Hollein, (eds, Circumlitio. The Polychromy of Antique and Medieval Sculpture. Liebighaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt am Main, 2010. New scientific methods now being applied to the analysis of traces of pigments and gilding on ancient Greek and Roman marble statuary, and other marble artefacts, have the potential to revolutionise our understanding of the relationship between form and colour in antiquity. At present the enquiry is still in its infancy, but the papers delivered at a conference held in Frankfurt in 2008, reviewed here, provide a general introduction to the subject and to a wide range of work in progress.

The conservation treatment of a contemporary collaged sculpture by Jiří Kolář (1914-2002

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Jessica Crann

2010-11-01

Full Text Available Une sculpture représentant une pomme réalisée par collage de l’artiste tchèque Jiří Kolář et datant de 1972, a été soumise à un traitement de conservation-restauration. La sculpture présentait des dommages structurels causés par des facteurs externes ainsi que des surfaces encrassées. Les interrogations déontologiques soulevées lors de la restauration d’une œuvre d’art contemporain ont représenté un aspect important de l’étude. Par conséquent, la majeure partie des recherches a été dévolue à  la compréhension du matériau et de la structure, celle des intentions de l’artiste,tout comme du concept et de la signification de l’œuvre. Ce travail a été étayé par une recherche scientifique ayant pour but d’évaluer l’efficacité du Triammonium citrate comme agent de nettoyage à base aqueuse, ainsi que par une analyse de la construction en trois dimensions de l’œuvre d’art.A collaged sculpture of an apple by the Czech artist Jiří Kolář, dated 1972 was presented for conservation. The sculpture suffered from structural damage caused by external factors and ingrained surface dirt. The ethical implications raised in conserving a contemporary artwork were an important aspect and subsequently an understanding of the materials and structure, the artist’s intentions, concept and meaning of the artwork formed a large part of the research. Combined with this was scientific research into the effectiveness of Tri-ammonium Citrate as an aqueous surface cleaning agent and analysing construction of 3-Dimensional artworks.

Nondestructive insights into composition of the sculpture of Egyptian Queen Nefertiti with CT.

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Huppertz, Alexander; Wildung, Dietrich; Kemp, Barry J; Nentwig, Tanja; Asbach, Patrick; Rasche, Franz Maximilian; Hamm, Bernd

2009-04-01

To assess the conservation status of, to gain information on the creation of, and to provide surface reformations of the core and the surface of the bust of the pharaoh-queen Nefertiti, considered to be one of the greatest treasures of ancient Egyptian art, with computed tomography (CT). Multisection CT was performed with 0.6-mm section thickness. Two- and three-dimensional reformations were made to depict the core and the surface separately. The stucco layer on the face and the ears was very thin, a maximum of 1-2 mm thick. The rear part of the reconstructed crown showed two thick stucco layers of different attenuation values, indicating that a multistep process was used to create the sculpture. Within the stucco, a great number of air-equivalent hypoattenuating areas, filamentous fissures parallel to the surface, and an inhomogeneous bonding between the layers were delineated. Nefertiti's inner face was not anonymous, but rather delicately sculpted by the royal sculptor Thutmose. The comparison to the outer face revealed differences, including the angles of the eyelids, creases around the corners of the mouth on the limestone surface, and a slight bump on the ridge of the nose. According to the beauty ideals of the Amarna period, the differences had positive and negative effects and can be read as signs of individualization of the sculpture. The potential material-related weaknesses of the sculpture that were revealed at imaging necessitate careful handling, with the avoidance of any focal pressure and shearing forces in the crown and the shoulders. CT imaging revealed construction techniques in Nefertiti's bust that had implications for conservation, as well as for an understanding of the artistic methods used in the creation of this masterpiece of art of the 18th dynasty.

Documentation and dissemination of the sculptural elements of Canada's Parliamentary Buildings: Methodology development and evolution, a case study

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C. Ouimet

2015-08-01

Full Text Available Parliament Hill consists of four historic gothic revival buildings, which form part of the Parliament Buildings National Historic Site of Canada in the National Capital of Ottawa. There are more than 2000 masonry sculptural elements throughout the four buildings. Three of the buildings are in the middle of multi-year rehabilitation projects. Extensive Heritage Documentation is being undertaken to support various activities and conservation teams throughout the interior and exterior of the buildings while also serving as a key posterity records. One of the significant heritage documentation projects is the 3D digitization of the 2000+ heritage character defining sculptural elements. The Heritage Conservation Directorate (HCD of Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC was tasked by the Parliamentary Precinct Branch (PPB of PWGSC to document these character defining elements. The sculptures vary in size from as small as 100mm in width to up to 2 meters in size. This project is in its third year and much has been learned and researched about the most appropriate and efficient means by which to document these elements. Although a methodology was in place to document the sculptures at the inception of the project, it has gone through several iterations in order to improve the gathered data, and in turn increase the efficiency, quality and speed of data acquisition. This paper will describe the evolution of the methodology, as well as the rationale for the alterations in technique. With over 600 of the approximate 2000 (heritage character defining sculptural elements captured to date, the project is entering a critical phase where an efficient and effective method for sharing and disseminating the information to a wide audience is being explored and evaluated. The end result is intended to allow the client (PPB and the general public a way to look at and interactively manipulate the viewpoint of each digital model. This will provide a unique

Three-Dimensional Interpretation of Sculptural Heritage with Digital and Tangible 3D Printed Replicas

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Saorin, José Luis; Carbonell-Carrera, Carlos; Cantero, Jorge de la Torre; Meier, Cecile; Aleman, Drago Diaz

2017-01-01

Spatial interpretation features as a skill to acquire in the educational curricula. The visualization and interpretation of three-dimensional objects in tactile devices and the possibility of digital manufacturing with 3D printers, offers an opportunity to include replicas of sculptures in teaching and, thus, facilitate the 3D interpretation of…

Nano-structure and optical properties (plasmonic) of graded helical square tower-like (terraced) Mn sculptured thin films

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Savaloni, Hadi, E-mail: savaloni@khayam.ut.ac.ir [Department of Physics, University of Tehran, North-Kargar Street, Tehran (Iran, Islamic Republic of); Fakharpour, Mahsa [Department of Physics, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran (Iran, Islamic Republic of); Siabi-Garjan, Araz [Department of Advanced Technologies, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Namin, Ardabil (Iran, Islamic Republic of); Department of Materials Engineering and Nanotechnology, Sabalan University of Advanced Technologies (SUAT), Namin (Iran, Islamic Republic of); Placido, Frank [SUPA and Institute of Thin Films, Sensors and Imaging, University of The West of Scotland, High Street, Paisley (United Kingdom); Babaei, Ferydon [Department of Physics, University of Qom, Qom (Iran, Islamic Republic of)

2017-01-30

Highlights: • Graded helical square tower-like terraced sculptured Mn thin films are produced with different number of arms. • XRD, AFM, FESEM and optical analyses as well as theoretical calculations are carried out. • Intensity of Plasmon peaks depend on the polarization, the incident angle, and the distance from the shadowing block. • The presence of defects in these sculptured structures can be predicted by theoretical investigation. • Experimental and theoretical investigations show consistent results. - Abstract: Graded helical square tower-like terraced sculptured Mn thin films (GHSTTS) are produced in three stages with different number of arms using oblique angle deposition together with rotation of substrate holder about its surface normal, plus a shadowing block fixed at the centre of the substrate holder. The structural characterization of the produced samples was obtained using field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM) and atomic force microscope (AFM). Results showed a structural gradient with distance from the edge of the shadowing block, which in turn is responsible for the decrease in the volume of void fraction and increase of grain size. Plasmon absorption peaks observed in the optical analysis of these nano-structures showed that their wavelength region and intensity depend on the polarization and the incident angle of light, as well as the distance from the edge of the shadowing block. According to our model and discrete dipole approximation (DDA) calculations, when the number of parallel nano-rods of different lengths and radii are increased the peak in the spectrum shifts to shorter wavelengths (blue shift). Also when the diameters of the nano-rods increases (a situation that occurs with increasing film thickness) the results is again a blue shift in the spectrum. The presence of defects in these sculptured structures caused by the shadowing effect is predicted by the theoretical DDA investigation of their optical spectra

Transparent sculptured titania films for enhanced light absorption in thin-film Si solar cells

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Hung, Kai-Hsiang, E-mail: khhung@itri.org.tw [Green Energy and Environment Research Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan (China); Chiou, Guan-Di; Wong, Ming-Show [Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan (China); Wang, Yu-Chih [Green Energy and Environment Research Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan (China); Chung, I-Shan [Electronics and Optoelectronics Research Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan (China)

2011-12-30

This study presents a description of the enhancement of light absorption in thin-film silicon (Si) solar cells by using sculptured titania (TiO{sub 2}) films. We used an electron-beam evaporation system with a glancing angle deposition (GLAD) method to deposit porous TiO{sub 2} films on fluorine-doped SnO{sub 2} (FTO) substrates. The GLAD TiO{sub 2}/FTO films were used as conductive electrodes in hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon ({mu}c-Si:H) solar cells. Transmission electron microscopy revealed that the GLAD TiO{sub 2} films are composed of sculptured nano-pillars on an FTO surface, and this nanostructure provides a synergistic route for light scattering enhancement. The GLAD TiO{sub 2}/FTO exhibited a 68% improvement of optical haze (at {lambda} = 600 nm). The {mu}c-Si:H solar cells consisting of the GLAD-nanostructured TiO{sub 2} resulted in a 5% improvement of short-circuit current (J{sub sc}) and yielded a cell efficiency of 6.6%.

Chronologies in wood and resin: AMS 14C dating of pre-Hispanic Caribbean Wood Sculpture

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Joanna Ostapkowicz; Christopher Bronk-Ramsey; Fiona Brock; Tom Higham; Alex C. Wiedenhoeft; Erika Ribechini; Jeannette J. Lucejko; Samuel. Wilson

2012-01-01

This paper establishes a chronological framework for selected pieces of Caribbean (Tafno/Lucayan) wooden sculpture, enabling previously ahistoric artefacts to fit back into the wider corpus of pre-colonial material culture. Seventy-two 14C AMS determinations from 56 artefacts held in museum collections are reported, including 32 ceremonial

Petrographic characterization and provenance determination of the white marbles used in the Roman sculptures of Forum Sempronii (Fossombrone, Marche, Italy)

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Antonelli, Fabrizio; Columbu, Stefano; Lezzerini, Marco; Miriello, Domenico

2014-06-01

The Roman municipium of Forum Sempronii (Fossombrone, Marche) was located along the `Via Consolare Flaminia', in the stretch of road where it ran along the final sector of the valley of the River Metauro ( Mataurus). The ancient colony of Forum Sempronii, which is cited by Strabo, Pliny, and Ptolemy, was found in the second century BC, probably on the site of an earlier community and its activity continued until the end of the fifth century AD. During ancient and more recent archaeological excavations, many fragments of coloured stones and marbles, and some white marble sculptures have been unearthed. In this paper, we report the results of the provenance identification of the white marbles used for the sculptures found in the archaeological site of Forum Sempronii and now displayed at the local archaeological museum. The determination of the source origin of the white marbles used for the sculptures has been established by mineralogical-petrographic and geochemical analyses. Microscopic study of thin sections together with carbon and oxygen stable isotope ratios indicate that more than one type of white marbles was used: Pentelikon, Lunense, and Thasian.

Joep van Lieshout's Mobile Home for Kröller-Müller: outdoor polyester sculpture in transit

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Stigter, S.; Beerkens, L.; Schellen, H.L.; Kuperholc, S.; Bridgland, J.

2008-01-01

The nature and condition of the large scale glass fibre reinforced polyester resin outdoor sculpture by Dutch artist Joep van Lieshout: Mobile Home for Kröller-Müller (1995) is challenging traditional conservation ethics. Chemists, physicists, art historians, conservators specialised in different

Microanalysis of paint layers in polychrome sculptures

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Mendoza, A.; Falcucci, C.; Jaksic, M.

2001-01-01

Cross sections paint layers of polychromes sculpture of the 16 century, located at the City Museum of Havana and currently in the restoration process, have been analyzed by capillary based μXRF , μPIXE , SEM -EDX and light microscopy. Experimental parameters (geometry measurement time) of the capillary based μXRF set up (nominal end diameter equal to 10 μm) were optimized to achieve the resolution required for meaningful scintigraphic studies of the art and archaeological objects, Cumulative x-rays spectra for each layer were obtained in order to perform semi-quantitative analysis. The employed pigments were identified by the characteristics elements and the elemental maps precisely reproduced photographs obtained by means of light microscopy. In the case of nuclear microprobe, RBS for Stoichiometry analysis of paint layers was also performed. additional information on the organic materials was also obtained by chemical analysis. Complementary results obtained by using the analytical techniques are presented and discussed from the point of view of the restoration processes

Model Making and Anti-Competitive Practices in the Late Eighteenth-Century London Sculpture Trade

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Craske, Matthew

2014-03-01

Full Text Available This article concerns the generation of anti-competitive practices, and the associated discontents, that rose to the fore in the London sculpture trade in the late eighteenth century (1770-1799. It charts the business strategies and technical procedures of the most economically successful practitioners, whose workshops had some of the characteristics of manufactories, and whose critics accused them of conducting a "monopoly" trade. Small-scale practitioners lost out in the competition for great public contracts on account of their design processes and their inability to represent any manifestation of "establishment". A combination of three factors increased the gap between a handful of powerful "manufacturers" and the rest of the trade: the foundation of the Royal Academy, shifts in the ways designs were evaluated, and a growing number of very lucrative contracts for public sculpture. I conclude that such were the discontents within the London trade that by the 1790s, there was a marked tendency for practitioners who were not manufacturers to be attracted to democratic political movements, to the Wilkite call for liberty and the rise of civic radicalism in the merchant population of London.

Outdoor polyester sculpture in transit: Joep van Lieshout’s Mobile Home for Kröller-Müller

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Stigter, S.; Beerkens, L.; Schellen, H.L.; Kuperholc, S.

2008-01-01

The nature and condition of the largescale glass fibre reinforced polyester resin outdoor sculpture by Dutch artist Joep van Lieshout: Mobile Home for Kröller-Müller (1995) is challenging traditional conservation ethics. Chemists, physicists, art historians, conservators specialised in different

Sandscape - engaging people in Met Office science through sand sculpture

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Liggins, Felicity; Dowell, Ellen; Wardley, Jamie; Jamieson, Claire

2017-04-01

In 2015, the Met Office's award-winning outreach programme, designed to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers, delivered one of its most ambitious and creative activities to date. It explored how scientists and artists can come together to create an engaging experience for young people and families. This activity was called Sandscape. Sandscape is an interactive sand sculpture workshop exploring how weather and climate affect our health. Budding sand sculptors are shown how to fashion elaborate structures from sand and water - creating a landscape with bridges, skyscrapers, forests and factories. As they work, participants are encouraged by the scientists delivering the activity to reflect on what makes a healthy city, considering how the natural and built environments influence air quality and circulation and how this impacts our health. Topics discussed include urban heat islands, air pollution and dispersion modelling, pollen forecasting and predicting the wind-borne spread of animal diseases. Each hour long workshop culminates in a dramatic demonstration that uses dry ice to represent clean air circulating from mountains, along rivers and into cities. Here we present an overview of Sandscape, identify the strengths and challenges of such a collaborative, innovative and playful approach to public engagement and share the results of our evaluation. Sandscape was originally supported by the Met Office and the Wellcome Trust, and produced by Einstein's Garden in collaboration with the Met Office, scientists from the University of Exeter and sand sculptors from Sand in Your Eye. It was first presented in Einstein's Garden at Green Man festival 2015, an independent music and arts festival held annually in Wales, and has since been invited to run at the 2015 Bournemouth Arts By the Sea Festival and Teignmouth's TRAIL Sculpture Festival in the summer of 2016.

The Evaluation of Efficacy of the Combination of Acoustic Cavitation and Radiofrequency Lipolysis in Body Sculpturing

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Seval Dogruk Kacar

2014-02-01

Full Text Available Aim: There is widespread use of noninvasive body sculpturing methods with the emerging new technologies in the field of aesthethic dermatology. However scientific data about these methods is limited. In our study the efficacy of the combination of acoustic cavitation and radiofrequency in body sculpturing is retrospectively evaluated. Material and Method: We retrospectively evaluated the patients who underwent body contouring treatment for belly and waist area in Dermatocosmetology unit of Afyon Kocatepe University Hospital between September 2012 and September 2013. The combination of acoustic cavitation and radiofrequency is applied 2 times a week for 10 sessions for body contouring of waist and belly. Before treatment and after each session the height, weight and perimetric measurements are recorded. Patients satisfaction level is assessed by visual analogue scale (VAS between 0 (dissatisfied, no effect and 5 (very satisfied, very effective. Results: The mean age of 15 female patients were 36,4±10,2 (23-52. There were statistically significant difference in weight and perimetric measurements of waist (superior waist, waist circumference, inferior waist between the beginning and end of treatment (respectively, p=0.002 and p=0.001 for the remaining three. Sixty percent of patients described the treatment as satisfactory according to VAS. The remaining were not satisfied although the treatments produced a change. No adverse effects reported other than a transient erythema during treatment. Discussion: Diet and exercise are still the most relevant ways to achieve optimal body shape and tone. Besides it is possible to eliminate excess fat and skin in appropriate patients by body sculpturing methods such as invasive and noninvasive liposuction and lipolysis. We found the combination of acoustic cavitation and radiofrequency effective in body shaping.

Dress Fashion in Feminist and Child Rights Campaigns in Ghanaian Public Sculptures of the 1990s

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Essel, Osuanyi Quaicoo; Opoku-Mensah, Isaac

2017-01-01

This article examines how dress fashion in outdoor sculptures of the 1990s in the Accra cityscape accentuated feminist activism, sensitised child right campaigns, and encouraged girl-child education in support of governmental efforts and activism of civil society organisations in Ghana. It gives attention to how dress fashion of the time was used…

Alison Gill – "To See a World", an exhibition of new sculpture and works on paper

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2013-01-01

Wednesday, 11 December 2013 from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Library, bldg. 52 1-052 "Sculpture stories and invisible things" How might the presence of an artist influence the CMS experiment? And how does the LHC change the artist and the work they make? Over the last two decades, I have worked with a wide range of media to create both sculpture and drawing. The interdisciplinary approach that I have taken has often involved engagement and dialogues with scientists. Through my art, I explore the stories we tell to make sense of things that seem beyond our conscious grasp, taking familiar objects and materials and re-purposing, casting or altering the meaning. Underlying themes have included folklore, beliefs and methods used in the pursuit of transcendence. Knots, Klein bottles and Möbius strips have also been used for their topological, emotive and metaphysical associations. I try to scrutinise the world around me to find hidden meanings and use humour to provoke thought, elicit c...

Soluble salt sources in medieval porous limestone sculptures: A multi-isotope (N, O, S) approach

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Kloppmann, W., E-mail: w.kloppmann@brgm.fr [BRGM, Direction des Laboratoires, Unité Isotopes, BP 6009, F-45060 Orléans cedex 2 (France); Rolland, O., E-mail: olivierrolland@wanadoo.fr [Montlouis-sur-Loire (France); Proust, E.; Montech, A.T. [BRGM, Direction des Laboratoires, Unité Isotopes, BP 6009, F-45060 Orléans cedex 2 (France)

2014-02-01

The sources and mechanisms of soluble salt uptake by porous limestone and the associated degradation patterns were investigated for the life-sized 15th century “entombment of Christ” sculpture group located in Pont-à-Mousson, France, using a multi-isotope approach on sulphates (δ{sup 34}S and δ{sup 18}O) and nitrates (δ{sup 15}N and δ{sup 18}O). The sculpture group, near the border of the Moselle River, is within the potential reach of capillary rise from the alluvial aquifer. Chemical analyses show a vertical zonation of soluble salts with a predominance of sulphates in the lower parts of the statues where crumbling and blistering prevail, and higher concentrations of nitrates and chloride in the high parts affected by powdering and efflorescence. Isotope fingerprints of sulphates suggest a triple origin: (1) the lower parts are dominated by capillary rise of dissolved sulphate from the Moselle water with characteristic Keuper evaporite signatures that progressively decreases with height; (2) in the higher parts affected by powdering the impact of atmospheric sulphur becomes detectable; and (3) locally, plaster reparations impact the neighbouring limestone through dissolution and re-precipitation of gypsum. Nitrogen and oxygen isotopes suggest an organic origin of nitrates in all samples. N isotope signatures are compatible with those measured in the alluvial aquifer of the Moselle River further downstream. This indicates contamination by sewage or organic fertilisers. Significant isotopic contrasts are observed between the different degradation features depending on the height and suggest historical changes of nitrate sources. - Highlights: • We use S, N and O isotopes to distinguish salt sources in limestone sculptures. • Vertical zonation of degradation is linked to capillary rise and air pollution. • Sulphate salts in lower parts are derived from river/groundwater. • Sulphate salts in higher parts show signature of air pollution. • Nitrates

Using Soft Sculpture Microfossils and Other Crafted Models to Teach Geoscience

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Spinak, N. R.

2017-12-01

For the past 5 years, the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) has been using the author's sewn models of microfossils to help learners understand the shapes and design of these tiny fossils. These tactile objects make the study of ancient underwater life more tangible. Multiple studies have shown that interactive models can help many learners understand science. The Montessori and Waldorf education programs are based in large part on earlier insights into meeting these needs. The act of drawing has been an essential part of medical education. The STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) movement has advocated for STEM supporters to recognize the inseparability of science and art. This presentation describes how the author's knitted or sewn models of microfossils incorporate art and design into geoscience education. The geoscience research and art processes used in developing and creating these educational soft sculptures will be described. In multiple entry points to science study, specific reciprocal benefits to boundary crossing among the arts and sciences for those who have primary talents in a particular area of study will be discussed. Geoscience education can benefit from using art and craft items such as models. Many websites now offer soft sculptures for biology study such as organs and germs (e.g. (https://www.giantmicrobes.com/us/main/nasty-germs). The Wortheim project involving community and crochet is another approach (http://crochetcoralreef.org/). These tactile artifacts give learners an entry-level experience with biology. Three dimensional models are multisensory. The enlarged manipulative microfossil models invite learners to make comparisons and gain insights when microscopes are not available or appropriate for the audience. Adding the physical involvement of creating a microfossil yourself increases the multi-sensory experience even further. Learning craft skills extends the cross-cutting concepts of the NGSS to a mutual

Microanalysis of pictorial layers in polychrome sculptures

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Mendoza Cuevas, Ariadna

2008-01-01

Cross section samples from polychrome wood sculpture are analyzed by optical microscopy, the nuclear techniques: micro X Ray Fluorescence, micro Proton induced Xray Emission coupled with Rutherford Backscattering and the traditional method by Scanning Electronic Microscopy with Energy Dispersive Xray fluorescence detection (SEMEDX) microanalytical methods. Special emphasis is dedicated to mXRF, a novel advanced technique developed thanks to the last achievements of the Xray optics that can be available by modifying conventional laboratory XRF spectrometer, representing an alternative to the traditional and expensive SEMEDX stratigraphic analysis of pictorial works. The results are compared with respect to spatial resolution to differentiate pictorial layer structure and elemental sensitivity. Number of layer, relative position of layer, layer thickness and chemical composition of pigments are determined in the characterization of valuable polychromes of once church San Juan de Letrán in order to obtain information about their “material history” that should contribute to its provenance and attribution research. The pigments used in this artistic works were identified by their characteristic elements. The elemental distribution maps obtained by the used nuclear techniques precisely reproduced microphotographies obtained by means of Light Microscopy. (author)

PIXE and {mu}-PIXE analysis of glazes from terracotta sculptures of the della Robbia workshop

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Zucchiatti, Alessandro E-mail: zucc@ge.infn.it; Bouquillon, Anne; Lanterna, Giancarlo; Franco, Lucarelli; Mando, Pier Andrea; Prati, Paolo; Salomon, Joseph; Vaccari, Maria Grazia

2002-04-01

A series of PIXE analyses has been performed on glazes from terracotta sculptures of the Italian Renaissance and on reference standards. The problems related to the investigation of such heterogeneous materials are discussed and the experimental uncertainties are evaluated, for each element, from the PIXE analysis of standard glasses. Some examples from artefacts coming from Italian collections are given. This research has been conducted in the framework of the COST-G1 European action.

PIXE and μ-PIXE analysis of glazes from terracotta sculptures of the della Robbia workshop

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Zucchiatti, Alessandro; Bouquillon, Anne; Lanterna, Giancarlo; Franco, Lucarelli; Mando, Pier Andrea; Prati, Paolo; Salomon, Joseph; Vaccari, Maria Grazia

2002-01-01

A series of PIXE analyses has been performed on glazes from terracotta sculptures of the Italian Renaissance and on reference standards. The problems related to the investigation of such heterogeneous materials are discussed and the experimental uncertainties are evaluated, for each element, from the PIXE analysis of standard glasses. Some examples from artefacts coming from Italian collections are given. This research has been conducted in the framework of the COST-G1 European action

SPECIFIC FEATURES OF THE PORTRAIT IN NATIONAL PAINTING AND SCULPTURE (1945-1960

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LOZOVANU VLADIMIR

2016-12-01

Full Text Available The present article is devoted to the peculiarities of the portrait in national painting and sculpture in the period of the 1950s. The text refl ects the creation of prominent artists who have realized the most famous portrait works. The author presents examples of representative portraits and they are analysed in the context of the period we refer to. He identifies both the methods, techniques, the ideas and aspiration of plastic artists who have practised portrait art. the presented information is useful to artists and teachers working in the fi eld of visual arts and to students who are interested in portrait painting.

Local Treatment for Monochrome Outdoor Painted Metal Sculptures: Assessing the suitability of conservation paints for retouching

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van Basten, Nikki; Defeyt, Catherine; Rivenc, Rachel

2015-01-01

When outdoor painted sculptures get chipped, scratched or abraded, conservators might consider local retouching treatments as an option that would protect the exposed metal substrate and restore the aesthetic integrity, thus postponing a very costly and invasive overall repainting. Unfortunately, matching colour gloss and texture on large monochrome surfaces is always challenging. This paper reports on research undertaken to investigate some of the materials and application techniques that co...

The fabrication and hydrophobic property of micro-nano patterned surface on magnesium alloy using combined sparking sculpture and etching route

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Wu, Yunfeng; Wang, Yaming; Liu, Hao; Liu, Yan; Guo, Lixin; Jia, Dechang; Ouyang, Jiahu; Zhou, Yu

2016-12-01

Magnesium alloy with micro-nano structure roughness surface, can serve as the loading reservoirs of medicine capsule and industrial lubricating oil, or mimic 'lotus leaf' hydrophobic surface, having the potential applications in medical implants, automobile, aerospace and electronic products, etc. Herein, we propose a novel strategy to design a micro-nano structure roughness surface on magnesium alloy using combined microarc sparking sculpture and etching in CrO3 aqueous solution. A hydrophobic surface (as an applied example) was further fabricated by chemical decorating on the obtained patterned magnesium alloy surface to enhance the corrosion resistance. The results show that the combined micro-nano structure of 7-9 μm diameter big pores insetting with nano-scale fine pores was duplicated after etched the sparking sculptured 'over growth' oxide regions towards the magnesium substrate. The micro-nano structure surface was chemically decorated using AgNO3 and stearic acid, which enables the contact angle increased from 60° to 146.8°. The increasing contact angle is mainly attributed to the micro-nano structure and the chemical composition. The hydrophobic surface of magnesium alloy improved the corrosion potential from -1.521 V of the bare magnesium to -1.274 V. Generally, the sparking sculpture and then etching route demonstrates a low-cost, high-efficacy method to fabricate a micro-nano structure hydrophobic surface on magnesium alloy. Furthermore, our research on the creating of micro-nano structure roughness surface and the hydrophobic treatment can be easily extended to the other metal materials.

XRF, μ-XRD and μ-spectroscopic techniques for revealing the composition and structure of paint layers on polychrome sculptures after multiple restorations.

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Franquelo, M L; Duran, A; Castaing, J; Arquillo, D; Perez-Rodriguez, J L

2012-01-30

This paper presents the novel application of recently developed analytical techniques to the study of paint layers on sculptures that have been restored/repainted several times across centuries. Analyses were performed using portable XRF, μ-XRD and μ-Raman instruments. Other techniques, such as optical microscopy, SEM-EDX and μ-FTIR, were also used. Pigments and other materials including vermilion, minium, red lac, ivory black, lead white, barium white, zinc white (zincite), titanium white (rutile and anatase), lithopone, gold and brass were detected. Pigments from both ancient and modern times were found due to the different restorations/repaintings carried out. μ-Raman was very useful to characterise some pigments that were difficult to determine by μ-XRD. In some cases, pigments identification was only possible by combining results from the different analytical techniques used in this work. This work is the first article devoted to the study of sculpture cross-section samples using laboratory-made μ-XRD systems. Copyright © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

A highly sensitive multiplasmonic sensor using hyperbolic chiral sculptured thin films

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Abbas, Farhat; Faryad, Muhammad

2017-11-01

Surface plasmon-polariton (SPP) waves guided by an interface of a metal and a hyperbolic chiral sculptured thin film (STF) were theoretically investigated for optical sensing of an analyte. The chiral STF was infiltrated with the analyte to be sensed, and the resulting change in the incidence angle of excitation of the SPP waves in the prism-coupled configuration was computed. The results indicated the potential of this configuration for a plasmonic sensor with sensitivity up to 6000 degrees per refractive index units of the infiltrating fluid in the angular investigation scheme, with multiple SPP waves of the same frequency but different phase speeds, spatial profiles, and sensitivities. The enhancement in the sensitivity is attributed to the high field strength of the SPP waves near the interface. A multiplasmonic sensor is advantageous because of its potential for higher confidence in the measurement of the same analyte.

The fabrication and hydrophobic property of micro-nano patterned surface on magnesium alloy using combined sparking sculpture and etching route

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Wu, Yunfeng [Institute for Advanced Ceramics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001 (China); Wang, Yaming, E-mail: wangyaming@hit.edu.cn [Institute for Advanced Ceramics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001 (China); Liu, Hao [Institute for Advanced Ceramics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001 (China); Liu, Yan [Key Laboratory of Bionic Engineering (Ministry of Education), Jilin University, Changchun 130022 (China); Guo, Lixin; Jia, Dechang; Ouyang, Jiahu; Zhou, Yu [Institute for Advanced Ceramics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001 (China)

2016-12-15

Highlights: • A hydrophobic micro-nano roughness surface on magnesium was fabricated. • Micro-nano structure derives from duplicating ‘over growth’ regions by MAO. • 7–9 μm micro-scale big pores insetting with nano-scale fine pores were fabricated. • Hydrophobicity of micro-nano surface was improved by chemical decoration and stearic treatment. - Abstract: Magnesium alloy with micro-nano structure roughness surface, can serve as the loading reservoirs of medicine capsule and industrial lubricating oil, or mimic ‘lotus leaf’ hydrophobic surface, having the potential applications in medical implants, automobile, aerospace and electronic products, etc. Herein, we propose a novel strategy to design a micro-nano structure roughness surface on magnesium alloy using combined microarc sparking sculpture and etching in CrO{sub 3} aqueous solution. A hydrophobic surface (as an applied example) was further fabricated by chemical decorating on the obtained patterned magnesium alloy surface to enhance the corrosion resistance. The results show that the combined micro-nano structure of 7–9 μm diameter big pores insetting with nano-scale fine pores was duplicated after etched the sparking sculptured ‘over growth’ oxide regions towards the magnesium substrate. The micro-nano structure surface was chemically decorated using AgNO{sub 3} and stearic acid, which enables the contact angle increased from 60° to 146.8°. The increasing contact angle is mainly attributed to the micro-nano structure and the chemical composition. The hydrophobic surface of magnesium alloy improved the corrosion potential from −1.521 V of the bare magnesium to −1.274 V. Generally, the sparking sculpture and then etching route demonstrates a low-cost, high-efficacy method to fabricate a micro-nano structure hydrophobic surface on magnesium alloy. Furthermore, our research on the creating of micro-nano structure roughness surface and the hydrophobic treatment can be easily

The fabrication and hydrophobic property of micro-nano patterned surface on magnesium alloy using combined sparking sculpture and etching route

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Wu, Yunfeng; Wang, Yaming; Liu, Hao; Liu, Yan; Guo, Lixin; Jia, Dechang; Ouyang, Jiahu; Zhou, Yu

2016-01-01

Highlights: • A hydrophobic micro-nano roughness surface on magnesium was fabricated. • Micro-nano structure derives from duplicating ‘over growth’ regions by MAO. • 7–9 μm micro-scale big pores insetting with nano-scale fine pores were fabricated. • Hydrophobicity of micro-nano surface was improved by chemical decoration and stearic treatment. - Abstract: Magnesium alloy with micro-nano structure roughness surface, can serve as the loading reservoirs of medicine capsule and industrial lubricating oil, or mimic ‘lotus leaf’ hydrophobic surface, having the potential applications in medical implants, automobile, aerospace and electronic products, etc. Herein, we propose a novel strategy to design a micro-nano structure roughness surface on magnesium alloy using combined microarc sparking sculpture and etching in CrO_3 aqueous solution. A hydrophobic surface (as an applied example) was further fabricated by chemical decorating on the obtained patterned magnesium alloy surface to enhance the corrosion resistance. The results show that the combined micro-nano structure of 7–9 μm diameter big pores insetting with nano-scale fine pores was duplicated after etched the sparking sculptured ‘over growth’ oxide regions towards the magnesium substrate. The micro-nano structure surface was chemically decorated using AgNO_3 and stearic acid, which enables the contact angle increased from 60° to 146.8°. The increasing contact angle is mainly attributed to the micro-nano structure and the chemical composition. The hydrophobic surface of magnesium alloy improved the corrosion potential from −1.521 V of the bare magnesium to −1.274 V. Generally, the sparking sculpture and then etching route demonstrates a low-cost, high-efficacy method to fabricate a micro-nano structure hydrophobic surface on magnesium alloy. Furthermore, our research on the creating of micro-nano structure roughness surface and the hydrophobic treatment can be easily extended to the

Self-generated etchant for synthetic sculpturing of Cu 2O-Au, Cu 2O@Au, Au/Cu 2O, and 3D-Au nanostructures

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Pang, Maolin; Wang, Qingxiao; Zeng, Huachun

2012-01-01

Structures of Gold: A simple transformative method for nanoscale sculpturing has been developed. Five different types of complex nanocomposites of cuprite and gold have been formed by using this self-etching approach (see figure). Copyright © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

Self-generated etchant for synthetic sculpturing of Cu 2O-Au, Cu 2O@Au, Au/Cu 2O, and 3D-Au nanostructures

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Pang, Maolin

2012-10-09

Structures of Gold: A simple transformative method for nanoscale sculpturing has been developed. Five different types of complex nanocomposites of cuprite and gold have been formed by using this self-etching approach (see figure). Copyright © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

‘Fragile old man’: Mexico and France save a 2000-year-old sculpture using nuclear techniques

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Dixit, Aabha

2015-01-01

During an excavation in 2001 in Becán, a Maya civilization site located in Campeche State in south-eastern Mexico, a 2000-year-old wooden sculpture was unearthed causing a buzz in Mexico’s archaeological community. The wooden statue was tucked away deep beneath a collapsed tomb. It was the first ever wooden object found that could be reliably dated to the early classical Mayan period, but was slowly decaying, with many fragments broken off. With the help of nuclear technology, and assistance from France, scientists have revived it to its previous glory. The statue is now on display at the Campeche museum, along with other objects of Mayan art.

From Soft Sculpture to Soft Robotics: Retracing a Physical Aesthetics of Bio-Morphic Softness

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Jørgensen, Jonas

2017-01-01

Soft robotics has in the past decade emerged as a growing subfield of technical robotics research, distinguishable by its bio-inspired design strategies, interest in morphological computation, and interdisciplinary combination of insights from engineering, computer science, biology and material...... science. Recently, soft robotics technology has also started to make its way into art, design, and architecture. This paper attempts to think an aesthetics of softness and the life-like through an artistic tradition deeply imbricated with an interrogation of softness and its physical substrates, namely...... the soft sculpture that started proliferating in the late 1960s. Critical descriptions of these works, interestingly, frequently emphasize their similarities with living organisms and bodies as a central tenet of their aesthetics. The paper seeks to articulate aspects of a contiguity between softness...

The morphology and sculpture of ossicles in the Cottidae (Teleostei of the Baltic Sea

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Heli Špilev

2010-09-01

Full Text Available Small to very small ossified structures (ossicles such as cephalic horns, dermal tubercles, fin-ray rods, lateral-line canal segments, branchial tooth plates and gill-raker tubercles of three species of the teleostean fish family Cottidae inhabiting the Baltic Sea are described and for the first time illustrated with SEM images, with emphasis on their microscopic external features. The morphology and sculpture of these small ossicles notably differ in the three genera, but differences can also occur between males and females, as documented here in Myoxocephalus scorpius (Linnaeus. The detailed features of such ossicles are potentially useful for taxonomic identification in sea-floor sediments or gut contents, in a manner similar to their use in many modern and fossil fishes, and may also prove useful as phylogenetically important characters at generic and familial levels.

Elucidation of molecular and elementary composition of organic and inorganic substances involved in 19th century wax sculptures using an integrated analytical approach

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Regert, M.; Langlois, J.; Laval, E.; Le Ho, A.-S.; Pages-Camagna, S.

2006-01-01

Wax sculptures contain several materials from both organic and inorganic nature. These works of art are particularly fragile. Determining their chemical composition is thus of prime importance for their preservation. The identification of the recipes of waxy pastes used through time also provides valuable information in the field of art history. The aim of the present research was to develop a convenient analytical strategy, as non-invasive as possible, that allows to identify the wide range of materials involved in wax sculptures. A multi-step analytical methodology, based on the use of complementary techniques, either non- or micro-destructive, was elaborated. X-ray fluorescence and micro-Raman spectroscopy were used in a non-invasive way to identify inorganic pigments, opacifiers and extenders. The combination of structural and separative techniques, namely infrared spectroscopy, direct inlet electron ionisation mass spectrometry and high temperature gas chromatography, was shown to be appropriate for unravelling the precise composition of the organic substances. A micro-chemical test was also performed for the detection of starch. From this study it has been possible to elucidate the composition of the waxy pastes used by three different sculptors at the end of the 19th century. Complex and elaborated recipes, in which a large range of natural substances were combined, were highlighted

[Diprosopus triophthalmus. From ancient terracotta sculptures to spiral computer tomographic reconstruction].

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Sokiranski, R; Pirsig, W; Nerlich, A

2005-03-01

A still-born male fetus from the 19th century, fixed in formalin and presenting as diprosopia triophthalmica, was analysed by helical computer tomography and virtually reconstructed without damage. This rare, incomplete, symmetrical duplication of the face on a single head with three eyes, two noses and two mouths develops in the first 3 weeks of gestation and is a subset of the category of conjoined twins with unknown underlying etiology. Spiral computer tomography of fixed tissue demonstrated in the more than 100 year old specimen that virtual reconstruction can be performed in nearly the same way as in patients (contrast medium application not possible). The radiological reconstruction of the Munich fetus, here confined to head and neck data, is the basis for comparison with a number of imaging procedures of the last 3000 years. Starting with some Neolithic Mesoamerican ceramics, the "Pretty Ladies of Tlatilco", diprosopia triophthalmica was also depicted on engravings of the 16th and 17th century A.D. by artists as well as by the anatomist Soemmering and his engraver Berndt in the 18th century. Our modern spiral computer tomography confirms the ability of our ancestors to depict diprosopia triophthalmica in paintings and sculptures with a high level of natural precision.

Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy and structural characterization of Ag/Cu chiral nano-flower sculptured thin films

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Savaloni, Hadi; Babaei, Reza

2013-01-01

Silver chiral nano-flower sculptured thin films with 3-, 4- and 5-fold symmetry were produced on copper substrates using oblique angle deposition method in conjunction with rotation of sample holder with different speeds at different sectors of each revolution corresponding to symmetry order of the acquired nano-flower. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) and field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) were employed to obtain morphologies and nano-structure of the films. Raman spectroscopy was performed on all samples that were subject to impregnation by 4,4′-bipyridine (C 10 H 8 N 2 ) solution. A high degree of enhancement of the main bands at 1610, 1297, and 1009 cm −1 that can be assigned to the C=C stretching mode, aromatic ring stretching ring and in-plane ring mode of 4,4′-bipyridine, is achieved.

Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy and structural characterization of Ag/Cu chiral nano-flower sculptured thin films

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Savaloni, Hadi, E-mail: savaloni@khayam.ut.ac.ir [Department of Physics, University of Tehran, North-Kargar Street, Tehran (Iran, Islamic Republic of); Babaei, Reza, E-mail: reza_babaee_62@yahoo.com [Department of Physics, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran (Iran, Islamic Republic of)

2013-09-01

Silver chiral nano-flower sculptured thin films with 3-, 4- and 5-fold symmetry were produced on copper substrates using oblique angle deposition method in conjunction with rotation of sample holder with different speeds at different sectors of each revolution corresponding to symmetry order of the acquired nano-flower. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) and field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) were employed to obtain morphologies and nano-structure of the films. Raman spectroscopy was performed on all samples that were subject to impregnation by 4,4′-bipyridine (C{sub 10}H{sub 8}N{sub 2}) solution. A high degree of enhancement of the main bands at 1610, 1297, and 1009 cm{sup −1} that can be assigned to the C=C stretching mode, aromatic ring stretching ring and in-plane ring mode of 4,4′-bipyridine, is achieved.

Her Excellency Mrs Sarah Gillett Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Swiss Confederation United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on the occasion of the Antony Gormley sculpture unveiling ceremony Wednesday 7th December 2011

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Maximilien Brice

2011-01-01

Her Excellency Mrs Sarah Gillett Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Swiss Confederation United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on the occasion of the Antony Gormley sculpture unveiling ceremony Wednesday 7th December 2011

Educational process their different contents, singularities to the sculpture the Formation integral in university students

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Laura Margarita Fernández-Martínez

2018-03-01

Full Text Available Presently article is approached important relating theoretical the in artistic education, that facilitate the formation integral in university students, the educational process their different contents, singularities to the sculpture artistic manifestation, with which one works methodologically. However, it is necessary to establish a methodological theoretical position in this respect to be able to evidence the relationship education-culture the understanding of the artistic education in that relationship and their contribution to the formation integral. From the didactic point of view, it is sustained in the basics of the teaching-learning process, related with the Didactics of the Superior Education and in the analysis and valuation of the components of the process of teaching learning where the dynamics of the relationships is revealed among these that it is constituted in a dialectical process where starting from the created conditions the fellow appropriates of the necessary tools for interaction with the reality.

Stereoscopic CAD and Environmental Sculpture: Enhancement of the Design Process in the Visual Arts

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Fisher, Robert N.; Bandini, Pier L.

1989-09-01

In this paper, co-authors Robert Fisher and Pier Luigi Bandini describe their personal observations concerning stereo enhancements of computer graphics images employed in their research. in Part One, Robert Fisher, a professional sculptor, Professor and Artist-in-Residence in the College of Engineering at Penn State, cites three recent environmental sculpture projects: "See-scape," "A Page from the Book of Skies," and an as yet untitled work. Wireframe images, interior views of architectural spaces, and complex imagery are rendered comprehensible by stereo 3-D. In Part Two, Pier L. Bandini, Associate Professor of Architecture and Director of the Architecture CAD Lab at Penn State, describes the virtues of the stereo-enhanced wireframe model--the benefits of the "see-through coupled with a complete awareness of the whole space." The final example, of a never-realized XVIII-century project, suggests a new and profound application of stereo 3-D to historical inquiry, namely, the experience of ancient spaces and structures that are no longer existing or that were never constructed.

Prosthetically guided bone sculpturing for a maxillary complete-arch implant-supported monolithic zirconia fixed prosthesis based on a digital smile design: A clinical report.

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Rojas-Vizcaya, Fernando

2017-11-01

A digital smile design was used to create an average smile and to develop a removable interim restoration for an edentulous patient with a high smile line and different bone levels in the maxilla. The interim restoration was used as a guide to perform bone sculpturing to create space for the biological width and to restore a monolithic zirconia implant-supported fixed restoration. Copyright © 2017 Editorial Council for the Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

RELIEF JENIS-JENIS FAUNA DAN SETTING LINGKUNGANNYA PADA PAHATAN DINDING CANDI BOROBUDUR (Fauna and Environmental Setting Reliefs on Sculptured Wall of the Borobudur Temple

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Bambang Agus Suripto

2001-04-01

cavewalls inhabited by human, temples, pyramids, and sphinxes. Sculptures on the wall of Borobudur Temple, show fauna reliefs, but the originof the fauna are still obscure, whether or not they came from India or part of them were from Java. The objectives of this research were to determine the species of group names of the fauna picture in the reliefs on the sculptured wall of the Borobudur Temple, Their origin, and to assess whether of not Java environment settings were depicted in the wall. Pictures of fauna reliefs in sculpture wall of langkan, the main wall from top to bottom in each Rupadhatu levels were taken, the name of each fauna species or group was identified using identification books, and their origins were determined through a literature study. Data were interpreted descriptively in order to understand whether of not Java environment settings were portrayed in the sculptured wall of the Borobudur Temple. There are at least 25 species of Osteighthyes, Reptilia, aves and Mammalia classess pictured naturally in the reliefs of the wall, and at least 5 species are pictured setilirly. These entire fauna naturally found in south Asia. Some of them have never lived in Java Island, such as lion, Pantera leo. Environment settings of seventh centure India were illustrated very well in the reliefs however, those of Java until the Dutch colonial era were  not pictured at all.

EDXRF portable system used in the analysis of altars, sculptures and paintings from XVII and XVIII centuries in Brazil

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Freitas, R.P.; Calza, C.; Lopes, R.T.; Santos, R.O.

2011-01-01

Full text: The preservation of cultural heritage has acquired increasing interest in the last decades and many scientific techniques have been employed to analyze paintings, manuscripts, ceramics, glasses, statues, coins and metal artifacts in order to solve problems related to restoration, conservation, dating and attribution of artworks. There is also an increasing trend for non-destructive investigations since most of the samples are unique and precious objects of art and archaeology. X-Ray fluorescence (XRF) is the most widely used investigative technique in the field of archaeometry, due to a number of favorable analytical characteristics, such as multielemental and non-destructive analysis, high sensitivity and applicability to a wide range of samples. In this work, XRF was used to analyze altars, sculptures and paintings in the Saint Anthony Convent (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). The cornerstone of this convent was launched in 1608, by the Franciscan friars, and the construction of the church was finished in 1620. The Saint Anthony sculpture in the main altar is one of the few remaining pieces from the XVII century in Rio de Janeiro. The splendid Baroque carvings of the chapel, covered with integral gilding, in the national Portuguese style, dates from 1716 to 1719. The results obtained during the analyses have been used in the meticulous process of restoration, developed in the last two years, in order to recover the original splendour of this important piece of our cultural heritage. The analyses were carried out with an EDXRF portable system developed in the Nuclear Instrumentation Laboratory, consisting of an X-ray tube Oxford TF3005 with W anode, operating at 25 kV and 100 μA, and a Si-PIN XR-100CR detector from Amptek. In each sample were obtained several spectra, with an acquisition time of 300 s and a beam collimation of 1.5 and 2 mm. The spectra were analyzed using the software QXAS-AXIL from IAEA. The analysis of the golden carvings of the altars, in

“Corte Transversal”: una mega escultura entre el río Mapocho y la autopista Costanera Norte en Santiago de Chile/ “Corte Transversal”: a mega sculpture between the Mapocho River and the Costanera Norte toll road in Santiago de Chile

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Revista de Urbanismo, Departamento de Urbanismo de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Universidad de Chile. (Reportaje de M.I.PavezR.- M.P.Henríquez.O

2008-12-01

Full Text Available “Corte Transversal”: una mega escultura entre el río Mapocho y la autopista Costanera Norte en Santiago de Chile/“Corte Transversal”: a mega sculpture between the Mapocho River and the Costanera Norte toll road in Santiago de Chile

Acid rain attack on outdoor sculpture in perspective

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Livingston, Richard A.

2016-12-01

A major concern motivating research in acid rain materials effects has been the potential for damage to cultural heritage, particularly outdoor marble and bronze sculpture. However, a combination of field and laboratory studies has failed to show a correlation between rain pH and loss of materials. In order to understand this counterintuitive lack of acid rain effect, an aqueous geochemical modeling approach was used to analyze rain runoff chemistry for the relative importance of acid rain neutralization, dry deposition, and in the case of marble, natural carbonate dissolution. This approach involved the development of pH - SO42- phase diagrams for marble (calcium carbonate) and bronze (copper) under ambient environmental conditions. This then enabled reaction path modeling of the acid neutralization process using the pH range typically found in wet deposition (3.5-6). The results were for marble that the theoretical maximum amount of Ca2+ ion that could be lost due acid rain neutralization would be 0.158 mmol/l compared to 10.5 mmol/l by dry deposition, and for bronze, the Cu2+ ion losses would be 0.21 mmol/l and 47.3 mmol/l respectively. Consequently dry deposition effects on these materials have the potential to dominate over wet deposition effects. To test these predictions the geochemical models were applied to examples of data sets from mass balance (runoff vs rainfall) studies on a marble statue in New York City and some bronze memorial plaques at Gettysburg PA. Although these data sets were collected in the early 1980s they remain valid for demonstrating the mass balance method. For the marble statue, the mean Ca2+ losses by dry deposition was about 69% of the total compared 0.3% for acid rain neutralization, which was less than the natural carbonate dissolution losses of 0.8%. For the bronze, the mean Cu2+ losses were 70.6% by SO42- dry deposition and 23% by NO3- dry deposition compared to 6.4% by acid rain neutralization. Thus for both cases the wet

“TEMPORIBUS DOMINI IOHANNIS EPISCOPI...” – On the Beginnings of Pre-Romanesque Sculpture in Boka Kotorska

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Meri Zornija

2016-01-01

Full Text Available This paper focuses on a series of pre-Romanesque fragments found in Kotor and several other localities in Boka Kotorska, which can be linked to an early phase in the formation of the pre-Romanesque style. Chronological orientation points provided by the triple mention of Bishop Ivan, who was present at the Second Council of Nicaea in 787, have served as a framework dating the fragments to the last quarter of the 8th and the early 9th century. They are considered to be work of a highly skilful stonemason workshop, for which the name Stonemason Workshop from the Time of Bishop Ivan of Kotor has been proposed. The reliefs have been compared to analogous sculptural decoration adorning the cathedrals of other cities in the Eastern Adriatic based on similar stylistic and iconographic features,as well as masterful stonemasonry in high-quality marble. These analogies indicate a common visual language used by the masters active in the broad belt stretching from Istria to Boka Kotorska, who brought to our coast the spirit of new, pre-Romanesque art at the turn of the 9th century.

Fabrication, characterization and some applications of graded chiral zigzag shaped nano-sculptured silver thin films

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Savaloni, Hadi, E-mail: savaloni@khayam.ut.ac.ir [Department of Physics, University of Tehran, North-Kargar Street, Tehran (Iran, Islamic Republic of); Esfandiar, Ali [Department of Physics, University of Tehran, North-Kargar Street, Tehran (Iran, Islamic Republic of)

2011-09-01

Graded chiral zig-zag shaped nano-sculptured silver thin films (GCZSSTF) were produced in two stages using oblique deposition technique together with rotation of substrate about its surface normal while a shadowing block was also fixed at Center of the substrate holder. Chrystallographic and morphological structure of these films were obtained using X-ray diffraction (XRD) and atomic force microscopy (AFM). Spectrophotometry was used to obtain their optical behavior while their application in both hydrophobicity and gas sensing was also investigated. XRD results showed a dominant (1 1 1) orientation growth on the zig arm of the structure while by addition of the second arm (zag) the crystallographical growth orientation changed to (2 2 0). The anisotropic nano-structure of these films was also distinguished through (1 - R) spectra. A common peak at about 350 nm related to the TM mode of plasmon resonances and a broad shoulder at about 420 nm for the s-polarized light and at 620 nm for the p-polarized light corresponding to the LM mode of plasmon resonances are observed. These peaks are directly related to the nano-columns topography. The film system used here proved to act as a physical method for producing layer-by-layer structure for obtaining enhanced hydrophobic surfaces rather than the usual chemical methods reported in the literature. In addition, the GCZSSTF also acted as good as reported results for nano-tubes when applied as cathode in the field ionization gas sensing setup.

Determination of weathering and conservation of sculptured stone by use of the laser method

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Aaberg, G.; Stijfhoorn, D.E.

1996-09-01

Weathering and deterioration of sculptured stone and masonry is a natural process which stars at the same moment the stone is quarried and exposed to exogenous conditions. This process of natural decay has, however, been accelerated due to the emission of different man-made pollutants, domestic and industrial, local and global. The ISOLASER project is based on the laser microprobe technique for determining the depth of natural and induced weathering and the effect of conservation measures of cultural objects of carbonaceous sandstone and marble/limestone. The purpose of the project is to determine the depth of weathering and depth of penetration of conservation agents in unweathered calcite-cemented stone and the weathering profile in linseed oil-treated stone after accelerated weathering cycles in a climatic chamber. The analytical results show that even after such a short period as five weeks of exposure the effect of SO 2 , NO 2 and elevated humidity on Gotland sandstone can be easily observed in a change of the δ 13 C values in the outermost 2 mm of the stone. Treating the sample with linseed oil has a preserving effect on the rock and hinders the deteriorating effect of SO 2 and NO 2 . The oil treatment even preserves the signature of previously incorporated organic carbon. Compilation of a questionnaire representing a broad field within natural sciences in cultural heritage research in Europe, shows an overwhelming positive approach to the project as such. The questioned researchers consider the laser method particularly useful as a complementary method in other investigations and states that the method can without doubt give new dimensions to the analysis of important cultural objects. 2 refs., 6 figs

Data-Driven Analysis of Virtual 3D Exploration of a Large Sculpture Collection in Real-World Museum Exhibitions

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Agus, Marco

2018-01-29

We analyze use of an interactive system for the exploration of highly detailed three-dimensional (3D) models of a collection of protostoric Mediterranean sculptures. In this system, when the object of interest is selected, its detailed 3D model and associated information are presented at high resolution on a large display controlled by a touch-enabled horizontal surface at a suitable distance. The user interface combines an object-Aware interactive camera controller with an interactive point-ofinterest selector and is implemented within a scalable implementation based on multiresolution structures shared between the rendering and user interaction subsystems. The system was installed in several temporary and permanent exhibitions and was extensively used by tens of thousands of visitors. We provide a data-driven analysis of usage experience based on logs gathered during a 27-month period at four exhibitions in archeological museums for a total of more than 75K exploration sessions. We focus on discerning the main visitor behaviors during 3D exploration by employing tools for deriving interest measures on surfaces and tools for clustering and knowledge discovery from high-dimensional data. The results highlight the main trends in visitor behavior during the interactive sessions. These results provide useful insights for the design of 3D exploration user interfaces in future digital installations.© 2017 ACM 1556-4673/2017/12-ART2 $15.00.

Data-Driven Analysis of Virtual 3D Exploration of a Large Sculpture Collection in Real-World Museum Exhibitions

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Agus, Marco; Marton, Fabio; Bettio, Fabio; Hadwiger, Markus; Gobbetti, Enrico

2018-01-01

We analyze use of an interactive system for the exploration of highly detailed three-dimensional (3D) models of a collection of protostoric Mediterranean sculptures. In this system, when the object of interest is selected, its detailed 3D model and associated information are presented at high resolution on a large display controlled by a touch-enabled horizontal surface at a suitable distance. The user interface combines an object-Aware interactive camera controller with an interactive point-ofinterest selector and is implemented within a scalable implementation based on multiresolution structures shared between the rendering and user interaction subsystems. The system was installed in several temporary and permanent exhibitions and was extensively used by tens of thousands of visitors. We provide a data-driven analysis of usage experience based on logs gathered during a 27-month period at four exhibitions in archeological museums for a total of more than 75K exploration sessions. We focus on discerning the main visitor behaviors during 3D exploration by employing tools for deriving interest measures on surfaces and tools for clustering and knowledge discovery from high-dimensional data. The results highlight the main trends in visitor behavior during the interactive sessions. These results provide useful insights for the design of 3D exploration user interfaces in future digital installations.© 2017 ACM 1556-4673/2017/12-ART2 $15.00.

Comparison between GPR measurements and ultrasonic tomography with different inversion algorithms: an application to the base of an ancient Egyptian sculpture

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Sambuelli, L; Bohm, G; Capizzi, P; Cosentino, P; Cardarelli, E

2011-01-01

By late 2008 one of the most important pieces of the 'Museo delle Antichità Egizie' of Turin, the sculpture of the Pharaoh with god Amun, was planned to be one of the masterpieces of a travelling exhibition in Japan. The 'Fondazione Museo delle Antichità Egizie di Torino', who manages the museum, was concerned with the integrity of the base of the statue which actually presents visible signs of restoration dating back to the early 19th century. It was required to estimate the persistence of the visible fractures, to search for unknown ones and to provide information about the overall mechanical strength of the base. To tackle the first question a GPR reflection survey along three sides of the base was performed and the results were assembled in a 3D rendering. As far as the second question is concerned, two parallel, horizontal ultrasonic 2D tomograms across the base were made. We acquired, for each section, 723 ultrasonic signals corresponding to different transmitter and receiver positions. The tomographic data were inverted using four different software packages based upon different algorithms. The obtained velocity images were then compared each other, with the GPR results and with the visible fractures in the base. A critical analysis of the comparisons is finally presented

Participating in the knowledge society\\ud

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Bell, Simon

2015-01-01

This paper will wander a little but I hope retain order to the core theme—“Participating in the Knowledge Society”.\\ud \\ud I wanted to start with an image (Fig. 1) which might arrest your attention, a wire weave sculpture by the artist Linda Johns (http://www.lindajohns.com/sculpture/sculpture-weaves.htm). The sculpture is two-thirds life sized and made of copper wire. I like it—I liked it so much—I bought it. I like it because I know human life is precious and this sculpture helps me to thin...

La méthode stratigraphique appliquée à l’étude de la sculpture médiévale. La fiche d’unité stratigraphique pour la documentation de la polychromie du crucifix de Forni di Sopra (Udine, Italie

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Nadia Bertoni Cren

2011-08-01

Full Text Available Lors d’un dégagement de couches picturales d’une sculpture en bois polychrome, nous nous trouvons dans une situation semblable à celle d’une fouille archéologique. Si nous n’avons pas prévu à l’avance un relevé systématique des informations contenues dans les strates que nous supprimons, nous perdrons un grand nombre de données. La restauration, au lieu d’être « le moment privilégié de connaissance de l’œuvre d’art » (Cesare Brandi, peut se transformer en un moment crucial d’effacement des d...

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... TREASURY SPECIAL CLASSES OF MERCHANDISE Pre-Columbian Monumental and Architectural Sculpture and Murals § 12.107 Importations permitted. Pre-Columbian monumental or architectural sculpture or mural for which... sculpture or mural, in a form acceptable to the Secretary, certifying that such exportation was not in...

Nuclear techniques applied to provenance and technological studies of Renaissance majolica roundels from Portuguese museums attributed to della Robbia Italian workshop

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Dias, M.I.; Prudencio, M.I.; Kasztovszky, Zsolt; Maroti, Boglarka; Harsanyi, Ildiko

2017-01-01

Artistic and historical examination of high-quality glazed terracotta sculptures displayed in various Portuguese museums point to their production in della Robbia workshop of Florence (Italy). A multitechnique analytical approach is applied for the first time to these sculptures, aiming to confirm their origin. Materials were analyzed using Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis, Prompt Gamma Activation Analysis and X-ray Diffraction. The compositional results are similar to other della Robbia sculptures, suggesting a common origin for the raw material that was identified as carbonate rich marine origin marly clay. The applied firing temperatures was proved to be around 900 deg C. The differences found within each sculpture are explained by the production technique of assembling separate parts to produce these huge sculptures, and the clay pit heterogeneity. (author)

The Life and Art of Erhabor Emokpae: A Case Study of National ...

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Erhabor Emokpae was involved in street decoration for the second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture in 1977 (FESTAC '77). He fulfilled the task of environmental embellishment as one of the functions of sculpture. Among such sculptures of late Erhabor Emokpae are the mural sculpture at the entrance of ...

Specificity of aesthetic experience for artworks: an fMRI study

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Cinzia eDi Dio

2011-11-01

Full Text Available In a previous study aimed at investigating the neural correlates of aesthetic experience in the beholder we found that observation of canonical sculptures, relative to sculptures whose proportions had been modified, produced the activation of a specific brain network. This network included various cortical areas and, most interestingly, the right anterior insula. We interpreted this latter activation as the neural signature underpinning emotion-related responses during aesthetic experience. In the present fMRI study, we investigated whether aesthetic experience for Classical sculptures has a quality of its own, distinct from that underpinning observation of real human bodies. Sculpture images and pictures of young athletes, matched to sculptures for body postures and proportions, were used as stimuli. Participants were students naïve to art criticism. Results showed a similar activation pattern for the two stimulus-categories. Direct comparisons between stimulus-categories highlighted, however, some relevant differences. Observation of sculptures, relative to real human body images, determined a greater activation of some visual areas, including fusiform gyrus, plus the right anterior insula. The opposite contrast showed a stronger activation of the superior temporal sulcus. Moreover, canonical proportion in sculpture, but not in human body images, produced a stronger activation of the right anterior insula with respect to proportion-modified images. These data show that, during observation of sculpture images, attention is more attracted by specific visual aspects of the stimulus, whereas observation of real human body images activates areas encoding biological movement. Most interestingly, sculptures elicited activations in right anterior insula, which we suggested to be crucial in hallmarking emotional responses during aesthetic experience. This pattern was poorly expressed during observation of human bodies, suggesting poverty of true

Reading Pliny: On Pliny the Elder, the Art, and the Method

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Katja Mahnič

2007-12-01

By examining Pliny’s remarks about Phidias, the author shows that in Pliny’s descriptions of Greek painting and sculpture we cannot seek the Greek understanding of sculptures and paintings that surrounded the people, nor can we seek a Roman view of Greek works of art that somehow ended up in Rome. In his Naturalis Historia Pliny primarily offers the reader his own politically motivated view of the world. From Pliny’s descriptions of Greek sculpture, one can find out exactly as much about Greek sculpture as from the Roman copies of Greek sculptures that flooded the Roman state: both cases deal with an interpretation of the original. Thus, in the author’s opinion, the obligation of the discipline – especially art history – in reading Pliny’s Naturalis Historia is not to reconstruct the more or less imaginative development of Greek painting and sculpture, but to discover the political and intellectual possibilities that the interpretation of Greek (and Roman artistic creativity offered Roman intellectuals in the middle of the 1st century AD.

20. YÜZYIL RESİM VE HEYKELLERİNİN YUNAN MİTOLOJİSİ VE İKİCİLİK KAVRAMI AÇISINDAN DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİNE YÖNELİK BİR ARAŞTIRMA

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Gul ERBAY ASLITURK

2016-10-01

Full Text Available When considering mythology, Greek mythology is the first that comes into mind. The history of Greek mythology is written on sculptures and canvas for hundreds of years. A literature review on paintings and sculptures of Greek mythology reveals absence of mind dualism, a sub-branch of Greek phylosophy. This study concentrates on the dualism aspect of the 20th century paintings and sculptures about Greek mythology. Specifically, works of art which include heroes of Greek mythology were examined in respect to dualism. As working method; document analysis and review of the literature were conducted about dualism, mythology and Greek mythology. Greek mythology paintings and sculptures from museum and private collections were investigated and their description were gathered. An inventory of the works were made in which they were listed chronologically. As a result of this study, seventeen art works were examined: six sculptures, ten paintings and a wall fresco. These works were analyzed for the presence of dualism. This study concluded with emphasis that dualism as described in paintings and sculptures are part of human life.

19 CFR 12.108 - Detention of articles; time in which to comply.

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2010-04-01

... Sculpture and Murals § 12.108 Detention of articles; time in which to comply. If the importer cannot produce... take the sculpture or mural into Customs custody and send it to a bonded warehouse or public store to... sculpture or mural is taken into Customs custody, or such longer period as may be allowed by the port...

Application of gas chromatography, mass spectrometry analysis to the study of works of art. Paint media identification in polychrome multi-material sculptures

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Casoli, A.; Vizzari, M. [Parma Univ., Parma (Italy). Dipt. di Chimica Generale ed Inorganica, Chimica Analitica, Chimica Fisica; Cremonesi, P. [Chemist and Conservator, Cornegliano Laudense, Lodi (Italy); Palla, G. [Parma Univ., Parma (Italy). Dipt. di Chimica Organica e Industriale

2001-12-01

A new gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric procedure for characterizing both drying oil and proteinaceous binders in samples of painted artworks has been developed. Furthermore, a new analytical procedure for analysis of polysaccharide materials through identification of the monosaccharide constituents is proposed. The methods have been applied to characterize binding media of the different layers of the polychrome surface in the multi-material sculptures from the sanctuary of 'S. Maria delle Grazie in Mantova', Italy. It was found that animal glue was the main binder in the priming layer of all statues, whereas more complex mixtures were used in the paint layers. Generally, a drying oil was present, most often linseed oil alone or in combination with other organic binders. [Italian] Si propone una nuova procedura analitica, mediante gascromatografia/spettrometria di massa, rivolta alla caratterizzazione di oli siccativi e leganti proteici presenti in un unico campione di materiale pittorico derivante da un'opera d'arte. Si descrive, inoltre, un nuovo metodo gascromatografico per l'analisi di materiale polisaccaridico, mediante l'identificazione dei suoi componenti. I metodi analitici sono stati impiegati per la caratterizzazione del legante pittorico dei differenti strati costituenti la policromia di sculture polimateriche conservate presso il Santuario di Santa Maria delle Grazie in Mantova. E' stato riscontrato che per tutte le statue, il legante principale degli strati di preparazione del colore era colla animale, mentre , si e' osservato, inoltre, che gli strati pittorici hanno previsto, per la loro stesura, l'impiego di miscele complesse di sostanze organiche. Principalmente e' stata riscontrata la presenza di olio di lino, impiegato sia come unico legante sia in combinazione con altri.

Gunduk, Khanes, Gaugamela, Gali Zardak

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Reade, Julian Edgeworth; Anderson, Julie Renee

2013-01-01

Abstract: This paper discusses the rich but little-known Navkur plain, north-east of Nineveh, which is the probable location of the Battle of Gaugamela in 331 BC, and nearby rock-sculptures, with photographs illustrating new discoveries. The sculptures at Gunduk must now be dated to the mid......-third millennium, and the evolution of the Khanes-Bavian sculptured complex can be followed from the Neo-Assyrian through the Greek, Parthian and Sasanian periods....

A nudge in a healthier direction: How environmental cues help restrained eaters pursue their weight-control goal.

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Stämpfli, Aline E; Stöckli, Sabrina; Brunner, Thomas A

2017-03-01

Losing weight is a goal for many people, but it is hard to pursue. However, dieting cues in the environment hold promise for improving individuals' eating behavior. For example, exposure to thin, human-like sculptures by the artist Alberto Giacometti has been found to promote healthy snack choices at a vending machine. Whether health- or weight-related processes drive such effects has not yet been determined. However, a detailed understanding of the content-related drivers of environmental cues' effects provides the first indications regarding a cue's possible use. Therefore, two laboratory studies were conducted. They examined the Giacometti sculptures' effects on unhealthy and healthy food intake (Study 1) and on the completion of weight- and health-related fragmented words (Study 2). Study 1 indicated that the sculptures are weight-related by showing that they reduced food intake independent of food healthiness. Furthermore, the "Giacometti effect" was moderated by restrained eating. Restrained eaters, who are known for their weight-control goal, ate less after having been exposed to the thin sculptures. The results of Study 2 pointed in the same direction. Restrained eaters completed more weight-related words after being exposed to the sculptures. Overall, these studies suggest that the thin sculptures are primarily weight-related cues and particularly helpful for restrained eaters. Environmental weight-control cues such as the Giacometti sculptures could act as a counterforce to our obesogenic environment and help restrained eaters pursue their weight-control goal. In this way, they could nudge food decisions in a healthier direction. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

19 CFR 12.106 - Importation prohibited.

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De la théorie au modèle : les hélices comme sculptures calculées, le cas des Fonderies de l’Atlantique à Nantes

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Jean-Louis Kerouanton

2009-05-01

Full Text Available La découverte, l’étude et la sauvegarde partielle des bâtiments des anciennes « Fonderies de l’Atlantique » à Nantes en 2001-2002 ont permis également de révéler puis de conserver une extraordinaire collection d’objets de fonderie au sable correspondant à la fabrication des hélices et des pales d’hélice pour les plus gros navires commerciaux et militaires. La technologie de fonderie d’alliage de cuivre pour les hélices avait été adoptée en 1937 dans l’entreprise. L’ensemble des modèles en bois de pales d’hélice est d’abord apparu comme une accumulation de sculptures monumentales particulièrement épurées. L’étude technologique plus fine montre cependant que cette « beauté » réelle ne correspond nullement à la volonté d’un artiste mais relève uniquement des calculs liés pour chaque production à un projet de navire. Et c’est seulement le calcul qui permet d’expliquer les réalisations d’hélices monoblocs par troussage, sans modèle aucun ; il ne reste alors de traces que les outils du troussage. Il s’agit bien dès lors d’un patrimoine scientifique - la transposition matérielle d’un calcul mathématique - tout autant que d’un patrimoine technique et industriel. C’est cette particularité qui fait la grande originalité de l’ensemble conservé par la communauté urbaine, en attendant, nous l’espérons, une valorisation future.In 2001 and 2002, the study and partial preservation of the buildings of the former Fonderies de l’Atlantic in Nantes also allowed for the preservation of a remarkable collection of objects related to the sand foundry casting carried out by this firm, specialised in propellers for major commercial and military vessels. The firm began to employ copper alloys in its foundry techniques from 1937. The collection of wooden models prepared for the casting of propellers appears, at first sight, as a remarkable accumulation of rather abstract monumental

The marble head of a statuette from Mediana (excavations in 2001)

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Plemić Bojana

2013-01-01

During the archaeological excavations in Mediana in 2001, the head of a marble statuette of exceptional beauty and craftsmanship was discovered. It was an isolated discovery, the sculpture probably having been imported from some Greek artistic centre or an eastern Mediterranean workshop, presenting a part of a larger ensemble of sculptures that had adorned an imperial villa with peristyle. Since the head was found in pieces and being just part of a sculptural representation with no reliable a...

20. YÜZYIL RESİM VE HEYKELLERİNİN YUNAN MİTOLOJİSİ VE İKİCİLİK KAVRAMI AÇISINDAN DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİNE YÖNELİK BİR ARAŞTIRMA

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Gul ERBAY ASLITURK; Ecem KUCUKGUNEY

2016-01-01

When considering mythology, Greek mythology is the first that comes into mind. The history of Greek mythology is written on sculptures and canvas for hundreds of years. A literature review on paintings and sculptures of Greek mythology reveals absence of mind dualism, a sub-branch of Greek phylosophy. This study concentrates on the dualism aspect of the 20th century paintings and sculptures about Greek mythology. Specifically, works of art which include heroes of Greek mythology were examined...

The Center is Everywhere

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Weinberg, David H.

2012-01-01

"The Center is Everywhere" is a sculpture by Josiah McElheny, currently (through October 14, 2012) on exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. The sculpture is based on data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), using hundreds of glass crystals and lamps suspended from brass rods to represent the three-dimensional structure mapped by the SDSS through one of its 2000+ spectroscopic plugplates. This article describes the scientific ideas behind this sculpture, emphasizing the p...

Modelización de esculturas en la enseñanza de las matemáticas

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M.C. Gómez-Collado

2013-06-01

Full Text Available Throughout history the mathematics have been present in disciplines such as engineering, social sciences, architecture and also painting and sculpture. In this work we study the mathematical modelling of some sculptures of the artist Jaume Espí and we propose the removal of this material to be used in the teaching of mathematics. In addition, with the help of graphic design programs such as 3DStudioMax we open the perspective of extrapolating these sculptural works to the field of architecture.

Architecture or Sculpture?

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Baumeister, Ruth

2014-01-01

Jørn Utzon´s museum design for Asger Jorn´s collection in Silkeborg contextualized in the postwar context of an organic architecture.......Jørn Utzon´s museum design for Asger Jorn´s collection in Silkeborg contextualized in the postwar context of an organic architecture....

77 FR 53781 - Safety Standard for Magnet Sets

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2012-09-04

... general entertainment, such as puzzle working, sculpture building, mental stimulation, or stress relief....regulations.gov . Follow the instructions for submitting comments. To ensure timely processing of comments... general entertainment, such as puzzle working, sculpture, mental stimulation, or stress relief.'' 2. Use...

75 FR 66419 - Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition Determinations: “Object of Devotion...

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2010-10-28

... Determinations: ``Object of Devotion: Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture From the Victoria and Albert Museum... Devotion: Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture from the Victoria and Albert Museum,'' imported from abroad for temporary exhibition within the United States, are of cultural significance. The objects are...

75 FR 28848 - Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition Determinations: “The Original Copy...

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2010-05-24

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37 CFR 201.20 - Methods of affixation and positions of the copyright notice on various types of works.

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2010-07-01

..., device, fixed, machine, motion picture, pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works, and their variant forms...-readable copies (such as magnetic tapes or disks, punched cards, or the like, from which the work cannot.... (i) Pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works. The following constitute examples of acceptable methods...

Specificity of Esthetic Experience for Artworks: An fMRI Study

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Di Dio, Cinzia; Canessa, Nicola; Cappa, Stefano F.; Rizzolatti, Giacomo

2011-01-01

In a previous functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, where we investigated the neural correlates of esthetic experience, we found that observing canonical sculptures, relative to sculptures whose proportions had been modified, produced the activation of a network that included the lateral occipital gyrus, precuneus, prefrontal areas, and, most interestingly, the right anterior insula. We interpreted this latter activation as the neural signature underpinning hedonic response during esthetic experience. With the aim of exploring whether this specific hedonic response is also present during the observation of non-art biological stimuli, in the present fMRI study we compared the activations associated with viewing masterpieces of classical sculpture with those produced by the observation of pictures of young athletes. The two stimulus-categories were matched on various factors, including body postures, proportion, and expressed dynamism. The stimuli were presented in two conditions: observation and esthetic judgment. The two stimulus-categories produced a rather similar global activation pattern. Direct comparisons between sculpture and real-body images revealed, however, relevant differences, among which the activation of right antero-dorsal insula during sculptures viewing only. Along with our previous data, this finding suggests that the hedonic state associated with activation of right dorsal anterior insula underpins esthetic experience for artworks. PMID:22121344

Pendekatan Parodi, Simbolik dan Metafora pada Karya Seni Jogja International

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Sari Wulandari

2013-04-01

Full Text Available Ngayogyakarta Negari Exhibition 2012 is part of the Festival of Arts 2012 Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat Negari held in commemoration of the 2.5-century founding of Ngayogyakarta and 100 years of the birth of Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX, followed by 124 artists Yogyakarta, both painting, photography, sculpture, audio visual, and installation as well which displayed the works of Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX and Yogyakarta themed. Jogja International work sculpture by sculpture artist, Dunadi, is one of the few works of sculpture on display in this activity, similar to superhero Spider-Man but wearing blangkon and sarong. In addition to its large size and white color, which makes it interesting sculpture to be observed, studied and discussed is this artwork has conveyed symbolic, metaphoric, and typical parodik messages of Yogyakarta people. This discussion was done through art criticism and aesthetic theory in which the implementation of theories is very broad in the domain art and design. Although the artwork discussed did not pertain directly to the the domain of Visual Communication Design, sensitivity to social issues, creative approach, and beautiful execution Dunadi artist was expected to add experience and insight into the art of the artists and designers in Indonesia.  

The Ulysses Project. Integrating the Curriculum.

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Smith, Susan Swenton

2001-01-01

Offers a project developed as an outgrowth of sixth-grade students' study of ancient Greece in history, English, drama, and art classes. Explains that the students created sculptures inspired by Greek sculpture that represented student perceptions of the activities and emotions found in the Ulysses myth. (CMK)

Shadow art

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Mitra, Niloy J.; Pauly, Mark

2009-01-01

"To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images." - Plato, The Republic Shadow art is a unique form of sculptural art where the 2D shadows cast by a 3D sculpture are essential for the artistic effect. We

Duitsland en Maillol : een onderzoek naar de invloed van Aristide Maillol op de beeldhouwkunst in de eerste helft van de 20e eeuw in Duitsland in het bijzonder in de nazi periode

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Jacobs, Gerardus Theodorus Andreas

2015-01-01

Aristide Maillol (1861-1944) was the most popular foreign sculptor in Germany from 1905 to 1944. German art dealers and critics introduced Maillol’s sculptures. Till 1933 these sculptures evoked in the chaotic German society a desire for the balanced and peaceful society of ancient Greece. Many

The Overheard

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Højlund, Marie Koldkjær; Riis, Morten S.; Kirkegaard, Jonas R.

and rediscover our sounding surroundings by offering several different listening experiences in the form of thematic live concerts, sound sculptures and the development of a soundscape webpage that connects the locations and sculptures in real time through an online mixer (at www.overheard.dk). The Overheard...

In the Footsteps of Winckelmann

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Østermark-Johansen, Lene

2016-01-01

of the 1880s Winckelmann features as an authoritative voice of the past on the encounter between the living body and mind of the spectator-critic and the cold, immobile marble of ancient sculpture. Winckelmann’s subjective descriptions of sculpture provoked Lee into thinking about the interrelationship...

The marble head of a statuette from Mediana (excavations in 2001

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Plemić Bojana

2013-01-01

Full Text Available During the archaeological excavations in Mediana in 2001, the head of a marble statuette of exceptional beauty and craftsmanship was discovered. It was an isolated discovery, the sculpture probably having been imported from some Greek artistic centre or an eastern Mediterranean workshop, presenting a part of a larger ensemble of sculptures that had adorned an imperial villa with peristyle. Since the head was found in pieces and being just part of a sculptural representation with no reliable attributes, the question of its identification is a difficult task. It was possible to determine, using stylistic traits' analysis that the statuette was made under the influence of Hellenistic cult sculpture, namely that it followed the rules of the school of Praxiteles. On the other hand, the iconographic elements, in particular that of the hairstyle, lead us to the conclusion that this statuette could represent one of two Roman goddesses, either Venus or Diana.

American Connections: The Early Works of Thomas Bang

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Ring Petersen, Anne

2015-09-01

Full Text Available The Danish artist Thomas Bang spent his early years in the USA. The works he created in this formative period were thus profoundly shaped by the contemporary movements in American art of the 1960s and 1970s when sculpture, or to be more precise, three-dimensional work became a hotbed of expansive experiments. This article traces how Bang made a radical move from painting to sculpture, which was characteristic of that time, and how he developed his artistic idiom by taking an active part in some of the seminal new departures in American art, in particular process art and post-minimalism. By leaping forward to Bang's later works produced after his return to Denmark, the article also demonstrates how the sculptural syntax and working principles developed in the early works still underlie and structure the artist's more allegorical sculptures and installations from the 2000s, thus testifying to the lasting impact of Bang's American period, which remains the key to understanding his works.

Domitian between Isis and Minerva

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Clausen, Kristine Bülow

2013-01-01

This paper is concerned with the sculptural decoration of the Flavian sanctuary of Isis at Beneventum. It challenges the traditional “Egyptian” appearance of the sanctuary and suggests that “Graeco-Roman” elements, too, played a role in its sculptural decoration. Based on the analysis of a small...

Treasured Texas Theaters

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Horton, Anita

2012-01-01

Dallas artist Jon Flaming's deep love of Texas is evident in his paintings and sculpture. Although he has created one sculptural Texas theater, his work primarily showcases old Texas barbershops, vacant homes, and gas stations. In this article, the author describes how her students, inspired by Flaming's works, created three-dimensional historical…

Transformation & Metamorphosis

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Lott, Debra

2009-01-01

The sculptures of Canadian artist Brian Jungen are a great inspiration for a lesson on creating new forms. Jungen transforms found objects into unique creations without fully concealing their original form or purpose. Frank Stella's sculpture series, including "K.132,2007" made of stainless steel and spray paint, is another great example of…

Jan Baptist Xavery (1697-1742: A versatile garden artist

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Dennis de Kool

2011-04-01

Full Text Available Dutch garden sculpture from the 18 th century is worthy of more systematic study. Such research may offer valuable insights into the position of garden sculpture within sculpture proper and its meaning in 18 th-century garden art. Jan Baptist Xavery is regarded as one of the most important sculptors working in the Netherlands during the 18 th century. His artistic career, his versatile body of work and his influence on other artists should therefore be studied in more depth. In view of the bloom in garden art in those days Xavery's significance as a 'garden artist' should not be overlooked in such a study. Garden sculptures should not be regarded as independent objects or pure decorative elements, but must be considered within the wider context of garden history. Tragically, many garden ornaments have been removed from their natural green environment. In their new settings they sometimes acquire a new meaning, but more often than not they are not done justice as the original harmonious 'composition' has been lost. As a result, this cultural-historical heritage is often treated indifferently. The few garden sculptures that have survived all calamities and can still be admired in public places are often placed at unsuitable locations and suffer from the weather or vandalism. Many garden sculptures, often damaged, have ended up anonymously in museum depots. Although they are safe there, the dreary catacombs of museums are a far cry from the green surroundings for which they were originally intended. Garden ornaments were, after all, not made for depots but to be looked at, studied and admired by enthusiasts, preferably in green surroundings. Otherwise, they will literally disappear from collective memory. Surely, the talented Jan Baptist Xavery and his contemporaries deserve a better fate than that.

Shadow art

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Mitra, Niloy J.

2009-01-01

"To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images." - Plato, The Republic Shadow art is a unique form of sculptural art where the 2D shadows cast by a 3D sculpture are essential for the artistic effect. We introduce computational tools for the creation of shadow art and propose a design process where the user can directly specify the desired shadows by providing a set of binary images and corresponding projection information. Since multiple shadow images often contradict each other, we present a geometric optimization that computes a 3D shadow volume whose shadows best approximate the provided input images. Our analysis shows that this optimization is essential for obtaining physically realizable 3D sculptures. The resulting shadow volume can then be modified with a set of interactive editing tools that automatically respect the often intricate shadow constraints. We demonstrate the potential of our system with a number of complex 3D shadow art sculptures that go beyond what is seen in contemporary art pieces. © 2009 ACM.

Celebratory Cakes

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Mahoney, Ellen

2012-01-01

Cakes are no longer the simple desserts they once were. The cake has evolved into an elaborate, sculptural form that represents a special occasion. Sculptural cake forms have become expressive designs using three-dimensional shapes, an array of surface textures, and a range of colors. The use of cakes in the artwork of David Gilhooly, Wayne…

DOSAGE DES ELEMENTS EN TRACE DES CALCAIRES AU SERVICE DE L'ARCHEOLOGIE

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BLANC, A.; HOLMES, L.; HARBOTTLE, G.

1998-01-01

Numerous quarries in the Lutetian limestone formations of the Paris Basin provided stone for the building and the decoration of monuments from antiquity to the present. To determine the origin of stone used for masonry and sculptures in these monuments, a team of geologists and archaeologists has investigated 300 quarries and collected 2,300 samples. Petrographic and paleontologic examination of thin sections allows geologists to distinguish Lutetian limestones from Jurassic and Cretaceous limestones. Geologists also seek to formulate hypotheses regarding the origin of Lutetian limestones used for building and sculpture in the Paris region. In the search for the sources of building and sculptural stone, the analytical methods of geologists are limited because often several quarries produce the same lithofacies. A new tool is now available, however, to attack questions of provenance raised by art historians. Because limestones from different sources have distinctive patterns of trace-element concentrations, compositional analysis by neutron activation allows them to compare building or sculptural stone from one monument with stone from quarries or other monuments. This analytical method subjects a powdered limestone sample to standard neutron activation analysis procedures at Brookhaven National Laboratory. With the help of computer programs, the compositional fingerprints of Lutetian limestones can be determined and stored in a database. The limestone database contains data for approximately 2,100 samples from monuments, sculptures and quarries. It is particularly rich in samples from the Paris Basin

Fun with Falling Man

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Mosley, Clay R.

2009-01-01

A shiny human figure turned into a car or a jet--what kid (or kid at heart) wouldn't enjoy these images? The author found that showing his students these shiny human sculptures by artist Ernest Trova (1927-2009) was a great place to start an exciting sculpture project with his fourth-grade students. In the 1960s, Ernest Trova created a painting of…

البعد المثالي للمنحوتات المدورة لآلهة الإغريق

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زينب سامي عبد المطلب

2017-07-01

Full Text Available The first chapter includes the formal frame for the search paper including its problem based on the following questions: how does perfect dimension become in making the artistic image for rounded sculptures of Greek gods? Do sculptures change in their shape because of the perfect philosophical facts? The importance of the search paper is clear in following up the Greek religious thought through the gods' sculptures, nature and worship practices. So the research contributes , to some extent, to provide a form about the Greek religion and nature. The research also clarifies the Greek philosophy, especially the perfect philosophy, and identify the philosophy effect on the concepts of beauty and art especially the gods' sculptures. It provides a cognitive achievement which contributes to educate searchers in history, art and beliefs because it has useful information about such topics. It contributes to make the students of the fine art college and institutes understand all these aspects. The search goal is identifying the perfect dimension in the rounded sculptures of Greek gods. The search limits are limited to the period extended between the fourth century and the first one B.C for the Greek State. It is identified in studying the perfect dimensions for the rounded sculptures of Greek gods. The second chapter of the research is about the theoretical frame which includes three topics. The first topic is about following up the perfect dimension in the Greek philosophy, the second one is about Greek perfection, religion and legends. The third topic is about the perfection in the Greek graving. The third chapter includes the search procedures like the sample (65 from the community, 6 templates are chosen purposely to be the sample of the current research. The researcher depends on the descriptive analytic topic that copes with the search nature and the indicators concluded from the theoretical frame of the research that are described as indicators

Ruiniform relief in sandstones: the examples of Vila Velha, Carboniferous of the Paraná Basin, Southern Brazil

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DE MELO, M.S.; COIMBRA, A.M.

1996-01-01

Vila Velha is a remarkable group of natural sculptures in Palaeozoicsandstones of the Paraná. Basin in Southern Brazil. The sculptures,which resemble the ruins of an old stone city, have resulted from thecombination of Cenozoic weathering and erosive processes with the existing attributes of the sedimentary rocks (texture, cementing oxides,sedimentary and brittle structures). A particular geomorphologic settingwith eroded inselbergs, and a differential iron and manganese cementationduring lat...

Portraits and Colour-codes in ancient Rome: The Polychromy of white marble Portraits

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Skovmøller, Amalie

The polychromy of ancient white marble sculpture has for the last 20 years become a focus of international awareness; from academics and the general public alike. Research results are gathered from scientific examinations of the “white” marbles, which unit e museums and universities in ambitious...... issues of colour on sculptural marble form, and which seeks to establish polychromy research in general within a traditional archaeological research field....

Historical Quarries, Decay and Petrophysical Properties of Carbonate Stones Used in the Historical Center of Madrid (Spain

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David M. Freire-Lista

2017-06-01

Full Text Available The carbonate stones that make up the four fountains of the 18th century located in the Paseo del Prado of Madrid (Spain are studied. The documentary search in historical archives, together with the petrographic, cartographic and paleontological studies permitted to determine that the fountains have been built with dolostone of the Castrojimeno Formation, with gastropods of the Trochactaeon Lamarcki specie of the Santonian (Upper Cretaceous. The historical quarries from which the ashlars have been extracted is located in Redueña Village. The petrophysical properties of this dolostone (effective porosity, bulk density, mercury intrusion porosity, ultrasound wave propagation velocity, micro-roughness and color have been calculated and compared with Colmenar de Oreja limestone. Each of the four fountains has a circular pylon at the base, a central column that holds a smaller pylon and is topped by a sculpture that serves as a spout. A bomb destroyed three ashlars of the basal pylon, column, small pylon and the sculpture of the SE fountain, during the Spanish Civil War, in 1936. These damaged elements were replaced by other carved limestones from Colmenar de Oreja in 1944. The four sculptures had been replaced in 1996 with resin replicas and the originals are preserved in the San Isidro. Los orígenes de Madrid museum. The study of the petrophysical properties of the sculptures located in the museum allowed us to determine the decay of different stone types. The analysis of micro-roughness was employed to define that the dissolution effect on the sculptures is different between dolostone and limestone. Redueña dolostone is more resistant to dissolution effect than Colmenar de Oreja limestome.

Rui Chafes : a escultura como sopro

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Lino, João, 1987

2014-01-01

Tese de mestrado, Escultura Pública, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas Artes, 2014 The sculpture of Rui Chafes has the largest references in medieval art, german Romanticism, a subtle intersection of philosophical and literary references (Plato, Nietzsche, Rilke, among others), but also the post-minimal art. The sculptures of this artist, when is possible and sufficient the assumption of that status, are presented as discrete and subtle catalysts that recall a Beauty that is befor...

Zvířata v katedrále. Architektonická skulptura zvířat a fantaskních tvorů parléřovské huti v katedrále sv. Víta, jejich symbolika a ikonografie.

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Urbanová, Karolína

2017-01-01

This Master Thesis "The animals in the cathedral. Architectural sculpture of animals and fantastical creatures by parlerian lodge in the St. Vitus Cathedral, their symbols and iconography" looks into the architectural sculpture of animal's motifs and motifs of fantastical Creatures. The goal of this work is to summarize recent aspects of research about this theme, explain in more detail individually motifs of animal's and their Iconography and their meaning for Cathedral of St. Vitus. Also th...

Alexander Conze, “Greek Relief Sculpture”. Originally published as ‘Über das Relief bei den Griechen’, Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Gesammtsitzung vom 25. Mai, 1882, no. 26, pp. 1-15 (pp. 563-577.

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Karl Johns (trans & ed.

2012-12-01

Full Text Available On the basis of a corpus edition of Attic grave stelae, it becomes possible to make certain broad observations about the nature and development of Greek relief sculpture, a branch of the arts in which the Greeks are admitted to have excelled. Archaeology has added so much to our knowledge in the course of the 19th century that we can dismiss the earlier assumption that these sculptures did not have colour. In fact they were painted, and the evidence shows that in spite of its severe technical limitations, Greek relief sculpture developed in an increasingly painterly direction, in tandem with the development of Greek wall and panel painting as we know it – more so than vase painting. St. Remy and Pergamon provide examples of the prodigious Greek application of the genre, where ‘there were no innovations left for Roman art to make’.

‘Working from home: the life and art of Giovanni Baratta’: Francesco Freddolini, Giovanni Baratta 1670-1747. Scultura e industria del marmo tra la Toscana e le corti d’Europa, LermArte documenti 10, Rome: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, 2013

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Jennifer Montagu

2014-12-01

Full Text Available This monograph describes the life and work of a major marble sculptor who, after his initial training and a period of work in Florence, returned to his native city of Carrara. There he developed the family workshop, where he was able to control the making of marble sculpture from the quarries through the transportation by ship to the installation. With the aid of many assistants, including his brothers and cousins who were also sculptors, he produced not only figurative sculpture but ornamental marble doorways, chimney-pieces, and columns with their bases and capitals. He had gained the patronage of the king of Denmark and the Duke of Marlborough, Madama Reale in Turin, and (through his friendship with Filippo Juvarra the king of Spain, but he seldom moved from his home, preferring to export his sculpture to many cities in Italy and abroad.

Analyzing Street Art to Present the Heritage of George Town, Malaysia

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Seyedehelham Sadatiseyedmahalleh

2015-08-01

Full Text Available Street art comprises all kinds of art developed in public locations. This form of art has spread to all heritage streets in George Town, the capital of Penang Island, which is also a known UNESCO World Heritage Site. However, instead of its heritage, food, and interesting past life and structure, the rapid multiplication of street art in George Town has created a new and unusual art that attracts tourists. Street art has spread to small roads and heritage streets in the city. This art increases the awareness of spectators by introducing them to the rich history of these streets and inducing a lively concept in the inner city of George Town. Accordingly, the impact of iron rod sculptures and murals, which comprises approximately 90% of street art in George Town, were determined to explore and identify the effects of this street art on this world heritage site. The findings were obtained from 263 out of 306 questionnaires accomplished by tourists in George Town. The results confirm that tourists prefer murals over iron rod sculptures. Iron rod sculptures are designed to tell the history of the street, whereas murals are designed to create aesthetic value. The findings indicated that similar to iron rod sculptures, more control should be exercised on the subjects of murals.

THE SCULPTURE SYMPOSIUM OF UTEBO

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Társila Gimeno Gimeno

2008-10-01

figuration, abstraction, symbolism, conceptualism… To walk by the parks, places and streets of Utebo turns out to be the same experience that appreciated when crossing the rooms of a museum of contemporary art, but with remarkable differences: the works are in open spaces, its perception is never the same because it changes during the day and over the years, and are admired by a more numerous public than in any museum.

Myth, history and memory

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Francesc Ruestes

2009-02-01

Full Text Available Born in Barcelona 1959. Trained in the Salvador Dalí studio and that of the Catalan sculptor Josep Granyer, he also established a close relationship with the poet Joan Brossa. He has participated in International art fairs and had important solo exhibitions in contemporary galleries in Spain and France. He has won several sculpture prizes such as the Vilacasas Foundation in Barcelona. His sculpture has been acquired by public and private collections such as the La Caixa Foundation

Dwarfism in art.

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Limon, Janusz

2015-01-01

Throughout the history of mankind the birth of a child with congenital malformation raised anxiety and torment, along with attempts to explain its origins. It is possible to find relics of such events in prehistoric rock drawings and primitive sculptures, in numerous art pieces produced through the centuries up to modern sculptures, paintings and drawings. The aim of the present article is to show how dwarfs were portrayed in a variety of art forms at different moments in the history of our world.

“Wandering the Immeasurable”

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Anaïs Schaeffer

2013-01-01

Art is coming to the Globe garden: from September, you will be able to admire an impressive steel sculpture – a  modern symbol of the evolution of science through the ages.   Computer-generated image of the impressive sculpture that will adorn the Globe garden from September. Construction work is under way on Place Galileo Galilei in front of the Globe of Science and Innovation. Soon to arrive on the site is a monumental work of art: a 15-tonne sculpture in stainless steel, measuring 7 metres tall and 10 metres wide. The story behind this work of art dates back to 2005, when Gayle Hermick, a Canadian sculptor, discovered CERN. “After visiting the CERN site for the first time in 2005, I was captured by the enormity of what the LHC represents – experimentation based on centuries of scientific exploration,” she recalls. “Current physics theories are based on those that came before them, which were, in turn, based on other precedents. T...

Art, Media, and Sense-making in Responsive Urban Environments

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Allingham, Peter

2013-01-01

The aim of the article is to elucidate experience and sense-making in interactive, responsive urban environments through analysis of aesthetic and media aspects of art in such environments. As an analytic example the sculpture D-Tower from the Dutch town of Doetinchem has been chosen. The sculptu...... in order to make hitherto invisible and private emotions and feelings visible and public.......The aim of the article is to elucidate experience and sense-making in interactive, responsive urban environments through analysis of aesthetic and media aspects of art in such environments. As an analytic example the sculpture D-Tower from the Dutch town of Doetinchem has been chosen. The sculpture...... artistic and interactive, responsive media qualities are blended, new forms of experience and sense-making are promoted. It may happen due to emergence and adaptation that may transform both the ‘experiencee’ and also the experiential environment. In this case information technology has been applied...

MEMAKNAI BUNGA DI ATAS BATU Patung Karya Anusapati

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Sumarwahyudi Sumarwahyudi

2016-10-01

Full Text Available Sculpture is an iconic sign to convey a message or something that can be used to represent a state (context, events of the past, or those in the future. Sculpture consists of iconic signs that work together systemically to achieve certain goals. This study aims to (1 describe the meaning of denotation, and (2 interpret the connotative meaning of Anusapati’s work entitled “Bunga di Atas Batu” (Flower on a Stone, a bronze statue created in 2004, by employing the connotative semiotics approach of Roland Barthes. The sculpture portrays a monument, which invites everyone to see that ‘flower’ as the connotation of the forest has been elevated, not to be given a respectable position, but just to be remembered. Forests as valuable assets owned by the Indonesians and even the world are seen metaphorically as ‘the flower’ which is gradually disappearing, (almost becoming a memory. In some areas in Indonesia, forests have even completely disappeared and only left memories behind

Manhattan Solar Cannon

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Treffers, Richard R.; Loisos, George; Ubbelohde, Susan; Douglas, Susanna; Pintos, Eduardo; Mulherin, James; Pasley, David

2015-01-01

We describe a 2.4 m hexagonal solar collector atop a Manhattan office building used for a solar / arts project. The collector uses an afocal design to concentrate the sunlight into a 0.6 m diameter beam which is directed by mirrors into a 80 m long fiber optic sculpture which descends an interior stairwell. The collector is fully steerable and follows the sun each day robotically. The control system and the optical design of the collector as well as the fiber optic sculpture will be discussed.

Milnesium berladnicorum sp. n. (Eutardigrada, Apochela, Milnesiidae), a new species of water bear from Romania.

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Ciobanu, Daniel Adrian; Zawierucha, Krzysztof; Moglan, Ioan; Kaczmarek, Lukasz

2014-01-01

In a lichen sample collected from a tree in Bârlad town (Vaslui County, Romania), a new tardigrade species belonging to the genus Milnesium (granulatum group) was found. Milnesium berladnicorum sp. n. is most similar (in the type of dorsal sculpture) to Milnesium beasleyi Kaczmarek et al., 2012 but differs from it mainly by having a different claw configuration and some morphometric characters. Additionally, the new species differs from other congeners of the granulatum group by the different type of dorsal sculpture, claw configuration and some morphometric characters.

"Enlivening and - Dividing": An Aporia of Illumination

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Hans Christian Hönes

2015-08-01

Full Text Available Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Verdana;} In 1798, Karl August Böttiger paid a nocturnal visit to the Gallery of Antiques in Dresden, illuminating the statues with a torch. At first glance, this seems to be yet another example of a popular practice for visiting galleries c.1800. Illuminating the sculptures by torchlight was a popular means of enlivening the objects, set in motion by the light flickering on their surfaces. The collections were thus meant to become a place where cold, white stone comes to life, and where the beholder becomes part of a revived antiquity.This was precisely what Böttiger intended, too. But to him, the effect of the torchlight appeared to be, as he wrote, “enlivening and – dividing!” The torchlight highlighted not only the beauty of the sculptures but also their modern restorations. Böttiger apparently failed to experience the living presence of the antique celebrated by many of his contemporaries (e.g. Goethe, Moritz.This essay focuses on the consequence of such a perception of sculptures as historically multi-layered objects. Böttiger’s experience resulted in a problematic situation. In trying to view the sculptures as contemporaries, he hoped to become ancient himself. But this operation failed in the moment when the sculptures themselves appeared to be anachronistic, impure palimpsests. In consequence, galleries may not only be the place were art history as chronological Stilgeschichte was born. They may also be the site where this perception changed into the experience of a more chaotic shape of time.

Μιχαήλ Ψελλός: η ματιά του φιλότεχνου

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Χρ. ΑΓΓΕΛΙΔΗ

1998-09-01

Full Text Available Christine G. Angelidi Michael Psellos: The Eye of the Connoisseur The descriptions of works of art of the middle Byzantine period are more or less accurate in regard to the reconstruction of the objects as perceived by their authors. However, whatever literary genre they belong to, the ekphraseis usually concentrate on specific parts of religious works of art and their theological explanation. Thus, the artistic product is never perceived as a whole nor do the authors investigate the connexion between the accomplished creation and its conceptual background. As for the descriptions of antique sculptures dating from the same period, the authors seem to have used those particular themes only in an attempt to stress their own literary skills. An interesting exception is, once again, provided by the ekphraseis of Michael Psellos and namely his ‘Description of a sculpture representing the resting Cupid'. In this brief article we argue that Psellos' text marks out an important shift from the traditional perception and commentary of the work of art and specifically of an antique one. Not only does he describe in detail this marble sculpture (probably a marble copy of a hellenistic or imperial bronze sculpture, but also deals with the choice of the material as well as the choice of this particular type of Cupid. Furthermore, he stresses the perfection of the artist's achievement, which enables the connection between the form of the sculpture and its theoretical content. For his commentary, Psellos draws material from Plato's dialogues, combining platonic concepts in order to define his own theory of Beauty and Love. Two more points of Psellos' ekphrasis are discussed: the value of the sight as the first of the senses leading to philosophy, and the importance of the infant's body as a symbol of purity. Those two characteristics connect our text to the brief praise Psellos dedicated to his grandson ca. 1070. 

Virtues of Giambologna from Grimaldi Chapel Archaeometric Characterisation Part II: `Artistic' and Natural Patinas

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Bongiorno, Valeria; Grosso, Pamela; Piccardo, Paolo; Magnani, Lauro G.; Carnasciali, Maria M.

2016-08-01

The scientific investigation on metal artwork is meant to expand the knowledge regarding the technical skills developed by artists in sculpture manufacturing. Moreover, all the gathered data support the speculation about the motivations behind the choices of certain material or a specific casting and/or finishing method (e.g., aesthetic, economic or technical reasons, or both) and give fundamental information for planning adequate restoration interventions. The subject of this study is the Virtues sculptural group made at the end of the XVI century by Giambologna to decorate the Grimaldi Chapel in the church of San Francesco di Castelletto (Genoa, Italy). Six life-size statues depicting Charity, Justice, Hope, Fortitude, Faith, and Temperance (i.e., the artwork discussed in this article); seven bas-reliefs; and six winged representations of putti are what remains of the original monumental project. Different micro-invasive analytical techniques (scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy, SEM-EDS; micro-Raman Spectroscopy, μRS; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, GC-MS) were applied to determine the chemical nature and the state of conservation of the "artistic" and natural patinas visible on the Virtues surfaces. Some patination tests were performed taking into account the collected analytical data and the indications provided by the scientific literature and the historical documents. The combination of the results obtained through the scientific investigations and the experimental work allowed for supposing the materials and the patination technique selected by the artist to adorn the sculptures and providing indications for the correct conservation of the six sculptures.

Ecology and identification of environmental fungi and metabolic processes involved in the biodeterioration of Brazilian soapstone historical monuments.

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Boniek, D; de Castro Mendes, I; Paiva, C A O; de Paula Lana, U G; Dos Santos, A F B; de Resende Stoianoff, M A

2017-11-01

This study aimed to evaluate the action of organic acids produced by the fungal population associated with the biodeterioration process of the Twelve Prophets of Aleijadinho, a set of soapstone sculptures in Congonhas, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. For this, samples of fungi were obtained from the surface of each of the 12 outdoor stone sculptures that comprise the set of Prophets. The identification of the colonizing filamentous fungi was performed by classical microbiology and molecular methods. Some species of filamentous fungi-dependent cultivation were detected, and the presence of species Aspergillus versicolor, Curvularia lunata, Epicoccum nigrum, Penicillium citrinum and Pseudocercospora norchiensis indicated a connection with the excretion of organic acids. The acids produced by each of these fungal species were analysed quantitatively by chromatographic methods, revealing potential biodeterioration by the action of acidic metabolites excreted in the stone. Minas Gerais, Brazil, is vulnerable to the activities of mineral extraction industries, posing an imminent risk to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recognized cities, e.g. Congonhas. Many of these municipalities hold many soapstone religious sculptures and historical monuments. Consequently, soapstone is susceptible to filamentous fungi attack causing irreversible biodeterioration. Despite the concern related to nondestructive sampling of 18th century sculptures, in this study, we have discussed the factors that lead to biodeterioration of soapstone due to organic acid excretion by the fungi that damage the stone, thereby providing an insight in conserving and preserving the soapstone monuments. © 2017 The Society for Applied Microbiology.

‘Cultural encounters: Western scholarship and Fang statuary from Equatorial Africa’ [Inaugural address, delivered on the acceptance of an extraordinary professorship at Tilburg University, Netherlands, in 2011

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Wilfried van Damme

2014-12-01

Full Text Available In this inaugural address, delivered on the acceptance of an extraordinary professorship at Tilburg University, Netherlands, in 2011, Wilfried van Damme examines three approaches that have been characteristically applied within the Western anthropology of art during the last half century. Illustrating these approaches with reference to the study of Fang statuary from equatorial Africa, he discusses a stylistic approach, focusing on anatomical details and proportions of Fang anthropomorphic sculptures; a culturalist approach, highlighting the local meaning and values these sculptures express; and a postcolonial approach, dealing with the Western appropriation and commodification of Fang statues.

Comparative palynomorphological investigation of the representatives tribe Antirrhineae Dumort. (Veronicaceae Durande

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Zoya M. Tsymbalyuk

2013-04-01

Full Text Available Pollen grains of 22 species from 6 genera of the tribe Antirrhineae (Veronicaceae were studied using light and scanning electron microscopy. Pollen grains of the studied species are 3-colporate, prolate, spheroidal and oblate-spheroidal, small and middle-sized. It is established that pollen grains are characterized by the common sculpture type, which is reticulate. Diagnostic features at the genus level are the structure of apertures and sculpture, shape and size of pollen grains. Pollen morphology supports the suggestion of a close relationship between Linaria, Antirrhinum, Misopates andCymbalaria. The genera Chaenorhinumand Kickxiahave the distinctive palynomorphological characters.

The Dilemma - The creation of Forms via Digital or manual models

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Thomsen, Bente Dahl; Chraudin, Marianna

2008-01-01

3D CAD sculpturing with subsequent printing or milling of physical models is becoming increasingly popular amongst university students and graduated designers. Thus this article raises the very pertinent question: If central parts of the process of form creation are solely based on 3D CAD...... sculpturing, what are the consequences for the result of the form creation? This question raises a new question: How do we set up a interpretation model for the registering of the characters that the digital and the manual process of form creations leave in the prototype? This question lays the ground...

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Pierre Curie

2012-05-01

Full Text Available Dans la culture tant des Monuments historiques que de l’Université française, le monumental a longtemps prévalu sur l’objet, peinture, sculpture ou objet d’art qui, lui, dans l’inconscient collectif, relevait tout naturellement du musée. Dans la pensée et dans les goûts d’André Chastel, les catégories n’étaient pas aussi manichéennes et à l’Inventaire, malgré une certaine prééminence de l’architecture, l’objet - au sens large - tint, dès le début de l’aventure, une place non négligeable. Le premier des Vocabulaires parus, en 1969, fut consacré à la tapisserie, suivi, en une vingtaine d’années, par la sculpture, les objets et le mobilier civil domestique, le vitrail…In the culture of France’s historic monuments, as in French universities, the monumental has long been considered as more important than sculptures or works of art, generally seen as more to do with museums. In the writings and tastes of André Chastel, however, the categories were not so clear-cut and, at the French Inventory, although architecture has enjoyed a certain pre-eminence, the object, in the broadest sense of the term, has been taken into consideration form the outset. Over 17,000 items now feature in the national database Palissy, on moveable objects. The first scientific vocabulary, published by the Inventory services in 1969, was devoted to tapestry and, over the last twenty years, other vocabularies have dealt with sculpture, domestic civil furniture and stained glass.

The ultrastructure of epidermal surface of stem and branch internods and spores of horsetails of subgenus Equisetum (Equisetum L., Equisetaceae

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D. S. Feoktistov

2016-03-01

Full Text Available Ultrastructure of epidermal surface of stems and branches internodes of 5 species and 3 interspecific hybrids were studied using scanning electron microscopy, as well as spore surface of 5 species of horsetail subgenus Equisetum (Equisetum, Equisetaceae: E. arvense L., E. fluviatile L., E. palustre L., E. pratense Ehrh., E. sylvaticum L., E. × mildeanum Rothm. (E. pratense × E. sylvaticum, E. × sergijevskianum C. N. Page et Gureeva (E. pratense × E. palustre, E. × lofotense Lubienski (E. arvense × E. sylvaticum. Sculptural elements from silica differ in shape, size and location on the ridges and furrows of stem and branches internodes. There are: the thin longitudinal some­times anastomosing thread-like structures (ribs, cylindrical, rounded on the tip, or conical mamillae, tubercles and spines. The thin longitudinal ribs, tubercles and spines are situated on the ridges of stem and branches; separate mamillae and groups of fused mamillae occupy the furrows. The fine surface sculpturing consists of hemispherical, globose or slightly elongate pilulae covering mamillae, surface in furrows, and especially stomata. Equisetum palustre has specific club-shaped rods arranged into regular ranks along either side of the stomatal slit. A detailed description of silica sculpture, shape, disposition and ornamentation of stomata area are presented for all studied species and hybrids. Such features as the presence, shape and arrangement of sculpture elements, ornamentation, shape and arrangement of sto­mata can be used in the taxonomy and phylogenetics of horsetails. Spores of the members of subgenus Equisetum are spherical in shape. They have not specific ornamentation, their features may not be used in systematics of horsetails.

Pollen morphology of Amygdalus L. (Rosaceae in Iran

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Mahnaz Vafadar

2011-01-01

Full Text Available Pollen grain of 16 species and three hybrids of the genus Amygdalus L., representing two subgenera and two sections distributed in Iran were examined by light and scanning electron microscopy. All pollen grains are tricolporate. The shape of grains varies from subprolate through prolate. Regarding outline, in polar view, pollen grains are triangular-circular and in equatorial view, elliptic. Regarding sculpturing of exine, the frequent type like many members of family Rosaceae is striate with or without perforations that can be subdivided into three subtypes: type I (A-B, type II (A-B and type V. In three species, A. trichamygdalus, A. spinosissima and A. orientalis, exine sculpture type is completely different. In the first species is rugulate, in the second species is reticulate and in A. orientalis, it is gemmate-perforate. Ornamentation of ridges (muri in the striate sculpture is parallel to ectocolpus. Number of perforations in tectum, diameter of them, striae intervals and the thickness of ridges varies among studied taxa. The striae have different depth and slope. Results showed that among pollen grain characters, shape is useful character solely for separating of taxonomic ranks in Iranian Amygdalus specially in subgeneric or section level.

Membaca Pertanda Zaman (Eksploitasi Alam oleh Manusia: Sebuah Interpretasi dalam Karya Seni Patung

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Yoga Budhi Wantoro

2014-11-01

Full Text Available Membaca Pertanda Zaman (Eksploitasi Alam oleh Manusia: Sebuah Interpretasi dalamKarya Seni Patung mewakili bentuk-bentuk eksploitasi alam yang dilakukan olehmanusia adalah sebuah konsep penciptaan karya seni patung sebagai ungkapanpribadi penulis dalam menanggapi, merespons, dan merasakan fenomena eksploitasiyang kebablasan. Berdasarkan observasi, ide, dan sikap kreatif, penulis mencobamenafsirkan dan merepresentasikan gejala serta bentuk eksploitasi alam tersebutdalam bahasa patung yang kaya dengan unsur bentuk, ruang, dan volume. Konsepini, menjadikan alam sebagai objek eksploitasi yang direpresentasikan dalam bentukbatu alami yang sekaligus menjadi media penulis untuk membaca pertanda zaman.Selain itu, konsep etika lingkungan seperti Biosentrime dan konsep kejawen,yaitu Hamemayu Hayuning Bawana (bhs. Jawa yang menjadi jiwa agar kelahiranpatung tersebut menjadi simbol keseimbangan antara manusia dan alam. Dalamhal ini sebongkah batu sebagai metafora dari alam dipecah, diiris, dibor, dan digesersebagai sebuah simbol bentuk eksploitasi yang dilakukan manusia terhadap alam.Kontradiksi antara manusia berteknologi dengan alam, dimetaforakan dalam prosesberkarya, yaitu dengan menggunakan peralatan mekanik ataupun mesin. Alat tersebutsebagai ekses dari perlakukan manusia terhadap alam demi kepentingan dankelangsungan hidup manusia. Sikap penulis yang tetap menghargai alam ditranformasikandalam wujud karya dengan membiarkan karakter batu tetap terjaga alamiahnya.Hasil penciptaan karya seni patung ini, selain memunculkan nilai estetik danbermakna simbolis, juga memberikan corak baru dalam seni rupa khususnya senipatung, serta memberikan ciri khas jati diri penulis dalam penciptaan seni patung. Understanding the Sign of an Era: Nature Exploitation by Human Being- anInterpretation on the Works of Sculpture. Understanding the sign of an era throughthe art of sculpture is one of writer’s expressions in interpreting the form of natureexploitation by

Allergic contact dermatitis to acrylates in disposable blue diathermy pads.

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Sidhu, S. K.; Shaw, S.

1999-01-01

We report 2 cases of elicitation of allergic contact dermatitis to acrylates from disposable blue diathermy pads used on patients who underwent routine surgery. Their reactions were severe, and took approximately 5 weeks to resolve. Both patients gave a prior history of finger tip dermatitis following the use of artificial sculptured acrylic nails, which is a common, but poorly reported, cause of acrylate allergy. Patch testing subsequently confirmed allergies to multiple acrylates present in both the conducting gel of disposable blue diathermy pads, and artificial sculptured acrylic nails. We advocate careful history taking prior to surgery to avoid unnecessary exposure to acrylates in patients already sensitized. Images Figure 1 Figure 2 PMID:10364952

Change Ringing - communicating climate change through contemporary classical music

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Kapur, Ravi; Osborn, Laurence; Shenai, Peter

2016-04-01

Change Ringing is a collaborative artwork by artist Peter Shenai and composer Laurence Osborn that forms around a playable sculpture and a large-scale composition. The sculpture incorporates a set of six bronze bells designed and cast by artist Peter Shenai. Their shapes are mathematically derived from graphic statistical representations of summer temperatures at seventeen-year intervals over the course of the twentieth century. Arranged according to the chronology of their corresponding data sets and struck in order, the bells voice a series of inharmonic spectra that communicate sonically the story of climate change during the twentieth century. This series forms the basis for Laurence Osborn's twenty-five minute composition, scored for string orchestra and the bells themselves. In Change Ringing, an artwork that combines music, sculpture, performance, and ritual, we want to move audiences and, in doing so, facilitate their engagement with ideas that are highly relevant today. We believe that the medium of musically organized sound, so often wrongly dismissed as "abstract" and non-referential, can be a more than adequate reflection of lived human experience in the 21st Century, and we work in the hope that Change Ringing will connect with contemporary audiences on the most fundamental level.

In search of Leonardo: computer-based facial image analysis of Renaissance artworks for identifying Leonardo as subject

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Tyler, Christopher W.; Smith, William A. P.; Stork, David G.

2012-03-01

One of the enduring mysteries in the history of the Renaissance is the adult appearance of the archetypical "Renaissance Man," Leonardo da Vinci. His only acknowledged self-portrait is from an advanced age, and various candidate images of younger men are difficult to assess given the absence of documentary evidence. One clue about Leonardo's appearance comes from the remark of the contemporary historian, Vasari, that the sculpture of David by Leonardo's master, Andrea del Verrocchio, was based on the appearance of Leonardo when he was an apprentice. Taking a cue from this statement, we suggest that the more mature sculpture of St. Thomas, also by Verrocchio, might also have been a portrait of Leonardo. We tested the possibility Leonardo was the subject for Verrocchio's sculpture by a novel computational technique for the comparison of three-dimensional facial configurations. Based on quantitative measures of similarities, we also assess whether another pair of candidate two-dimensional images are plausibly attributable as being portraits of Leonardo as a young adult. Our results are consistent with the claim Leonardo is indeed the subject in these works, but we need comparisons with images in a larger corpora of candidate artworks before our results achieve statistical significance.

Angliski hudozhnik Entoni Heivud...

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2006-01-01

Inglise kunstnik Anthony Heywood valmistas vanadest televiisoritest ja muudest esemetest elevandi kuju. Skulptuur nimega "Broken Family" osales austraalia näitusel "Sculptures by the Sea" 2004. aastal. Lisaks foto skulptuurist

Kinetics of Sulfur, Vanadium and Nickel Removal from Basra Crude Oil Hydro Treating

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Muzher M. Ibrahim

2013-05-01

Full Text Available     Basra crude oil was hydro treated in trickle–bed reactor using cobalt - molybdenum alumina as a Catalyst. The reaction range temperatures was598 – 648 k, while LHSV was 0.7 – 2 hr-1. The pressure and H2/Oil for all experiments keep constant at 3Mpa and 300 L/L respectively.    Desulphurization and demutualization kinetics were studied and found that the kinetics of sculpture removal is of first – order, and the kinetic of vanadium and nickel removal is of second – order.    Activation energy were calculated and their value are 24.03, 745.86, 63.90 KJ / mole, respectively for sculpture, vanadium, and nickel.

The Meaning of Happiness in Consumer Research: Results from an Inductive Exploratory Pilot Study

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Sørensen, Elin Brandi; Thomsen, Thyra Uth

2016-01-01

In this study we investigate the meaning of happiness in a consumption context. We employ an inductive approach and present the results of an exploratory pilot study with eight consumers. The study is based on a Multi-Sensory-Sculpting (MSS) procedure in which we asked consumers to build sculptures...... that represent consumer happiness. Following the MSS guidelines, consumers were interviewed about the meanings of their sculpture in order to elicit embodied cognition about the topic at hand. In this paper we present the meanings of consumer happiness in the participants‟ accounts and discuss implications...... for consumer research. Further, we discuss the applicability of the MSS-procedure to the topic of consumer happiness, and how to optimize it for later studies on consumer happiness....

The Meaning of Happiness in Consumer Research

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Brandi Sørensen, Elin; Uth Thomsen, Thyra

2016-01-01

In this study we investigate the meaning of happiness in a consumption context. We employ an inductive approach and present the results of an exploratory pilot study with eight consumers. The study is based on a Multi-Sensory-Sculpting (MSS) procedure in which we asked consumers to build sculptures...... that represent consumer happiness. Following the MSS guidelines, consumers were interviewed about the meanings of their sculpture in order to elicit embodied cognition about the topic at hand. In this paper we present the meanings of consumer happiness in the participants‟ accounts and discuss implications...... for consumer research. Further, we discuss the applicability of the MSS-procedure to the topic of consumer happiness, and how to optimize it for later studies on consumer happiness....

Sochy na mostě v Přerově?

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Hlobil, Ivo

2013-01-01

Roč. 12, č. 2 (2013), s. 7 ISSN N Institutional support: RVO:68378033 Keywords : contemporary sculpture * Přerov * influence of the Gothic tradition Subject RIV: AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage

Three families of mitered Borromean ring sculptures

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Verhoeff, T.; Verhoeff, K.; Delp, K.; Kaplan, C.S.; McKenna, D.; Sarhangi, R.

2015-01-01

Artists have drawn inspiration from many mathematical structures, such as regular tilings, lattices, symmetry groups, regular polyhedra, knots, and links. A particularly well-known link goes by the name Borromean rings. It consists of three closed loops (“rings”) that cannot be taken apart without

Close-fitting shield doors with sculptured edges

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Goodman, L.

1986-01-01

The US Department of Energy has contracted with Fluor Technology, Inc. for design and engineering of a facility to begin reprocessing fuel from the reactors at Hanford, Washington. Within the facility, a 15-cm (6-in.)-thick, steel shield door is needed to close an opening 4.3 m (14 ft) high x 8.2 m (27 ft) wide. Two cranes and a centrally located monorail hoist must pass through the opening. The door weighs about 41,000 kg (45 ton), and passage of the hoist will be the most frequent cause for opening the door. These two factors essentially mandated a three-piece door, which allows for using commercially available chain hoists to raise and lower the individual door sections. Normally, there is a 187-Pa (0.75-in. water gauge) pressure differential across the door, and minimal air leakage is essential. Stepped, mating edges between sections and along the adjacent concrete structures are typical with such doors, but so are significant gaps (and air leaks) around the edges. Gaps are needed to preclude frictional jamming between edges as a section is lowered. The challenge was to conceive a method to produce near-zero gaps and preclude jamming without involving impractically tight tolerances. The chosen method was to place trapezoidally shaped, steel gaskets on the door-section edges and on the mating concrete surfaces. The concept is described

Living Sculptures: Performance Art in the Classroom

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Pembleton, Matthew; LaJevic, Lisa

2014-01-01

What does an introduction to and engagement in performance art offer K-12 students? In this article, we respond to this question by proposing a lesson inspired by the artmaking practices of the contemporary artist Erwin Wurm. Performance art can be defined as any form of work that combines the artist's body and a live-action event with or…

Psychoplastics, invisible sculptures and wearable, haptic bodysuits,

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2010-01-01

Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Municipality of Ljubljana – Department for Culture and SOU of Ljubljana.......Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Municipality of Ljubljana – Department for Culture and SOU of Ljubljana....

Der rote Mantel der Sternberger Madonna - ein Unikum des böhmischen Schönen Stils?

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Hlobil, Ivo

2016-01-01

Roč. 64, č. 5 (2016), s. 412-418 ISSN 0049-5123 Institutional support: RVO:68378033 Keywords : gothic sculpture * Vienna * Beautiful Style * iconography * polychrome decoration Subject RIV: AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage

[Aphasia and artistic creation].

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Kornyey, E

1977-01-01

An artist active drawing and waterpainting, most prominent in sculpture, suffered an apopleptic insult at 66 years of age. Right hemiparesis and severe motor aphasia remained but this with rare unexpected and sometimes rather complicated productions in spoken, and also in written language in spite of modest progress in writing exercise. His behaviour witnessed of the memory of remote and complicated stored material. Some months after the insult he resumed his artistic activity using his left hand and continued it principally in the same manner as before his illness. His drawing and water-painting displayed some uncertainty of lines and sometimes coarseness of the stain spots. His pieces of sculpture regained the quality of his earlier works, as proven already by the first statue he made after the insult. While it is generally accepted that the motor aphasia does not essentially affect the artistic production, even of high quality, in painting, this is the first instance which proves that the same holds true for sculpture. In this case the mechanisms inciting the finest innervation on the side of the cortical center of the left hand, can work with promptness. In motor aphasia the mechanisms indispensable for the correct realisation of the function are affected without a final extinction of the function itself. Motor asphasia is an instrumental disorder not necessarily accompanied by disturbances of the intelligence.

Hallazgo de una escultura romana en las proximidades del manantial de aguas termales de Alhama de Almería

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Juana María Rodríguez López

1992-01-01

Full Text Available El hallazgo ocasional de una escultura romana acéfala en las proximidades del antiguo emplazamiento de los baños de Alhama de Almería suscita cuestiones de interés sobre el uso de sus aguas termales en la Antigüedad y su continuación en la Edad Media. Se trata de una pequeña escultura femenina que viste túnica con cinto y manto. Caracterizada por el hieratismo frontal, parece corresponder al siglo ii d.C. La materia prima, según un análisis macroscópico contrastado, es mármol «blanco de Macael», documentado hasta ahora sólo para fábricas edilicias, pero no en la estatuaria.The accidental discovery of a Román headless sculpture in the proximity of the oíd setting of the baths in Alhama de Almería arises interesting questions about the use of their thermal waters in Ancient times and its continity in the IVIiddIe Ages. It's a little female sculpture wearing a tunic cuitu a beit and a gown. Being its main feature a frontal hieratism, it seems to belong to II century A.D. The raw material, according to a macroscopic and contrasted analysis, is white marbie from Macael, known up to now only in civil constructions but not in sculptures.

Los «verracos» del valle del Amblés (Ávila: del análisis espacial a la interpretación socio-económica

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Álvarez Sanchís, Jesús R.

1990-12-01

Full Text Available Until recently, the zoomorphic sculpture of the West Meseta has been studied typologically, and therefore out of the cultural context in which it was produced. This paper is concerned with the zoomorphic sculpture in the Valle del Amblés (Ávila. We consider the sculptures as an index of economic value —cattle— and by studying their spatial distribution, we propose that they were used as landmarks or as delimiting critical resources —pasture— the explotation of which could have been organized by the elites of the Second Iron Age communities living in the valley.

La escultura zoomorfa de la Meseta Occidental ha sido tradicionalmente estudiada en su dimensión tipológica y, en consecuencia, divorciada de la dinámica cultural que la produjo. Este trabajo, que tiene su marco geográfico en el Valle del Amblés (Ávila, considera las manifestaciones zoomorfas como el exponente de un valor productivo —la ganadería—; y, mediante el análisis de su distribución espacial, propone la hipótesis de considerarlas hitos o delimitadores de recursos críticos —pastos—, cuya explotación sería organizada por las élites de las comunidades de la II Edad del Hierro que poblaban el valle.

Sculpture and Life. The Relation Between Form of Sculpture and Musical Character in the Sound Stone by Pinuccio Sciola

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Rita Ladogana

2015-07-01

Full Text Available L’intervento si propone di illustrare i risultati più significativi e originali che lo scultore sardo Pinuccio Sciola ha raggiunto in anni di impegno e di ricerca artistica infaticabile. Dai grandi monoliti ai semi della pace, fino alla sorprendente scoperta dei litofoni, il percorso rivela esiti complessi che contemplano, con particolare insistenza nella produzione degli ultimi anni, una stretta connessione tra scultura, musica e architettura. Da quando Sciola scopre che i grossi blocchi di basalto e di calcare, da lui sempre trattati con lo scalpello o col disco dello smeriglio, custodiscono un’anima musicale, l’atto creativo si concentra unicamente nella ricerca di una giusta sintesi tra oggetto scultoreo dalla chiara valenza estetica e potenzialità acustico-sonore dello scolpire. La voce della materia emana suoni di straordinaria complessità condizionati, oltre che dall’azione dell’artista, dall’interazione con gli elementi della natura, con gli elementi atmosferici, con la realtà tutta che li circonda.

Der Meister der Michler Madonna - Wege und Stand der Forschung

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Hlobil, Ivo

-, č. 1 (2012), s. 24-41 ISSN 1805-3742 Institutional support: RVO:68378033 Keywords : Master of the Michelská Madonna * Gothic sculpture * Czech lands and Netherlands Subject RIV: AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage

Eine unbekannte Löwenmadonna vom Meister der Madonna aus Michle (um 1340 - 1345)

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Hlobil, Ivo

-, 14/15 (2005), s. 6-30 ISSN 0862-8912 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z80330511 Keywords : Gothic * sculpture * Master of the Michelská Madonna Subject RIV: AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage

Heroes in Asia

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Mortensen, Eva

2014-01-01

Connections between traditional heroes and new heroes may be found in the topographical contexts where they were honoured in antiquity. These spatial settings, especially in relation to sculpture, are studied in the article....

Earth bag dome workshop run by Paulina Wojciechowska – director of Earth Hands and Houses [lectures, research] Sussex, UK; 27 May 2010

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Kolakowski, Marcin M.

2010-01-01

Construction of a small earth bag wall in south Sussex: constructing the formwork for entrance, preparing and filling earth bags, ramming layers of earth bags, plastering, artistic sculpturing of the exterior and interior.

Turmwächter oder letzter Baumeister der Karlsbrücke?

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Hlobil, Ivo

2014-01-01

Roč. 62, č. 2 (2014), s. 163-164 ISSN 0049-5123 Institutional support: RVO:68378033 Keywords : Late Gothic sculpture * man with monkey * Charles Bridge * Prague Subject RIV: AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage

Práce Aleše Veselého z let 1959 - 2005

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Nešlehová, Mahulena

2006-01-01

Roč. 19, č. 10 (2006), s. 7 ISSN 1210-5236 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z80330511 Keywords : object * sculpture * asamblage * 20th century Subject RIV: AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage

KAWASAN PRODUKSI SENI PAHAT BATU SEBAGAI DAERAH TUJUAN WISATA DI KABUPATEN MAGELANG

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Yuliana Pinaringsih Kristiutami

2016-03-01

Full Text Available Abstract - Development of tourism in Indonesia is currently more important, not only in order to increase the revenue of the country, is expected also to expanding business opportunities, while providing new job opportunities as well as to reduce unemployment. Potential Village Tamanagung as industrial areas and areas of stone carving art craft. Production area of stone carving art has the potential and attraction of attraction so that built and developed as a worthy tourist destination. In the development of tourism in the area of production of stone sculpture studio and the government in cooperation with surrounding communities. The existence of cooperation between organizations institutions with studio owner. Human Resources Training and empowerment of the overall performance of the Department of Tourism. Involving the private sector role in tourism development and promotion is encouraged with the development of technology and information. Designing a stone sculpture gallery as container sales, promotion, recreation and exhibition of handicrafts is a strategy in the development of stone sculpture production region as one tourism destination. Keywords: Development, Stone Sculpture Area, Potential, Attractions, Tourist Destination   Abstrak - Pengembangan kepariwisataan di Indonesia saat ini semakin penting, tidak saja dalam rangka meningkatkan penerimaan devisa negara, diharapkan juga dapat memperluas kesempatan berusaha, disamping memberikan lapangan pekerjaan baru juga untuk mengurangi pengangguran. Potensi Desa Tamanagung sebagai daerah industri dan kawasan kerajinan seni pahat batu. Kawasan produksi seni pahat batu mempunyai potensi dan daya tarik wisata berupa atraksi sehingga layak dibangun dan dikembangkan sebagai daerah tujuan wisata. Dalam pengembangan pariwisata di kawasan produksi seni pahat batu pemerintah bekerjasama dengan sanggar dan masyarakat sekitar. Adanya kerjasama antara organisasi lembaga dengan pemilik sanggar

The Role of the Expressive Arts in Therapy.

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Creadick, Theo Alcott

1985-01-01

Components of the expressive arts approach to therapy for disabled students are briefly described in terms of music, movement and dance, sculpture, sandplay, drawing and painting, journal writing, poetry, playwriting, puppetry, and drama. (CL)

Die Klosterneuburger Löwenmadonna angeblich eine Falschung. Analyse einer falschen Behauptung

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Hlobil, Ivo

2006-01-01

Roč. 54, č. 1 (2006), s. 85-98 ISSN 0049-5123 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z80330511 Keywords : Gothic * sculpture * Madonna on the lion Subject RIV: AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage

Study of the elementary composition and stratigraphy layers of pigments in statues of polychromed wood using a portable system of EDXRF

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Blonski, Maria Selia

2007-07-01

The energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) is a non-destructive analytical technique, which permits the determination of the chemical elements present in art works. EDXRF is a non destructive and very interesting methodology for the study of objects of cultural and historical interest, due to the simplicity of the technique, which does not need a previous preparation of the sample, to the multi elemental analysis character and the possibility of the use of portable equipment, which allows in situ analysis. In this work a portable equipment of X-ray fluorescence was used for measurements of pigments in sculptures of polychromed woods belonging to the Laboratory of Conservation and Restoration of the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of the University of Sao Paulo (MAE-USP), and sculptures and decorated wood of the Church of the Paroquia Imaculada Conceicao, in Sao Paulo-SP. The portable EDXRF system is constituted of a X -ray tube with Ag anode (operated at 17 kV and 2 μA for the Church measurements and at 17 kV and 3 μA for the sculptures of the museum measurements), a Si-PIN detector (FWHM = 221 eV for the 55 Fe(Mn) 5.9 keV line), standard nuclear electronic chain for X-ray spectrometry, a 8K multichannel analyser, a HP200LX palm top and a mechanical system for the positioning of detector and X-ray tube, which permits two degrees of freedom for the excitation-detection system movement. The excitation-detection time was 500 s for each measurement. In the sculptures of the Church, the analysis of the regions of the brown clothes for both sculptures showed the presence of Fe and Mn indicating to be the pigment brown umbria, due to the strong presence of the respective elements. In the decoration of the column of the altar, gold region, was verified the presence of the elements Ti, Cr, Fe, Cu, Zn and Au. In the pulpit (gold region), it was verified the elements K, Ca, Ti, Fe and Au. In a stain of that gilding region of the pulpit, that was recuperated more

Study of the elementary composition and stratigraphy layers of pigments in statues of polychromed wood using a portable system of EDXRF; Estudo da composicao elementar e estratigrafia das camadas de pigmentos em estatuas de madeira policromada usando um sistema portatil de EDXRF

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Blonski, Maria Selia

2007-07-15

The energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) is a non-destructive analytical technique, which permits the determination of the chemical elements present in art works. EDXRF is a non destructive and very interesting methodology for the study of objects of cultural and historical interest, due to the simplicity of the technique, which does not need a previous preparation of the sample, to the multi elemental analysis character and the possibility of the use of portable equipment, which allows in situ analysis. In this work a portable equipment of X-ray fluorescence was used for measurements of pigments in sculptures of polychromed woods belonging to the Laboratory of Conservation and Restoration of the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of the University of Sao Paulo (MAE-USP), and sculptures and decorated wood of the Church of the Paroquia Imaculada Conceicao, in Sao Paulo-SP. The portable EDXRF system is constituted of a X -ray tube with Ag anode (operated at 17 kV and 2 {mu}A for the Church measurements and at 17 kV and 3 {mu}A for the sculptures of the museum measurements), a Si-PIN detector (FWHM = 221 eV for the {sup 55}Fe(Mn) 5.9 keV line), standard nuclear electronic chain for X-ray spectrometry, a 8K multichannel analyser, a HP200LX palm top and a mechanical system for the positioning of detector and X-ray tube, which permits two degrees of freedom for the excitation-detection system movement. The excitation-detection time was 500 s for each measurement. In the sculptures of the Church, the analysis of the regions of the brown clothes for both sculptures showed the presence of Fe and Mn indicating to be the pigment brown umbria, due to the strong presence of the respective elements. In the decoration of the column of the altar, gold region, was verified the presence of the elements Ti, Cr, Fe, Cu, Zn and Au. In the pulpit (gold region), it was verified the elements K, Ca, Ti, Fe and Au. In a stain of that gilding region of the pulpit, that was

Compositional characterization of French limestone: a new tool for art historians

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Holmes, L.L.; Harbottle, G.; Blanc, A.

1994-01-01

Limestone from quarries known to medieval craftsmen and from the monuments they built and embellished, as well as from carvings now in museum collections, has been characterized by neutron activation analysis. Specimens form 38 quarries in the Lutetian and Jurassic limestone formations of France and from sculptures in American and French museums have been tested, and the results have been compiled in a data base to which art historians may refer when attempting to determine provenance for sculptures. Multivariate statistical analysis of concentration data shows stone form a particular quarry in the Paris basin to be compositionally homogeneous and distinguishable from other quarries in the same formation. The same approach to data related to quarries near the Burgundian abbey of Cluny finds general agreement between classifications based on compositional and on petrographic data. (Author)

The elevation and its distribution in geomorphological regions of the European Russia

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Kharchenko, S. V.; Ermolaev, O. P.; Mukharamova, S. S.

2018-01-01

Spatial differences of elevation were analysed by side of view of geomorphological boundaries on the European Russia territory. Geomorphological pattern of the studied territory was taken from Geomorphological Map of the USSR at scale of 1: 2 500 000. There 2401 fragments for combinations of 58 types of structural landforms and 22 types of sculptural landforms were allocated. The elevation values computed by digital elevation model (cell size - 200 m, number of cells - 322M) based on SRTM (south of 60 nl.) and GDEM 2010 (north of 60 nl.) resampled data. It was founded that some types of structural (16 types) and sculptural (6 types) landforms located in the relatively thin intervals of elevation. Using of elevation above sea level is needed for effective automatic recognizing these landform regions.

Black and red granites in the Egyptian Antiquity Museum of Turin. A minero-petrographic and provenance study.

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Serra, M.; Borghi, A.; Vaggelli, G.; D'Amicone, E.; Vigna, L.

2009-04-01

The University of Turin, in cooperation with the Egyptian Antiquity Museum, has recently undertaken several projects aimed at developing a scientific approach to the analysis of ancient Egyptian finds. In particular, a straightforward project to investigate the stony handcrafts preserved in the statuary rooms started in 2006 to obtain their systematic petrographic classification and their possible geological sources. The main intent of the project was to understand the provenance of the materials used in Pharaonic period, setting the base for the identification of the ancient quarry sites and for a correct interpretation of the extraction and working techniques, in order to provide fundamental information about economical and social development of Egyptian civilization through historical times. The choice to focus attention on black and red granites came from the statement of the percentage relevance (40 of the 54 sculptures actually exposed) of these materials in the statuary rooms. Moreover, especially for black granites, the need of detailed minero-petrographic analysis arose from the difficulty in making a macroscopic classification of the fine-grained dark-coloured rock varieties. Therefore, five black granite statues, belonging to the Drovetti collection were sampled in a micro-invasive way: three sculptures of goddess Sekhmet (cat. 260, 251, 247), the statue of Ramses II (cat. 1380) and the statue of goddess Hathor (cat. 694). The choice to analyse even three of the twenty-one statues of goddess Sekhmet (cat. 247, cat. 251, cat. 260), originally located in the same Egyptian temple but ichnographically different, derived from the need of answering the archaeological questions about their provenance. On the other hand, the opportunity of studying the fine-grained black rocks used for the sculptures of goddess Hathor (cat. 694) and of Ramses II in Majesty (cat. 1380), symbol of the Egyptian museum of Turin, provided the opportunity to analyse and classify the

Dealing with the Effects of Trauma: A Self-Help Guide

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... painting, drawing, woodworking, making a sculpture, reading fiction, comics, mystery novels, or inspira- tional writings, doing crossword ... for yourself. If you want to get more education for yourself so you can do work that ...

Fiches pratiques: A chacun son metier; Laissez vos enfants sortir en bande; Loulou manipule; Hommage a Picasso (Practical Ideas: To Each His Occupation; Let Your Children Go Out in a Group; Loulou Manipulated; Hommage to Picasso).

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Chantelauve, Odile; And Others

1989-01-01

Four ideas for French language classroom activities are described, including a vocabulary development exercise about jobs, a reading comprehension exercise; discussion of a Flaubert text; and an art appreciation activity based on a Picasso sculpture. (MSE)

Commentary on the Discovery of the Beautiful Style Michigan Madonna

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Hlobil, Ivo

2016-01-01

Roč. 64, 3/4 (2016), s. 256-260 ISSN 0049-5123 Institutional support: RVO:68378033 Keywords : gothic sculpture * Bohemian Beautiful Style * Madonna-torso * Museum Ann Arbor * Michigan ( USA ) Subject RIV: AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage

Neznámá Madona na lvu od Mistra michelské madony (kolem let 1340 - 1345)

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Hlobil, Ivo

2005-01-01

Roč. 53, č. 1 (2005), s. 3-20 ISSN 0049-5123 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z80330511 Keywords : Gothic * sculpture * Master of the Michelská Madonna Subject RIV: AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage

Art and Sports

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Ingram, Anne G.

1973-01-01

An aesthetic dimension of sport appreciation is found in the paintings and sculptures of great masters who were intrigued by the subject of sports. This article presents specifics on bringing sports art into the classroom. (Authors/JA)

Analysis of artifacts from ancient Egypt using an EDXRF portable system

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Calza, Cristiane; Lopes, Ricardo T.; Freitas, Renato P.; Brancaglion Junior, Antonio

2011-01-01

In this work, XRF technique was used to analyze some artifacts from the Egyptian Collection of the National Museum (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), which is probably the oldest in the Americas. Most pieces of this collection were acquired in 1826, when the Italian trader Nicolau Fiengo brought from Marseille (France) to Rio de Janeiro various antiquities excavated by Giovanni Battista Belzoni in the necropolis of Thebes, at Karnak Temple. The artifacts were bought by the Brazilian Emperor Dom Pedro I, which donated them to the Royal Museum, established in 1818. The analyzed samples include: a wooden polychrome funerary mask and different kind of sculptures (portraying the god Bes, a priest, female and macrophallic figurines and an ushabti). The analyses were carried out with an EDXRF portable system developed in the Nuclear Instrumentation Laboratory, consisting of an X-ray tube Oxford TF3005 with W anode, operating at 25 kV and 100 μA, and a Si-PIN XR-100CR detector from Amptek. In each sample were obtained several spectra, with an acquisition time of 300 s and a beam collimation of 1.5 and 2 mm. The spectra were analyzed using the software QXASAXIL from IAEA. The results revealed the elemental composition of the material employed to execute the sculptures and the original pigments used in the mask and also in the decoration of some sculptures (Egyptian blue, malachite, realgar, red and yellow ochre, black iron oxide, etc.). (author)

Controverses autour de l'anatomie dans les traités artistiques pendant la période moderne en France

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Maria Portmann

2016-06-01

Full Text Available Dès la Renaissance, en France, les artistes s’intéressent de près à l’anatomie afin de représenter le corps humain le plus justement possible. Influencé par ses pairs, l’Eva Prima Pandora et le Livre de Pourtraicture de Jean Cousin font largement référence aux proportions de Vitruve par l’intermédiaire d’Albrecht Dürer et à l’anatomie pour justifier la primauté de la peinture sur la sculpture en prenant comme point de départ les commentaires de Benedetto Varchi. Dans ces deux œuvres, Jean Cousin insère un double débat dans lequel il démontre que l’autorité d’André Vésale sert justement à justifier la primauté de la peinture sur la sculpture. Ce débat est repris un siècle plus tard par André Félibien au sujet des œuvres de Poussin dans lesquelles l’artiste, connu pour avoir aussi pratiqué l’anatomie, continue à faire référence à André Vésale. En un siècle, on peut constater combien les artistes doivent à la Fabrica de Vésale dont le propos et les planches servent à nourrir les débats qui entourent les arts de la peinture et de la sculpture.

The Matter and Imagery of Air in Eduardo Chillida’s The Comb of the Wind XV

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Mei-Hsin Chen

2017-08-01

Full Text Available Eduardo Chillida’s The Comb of the Wind XV, embedded in natural rocks rising from the Cantabrian Ocean in 1977, expresses the artistic potential of air as a material, a metaphor, and as an art-maker. With this sculpture, Chillida opened up the possibility for air itself to show indefinite imageries. Although much has been written about this sculptural group from different perspectives, no study has been systematically undertaken to analyze it regarding the theme of the matter of air, which should be considered the core of the work of art. As Gaston Bachelard stated: ‘Chillida wished the iron [of The Comb of the Wind XV] to show aerial realities.’ Hence, this article seeks to study to what ‘aerial realities’ Chillida might refer, and the relationship between air and his artwork. First, this paper delves into the meanings and functions that air involves in Chillida’s artwork, as well as into how the sculptor embodied his poetic of air and allowed the spectator to perceive his sculptural installation with five senses. Also, the interaction between Chillida’s work and Luis Peña Ganchegui’s architectural installation La Plaza del Tenis is examined under the scope of Martin Heidegger’s notion of place. All these aspects are discussed to help readers realize why the air in natural motion is the foundation of The Comb of the Wind XV, and map the holistic imagery of air that Chillida intended to express.

Identifying the material of original and restored parts of a 14^{th} century alabaster annunciation group through stable isotopes

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Kloppmann, Wolfram; Leroux, Lise; Le Pogam, Pierre-Yves; Bromblet, Philippe

2017-04-01

The origin of raw materials for sculpture is often obscure before the 17th century due to the scarcity of written sources. Identifying this origin provides hints to economic exchanges but also, potentially, allows for attributing sculptures to a specific context of creation (regional workshops, artists). Another challenge for art historians is the identification of restorations and their potential chronology. We present an example of a 14th century group of two statues, made of gypsum alabaster, representing an annunciation group, with the Virgin Mary and the angel Gabriel. Their original position was a near Troyes in the eastern Paris Basin, they are now separated being conserved at the Louvre Museum (Virgin Mary) and the Cleveland Museum of Art (Gabriel). Our multi-isotope study revealed the common origin of the material used for both sculptures, their isotope fingerprints being identical within the analytical error. These fingerprints are highly specific and point to an origin in a historical gypsum and alabaster quarry in the northern part of Provence, France, first mentioned at the end of the 13th century. We were also able to identify an unknown restoration of lower part of the Virgin Mary statue with an optically undistinguishable material, using Tuscan alabaster, most likely in the 19th century. This underlines the potential and usefulness of independent geochemical evidence to underpin stylistic hypotheses on grouping of individual artworks, historical economic relationships between regions and on past restoration activities.

African Arts and the Social Studies.

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Crane, Louise

1982-01-01

Suggests ways in which the rich resources of African arts--literature, sculpture, music, dance, theater--can be made more accessible to elementary and secondary social studies classrooms. A bibliography of print and nonprint materials is also provided. (RM)

Technogenesis: aesthetic dimensions of art and biotechnology

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Anker, S.; Lindee, S.; Shanken, E.A.; Nelkin, D.; Lustig, B.A.; Brody, B.A.; McKenny, G.P.

2008-01-01

From material processes to elusive patterns, artists and scientists seek models of explanation. Sometimes illusionally evocative, sometimes rigorously formulaic, and at other times sculpturally bounded, these conceptualizing tools have historically linked art and science. Bring to the fore new

International Journal of Arts and Humanities (IJAH) Bahir Dar- Ethiopia

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2009). “can be quickly changed to .... of graphics art and sculpture .in apparent aim of differentiation and positioning of ... However, such implicit, benefit is based on reliance of the consumers perception of the brand .... values and emotions. 3.

Chůze mezi hlavami

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Hodrová, Daniela

2006-01-01

Roč. 17, č. 3 (2006), s. 1 ISSN 0862-657X R&D Projects: GA ČR GA405/03/0416 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z90560517 Keywords : architecture * sculpture * semiotics Subject RIV: AJ - Letters, Mass-media, Audiovision

Perseus as Alter Ego of Ferdinand I

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Bažant, Jan

2016-01-01

Roč. 20, č. 1 (2016), s. 127-150 ISSN 1212-5865 Institutional support: RVO:67985955 Keywords : Ferdinand I * Perseus * And romeda * Renaissance art * relief sculpture * allegory Subject RIV: AB - History http://studiahercynia.ff.cuni.cz/en/magazin/2016-1-2/

Karl IV. ohne Kaiserkrone im Historischen Museum der Stadt Wien

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Hlobil, Ivo

2016-01-01

Roč. 64, č. 6 (2016), s. 516-522 ISSN 0049-5123 R&D Projects: GA ČR GA13-39192S Institutional support: RVO:68378033 Keywords : Gothic sculpture * Vienna * imperial crone * destruction Subject RIV: AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage

Plaster-Wrap Dragons

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Vance, Shelly

2012-01-01

In this article, the author describes how her students constructed a three-dimensional sculpture of a dragon using plaster wrap and other materials. The dragons were formed from modest means--using only a toilet-paper tube, newsprint, tape and wire.

A Plastic Menagerie

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Hadley, Mary Jane

2010-01-01

Bobble heads had become quite popular, depicting all sorts of sports figures, animals, and even presidents. In this article, the author describes how her fourth graders made bobble head sculptures out of empty plastic drink bottles. (Contains 1 online resource.)

Original Research Original Research

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Sculpture, Style and Pater's "Imaginative Sense of Touch"

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Østermark-Johansen, Lene

2010-01-01

Artiklen sporer skulpturen som metafor i den viktorianske kritker Walter Paters forfatterskab, fra hans skrifter om den italienske renæssance til hans skrifter om græsk kunst til hans teorier om sprog og god prosastil....

The application of excimer lasers for corneal sculpturing

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King, M.C.

1990-01-01

Of the broad selection of lasers available for surgery, the argon fluoride excimer laser offers a set of attributes that make it uniquely suited for the removal of corneal tissue. With ultraviolet radiation at 193mm, the energy of an individual photon (6.3 electron volts) is sufficient to break bonds in protein molecules without generating molecular vibration (heat). A single laser pulse is capable of removing 0.25 microns of corneal tissue over a well defined area 80 mm 2 in extent. This excision with a lateral precision to a fraction of a micron causes no discernible damage to neighboring cells. The smooth surface left after the tissue is removed promotes a quick and predictable regrowth of the epithelium. The penetration of radiation into the underlying tissue is the order of a micron so there is no potential harm to the lens or retinal tissue. Insignificant mutagenesis or unscheduled DNA synthesis has been detected as a result of tissue irradiation at this wavelength. In the past few years major progress has been made towards developing ophthalmic procedures which utilize the unique properties of this laser. To date there are FDA IDE's (Investigational Device Exemptions) for the following procedures: Photorefractive Keratectomy (PRK) or corneal reshaping for correcting near-sightedness, far-sightedness and astigmatism without the need for eye glasses, contact lenses or conventional refractive surgery (Radial Keratotomy); Partial Excimer Trabeculectomy for relieving the pressure build-up caused by glaucoma; T-Excisons for reducing astigmatism; Myopic Keratomileusis (MKM) for the refractive correction of severe myopia; superficial Keratectomy (corneal smoothing) for treating various corneal scars, dystrophies, recurrent corneal erosion etc. In this paper the fundamentals of beam tissue interaction at 193nm will be discussed

TRENDS IN OWO TRADITIONAL SCULPTURES: 1995 – 2010 ...

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modifications as affected by both western religion and education. ... introduction and injection of Benin culture into Owo traditional system in areas of chieftaincy ..... They now render their works in modern styles, medium or mixed media.

Sculplexity: Sculptures of Complexity using 3D printing

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Reiss, D. S.; Price, J. J.; Evans, T. S.

2013-11-01

We show how to convert models of complex systems such as 2D cellular automata into a 3D printed object. Our method takes into account the limitations inherent to 3D printing processes and materials. Our approach automates the greater part of this task, bypassing the use of CAD software and the need for manual design. As a proof of concept, a physical object representing a modified forest fire model was successfully printed. Automated conversion methods similar to the ones developed here can be used to create objects for research, for demonstration and teaching, for outreach, or simply for aesthetic pleasure. As our outputs can be touched, they may be particularly useful for those with visual disabilities.

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3D scanning and printing as conversation tools: an innovative treatment of a vandalized bronze statue, The Thinker by Rodin

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Beentjes, T.; van der Molen, R.; Saunders, D.; Strlic, M.; Korenberg, C.; Luxford, N.; Birkhölzer, K.

2013-01-01

This contribution discusses the innovative treatment of a severely vandalized bronze sculpture, The Thinker by Auguste Rodin, from the Singer Museum in Laren, The Netherlands. Additional aspects of this controversial treatment such as decision making and documentation are also discussed. In 2007 the

Skulptorid uurivad vormi tempot

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2002-01-01

9. XI-8. XII Tallinna Kunstihoones Eesti Kujurite Ühenduse näitus "Tempo di scultura/sculpture agogique/skulptuuri tempo". Kuraatorid Toomas Mikk, Mari-Liis Tammi, Aili Vahtrapuu, kujundaja Mari Kurismaa, avamisel Kaarel Kurismaa performance. Kasutatud Gaston Bachelard'i teose "Kaemus hetkest" tekste

[The representation of physical pain in art and the Greek escultural group of the Laocoonte].

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Roqué, M H; Ruival, C; Roqué, C M

2006-01-01

It makes reference to the symptoms and signs of external pain and internal man suffering, masterly represented on marble by greek sculptors of Ancient Greece. A demonstration of the importance of literature and sculpture as an humanistic complement for teaching History of Medicine.

'The End of Sitting' : An Empirical Study on Working in an Office of the Future

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Withagen, Rob; Caljouw, Simone R.

Background Inspired by recent findings that prolonged sitting has detrimental health effects, Rietveld Architecture Art Affordances (RAAAF) and visual artist Barbara Visser designed a working environment without chairs and desks. This environment, which they called The End of Sitting, is a sculpture

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Apr 18, 2018 ... graphics, the artistic aspect of a drawing turns out to be especially important ... value is in it, both for history and in today's world. .... preparatory work of an artist, sculpture, decorator, designer and an architect himself as well as.

The School Mummy.

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Parent, Ronald G.

1983-01-01

To introduce a secondary school sculpture class to art history, the students created a modern version of an Egyptian mummy of Pariscraft. The mummy was painted in traditional Egyptian colors, but the symbols represented the high school where it was produced. (IS)

Implementing Non-formal, Skills and Apprenticeship Training ...

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The paper discusses both the existing indigenous technological and modern institlltions and their importance in the implementation of the apprenticeship aspect of the Universal Basic Education (UBE) progrmme. The indigenous technological institlltions include potlery, spinning and weaving, leather work, sculpture, tying ...

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner´s "Negerplastik" and the mistake of Czech Cubists

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Winter, Tomáš

2013-01-01

Roč. 61, č. 4 (2013), s. 356-361 ISSN 0049-5123 Institutional support: RVO:68378033 Keywords : African sculpture * Czech cubism * Primitivism Subject RIV: AL - Art , Architecture, Cultural Heritage http://www.umeni- art .cz/cz/issue-detail.aspx?v=issue-issue-2131

ANDERS GAMMELGAARD NIELSEN

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Gammelgaard Nielsen, Anders

2015-01-01

conducting research in this field. His research work is especially directed towards the perceptual relationship to materials as well as the opportunities of creating atmospheres through e use of building materials. As a practicing architect, he designed a series of smaller buildings and structures. Parallel...... to his work as an architect, he has a career as a sculptor. He received his basic teaching in sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art and has since been autodidact. He has exhibited in numerous national exhibitions and is currently a member of the artist group "Guirlanden". He is a member of the Danish...... Moore and Barbara Heptworth, whereas the later have a strong affinity to the works of Constantin Brancusi and Eduardo Chillida. The developments in the sculptural works can be seen with a parallel to the architectural research in materials and tectonics. Thus his research work has resulted in artefacts...

The Caracol Disk of Chichén Itzá (929-932 CE. Some Throughts on Epigraphy and Iconography

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Péter Bíró

2016-06-01

Full Text Available The sculpture referred to as the ‘Tenoned Disk’, which was recovered from the Caracol building at Chichén Itzá, is a monument decorated with a bass-relief carving displaying historical figures and accompanying hieroglyphic text that is located on the rim of the monument. This text makes reference to several persons named using a Maya Yucatec language. The date of 8 Ajaw is also recorded on the sculpture. For some unknown reason this monument has been overlooked by scholars who have sought to reconstruct the chronology of the site. Crucially, this monument records an important moment in the history of Chichén Itzá and of Yucatán in general: the arrival of the “Mexican-Toltec” people, and the re-foundation of the city under a new social construct that included foreigners and local nobility.

Canova's 'The Three Graces'

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Marković Kamenko M.

2009-01-01

Full Text Available Antonio Canova (1757-1822, the epitome of the neo-classical style, was born in a small village Passagno in the province of Treviso. At the age of fourteen he started learning sculpture in Venice; at first, he was placed under Giovanni Bernardi and, later on, under Giovanni Ferrari. After he had established himself as a sculptor, he moved to Rome, the city of classisists in which he would later achieve a worldwide fame. The highest level of his art were the statues of naked women which exposed a new type of female beauty as well as a new poetic style based on the beauty conceived in ancient Greece. This work gives a story of one of Canova's unknown pieces. It is about a group of marble statues 'The Three Graces' which can be found in the Regional Museum of Art in Craiova. Not even a word has it been written referring to this particular sculpture in Romania. These are the first words about this piece of art, placed somewhere out of sight at a dark corner of the museum only because they do not possess any valid documentation concerning its purchase. Only the signature was left on it by the author; however, it is certain that it came to life a few years after he moved to London. The sculpture might have been made (around 1820 four or five years prior to his first marble group of statues 'The Three Graces' standing in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.

Art is for All; Arts and Crafts for Less Able Children.

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Lindsay, Zaidee

Art activities for educationally subnormal children are presented in the areas of painting, carving, printing, paper construction, mosaics, collages, paper and wire sculpture, embroidery, and a puppet theatre. Seventy-two illustrations provide examples of students' work for each area; suggestions for teachers are included. (RD)

Pop / Mart Kalvet

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Kalvet, Mart, 1975-

2007-01-01

Uutest heliplaatidest: The Mission "God Is A Bullet", James Yorkston "Roaring The Gospel", Groove Armada "Soundboy Rock", Elektrons "Red Light Don't Stop", Mutya Buena "Real Girl", Rounce "17 aastat", Karizma "A Mind Of It's Own", Theo Parrish "Sound Sculptures vol. 1", Plaan B "Puupeatus"

Perseus Project: Interactive Teaching and Research Tools for Ancient Greek Civilization.

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Crane, Gregory; Harward, V. Judson

1987-01-01

Describes the Perseus Project, an educational program utilizing computer technology to study ancient Greek civilization. Including approximately 10 percent of all ancient literature and visual information on architecture, sculpture, ceramics, topography, and archaeology, the project spans a range of disciplines. States that Perseus fuels student…

Muutoksia

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Heikkilä, Sanna

2014-01-01

Opinäytetyön kirjalisessa osuudessa kerron miten päädyin opiskelemaan taidetta ja kokemuksistani eri kouluista ja lopputyöprosessista. My thesis is about how I got into studying art, my experiences of differrent schools and the sculpture part of the thesis.

Salt extraction by poulticing : an NMR study

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Voronina, V.

2011-01-01

The crystallization of salts is widely recognized as one of the most significant causes of damage to many cultural objects consisting of porous materials, such as monuments, sculptures, historic buildings, wall paintings, etc. A common response to salt damage problems are treatments aimed at

Art Markets

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P.A. Arora (Payal); F.R.R. Vermeylen (Filip)

2013-01-01

textabstractThe advent of digitization has had a profound impact on the art market and its institutions. In this chapter, we focus on the market for visual arts as it finds its expression in (among other) paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, sculpture and the like. These artistic disciplines

The ovipositor apparatus of basal Hymenoptera (Insecta): phylogenetic implications and functional morphology

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Vilhelmsen, Lars

2000-01-01

  The skeleto-musculature of the ovipositor apparatus and the external sculpture of the 1st and 2nd valvulae was studied in representatives from all ‘symphytan' families. Nineteen informative characters were coded and scored. The distribution of character states are discussed with reference to re...

THE BLACK-HOLE IN TOOROP,CHARLEY THE 3 GENERATIONS - A NEURO-ICONOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS AND RECONSTRUCTION

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LAKKE, JPWF

The painting ''The Three Generations'' is considered one of the highlights in Charley Toorop's works. It essentially represents a self portrait of the artist herself, with John Radeker's sculpture of her father Jan Toorop, and her son Edgar Fernhout. The completion of this painting took 9 years

37 CFR 201.33 - Procedures for filing Notices of Intent to Enforce a restored copyright under the Uruguay Round...

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2010-07-01

..., music, motion picture, sound recording, book, etc.); (B) Name of author(s); (C) Source country; (D... actors, screenwriter, animator; for photographs or books: subject matter; for books: editor, publisher.... Alternative title(s) (if any): 4. Type of work: (e.g. painting, sculpture, music, motion picture, sound...

Rock Art: Connecting to the Past.

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Knipe, Marianne

2001-01-01

Presents an activity for fourth-grade students in which they learn about ancient art and create their own authentic-looking rock sculptures with pictograms, or painted images. Explains how the students create their own rocks and then paint a pictograph on the rocks with brown paint. (CMK)

76 FR 3012 - Extension of Import Restrictions Imposed on Archaeological Material Originating in Italy and...

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2011-01-19

.... Sculpture 1. Architectural Elements--In marble, limestone, steatite, basalt, tufa and other types of stone...--In marble and other stone. Types include carved slabs with figural, vegetative, floral, or decorative... marble, limestone, and other types of stone. Types include altar and shrine, cippus, funerary stele, and...

The Impact of STOV (Standort Verwaltung) on Unit Time Utilization

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1981-05-01

through the use of STOV support, any economic or logistical benefit would be supplemented by an improvement in "readiness" which might be of even...Artistic work (sculpture, painting, writing) 8690 Singing or playing a musical instrument 8790 Games (cards, bingo , crosswords, pool, etc.) 8890 Other

Deploying the mental eye

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Koenderink, Jan; van Doorn, A.J.; Wagemans, Johan

2015-01-01

Three observers performed a task designed to quantify their "pictorial relief" in visual awareness for a photograph of a piece of sculpture. In separate sessions, they were instructed to assume one of two "mental viewpoints." The main objective was to investigate whether human observers have such

Outrageous Owls

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Walkup, Nancy

2007-01-01

The author's encounter with a live owl and her purchase of a Peruvian folk art gourd inspired a new interdisciplinary experience for the author's fourth grade students. In this article, she describes how her students explored owls through clay sculpture. (Contains 2 resources and 1 online resource.)

Paleoproteomics and Polychromy

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Brandt, Luise Ørsted; Brøns, Cecilie; Olsen, Jesper V

Most of the cultural heritage objects produced using biogenic materials are rich in protein residues. This is also the case for paint binders that were used as a medium for pigments applied to sculptures and architecture in Antiquity. So far, the research of ancient polychromy has, however...

Non-invasive dendrochronology of late-medieval objects in Oslo: refinement of a technique and discoveries

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Daly, Aoife; Streeton, Noëlle L. W.

2017-06-01

A technique for non-invasive dendrochronological analysis of oak was developed for archaeological material, using an industrial CT scanner. Since 2013, this experience has been extended within the scope of the research project `After the Black Death: Painting and Polychrome Sculpture in Norway'. The source material for the project is a collection of late-medieval winged altarpieces, shrines, polychrome sculpture, and fragments from Norwegian churches, which are owned by the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo. The majority cannot be sampled, and many are too large to fit into the CT scanner. For these reasons, a combined approach was adopted, utilizing CT scanning where possible, but preceded by an `exposed-wood' imaging technique. Both non-invasive techniques have yielded reliable results, and CT scanning has confirmed the reliability of the imaging technique alone. This paper presents the analytical methods, along with results from two of the 13 objects under investigation. Results for reliable dates and provenances provide new foundations for historical interpretations.

Application of INAA to archaeometry: Provenance determination of ancient Greek and Roman white marble artifacts

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Moens, L.J.; Roos, P.G.; De Paepe, P.A.

1991-01-01

During the past five years a large scale project was set up to develop a method to determine the provenance of ancient sculptures made of white marble. The problem was solved by applying three different methods of analysis to the material: INAA and EAAS for the determination of minor- and trace-elements, mass spectrometry measuring the relative abundance of the stable O- and C-isotopes and finally petrography. It was found that these three methods yield complementary information. The role of INAA is of capital importance since it allows one to determine the concentration of a large number of elements in a single sample. In addition the application of multi-variate statistical analysis was indispensable to extract the useful information from the data set. After the analysis of hundreds of quarry samples and the setting up of a reference data base, the method was applied to the provenance determination of about a hundred Green and Roman sculptures from several museums in Europe and the US

Claudia Quinta (Pro Caelio 34 and an altar to Magna Mater

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Eleanor Winsor Leach

2010-11-01

Full Text Available Among the items of sculpture from the Capitoline collection now housed in the Museum of the Power Station Montemartini is a marble relief altar of the Claudian Period (E. Simon's dating dedicated to the mater deorum and the navis salvia and depicting the arrival of the goddess Cybele at Rome by ship. The dedicator is one Claudia Syntyche and the sculpture alludes to the legends attached to a much honored woman of the Claudian family whom Cicero, in his oration pro Caelio brought on stage in a cameo appearance to bolster his case against the controversial contemporary woman Clodia Metelli as one of the accusers of his client M. Caelius Rufus. This paper will consider questions raised by the iconography of the altar with reference to the development of Claudia's legend in Roman mythology and subsequently ask who was this Claudia the dedicator and why did she choose Magna Mater for her vow?

Drawing after the Antique at the British Museum, 1809–1817: “Free” Art Education and the Advent of the Liberal State

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Martin Myrone

2017-04-01

Full Text Available From 1808 the British Museum in London began regularly to open its newly established Townley Gallery so that art students could draw from the ancient sculptures housed there. This article documents and comments on this development in art education, based on an analysis of the 165 individuals recorded in the surviving register of attendance at the Museum, covering the period 1809–17. The register is presented as a photographic record, with a transcription and biographical directory. The accompanying essay situates the opening of the Museum’s sculpture rooms to students within a far-reaching set of historical shifts. It argues that this new museum access contributed to the early nineteenth-century emergence of a liberal state. But if the rhetoric surrounding this development emphasized freedom and general public benefit in the spirit of liberalization, the evidence suggests that this new level of access actually served to further entrench the “middle-classification” of art education at this historical juncture.

Musical instruments depicted in medieval Serbian art under oriental and western influences

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Pejović Roksanda

2005-01-01

Full Text Available Researching musical instruments on frescoes, miniatures, icons and sculptural decorations of mediaeval Serbian art, painted and sculptured in the manner of Byzantine art, we discover Oriental and Western influences. Musical instruments arriving from the Orient were unchanged for centuries and those from West Europe were mainly used in the Middle Ages or the Renaissance. Oriental and Western influences can be observed on instruments of all families-idiophones, membranophones, bowed and string instruments, as well as on aero phones. The same form of some crotales and cymbals can be found both in Oriental and Western art, the majority of membranophones are of Oriental origin, but the tambourine on Bodani frescoes originated in West Europe. Lyres and angular harps are close to Antique tradition. Some bowed instruments, psalteries, lutes, harps, short horns, business and shawms have Oriental patterns and other instruments of these families accepted Western shapes. There are, as well, same kinds of bowed instruments and S-trumpets peculiar for both continents.

Space, Art and Transcendence

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Ricardo Pinilla Burgos

2017-09-01

Full Text Available In the light of Heidegger’s analysis of space and art, and its link with a milestone for modern sculpture such as Eduardo Chillida, space is presented, together with time, as a fundamental element of art and especially of sculpture and architecture. Space is not a homogeneous neutral background, but an original phenomenon that compromises from the beginning the creation and the peculiar kind of transcendence to which every work of art invites us. Every work submerges us on one side in a feverish, sensitive and bodily immanence, in the mystery of the sensitive (aesthetic that we are, but aswell it takes us beyond or nearer than the conventional meanings and relations and our situation. From here, we will consider whether and how we can put the aesthetic experience of space in relation to the transcendence of which religion commonly speaks, illuminated in turn from the study of the sacred of Mircea Eliade.

ICHEP 2016: to b(ump) or not to b(ump)

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2016-01-01

This week I’m in Chicago for the 38th International Conference on High Energy Physics, ICHEP 2016, hosted this year by the US particle physics community. While it became clear at the conference that the famous 750 GeV bump has flatlined, there’s been a wealth of physics from CERN and around the world.   Everyone in their heart felt that the bump would turn out to be no more than a statistical fluctuation, while secretly hoping that it would be something new. Even the designer of the ICHEP 2016 logo cleverly hid a bump with a subtle question mark in the Chicago skyline – appropriately enough in Anish Kapoor’s mysterious ‘Cloud Gate’ sculpture. That question mark has now been resolved. Kapoor’s sculpture returns to being just that, and the search for new physics goes on albeit further constrained as theorists revealed in the 400+ papers in the wake of the bump discussion. The highlight from CERN was undoubtedly the spectacular pe...

"At præsentere sig selv”

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Kaspersen, Søren

2016-01-01

The ensemble of founder statues situated in the western choir of the Naumburg Cathedral is one of the most intriguing and most discussed examples of medieval portraiture. The twelve sculptures are very lifelike but they cannot be portraits of the historical persons in any real sense. Some of them...

The Importance of Creativity in Family Therapy: A Preliminary Consideration.

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Carson, David K.

1999-01-01

Looks at the importance of creativity in the context of family therapy. Examines creative techniques such as family sculpturing, family art therapy, puppetry, family drawings, and psychodrama. Focuses on the concept of creativity in prominent theories of counseling (i.e., humanistic, Gestalt, cognitive psychology) and the relation of divergent…

[Associating children with contemporary visual arts in the hospital].

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Dessuter, Brigitte

2010-01-01

In 2008, for 3 months, a visual artist in residence at the Margency children's hospital (Val d'Oise) made sculptures for the bandstand situated in the hospital's park. By bringing people together this experience helped to create a bond between the artists, the hospitalised children and the healthcare workers.

The magic of projection : augmentation and immersion in media art

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Ernst, S.J.G.

2016-01-01

Sophie Ernst’s doctoral thesis is an artist’s contribution to media art theory. It focusses on the role of projection as material for sculpture. Her research addresses the question in what manner are projections applied in contemporary art and what image traditions does this relate to. She considers

Performing Feminism - Kirsten Justesen

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Anderberg, Birgitte

2016-01-01

Kirsten Justesen is a major figure within the field of early body art and performance. The essay looks at her explorations within this new field as she engaged in a structural, analytical and actionbased mode confronting the classical concept of sculpture as a purely structural and syntactic ques...

DREM: Infinite etch selectivity and optimized scallop size distribution with conventional photoresists in an adapted multiplexed Bosch DRIE process

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Chang, Bingdong; Leussink, Pele; Jensen, Flemming

2018-01-01

The quest to sculpture materials as small and deep as possible is an ongoing topic in micro- and nanofabrication. For this, the Bosch process has been widely used to achieve anisotropic silicon microstructures with high aspect ratio. Reactive ion etching (RIE) lag is a phenomenon in which etch ra...

What Gets Your Goat? Art across the Curriculum.

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Sartorius, Tara Cady

2000-01-01

Features Elayne Goodman's mixed-media sculpture "The Goat Castle in Natchez," which is dedicated to a whodunnit murder mystery in Mississippi. Provides historical background of the murder and information on Goodman's life. Includes activities in history and social science, mathematics, science, language arts, visual arts, and economics and social…

Artistic elements in the Rivers State Carnival: An emblemic attraction ...

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Amongst these groups are various masquerade groups, dance troupes, comedians and local government areas floats. These floats host sculptures and other artistic elements. This paper is a documentation and analysis of the artistic elements in the carnival of the Rivers State of Nigeria. Keywords: Arts, artistic, elements, ...

Voyvengo

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Noriega, Chon A.

2012-01-01

Born in 1933, Rafael Ferrer has encountered, engaged, and challenged art movements that define the twentieth century, including European surrealism, American post-minimalism, and Latino neo-expressionism. He has worked in sculpture, drawing, and painting, and also with assemblage, collage, actions, and installation. His prolific and wide-ranging…

Computer Art--A New Tool in Advertising Graphics.

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Wassmuth, Birgit L.

Using computers to produce art began with scientists, mathematicians, and individuals with strong technical backgrounds who used the graphic material as visualizations of data in technical fields. People are using computer art in advertising, as well as in painting; sculpture; music; textile, product, industrial, and interior design; architecture;…

Cultural Symbolism behind the Architectural Design of Mounds Park All-Nations Magnet School.

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Pewewardy, Cornell; May, Paul G.

1992-01-01

The architectural design of Mounds Park All-Nations Magnet School (St. Paul, Minnesota) incorporates cultural symbols representing the Native American worldview and Medicine Wheel Circle beliefs, as well as design elements from aboriginal housing styles, and colors and sculptured elements that reinforce the relationship of nature to building. (SV)

Der spätgotische Turmwächter des Altstädter Turms der Karlsbrücke. Neue Fragen einer einzigartigen Statue

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Hlobil, Ivo

2013-01-01

Roč. 61, č. 3 (2013), s. 257-267 ISSN 0049-5123 R&D Projects: GA ČR GA13-39192S Institutional support: RVO:68378033 Keywords : Watchman * Late Gothic sculpture * Charles Bridge * Prague Subject RIV: AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage http://www.umeni-art.cz/cz/default.aspx

19 CFR 12.109 - Seizure and forfeiture.

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2010-04-01

... 19 Customs Duties 1 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Seizure and forfeiture. 12.109 Section 12.109 Customs Duties U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY; DEPARTMENT OF THE... § 12.109 Seizure and forfeiture. (a) Whenever any pre-Columbian monumental or architectural sculpture...

Iberian sculptors at work: an example from Porcuna (Jaén

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Chapa, Teresa

2009-06-01

Full Text Available The techniques employed in the manufacture of Iberian stone sculptures have received very little attention by the specialists. Nevertheless, this kind of research has provided important results in other Mediterranean areas, offering key insights not only about techniques, workshops and styles, but also about the social role of sculptors and those who support them. Through the study of a particular example, the lion-griffin confronting a snake from the sculptural group of Porcuna, we offer a general view about the way in which the sculpture was made. We have also recognized for the first time the presence of what can be interpreted as a sculptor’s mark, and we discuss the purpose of these kind of signs.

El estudio de las técnicas empleadas en la manufactura de las esculturas ibéricas ha recibido escasa atención por parte de los especialistas. Sin embargo, estas investigaciones han ofrecido importantes resultados en otras áreas del Mediterráneo, proporcionando conocimientos clave no sólo sobre las técnicas, talleres y estilos, sino también sobre el papel social de los escultores y de aquellos que los sostienen. Mediante el estudio de un ejemplo concreto, el grifo-león enfrentándose a la serpiente del conjunto de Porcuna, se ofrece una visión general del proceso de trabajo de la escultura. Se ha reconocido por primera vez la presencia de lo que puede ser interpretado como una marca de escultor, y se discute la función de este tipo de signos.

الخـطاب الســردي في اعمال النحـات ســهيل الهنـداوي (ملحمة جلجامش إنموذجاً

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عبد الكريم شاكر نعمة

2017-03-01

Full Text Available The research deals (narrative discourse in sculptures Suhail al-Hindawi study of human relationships with thought Almeciologi, and legends is the beginning of philosophical thought and metaphysical universe and the presence of the other and the world, are an expression of symbolic about the relationship between the creature creator is the epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest types of literature epic which embodied in the ancient Mesopotamian art admirable formats seals, senior carving and become rich references that inspire artists. Where the search contains four chapters, the first chapter included the problem of research and its importance and the need for him, the problem has been identified current research following questioning. What are the mechanics of narrative discourse in sculptures (Suhail al-Hindawi, which simulates the Epic of Gilgamesh The aim of the research was known narrative discourse in sculptures Suhail al-Hindawi (Epic of Gilgamesh a model has been confined to the limits of current research on the panels closed epic. The second chapter contains the theoretical framework and previous studies have included a theoretical framework on the first two sections included narrative discourse concept, elements and species and the second section contains the narrative in contemporary Iraqi sculpture, while the third section employed in the artist Suhail al-Hindawi experience. The third chapter included the search procedures, which were represented community search and appointed by the search tool and approach and analysis of the research sample four samples from fourteen sample of their number, while the fourth quarter was accompanied by the findings and conclusions, and the most important findings of a researcher: - Shaped narrative discourse in the products of the Sculptor Suhail al-Hindawi of data mythological epic of Gilgamesh, according to the obsession Find formulations aesthetic unfamiliar. - Involving Achtgalat narrative discourse in

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Items 51 - 100 of 1215 ... ... Advancement of Tradomedical Education through Effective Teaching of Social Studies ... Vol 4, No 1 (2010), African Traditional Sculptures: An Appraisal of ... Vol 11, No 1 (2017), An appraisal of the utilisation of social media for ... Assessment of the Relationship of Marketing Communication Mix and ...

Visual Arts and Academic Achievement

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Gibson, Marcia A.; Larson, Meredith A.

2007-01-01

The focus on academic performance testing in elementary schools has caused a decrease in student experience in the arts. Visual arts (drawing, painting, sculpture, and collage) have been minimized in elementary schools. Without exposure to the special avenues of cognitive development and personal expression nurtured by visual arts, students are…

Art and Psychopathology: The Message of Outsider Art.

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Esman, Aaron H.

1988-01-01

The relationship between art and mental illness is examined in the untrained "outsider artist," one whose style, though highly idiosyncratic, conforms to certain formal criteria and is usually initiated at a time of intense psychic crisis. Photographs and discussions of the paintings and sculptures of psychotic artists are presented. (JW)

“The primary colour of delight”

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Østermark-Johansen, Lene

2016-01-01

threads of Venetian painting relate in a complex manner to J.A.M. Whistler’s controversial Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket and to the influence of Byzantine art on Venetian painting. Gold figures as mass, as line, as surface covering, as composite sculptural material, as an intriguing...

Community Geothermal Technology Program: Silica bronze project. Final report

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Bianchini, H.

1989-10-01

Objective was to incorporate waste silica from the HGP-A geothermal well in Pohoiki with other refractory materials for investment casting of bronze sculpture. The best composition for casting is about 50% silica, 25% red cinders, and 25% brick dust; remaining ingredient is a binder, such as plaster and water.

Pollen of Syzygium (Myrtaceae) from SE Asia, especially Thailand

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Parnell, J.

2003-01-01

Pollen of 57 species of Syzygium from SE Asia were surveyed by SEM. The grains are all ± triangular in polar view, uniformly small (mean diameter 10.4 μm) with few surface sculpturing features. All species examined exhibit a distinct apocolpium and, usually, apocolpial field. The presence of an

19 CFR 12.105 - Definitions.

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2010-04-01

... sculpture or mural means any stone carving or wall art listed in paragraph (b) of this section which is the product of a pre-Columbian Indian culture of Belize, Bolivia, Columbia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic... or wall art includes: (1) Such stone monuments as altars and altar bases, archways, ball court...

František Palacký im Prager Pantheon und auf dem Platz

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Krummholz, Martin

-, 63/64 (2017), s. 467-480 ISSN 0083-9981 R&D Projects: GA MK DG16P02B052 Keywords : František Palacký * Palacký monument * Prague * sculpture * Stanislav Sucharda * Czech National Revival * National Museum * Pantheon Subject RIV: AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage OBOR OECD: Arts, Art history

Two new Asiatic species of the Celeopterous genus Helota

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Ritsema Cz., C.

1907-01-01

Strongly resembling Helota Lesnei Rits. from Kouy- Tcheou (China), of which the type-specimen (♂) is in the Natural History Museum at Paris 1). The new species differs however from it by the sculpture of the elytra (the rows of raised warts or tubercles are less numerous in the new species: 5 in

The Significance of Recursion Using the TI-84 Sequence Editor

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Domenick, Anthony

2015-01-01

Patterns are a ubiquitous phenomenon. They exist in nature's plant species emerging as a complete order from truncated matter. Patterns are also present in the fine arts where the aesthetic properties of form exist and conjugate through paintings and sculptures. Mathematical patterns, the focus of this position paper, dominate financial scenarios,…

St George the dragon-slayer at Prague Castle - the eternal pilgrim without a home?

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Benešovská, Klára

2007-01-01

Roč. 55, č. 1 (2007), s. 28-39 ISSN 0049-5123 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z80330511 Keywords : Gothic bronze sculpture * St George the dragon -slayer * Martin and George of Cluj * Prague Castle Subject RIV: AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage http://www.umeni-art.cz/cz/soubory/benesovska.pdf

ISLAM IN THE NON-MUSLIM AREAS OF NORTHERN NIGERIA, c

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sculptures, drawings, paintings, animations, sounds, film, video and video games and most predominantly in this modern era, the internet, to portray its sexual themes. Who are the Owan People? The Owan are people of Edo extraction currently scattered around the Owan River in the Northern fringe of Edo State. 19 . They ...

This Path We Travel: Celebrations of Contemporary Native American Creativity.

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La Pena, Frank

1994-01-01

An exhibition at the opening of the George Gustav Heye Center in New York City presents the talents of 15 contemporary Native American artists who during the past several years met at four different locations representing the cardinal directions. The exhibit combines sculpture, performance, poetry, music, and video to portray Indian world views…

Brian Honyouti: Send in the Clowns

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Pearlstone, Zena

2012-01-01

Hopi Brian Honyouti's "clown" sculptures stem from his personal and political views and comment on commercialism, big business, greed, over indulgence, and irresponsible and sexual behavior. This essay explores the meaning of these carvings to Honyouti, to Hopiit, and to the buying public, as well as their relationship to "tithu," the carved…

INSTITUIÇÃO RETÓRICA, TÉCNICA RETÓRICA, DISCURSO

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João Adolfo Hansen

2013-12-01

Full Text Available The essay’s main object is the ancient rhetorical institution and its techniques . It specifies elements of invention, disposition, elocution and memory of the several genres and defines categories and technical procedures, such as emulation, wit, proportion, decorum, verisimilitude etc.,with examples of Roman erotic elegy and ancient sculpture.

Image Making in Two Dimensional Art; Experiences with Straw and ...

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Image making in art is professionally referred to as bust in Sculpture andPortraiture in Painting. ... havebeen used to achieve these forms of art; like clay cement, marble, stone,different metals and, fibre glass in the three dimensional form; We also have Pencil, Charcoal Pastel and, Acrylic oil-paint in two dimensional form.

The virtual reconstruction of the ancient Roman concert hall in Aphrodisias, Turkey

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Rindel, Jens Holger; Gade, Anders Christian; Nielsen, Martin Lisa

2006-01-01

About two thousand years ago one of the world’s earliest and most beautiful concert halls were built in the city Aphrodisias, named after the goddess Aphrodite. It was a rich society, renowned for its marble and mastery in sculptures. Like many other cities in the Roman Empire there was an open...

Visual and Plastic Arts in Teaching Literacy: Null Curricula?

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Wakeland, Robin Gay

2010-01-01

Visual and plastic arts in contemporary literacy instruction equal null curricula. Studies show that painting and sculpture facilitate teaching reading and writing (literacy), yet such pedagogy has not been formally adopted into USA curriculum. An example of null curriculum can be found in late 19th - early 20th century education the USA…

The Sabar Ways of Knowing: Sustainable Ideas towards Educational Ecology

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Hickman, Richard; Sinha, Pallawi

2018-01-01

In common conception, art is often confined to a painting, sculpture, architecture or performance; we maintain however that what enables any art or artistic practice to become aesthetic is human experience. Arts and aesthetic practices are integral to the everyday lives of the indigenous Sabar tribes of India, particularly, in ascertaining Sabar…

76 FR 82346 - Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition Determinations: “Alina Szapocznikow...

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... exhibition ``Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955-1972'' imported from abroad for temporary exhibition... exhibit objects at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, from on or about February 5, 2012, until on or... on or about August 8, 2012; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, from on or about October 7, 2012...

The glass sphinx: a massive stacked glass structure

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Bos, F.P.; Heijden, van der T.; Schreurs, P.; Bos, F.; Louter, C.; Nijsse, R.; Veer, F.

The refurbishment of the Meuse river boulevard in Venlo instigated Scheuten Glass to donate a giant-sized, 6 metre high version of the stacked glass statue the Sphinx, which had originally been made as a 80 cm sculpture to commemorate the city's 650th anniversary back in 1993. Many hurdles had to be

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Rinse, Reuse and Scream

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Sutley, Jane

2009-01-01

The author of this article describes how her eighth grade art students heighten their awareness of differences between their public self and their inner self by: manipulating water bottles to create sculptural self-portraits; constructing armatures of the generic person in "The Scream" by Edward Munch; finding and collecting examples of images and…

The Sculptural Elements in Kwagh-Hir Popular Theatre: The ...

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Kwagh-hir theatre is a dynamic theatre of the Tiv people of Central Nigeria. It is also a puppet theatre. It features both giant puppets (ubermeronmettes) and smaller ones which are manipulatable on mobile platforms. In addition to this, Kwagh –hir features masquerade displays of both animal and human representations, ...

Art Casting of China and 2008 Beijing Olympic Sculptures

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Hu Chunliang

2009-01-01

@@ The 2008 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, a major international multi-sport event, took place in Beijing, the People's Republic of China. It has well shown the Chinese people's dream and passion about the Games. Hosting an Olympic Games has been a century-old dream for the Chinese nation.

Woven sculptural piece as added dimension to textile design ...

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Cane and Raffia are fibers which constitute vital parts of our material culture. There is a renewed manifestation of ingenuity by our local craftsmen in their deployment of these abundant raw materials within their reach. Various fibers are unique and resilient, with dynamic and expressive qualities. The ubiquitous use of cane ...

Cold atoms near surfaces: designing potentials by sculpturing wires

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Della Pietra, Leonardo; Aigner, Simon; Hagen, Christoph vom; Lezec, Henri J; Schmiedmayer, Joerg

2005-01-01

The magnetic trapping potentials for atoms on atom chips are determined by the current flow pattern in the chip wires. By modifying the wire shape using focused ion beam nano-machining we can design specialized current flow patterns and therefore micro-design the magnetic trapping potentials. We give designs for a barrier, a quantum dot, and a double well or double barrier and show preliminary experiments with ultra cold atoms in these designed potentials

IMPACT EFECTS OF TWO LANGUAGES: PLASTIC (SCULPTURAL) AND CINEMATOGRAPHIC

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OLĂRESCU DUMITRU

2016-01-01

It is known that art and culture constitute the expression of the spiritual civilization of a nation and that the Man – the creator of beauty – is in its centre. Art is a diff erent way of presenting the essence of the world or how it was expressed by Lucian Blaga, it is a pulling out from the immediate and a permanent transposition into the immediate, as a present eternal horizon. All these ideas have always drawn the attention of fi lmmakers, establishing themselves as complex topics for va...

Sculpturing the electron wave function using nanoscale phase masks

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Shiloh, Roy, E-mail: royshilo@post.tau.ac.il; Lereah, Yossi; Lilach, Yigal; Arie, Ady

2014-09-15

Electron beams are extensively used in lithography, microscopy, material studies and electronic chip inspection. Today, beams are mainly shaped using magnetic or electric forces, enabling only simple shaping tasks such as focusing or scanning. Recently, binary amplitude gratings achieved complex shapes. These, however, generate multiple diffraction orders, hence the desired shape, appearing only in one order, retains little of the beam energy. Here we demonstrate a method in electron-optics for arbitrarily shaping electron beams into a single desired shape, by precise patterning of a thin-membrane. It is conceptually similar to shaping light beams using refractive or diffractive glass elements such as lenses or holograms – rather than applying electromagnetic forces, the beam is controlled by spatially modulating its wavefront. Our method allows for nearly-maximal energy transference to the designed shape, and may avoid physical damage and charging effects that are the scorn of commonly-used (e.g. Zernike and Hilbert) phase-plates. The experimental demonstrations presented here – on-axis Hermite–Gauss and Laguerre–Gauss (vortex) beams, and computer-generated holograms – are a first example of nearly-arbitrary manipulation of electron beams. Our results herald exciting prospects for microscopic material studies, enables electron lithography with fixed sample and beam and high resolution electronic chip inspection by structured electron illumination. - Highlights: • Nanoscale-patterned membranes are used to shape electron beams. • Designing on-axis phase plates outside the back focal plane is possible. • Computer-generated holograms enable nearly-arbitrary beam shaping. • Applications in microscopy, lithography, chip inspection and material sciences.

Microstructural analysis from archaeological sculptures of the Olmeca culture

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Rodriguez L, V.; Mendoza A, D.; Espinosa P, M.; Martinez C, G.

1999-01-01

This work presents the results obtained from the characterization of a series of samples belonging to different monuments of the Olmec culture. These monuments are exhibited in the archaeological site of La Venta, Tabasco, Mexico. Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) were used to determine the crystalline phases that characterise the samples, these phases are associated to different morphology. The elemental analysis exhibits the presence mainly of such elements as C, Si, O, Al, Na, Ca and in less abundance Ti, K, Cr, Ni and Mn were determined. The morphology is characterized by the presence of plane tabular structures, schists, extended slates and clusters of irregular grain. Such crystal phases as anorthite, albite, sanidine, zinnwaldite and clinochlore were identified. These phases are associated with such type of materials as feldspars and mica. All the identified phases are noted for presenting near perfect exfoliation. (Author)

Teaching Steel Connections Using an Interactive Virtual Steel Sculpture

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Moaveni, Saeed; Chou, Karen C.

2015-01-01

Steel connections play important roles in the integrity of a structure, and many structural failures are attributed to connection failures. Connections are the glue that holds a structure together. The failures of the Hartford Coliseum in 1977, the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City in 1980, and the I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis in 2007 are all…

Art and dystonia.

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Garcia-Ruiz, Pedro J; Slawek, Jaroslaw; Sitek, Emilia J; Martinez Castrillo, Juan Carlos

2015-09-15

Dystonia has a recent history in medicine. Focal dystonia was described in the 19th century by classic authors including Gowers, whilst generalized dystonia was described at the turn of the century. However, it is possible to find precise descriptions of dystonia in art, centuries before the medical definition. We have reviewed several pieces of art (sculpture, painting and literature) across the history that might represent descriptions of dystonia, from ancient period to nowadays. In classic times, the first reference to abnormal postures can be tracked back to the new Empire of Egypt (equinus foot), not to mention some recently described examples of dystonia from the Moche sculptures in Peru or Veracruz culture from Mexico. In Middle Ages it is possible to find many examples of sculptures in European cathedrals representing peasants with dramatic, presumably dystonic postures that coexist with amputation of limbs. This unique combination of dystonia and limb amputation probably represents ergotism. The painters Brueghel, Ribera and Velazquez also represented figures with postures likely to be dystonic. Literature is also a source of precise pre-neurological descriptions, especially during the 19th century. In David Copperfield, Dickens depicts characters with generalized dystonia (Uriah Heep), cervical dystonia (Mr. Sharp) and spasmodic dysphonia (Mr Creakle). Finally, even in modern Art (19th and 20th centuries), there are dramatic descriptions of abnormal postures that are likely to be dystonic, such as painful cervical dystonia (Brancusi), cervical dystonia with sensory trick (Modigliani) and upper limb dystonia (Wyspianski). However some postures presented in works of art may simply be a form of artistic expression and only bear unintentional resemblance to the dystonic postures. Art may be a source of neurological information, and that includes primary and secondary dystonia. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

The Avant-Gardist, the Male Genius and the Proprietor

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Martin Fredriksson

2007-05-01

Full Text Available As the title suggests, this article will deal not only with the avant-garde and the romantic idea of geniality but also with the much more mundane concept of literary property. Even though the law might seem alien to the lofty ideals of the avant-garde artist, the construction of the creative genius and the birth of copyright will eventually prove to be quite closely connected. But before I move on to the legal part I would like to start with the essentials: with the author, or the artist. The American artist John de Andreas sculpture The Artist and his model from 1980 is probably one of the most revealing pictures of the avant-gardist selfconception ever made. This is a picture of the artist at work, but I will argue it can also be regarded as a legal character. What meets the eye is however very far from the law as we know it. de Andreas sculpture is a self-portrait of the artist at work: a highly naturalistic full-scale portrait of two people. One of them is a naked woman, resting casually on a white socket and looking down on the other who is a fully dressed man. As the title clearly states, the sculpture depicts the classical relation between The Artist and his Model, and it is no coincidence that the artist has a male pronoun and the model a female body. The roles of the artist and his model are traditional stereotypes which we can find in most books on art history - one is an artist and the other is a model; one is a man and the other is a woman; one is dressed and the other one is undressed.

How Would Theory of Mind Play a Role in Comprehending Art?

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Keskin, B.

2009-01-01

The way theory of mind takes part in comprehension of art is examined in this article. Because theory of mind and understanding of artwork involves some symbolic competency, the link between comprehending art (i.e., drawing, painting, sculpture, and music) and theory of mind is explained through symbolism. To understand a piece of symbolic…

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58. Right behind the unconscious slave, who no doubt died. the physician"s assistant is shown holding the nobleman "s diseased leg which had been amputated only minutes before the transplant. The amazing sculpture is believed to be the work of the famous spanish artist Berruguette. It has only been since the advances ...

Image Making in Two Dimensional Art; Experiences with Straw and ...

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Image making in art is professionally referred to as bust in Sculpture andPortraiture in Painting. It is an art form executed in three dimensional (3D)and two dimensional (2D) formats respectively. Uncountable materials havebeen used to achieve these forms of art; like clay cement, marble, stone,different metals and, fibre ...

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In this paper, both approaches (the aesthetic and the ethnological) are ... But, African sculptures became known in Europe only from about the end of the .... body', 'arts of the surrounding', and 'autonomous figurative arts'. It is in keeping ... The cultural diversity of the people of Africa inevitably stimulated to a diversity of art ...

The Flavian Isea in Beneventum and Rome

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Clausen, Kristine Bülow

of two sanctuaries dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis, located in Beneventum and Rome. In these two sanctuaries a number of Egyptian and egyptianising sculptures ranging over a considerable time span of more than two millennia (ca. 1985-1650 BC (12th-13th dynasties) to the 2nd-3rd century AD) have...

Unitarianism and the Iconography of Democracy: Decorations for the Library of Congress

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Webster, Sally

2010-01-01

The building and decoration of the Library of Congress in the late nineteenth century were emblematic of America's longing to be regarded as an enlightened nation and to take its rightful place among the great civilizations of the past. The sources for this ambition, illustrated in the paintings, sculptures, and inscriptions in the library's…

Monkey Business

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Blackwood, Christine Horvatis

2012-01-01

A ballerina, a gladiator, a camper, a baseball player, a surfer, and a shopper; these are just a few of the amazing monkeys that the author's seventh graders created from papier-mache. This project provided an opportunity for students to express themselves through the creation of sculptural characters based on their own interests, hobbies, and…

Sense of Place: Understanding Architectural and Landscape Design through a Layering of Visual Representations

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Baker, Kate

2014-01-01

The context-free "object building," the sculptural form, reigned in schools of architecture for decades. As we are finally moving on from 20th century modernism, there is an urgency to re-place buildings within their contexts. All too often, students with a background in the discipline of architecture, struggle to design buildings that…

The Nature of Beauty: The Arts in Greece, Rome and the Medieval Period. Program for Gifted Students.

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Garton, Harry A.; Woodbury, Virginia Garton

One in a series of instructional units designed for gifted students, the booklet focuses on the arts in Greece, Rome, and the Medieval period. Narrative information on Greek pottery, sculpture, architecture, music, and dance is followed by lists of suggested activities for students and reference lists of texts and media. A similar unit on the…

Roman Togatus Statue Found in Salamanca

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Manuel Carlos JIMÉNEZ GONZÁLEZ

2016-11-01

Full Text Available We disclose the finding, during a recent archaeological work in the city of Salamanca, of two marble fragments belonging to a statue of a togatus, which we believe could have been part of the decorative and propagandistic program of the forum in the time of the Early Empire. The data that we have about the location and layout of the forum and the various public spaces and buildings that formed it are indeed very limited. The location of this sculpture would confirm and might even provide some more information in this regard. The discovery was made out of archaeological context, because there is no historical stratigraphic sequence in the basement of the site where it appeared, the material and formal characteristics that can be seen in sculpture, along with the space in which it was found, as well as the archaeological context of the area in a broader sense, allow some clarifications on a number of aspects of formal, chronological and interpretive order relating to it.

Radiation technique in conservation of antique objects - achievement in Poland

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Perkowski, J.

2002-01-01

In this work the progress of the radiation technique in conservation of antique objects in Poland was presented. From two, quite different problems: radiation's disinfection or consolidation, only the first one was applied in our country. The technique of radiation disinfection and desinsection was applied only in the nine cases, in spite of numerous propaganda's information's and advertisement's actions. It were both wooden antiques (altars, sculptures, furniture), sandstone sculpture and prison footwear. In the first case it was connected with destruction of the wood's pest, in the second with bacteria which were destroying of the object inside and in the third with the elimination of the moulds, fungus and bacteria. Differ dose of gamma radiation was applied, depending on the kind and size of initial infection. The time of the operation depended on the quality of the dose rate which was connected first of all with the size and shape of the object. Decisive significance for obtained values of irregular distribution absorbed radiation dose had the type of the material in which the object was done and it's size. (author)

An artistic and mythological study of a Nabatean female Sphinx from Petra, Jordan.

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Almasri, Eyad R.; Al-Ajlouny, Fardous K.; Alghazawi, Raed Y.

In 1967 the Group of Sculptures was discovered in Petra during clearance works organized by the Department of Antiquities in Jordan in the Temenos of Qasr el Bint around the Temenos Gate. One of these sculptures was a high relief statue of a female sphinx. Due to the paucity of information about this statue, this paper has been written to answer a number of questions: What was its original site or monument? When was it made? Who was the deity or deities it represented? Could there be another interpretation of its existence? The answers to the above provide enlightenment of Nabataean styles of carvings and an insight into their religious thoughts. Rgarding the interpretation of the Female Sphinx. Three ideas have been suggested. First, it can be the main Nabataean goddess Allat, "the mother of the gods". Second, it is an image of Petra as a goddess. Third, it is carved on the Temenos Gate as a guardian of Petra city in general and its holy monuments like temples and tombs in particular.

Protein-mediated surface structuring in biomembranes

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Maggio B.

2005-01-01

Full Text Available The lipids and proteins of biomembranes exhibit highly dissimilar conformations, geometrical shapes, amphipathicity, and thermodynamic properties which constrain their two-dimensional molecular packing, electrostatics, and interaction preferences. This causes inevitable development of large local tensions that frequently relax into phase or compositional immiscibility along lateral and transverse planes of the membrane. On the other hand, these effects constitute the very codes that mediate molecular and structural changes determining and controlling the possibilities for enzymatic activity, apposition and recombination in biomembranes. The presence of proteins constitutes a major perturbing factor for the membrane sculpturing both in terms of its surface topography and dynamics. We will focus on some results from our group within this context and summarize some recent evidence for the active involvement of extrinsic (myelin basic protein, integral (Folch-Lees proteolipid protein and amphitropic (c-Fos and c-Jun proteins, as well as a membrane-active amphitropic phosphohydrolytic enzyme (neutral sphingomyelinase, in the process of lateral segregation and dynamics of phase domains, sculpturing of the surface topography, and the bi-directional modulation of the membrane biochemical reactivity.

Bringing dinosaurs back to life: exhibiting prehistory at the American Museum of Natural History.

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Rieppel, Lukas

2012-09-01

This essay examines the exhibition of dinosaurs at the American Museum of Natural History during the first two decades of the twentieth century. Dinosaurs provide an especially illuminating lens through which to view the history of museum display practices for two reasons: they made for remarkably spectacular exhibits; and they rested on contested theories about the anatomy, life history, and behavior of long-extinct animals to which curators had no direct observational access. The American Museum sought to capitalize on the popularity of dinosaurs while mitigating the risks of mounting an overtly speculative display by fashioning them into a kind of mixed-media installation made of several elements, including fossilized bone, shellac, iron, and plaster. The resulting sculptures provided visitors with a vivid and lifelike imaginative experience. At the same time, curators, who were anxious to downplay the speculative nature of mounted dinosaurs, drew systematic attention to the material connection that tied individual pieces of fossilized bone to the actual past. Freestanding dinosaurs can therefore be read to have functioned as iconic sculptures that self-consciously advertised their indexical content.

Portable EDXRF investigation of the patinas on the Riace Bronzes

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Buccolieri, Giovanni, E-mail: giovanni.buccolieri@unisalento.it [Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, via Arnesano, 73100 Lecce (Italy); Buccolieri, Alessandro, E-mail: alessandro.buccolieri@unisalento.it [Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche e Ambientali, via Monteroni, 73100 Lecce (Italy); Donati, Paola, E-mail: paola.donati@beniculturali.it [Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione e il Restauro, via di San Michele n. 23, 00153 Roma (Italy); Marabelli, Maurizio, E-mail: maurizio.marabelli@libero.it [Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione e il Restauro, via di San Michele n. 23, 00153 Roma (Italy); Castellano, Alfredo, E-mail: alfredo.castellano@unisalento.it [Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, via Arnesano, 73100 Lecce (Italy)

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This paper summarizes the experimental results concerning the Energy Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence (EDXRF) analysis of patinas on two Riace Bronzes, kept in the National Archaeological Museum of Reggio Calabria (Calabria, Southern Italy). The two large Greek sculptures, famous nude bearded warriors both dated in the fifth century BC, are without a doubt, two masterpieces of inestimable historic and artistic value. EDXRF survey had the aim to determinate the chemical composition of the surface of these two bronze statues and to discriminate their different patinas. In particular, the concentration of sulphur, chlorine, tin, manganese, iron, copper, zinc and lead was determined by using a portable apparatus. Multivariate statistical analysis was carried out in order to identify possible correlations and/or differences of elemental composition among the patinas of these two statues. The information obtained made it possible to improve knowledge about the patinas of the Riace Bronzes, and this may help further studies and subsequent methods of restoration and/or of preservation of the two celebrated Greek sculptures.

Materializing the Image, Imaging the Material: African Facemasks in Second Life

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Edwin Bodjawh

2018-04-01

Full Text Available In his expanded sculpture practice, the artist Edwin Bodjawah interfaces accumulative practice, collaborative production and mechanical manufacture. The ensuing sculptural forms are serial facemasks which exist as both multiples and standalone objects. Guided by the axiom ‘the medium is the message and the message is the medium’, the artist images aspects of modern and past life of West Africa with the readymade materials he collects for his work, respectively, decommissioned litho-printing plates and derelict roofing sheets. The readymade images he appropriates (African facemasks materialize African systems of cultural production which anticipate the expanded field of contemporary art, its democratization of media and its prospects for collective production of art. Masks also connote for the artist, the interdependency of artistic activity, objects and daily life, and the interstitial spaces within modern life in which artists enact their creative visions. The paper argues that the interface between repurposed material and appropriated image presents a congenial site through which the literal African experience in capitalist, colonial and post-colonial systems can be resurrected, re-presented and re-engaged.

3D Printing Processes Applied to the Creation of Glass Art

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Chivers, Morgan

2015-01-01

The purpose of this article is to present a few of the innovative techniques used in the execution of Morgan Chivers' sculptural work, not on the content of the work itself. The author's interest has been in merging the methodologies and precise output control of 3D printing with finished objects in nonprintable materials as required by the…

Casting the Spirit: A Handmade Legacy

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Rutenberg, Mona

2008-01-01

This article discusses how an art therapist working in a hospital palliative care unit has incorporated a ritual of hand casting to help bring closure to dying patients and family members who are grieving as death approaches. The finished hand sculptures depict the hands of the patients and, sometimes, of their loved ones. They are faithful and…

Clay Houses

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Pedro, Cathy

2011-01-01

In this article, the author describes a project designed for fourth-graders that involves making clay relief sculptures of houses. Knowing the clay houses will become a family heirloom makes this lesson even more worth the time. It takes three classes to plan and form the clay, and another two to underglaze and glaze the final products.

Clay Portrait Boxes

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Wilbert, Nancy Corrigan

2009-01-01

In an attempt to incorporate sculptural elements into her ceramics program, the author decided to try direct plaster casting of the face to make a plaster mold for clay. In this article, the author shares an innovative ceramics lesson that teaches students in making plaster casts and casting the face in clay. This project gives students the…

Clay Cuffman: A Cool, Calm, Relaxed Guy

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Booth, Gina

2010-01-01

This article describes Clay Cuffman, a simple clay-sculpture project that requires two or three sessions, and works for students from the upper-elementary level through high school. It takes about 1.5 pounds of clay per student--about the size of a small grapefruit. The Cuffman project is a great way for upper-elementary through high-school…

Placed on a Pedestal: Famous Faces in Clay

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Walkup, Nancy

2010-01-01

Artists have created portraits of people for thousands of years. In sculpture, a portrait of a person's face often includes the neck and part of the shoulders and chest. These artworks are called portrait busts. In this article, the author describes how her fifth-grade students created clay portrait busts on pedestal columns. The objectives are…

Art across the Curriculum: Out of the Box

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Sartorius, Tara Cady

2009-01-01

Rick Beck works in cast glass; his large-scale work ranges in scale from 15 inches to around 7 feet tall. His medium--glass--makes the scale of Beck's pieces very impressive. He is probably best-known for his oversized cast glass sculptures of common hardware: nuts, bolts, screws, measuring spoons, saws, eating utensils, eye hooks, wing nuts and…

Advocating for Arts in the Classroom

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Bauerlein, Mark

2010-01-01

This article contends that every chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts must advocate for arts education. The arts need a voice in power, say people in the field, someone in the corridors of influence to argue the benefits of teaching the nation's students about classical and jazz music, ballet, and sculpture. With No Child Left Behind…

An Old Dog and New Tricks

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Hinshaw, Craig

2011-01-01

Glass as an art form is anything but new. Three thousand years ago the Egyptians were molding glass beads and shaping elegant glass perfume bottles. In this article, the author describes how his students created sun catchers inspired by the beauty of Notre Dame's stained glass windows and the intrigue of Dale Chihuly's sculptures. (Contains 1…

Why Our Chickens Crossed the Road

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Hughes, Rama

2010-01-01

Students, their parents, and even perfect strangers want to know: How do you take something from your imagination and turn it into a satisfying drawing, painting, or sculpture? It may sound simple to a seasoned artist, but many students need to be walked through the process. In this article, the author describes an assignment which was inspired by…

Esthetic and cosmetic dermatology.

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Wollina, Uwe; Goldman, Alberto; Berger, Uwe; Abdel-Naser, Mohammed Badawy

2008-01-01

The field of esthetic and cosmetic dermatology has gained remarkable interest all over the world. The major advantage of recent years is the high scientific levels of the most significant new developments in techniques and pharmacotherapy and other nonsurgical approaches. The present paper reviews selected fields of interest under this view. Sexual hormones are involved in the aging process of men and women. Skin function, in particular the epidermal barrier, is affected by a loss of endocrine activity. Hormone replacement therapy has only recently been introduced in treatment of aging males. This is an area of gender-medicine in dermatology with a strong well-aging attempt. Botulinum toxin therapy for hyperfunctional lines has become not only well-established but evidence-based medicine on its highest level. Recent advantages were gained in objective evaluation and monitoring the effect. Digital imaging techniques with various facets have been introduced to assess the achievements of treatment in the most objective way. This may become an example for other techniques as peeling, laser therapy, or radiofrequency in esthetic and cosmetic dermatology. Botulinum toxin has become a valuable tool for brow lifts. Details of the technique are discussed. Cellulite is a strongly female gender-related condition. During the past decades numerous treatments had been recommended but only recently a more critical scientific approach led to improvements in therapy of this common and disfiguring condition. Three major approaches are developed: (a) skin loosing with techniques such as subcision, (b) skin tightening with radiofrequency and other approaches, and (c) improving circulation in blood and lymphatic microvasculature using both physical treatments and pharmacotherapy. The last two chapters are devoted to body sculpturing by lipotransfer and lipolysis. Lipotransfer for facial or body sculpturing has a history of about 100 years. Nevertheless, recently the role of adult stem

Giant Paperclip Necklaces, Soup-Can Rings and Cherry-Pie Hats

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Winters, Laurel A.

2011-01-01

In this article, the author describes an art project inspired by the wearable sculpture art created by artist Marjorie Schick. Students used wallpaper paste and newspapers to create papier-mache for a mountain hat, a cherry-pie mask/hat, a "dress" shoe and a Cubistic mask. Cardboard was used in many of these things, in addition to being used as…

The Adventures of Artemis and the Llama: A Case for Imaginary Histories in Art Education

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Vallance, Elizabeth

2004-01-01

Artemis is a late Hellenistic Greek marble sculpture of the huntress, running in a flowing garment, now lacking arms, legs, and head, and about three-quarters life-sized. The llama is a remarkable hollow male figure of smooth thin gold, and about two inches tall, and was made by the Inca before the Spanish conquest in 1532. This narrative is just…

A new species of Smicromyrme from Israel (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae

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Pietro Lo Cascio

2014-10-01

Full Text Available Smicromyrme bartolozzii sp. n. is described from a female specimen collected in a coastal desert of Israel. The new species is similar to S. ellipsifera (Gribodo, 1884, known for some localities of Eritrea, Ethiopia, Egypt and Djibouti. Sculpture of the pygidial plate, punctuation of the head and some morphological features of mesosoma are the main differential characters between both species.

Eva Wohlgemuth / Eva Wohlgemuth ; interv. Tilman Baumgärtel

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Wohlgemuth, Eva

2006-01-01

1997. a. tehtud intervjuu austria kontseptuaalse kunstniku Eva Wohlgemuthiga (sünd. 1955), kes koos Kathy Rae Huffmaniga dokumenteeris võrgus reisipäevikuna (Interneti projekt "Siberian Deal") sõidu läbi Siberi. Ka projektist "Face Settings". E. Wohlgemuth on loonud varem "Location Sculpture Systems'i" (koos Andreas Baumanniga) ja "Moving Plates Systems'i" ning dokumenteerinud tööd veebisaidil

Anotaciones al tema del Crucificado en Pedro de Mena

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López-Guadalupe, Juan Jesús

2000-01-01

We know few natural size «Crucificados» of Pedro de Mena. Or that, es very important the study of the little size «Crucificados» worked for him. Through of those «Crucificados» and the tradition of granadine's sculpture school, it can be demostrated the existence of the natural size «Crucificados» in Pedro de Mena.No disponible

When Art Meets Einstein

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2006-01-01

This article deals with a pale blue sculpture entitled "A New World View", as an homage to the most famous scientist in modern history, Albert Einstein. It has 32 bas-relief squares composed of glass and steel that represent one aspect of the life and legacy of Albert Einstein. Images of children's faces peer out from behind the glass squares,…

Microanalysis of organic pigments and glazes in polychrome works of art by surface-enhanced resonance Raman scattering.

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Leona, Marco

2009-09-01

Scientific studies of works of art are usually limited by severe sampling restrictions. The identification of organic colorants, a class of compounds relevant for attribution and provenance studies, is further complicated by the low concentrations at which these compounds are used and by the interference of the protein-, gum-, or oil-binding media present in pigment and glaze samples. Surface-enhanced resonance Raman scattering (SERRS) was successfully used to identify natural organic colorants in archaeological objects, polychrome sculptures, and paintings from samples smaller than 25 microm in diameter. The key factors in achieving the necessary sensitivity were a highly active stabilized silver colloid, obtained by the reproducible microwave-supported reduction of silver sulfate with glucose and sodium citrate, and a non-extractive hydrolysis sample treatment procedure that maximizes dye adsorption on the colloid. Among the examples presented are the earliest so far found occurrence of madder lake (in a 4,000 years old Egyptian object dating to the Middle Kingdom period), and the earliest known occurrence in Europe of the South Asian dyestuff lac (in the Morgan Madonna, a 12th century polychrome sculpture from Auvergne, France).

The Wall as a Spatial Work: the Reliefs of Jorge Oteiza in Architecture (1951-58

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Emma López Bahut

2014-03-01

Full Text Available This paper analyses the mural projects of Basque sculptor Jorge Oteiza on façades and internal walls between the years 1951-58. At first, he dealt with walls as ground planes on which to execute his sculptures, finally viewing them as an empty plane with spatial possibilities, defined by the minimum forms and the action of natural light. Based on original, previously unpublished material, we explore the evolution of this work with the aim of establishing to what extent this process was marked by the architecture on which his work was executed, by the architects with whom he collaborated, or the stage of his sculptural experimentation with which they are associated. We show that apart from the presence of an architect, there is a correlation between the way in which the reliefs were applied to the wall and the work carried out on the space where the project was created: the larger the spatial work on the wall, the greater the relationship with the space within which it was inserted, at every scale, from the interior of the architecture to the urban space.

Mother goddesses with boat motifs on stone sculptures from Goa

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and AS. Gaur2 'Ken, Sattari, Goa-403 505, 2National Institute of Oceanograpgy, Dona Paula, Goa References Costa, Fr. C.J. 2002. The Heritage of Govapuri. Goa: Pilar Publication. Gaur, A.S. 1992. Excavation at an Ancient Port in Gopakapattana... stream_size 10615 stream_content_type text/plain stream_name J_I.O_Archaeol_3_151.pdf.txt stream_source_info J_I.O_Archaeol_3_151.pdf.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Mother...

Neutron activation analysis as an element of sculpture provenance establishing

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Panczyk, E.; Rowinska, L.; Walis, L.; Ligeza, M.; Nalepa, B.

1998-01-01

Investigation was carried out on the subject named ''Madonna Jackowa'' (XV cent.). The investigation object was to answer whether ''Madonna Jackowa'' was made of a native alabaster. Alabaster derived from five carious mines situated at the Cracow - Lvov line and ''Madonna Jackowa'' were analysed and the trace elements contents were compared. Instrumental neutron activation method was used for analysis of the trace. (author)

A new image guided surgical robot for precision bone sculpturing

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Bos, J.; Steinbuch, M.; Kunst, H.P.M.; Bointon, P.; Leach, R.; Southon, N.

2016-01-01

The number of people with hearing loss and tumours increase, as the population is getting older and the world is getting louder. This poses increasing demands on healthcare, both in numbers and capabilities. For a number of specific applications new medical robots possibly can increase quality as

3.-11. XI oli Edinburghi ECA Sculpture Court Balcony'l...

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Eesti päevade raames Kristi Paabi ja Maria Valdma kureeritud näitus "Rare Leid". Osalesid Kristiina Laurits, Villu Plink, Kaire Rannik, Mari Relo-Shaulys, Adolfas Shaulys, Anneli Tammik, Ketli Tiitsar ja Tanel Veenre. 3. XI ehtekunsti sümpoosionil Edinburghi kunstikolledzhis College of Artis esinesid loengutega Birgit Laken (Holland), K. Tiitsar ja T. Veenre. K. Paap ja M. Valdma juhendasid töötuba "Triibud või ruudud" ehtekunsti üliõpilastele

Light, Wind and Fire - Beautiful Image of a Cosmic Sculpture

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2010-02-01

Today ESO has released a dramatic new image of NGC 346, the brightest star-forming region in our neighbouring galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, 210 000 light-years away towards the constellation of Tucana (the Toucan). The light, wind and heat given off by massive stars have dispersed the glowing gas within and around this star cluster, forming a surrounding wispy nebular structure that looks like a cobweb. NGC 346, like other beautiful astronomical scenes, is a work in progress, and changes as the aeons pass. As yet more stars form from loose matter in the area, they will ignite, scattering leftover dust and gas, carving out great ripples and altering the face of this lustrous object. NGC 346 spans approximately 200 light-years, a region of space about fifty times the distance between the Sun and its nearest stellar neighbours. Astronomers classify NGC 346 as an open cluster of stars, indicating that this stellar brood all originated from the same collapsed cloud of matter. The associated nebula containing this clutch of bright stars is known as an emission nebula, meaning that gas within it has been heated up by stars until the gas emits its own light, just like the neon gas used in electric store signs. Many stars in NGC 346 are relatively young in cosmic terms with their births dating back only a few million years or so (eso0834). Powerful winds thrown off by a massive star set off this recent round of star birth by compressing large amounts of matter, the first critical step towards igniting new stars. This cloud of material then collapses under its own gravity, until some regions become dense and hot enough to roar forth as a brilliantly shining, nuclear fusion-powered furnace - a star, illuminating the residual debris of gas and dust. In sufficiently congested regions like NGC 346, with high levels of recent star birth, the result is a glorious, glowing vista for our telescopes to capture. NGC 346 is in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy some 210 000 light-years away from Earth and in close proximity to our home, the much larger Milky Way Galaxy. Like its sister the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Small Magellanic Cloud is visible with the unaided eye from the southern hemisphere and has served as an extragalactic laboratory for astronomers studying the dynamics of star formation. This particular image was obtained using the Wide Field Imager (WFI) instrument at the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. Images like this help astronomers chronicle star birth and evolution, while offering glimpses of how stellar development influences the appearance of the cosmic environment over time. More information ESO, the European Southern Observatory, is the foremost intergovernmental astronomy organisation in Europe and the world's most productive astronomical observatory. It is supported by 14 countries: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. ESO carries out an ambitious programme focused on the design, construction and operation of powerful ground-based observing facilities enabling astronomers to make important scientific discoveries. ESO also plays a leading role in promoting and organising cooperation in astronomical research. ESO operates three unique world-class observing sites in Chile: La Silla, Paranal and Chajnantor. At Paranal, ESO operates the Very Large Telescope, the world's most advanced visible-light astronomical observatory, and VISTA the largest survey telescope. ESO is the European partner of a revolutionary astronomical telescope ALMA, the largest astronomical project in existence. ESO is currently planning a 42-metre European Extremely Large optical/near-infrared Telescope, the E-ELT, which will become "the world's biggest eye on the sky".

Panhellenism in the Sculptures of the Zeus Temple at Olympia

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R. Ross Holloway

2003-03-01

Full Text Available The inclusion of Theseus and the Thessalian centauromachy along with the labors of Heracles served to extend to the whole Greek world the scope of heroic honors illustrated on the temple.

The Fruits of Adversity: Technical Refinements of the Turkish Composite Bow during the Crusading Era

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1991-01-01

period. Depictions of these two bows are found in the detailed reproductions of sculptures, architectural reliefs, metalworkings, bone carvings, ivory...34 Ecclesiastical History of 12 In European battles at this time, heavy cavalry was unchallenged as the offensive arm in battle.4 Since the time of...Marzial, Great Britain: Aldine Press, 1965. Vitalis, Ordericus, The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy, trans. by Thomas Forester, London

210 year anniversary of the Botanical Garden of the University of Tartu

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Politsinski Zanna

2014-03-01

Full Text Available June 28, 2013 Botanic Garden of the University of Tartu has celebrated its 210th anniversary. To mark the occasion four significant events were presented: the first electric car trip, opening of the sculpture in honor of the gardeners of Estonia, the opening of "Moss garden" and a concert at the summer stage in the rock, which was held on June 29.

Modeling Goal-Directed User Exploration in Human-Computer Interaction

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2011-02-01

sculptures architecture Theater Musicians & Composers Cinema , Television, & Broadcasting Music Dance Musical Instruments” The text entered for the...Pirolli, Chen & Pitkow, 2001), Scent- based Navigation and Information Foraging in the ACT cognitive architecture 1.0 (SNIF-ACT 1.0; Pirolli & Fu...2003) is the first of two process models of Web navigation based on Information Foraging Theory and implemented in the ACT-R cognitive architecture

Your Next Airplane: Just Hit Print

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2013-04-01

significantly impact the market, but if properly managed, 3-D printing can revolutionize the military through three principal benefits : cost...applications arise, many of which can be tailored to either commercial benefit or military utility. For the military to steer the dialogue over the...from custom chocolate sculptures, to firearms printed in your basement, to light-weight, fuel-efficient printed cars. University research grants

A NEW SPECIES OF CHLEROGAS FROM THE ANDES OF CENTRAL COLOMBIA (HYMENOPTERA: HALICTIDAE

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Engel M

2009-12-01

Full Text Available ABSTRACTA new species of the long-headed bee genus Chlerogas Vachal (Halictinae:Augochlorini is described and fi gured from a male captured at high elevation in centralColombia. Chlerogas tatamaensis Engel & Gonzalez, new species, is distinguishedfrom its congeners on the basis of integumental coloration and sculpturing as wellas features of the male terminalia. A revised key to the species of Chlerogas isprovided.

A journey through the paintings of Jacopo Torni: characteristics and hypotheses

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Liliana Campos Pallarés

2011-01-01

Full Text Available The pictorial work of Jacopo Torni, artist known most of all for his architectonic works and sculptures, is still full of unknowns. This work reviews his career in the field of painting and analyses the different views of the specialists about his documented creations and those attributed to him, in order to shine a light on the most obscure production of the Florentine artist.

Anotaciones al tema del Crucificado en Pedro de Mena

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López-Guadalupe, Juan Jesús

2000-06-01

Full Text Available We know few natural size «Crucificados» of Pedro de Mena. Or that, es very important the study of the little size «Crucificados» worked for him. Through of those «Crucificados» and the tradition of granadine's sculpture school, it can be demostrated the existence of the natural size «Crucificados» in Pedro de Mena.No disponible

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As we enter the 12th year of production of Resonance, I am reminded of a story about the great sculptor Michelangelo. A friend who used to visit him every day noticed that he was working on the same small part of a sculpture (the nose) for two weeks. He finally asked him, “Don't you think you are spending too much time on ...

Images de la statuaire archaïque dans les Aitia de Callimaque Archaic Sculpture in Callimachus’ Aitia Immagini della statuaria arcaica negli Aitia di Callimaco

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Évelyne Prioux

2011-07-01

Full Text Available Plusieurs élégies rassemblées dans les Aitia de Callimaque s'attachent à expliquer les origines de tel ou tel culte ou d’une iconographie inattendue dont le temps a pu obscurcir la signification. Le recueil de Callimaque constitue ainsi un témoignage précieux sur la statuaire archaïque et sur sa réception auprès des érudits de l’époque hellénistique. Le présent article cherche à expliquer les choix opérés par Callimaque au sein de cette présentation de l’art archaïque : loin d'être disposées sans ordre, les notices rassemblées par Callimaque obéissent à des logiques de sélection et de classement que le lecteur moderne peut encore deviner. Par delà l’apparent désordre des fragments d’ecphraseis livrés par les découvertes papyrologiques, on perçoit que les poèmes que Callimaque a consacrés aux origines de la statuaire formaient probablement un tout signifiant. Le discours sur les statues sert ainsi de support à l’expression de positions éthiques, esthétiques et politiques : des images archaïques, telles que l’Apollon délien de Tectaios et d’Angélion ou une Héra de Samos, sont par exemple relues et réinterprétées dans l’intention d’inventer un passé susceptible de justifier les innovations politiques de la cour alexandrine et de les ancrer dans des interprétations iconographiques que le poète invente peut-être, bien qu’il feigne de les tirer de l’oubli. Pour ce faire, il applique aux images archaïques des techniques d’analyse allégorique qui sont sans doute directement inspirées par l'exégèse du texte homérique.Several fragmentary elegies of Callimachus’ Aitia were meant to explain the origins of a given cult or of a strange iconography whose meaning had been obscured by the passing of time. The Aitia are thus a very important source on archaic sculpture and on its reception in Hellenistic times. This paper attempts to explain how Callimachus selected the statues that

The world of children in the capital of Tuva

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Vladimir A. Kisel

2016-02-01

Full Text Available The architectural specifics of the city of Kyzyl, capital of the Republic of Tuva (Russian Federation, have so far been understudied. This also concerns children’s playgrounds. Our article aims to analyze their specific features as objects of urban architecture, sculpture and sociocultural anthropology. Tuvans do not have a tradition for setting apart plots of land for children’s games. The construction of playgrounds in Tuva began after its accession to the USSR in 1944 by borrowing the already existing Soviet construction standards. In the absence of a railway linking Tuva to the rest of the USSR, playsets were made on the spot, of wood as the most easily available material. After the collapse of the USSR, centralized control over the federal education system, including institutions for children, weakened. Not only municipal agencies, but individuals as well could now get involved in urban improvement. A number of distinctively picturesque playgrounds appeared in the city in the 1990s and early 2000s, giving rise to a set of specific subjects of decorative sculpture featuring a plethora of ethnic imagery: wrestlers, cloth ornaments, folklore characters, Buddhist symbols, etc. Besides volunteer groups of amateur artists and builders, professional stonemasons also worked on playgrounds, utilizing the techniques of both monumental art and small outdoor statuary. In 2003 the federal Cabinet adopted a new state standard, which set clear demands for equipping children’s playgrounds. Outdoor sport facilities and playsets could now be constructed only by certified companies. This led to a change in aesthetics and a new set of imagery, where transport and machinery featured prominently. At the moment, Kyzyl still has a number of playgrounds with decorative structure, although they are clearly doomed. This understandable and irreversible change will nevertheless deprive the capital of Tuva of one of its most interesting and expressive

Art and science: geodesy in materials science.

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Kroto, Harold

2010-09-01

A 3-dimensional model based on a molecular structural recipe having some unique and unexpected shape characteristics is demonstrated. The project was originally initiated to satisfy the aesthetic creative impulse to build a 3-dimensional model or sculpture. Further scientific investigation explained some important nanoscale structural observations that had been seen many years beforehand and mistakenly explained. This is a rare example of artistic creativity resulting in a key scientific advance.

A Matrix Based Integrated Framework for Multi Disciplinary Exploration of Cyber-International Relations

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2010-06-01

cinematography ; f) Works of drawing, painting, architecture, sculpture, engraving, and lithography; g) Photographic works to which are assimilated works...expressed by a process analogous to photography; h) Works of applied art ; i) Illustrations, maps, plans, sketches and three-dimensional works relative...in the body of existing knowledge (called "prior art ") in its technical field; b) It must be non-obvious or involve an inventive step, that is, it

Knots in Art

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Jablan, Slavik; Radović, Ljiljana; Sazdanović, Radmila; Zeković, Ana

2012-01-01

We analyze applications of knots and links in the Ancient art, beginning from Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek, Byzantine and Celtic art. Construction methods used in art are analyzed on the examples of Celtic art and ethnical art of Tchokwe people from Angola or Tamil art, where knots are constructed as mirror-curves. We propose different methods for generating knots and links based on geometric polyhedra, suitable for applications in architecture and sculpture.

La práctica artística del escultor contemporáneo y los materiales

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María Teresa González Vicario

1997-01-01

Full Text Available La escultura ha experimentado en el siglo XX, al igual que la pintura, determinados cambios que han alterado, y a la vez revitalizado, la práctica artística del escultor. El lenguaje de las vanguardias se tradujo en la ruptura con los postulados artísticos anteriores y, consecuentemente, en la aparición de una estética nueva, a lo que también se sumó el progreso científico y tecnológico, con la aparición de materiales y técnicas nuevos que introdujeron cambios radicales. Acercarse a algunos de dichos cambios, que han modificado la práctica artística del escultor, constituye el propósito de este artículo.Sculpture, as painting, has experienced in the Twentyth Century a series of changes that have altered and revitalized the artistic praxis of the Sculptor. The language of modernism produced a rupture with oíd norms and the apparition of a new esthetic. To this we may add the evolution of science and tecnology, which introduced new tecniques and materials in sculpture and produced some radical changes. The purpose of this article is to present some of these changes that have altered the work of the Sculptor.

[Rudolph Tegner: The blind from Marrakech (1949-1950)].

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Norn, M; Permin, H

1999-01-01

The Danish sculptor and painter Rudolph Tegner (1873-1950) has built his own Museum in Dronningmolle, where his sculptures enrich the unique landscape. His last and incomplete plaster on a simple, raw wooden scaffold sculpture The Blind from Marrakech (Fig. 1) show five persons moan about, carrying a dead body. All persons are missing their arms. Tegner had a number of years earlier been in Marrakech and had watched a funeral procession, where blind beggars had carried a dead old woman raised high above the bearers on a kind of pall. In a small version of the statue cast, later in bronze from 1963, showed 15 bearers, on both sides of the bier (Fig. 2 & 3). Nine and 15 bearers are looking up, two right in front, and the rest are looking down. Totally blind people can not see the light but can see up to the divine Heaven. Some blind have kept the gleam. The confusion with the eye direction shows that they really are blind. However 10 of the 15 blind people had hollow in the eye (excenteratio orbitae) in contrast to the dead woman. The dead woman had been the blinds' mistress. The last work The Blind in Marrakech may also be the despair of the artist.

National Agendas and Local Realities: Festive Material and Ritual Culture, Nationalism, and Modernity in the Chita Region of Japan

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Sean McPherson

2012-06-01

Full Text Available The reworking of religious space in modern Japan encompassed the reinvention of the spatial, material, and ritual culture of matsuri 祭り(festivals. After a period of relative official disfavor, festivals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were reinvigorated by changes in ritual process and spatial scope, as well as by shifts in the architecture and sculpture of dashi 山車 (wheeled festival floats. The incorporation of matsuri into broader discourses of national cultural identity was driven by the affective potential of their supposed cultural authenticity. This reinvention of festivity is evident in the Tokoname Matsuri of Tokoname City, Aichi Prefecture, where after the 1905 Russo-Japanese conflict several Edo-period shrine festivals were merged into a shōkonsai 招魂祭 (festival for the war dead. The spatial scope and ritual process, as well as the architecture and sculptural iconography, of the six dashi built for the new Tokoname Matsuri tied this regional city into national discourses of cultural authenticity, racial purity, and martial valor. The ideological resonance in prewar Japan of the Tokoname Matsuri and other festivals with nationalist imagery sprang from their indelibly local origins; matsuri were not controlled entirely from the top down, but rather were mediated at multiple levels.

Committenze europee di scultura veneziana nel Settecento. Una panoramica e alcune ipotesi di lavoro

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Benuzzi, Fabien

2014-12-01

Full Text Available Research on the European success of Venetian art during the 18th century has above all examined the activity of the painters. This paper analyzes the works of Venetian sculptors through some important case studies. Attention is given to several commissions of sculpture from Russia (among them works ordered by Peter the Great from 1719 to 1723, German states (Prussia, Saxony and Bavaria, Sweden and England. The analysis also concerns Venetian intellectuals who played the roles of mediators, such as Anton Maria Zanetti and Francesco Algarotti. The comparative study of these commissions allows us to formulate hypotheses about who were the most praised sculptors and whether there was a taste for specific artistic tendencies. It seems, for example, that British clients mainly appreciated classical sculptors like Antonio Gai and Giovanni Marchiori, in contrast to other countries, where also baroque artists were valued. The article also notes the case of Antonio Corradini, who operated for several years abroad, in Vienna and Dresden. There is finally also the attempt to outline some ideas and starting points for further research on this topic; among them an enquiry about taste for Venetian baroque sculptures in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The layout of icosakaidígono in the Jupiter-Ammon Clypeus of Tarragona (Ist century and the face of Christ of the Rosette in the Cathedral of Orvieto (14th century

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J. Lluis i Ginovart

2017-03-01

Full Text Available The techniques of massive data capture, as the Terrestrial Laser Scanner and the digital photogrammetry, allow to accurately analyze close objects and others that are not accessible, by statistical methods. Its application has allowed assessing, from the geometric point of view, the sculptures of the figure Clypeus of Tarragona, Jupiter-Ammon (1st century and the one of the Orvieto’s Cathedral rosette, with the face of Christ (14th century. The Clypeus of Tarragona and Orvieto’s rosette are divided in 22 parts, forming a polygonal shape known as icosakaidígono. This polygon does not appear in the Elementa of Euclides, neither in the Almagesto of Ptolomeo, nor in the rare Practica Geometriae of the time. These polygons can be built by means of angular division inherited from astrolabe and quadrant builders. This polygon can be defined also through the rotation of the square, since the repeated support of the catheti on the hypotenuse allows the rotation of the tool, or other indirect methods. The conclusion of the analysis of these figures is that, statistically, both sculptures have a geometric construction equal to the Reliquiario del Corporale del Miracolo di Bolsena (1337-1338 of Orvieto’s Cathedral.

Quand les images citent l'art !

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Anne Pauzet

2014-04-01

Full Text Available Les images mass-médiatiques courantes (illustration d’articles de presse, images publicitaires, affiches politiques et sociales… citent bien souvent le domaine de l’Art (peintures, sculptures, photographies, images filmiques…. Ce dernier devient alors un univers de références à découvrir pour comprendre le message exprimé. De plus, découvrir les liens qui unissent les images du quotidien aux œuvres artistiques nous aide à mieux comprendre les sociétés dans lesquelles ces images sont produites. Cet article pose la question du lien entre les images, l’Art et l’imaginaire collectif et propose une réflexion didactique autour de ces liens. When images quote Art! Common mass media images such as illustrations for press articles, advertising pictures, political and social posters often quote the field of Art (paintings, sculptures, photos, film images…. Art thus becomes a world of references to be discovered in order to understand the conveyed message. Moreover, finding the links between the daily life pictures and the artistic piece helps people understand the societies in which those pictures are produced. This article discusses the relationship between images, Art and collective imagination and carries out a didactical reflection on those links.

Transformasi Loro Blonyo – Rumah Joglo dalam Analisis Struktural

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Slamet Subiyantoro

2012-08-01

Full Text Available This paper shows that the form and structure of a traditional Javanese house joglo is a transformation from loro blonyo sculptures representing a pair of human figures. This pair of statues and also the traditional Javanese house are basically a manifestation of the Javanese way of life that emphasizes harmony and unity of values between two different worlds such as men and women, physical and spiritual, and macrocosm and microcosm.

The potential of space exploration for the fine arts

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Mclaughlin, William I.

1993-01-01

Art provides an integrating function between the 'upper' and 'lower' centers of the human psyche. The nature of this function can be made more specific through the triune model of the brain. The evolution of the fine arts - painting, drawing, architecture, sculpture, literature, music, dance, and drama, plus cinema and mathematics-as-a-fine-art - are examined in the context of their probable stimulations by space exploration: near term and long term.

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Turk, G

2014-01-01

For its thirteenth exhibition, Frances Foundation invites artist Gavin Turk to engage in dialogue with works from the collection.\\ud \\ud Through painting and sculpture, Gavin Turk recycle the work of his predecessors, icons of modern art such as Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol or Jasper Johns. He plays with the history of art, revisits its codes, questions the myth of the artist and, more broadly, the way of life in our society.

‘A token of their love’: Queen Victoria Memorials in New Zealand

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Stocker, Mark

2016-01-01

This article provides an overview of the four metropolitan sculptural memorials to Queen Victoria in late-colonial New Zealand, which all immediately precede the colony’s Dominion status (1907). In chronological order, they were erected in Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington, and Dunedin. While the Auckland memorial was unveiled within the Queen’s lifetime, her death in 1901 catalysed the commission of more ambitious counterparts in Wellington and Dunedin, and a degree of intercity rivalry was...

A tensegrity model for hydrogen bond networks in proteins

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Bywater, Robert P.

2017-01-01

Hydrogen-bonding networks in proteins considered as structural tensile elements are in balance separately from any other stabilising interactions that may be in operation. The hydrogen bond arrangement in the network is reminiscent of tensegrity structures in architecture and sculpture. Tensegrity has been discussed before in cells and tissues and in proteins. In contrast to previous work only hydrogen bonds are studied here. The other interactions within proteins are either much stronger − c...

Knots in Art

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Radmila Sazdanović

2012-06-01

Full Text Available We analyze applications of knots and links in the Ancient art, beginning from Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek, Byzantine and Celtic art. Construction methods used in art are analyzed on the examples of Celtic art and ethnical art of Tchokwe people from Angola or Tamil art, where knots are constructed as mirror-curves. We propose different methods for generating knots and links based on geometric polyhedra, suitable for applications in architecture and sculpture.

Litholepas klausreschi gen. et sp. nov., a new neolepadine barnacle (Cirripedia, Thoracica) on a sponge from the Upper Jurassic lithographic limestones of southern Germany

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Nagler, Christina; Haug, Joachim T.; Glenner, Henrik

2017-01-01

In this study we describe a unique fossil comprising 13 intact specimens of a pedunculate cirripede attached to a sponge (Codites serpentinus). The fossil comes from the Upper Jurassic lithographic limestones of southern Germany. Based on the shape and distinctive sculpture of the plates, a new...... uncertain. Representatives of L. klausreschi gen. et sp. nov. are considered to have lived either in a parasitic or commensal relationship partially buried within the sponge....

Understanding Africa: A Geographic Approach

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2009-01-01

down primarily through word of mouth and unifying practices, then further through dances, paintings, sculpture, music festivals , and archeological...Petroleum products 13 33 39 U.K. 18 24 81 75 24,900 U.S. 23 21 76 78 52,690 Note: data from 2007. Tourism data from 2000, except Botswana...Intelligence Agency 2008; Tourism : Nevin 2003; U.S. and U.K. Tourism : World Tourism Organization 2001) Despite the previous examples, Africa cannot be

Wired! and Visualizing Venice: Scaling up Digital Art History

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Lanzoni, Kristin Huffman; Olson, Mark James-Vrooman; Szabo, Victoria E.

2015-01-01

This article focuses on Visualizing Venice, an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural collaboration that engages in mapping, 3-D modeling, and multimedia representations of historical change in Venice, Italy. Through a “laboratory” approach that integrates students and faculty in multi-year research teams, we ask new questions and pursue emerging lines of inquiry about architectural monuments, their relation to the larger urban setting, and the role of sculptural and painted decoration in sacred s...

"Olen õppinud piirangutest lugu pidama, ettetulevaid takistusi eelisteks pöörama" / Noam Ben-Jacov ; interv. Silja Saarepuu ja Villu Plink

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2006-01-01

Iisraeli päritolu hollandi ehte- ja installatsioonikunstnik Noam Ben-Jacovist, kes juhendas Eesti Kunstiakadeemias ehte- ja sepakunsti eriala üliõpilaste meistriklassi. N. Ben-Jacov nimetab oma töid kehaskulptuurideks (body-sculpture, body-related objects), mida ta esitleb performance'ites. Osaga nädala jooksul valminud töödest saab kuni 12. XI tutvuda Põhja puiestee 27a asuvas endise Tallinna elektrijaama katlamaja ruumides. Kadri Mälk Noam Ben-Jacovist

La cerámica de Kuntur Wasi y el problema Chavín

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Inokuchi, Kinya

2012-01-01

Kuntur Wasi Ceramics and the Chavín ProblemThe archaeological investigations at the formative site of Kuntur Wasi since 1988 conducted by the Tokyo University Archaeological Mission led to new and relevant data concerning sequences of ceremonial structures, lithic sculpture and gold ornaments from special tombs. The site's chronology based on typological ceramics analysis is presented. With the support of the radiocarbon dates it is sustained that the significant changes in the second Kultur ...

Cosmic sculpture: a new way to visualise the cosmic microwave background

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Clements, D L; Sato, S; Fonseca, A Portela

2017-01-01

3D printing presents an attractive alternative to visual representation of physical datasets such as astronomical images that can be used for research, outreach or teaching purposes, and is especially relevant to people with a visual disability. We here report the use of 3D printing technology to produce a representation of the all-sky cosmic microwave background (CMB) intensity anisotropy maps produced by the Planck mission. The success of this work in representing key features of the CMB is discussed as is the potential of this approach for representing other astrophysical data sets. 3D printing such datasets represents a highly complementary approach to the usual 2D projections used in teaching and outreach work, and can also form the basis of undergraduate projects. The CAD files used to produce the models discussed in this paper are made available. (paper)

A Stone or a Sculpture? It Is All in Your Perception

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Naresh, Nirmala

2015-01-01

Workplace mathematics, a subgroup of research on everyday mathematics and ethnomathematics documents the mathematical activities of both adults and children outside school settings. In this paper, I document the mental mathematical activities of a group of bus conductors in Chennai, India. I draw into the research areas of mental computation and…

Time within time: 3D printed sculptures within holographic art practice

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Chang, Yin-Ren; Richardson, Martin

2015-03-01

Holography is a time-based medium, which uses its own aesthetics and techniques to interpret colour and light. This exclusive descriptive language does not simply represent a particular scenario in the moment of recording, but also documents the performance light during the shooting process. Nowadays 3D graphic software and Internet offer practitioners greater mobility in both the development and the delivery of their artwork. Furthermore, the diverse web-based social media presents unlimited and various spaces to facilitate artists in the exchange of creative knowledge, it enables them to collaborate on their projects with external connections - audience, specialists, etc. Within the analogue holography art practice, there is a primary lack of interface, or, in other words, it cannot utilise any digital creative tools. 3D printing makes it possible to bridge the gap between cyber space and the holographic world; even more so, as this emerging technique also becomes a platform, which can connect computational data and light information. The application of 3D printing in contemporary art will reshape the process of creation, as well as the form of visual narrative itself. New technologies continually and increasingly involve the projection of another artistic dimension, and the term "visual" embarks on challenging the generally accepted notion of understanding art and interacting with it. As new pathways of practice are established, it will take years to build a complete understanding of this medium in order to be able to take a full advantage of the benefits its use offers. This paper is aimed at looking for the potential new ways of artistic expression, deriving from the interrelation between analogue holography and 3D printing. It will also attempt an articulate assessment of 3D printing within the dynamic holographic aesthetics.

Revisiting the field geology of Taurus-Littrow

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Schmitt, H. H.; Petro, N. E.; Wells, R. A.; Robinson, M. S.; Weiss, B. P.; Mercer, C. M.

2017-12-01

Integration of Apollo 17 field observations and photographs, sample investigations, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera images, Chandrayaan-1 Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) spectra, and Miniature Radio Frequency (Mini-RF) S-band radar images provides new insights into the geology of the valley of Taurus-Littrow on the Moon. Connecting the various remote observations to sample data enables a set of new conclusions to be drawn regarding the geological evolution of the valley. Structural considerations and published and recalculated 40Ar/39Ar analyses of samples from the North Massif and the Sculptured Hills indicate that the Crisium basin formed about 3.93 Ga; the Serenitatis basin about 3.82 Ga; and the Imbrium basin no earlier than 3.82 Ga and no later than the average of 3.72 Ga for 33 age dates from samples of the valley's mare basalts. Strong evidence continues to support the conclusion of others (Lucchitta, 1972; Spudis et al., 2011; Fassett et al., 2012) that the Sculptured Hills physiographic unit consists of Imbrium ejecta. Interpretation of M3 spectral data and Apollo 17 samples indicate that rock units of the Sculptured Hills consist of a largely coherent, Mg-suite pluton. LROC NAC stereo images and Mini-RF data indicate the presence of several exposed pyroclastic fissures across the Sculptured Hills. Rim boulders at Camelot Crater constitute nearly in situ wall rocks of that crater rather than ejecta and provide an opportunity for investigations of remanent magnetic field orientation at the time of the eruption of late mare basalt lavas in the valley. Paleomagnetic field orientation information also may be obtained relative to melt-breccia contacts in North Massif boulders that suggest original horizontal orientations. LROC images indicate the existence of two temporally separate light mantle avalanche deposits. The origin, potential flow mechanisms, and geology of the youngest avalanche from the South Massif have been clarified. The existence of two

Revisiting the Field Geology of Taurus-Littrow

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Schmitt, H. H.; Petro, N. E.; Wells, R. A.; Robinson, M. S.; Weiss, B. P.; Mercer, C. M.

2016-01-01

Integration of Apollo 17 field observations and photographs, sample investigations, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera images, Chandrayaan-1 Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M(sup 3)) spectra, and Miniature Radio Frequency (Mini-RF) S-band radar images provides new insights into the geology of the valley of Taurus-Littrow on the Moon. Connecting the various remote observations to sample data enables a set of new conclusions to be drawn regarding the geological evolution of the valley. Structural considerations and published and recalculated Ar-40/Ar-39 analyses of samples from the North Massif and the Sculptured Hills indicate that the Crisium basin formed about 3.93 Ga; the Serenitatis basin about 3.82 Ga; and the Imbrium basin no earlier than 3.82 Ga and no later than the average of 3.72 Ga for 33 age dates from samples of the valley's mare basalts. Strong evidence continues to support the conclusion of others (Lucchitta, 1972; Spudis et al., 2011; Fassett et al., 2012) that the Sculptured Hills physiographic unit consists of Imbrium ejecta. Interpretation of M(sup 3) spectral data and Apollo 17 samples indicate that rock units of the Sculptured Hills consist of a largely coherent, Mg-suite pluton. LROC NAC stereo images and Mini-RF data indicate the presence of several exposed pyroclastic fissures across the Sculptured Hills. Rim boulders at Camelot Crater constitute nearly in situ wall rocks of that crater rather than ejecta and provide an opportunity for investigations of remanent magnetic field orientation at the time of the eruption of late mare basalt lavas in the valley. Paleomagnetic field orientation information also may be obtained relative to melt-breccia contacts in North Massif boulders that suggest original horizontal orientations. LROC images indicate the existence of two temporally separate light mantle avalanche deposits. The origin, potential flow mechanisms, and geology of the youngest avalanche from the South Massif have been clarified. The existence

Art for the Smart: Paper and oral presentation assignments for an Earth Materials course

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Wetzel, L. R.

2011-12-01

A letter from the fictional Art for the Smart company addresses students in the Earth Materials course: "You might be wondering why an artist needs a geology consultant. I am creating a sculpture garden filled with mythical beings. I would like each student to recommend two unique minerals for one of these sculptures..." For this project students randomly select a mythical being, two mineral groups, and a mineral characteristic. For example, a student might be assigned the goddess Freya, a sulfate, a vanadate, and twinning. Students then choose a specific mineral from each group, describe their physical and chemical characteristics, and recommend how the minerals could be incorporated into the sculpture. Reports are presented in short oral presentations and two-page business letters with accompanying bibliography and illustrations. The letter format provides a concise way to communicate results to the Art for the Smart "client" while preparing students for their job-hunting days ahead. The oral presentations are structured as features for a news program. Talks are limited to three to five minutes and four slides: title page, mineral #1, mineral #2, and mythical being. The strict limits help students concentrate on scientific content and smooth delivery rather than flashy visual aids. The student audience and the professor evaluate each in-class presentation. This has become a popular assignment because it engages student imaginations to relate minerals to mythical beings and creatively design a sculpture. Each project is unique and therefore more interesting for both students and faculty to evaluate. The projects are nearly impossible to plagiarize from previous years or from internet sources. Earth Materials is a sophomore level course for Geoscience and Marine Science majors at Eckerd College. The Art for the Smart project leads into an assignment for the second half of the semester featuring building stones. A new "client" sends a letter to the class explaining

The National Arts Education Archive: Ideas and Imaginings

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Adams, Jeff; Bailey, Rowan; Walton, Neil

2017-01-01

The National Arts Education Archive (NAEA) is housed and maintained by the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP), and managed by YSP coordinators and educators with a well-established volunteer programme. This year, 2017, as part of the celebrations of the YSP’s 40th anniversary, the Archive will hold its own exhibition entitled Treasures Revealed: a collection of items selected by people who\\ud have been involved in the Archive, whether as donors, volunteers, researchers, artists, trustees or steer...

H. Bloemsma on Groseclose and Wierich’s Internationalizing the History of American Art.

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2010-03-01

Full Text Available Barbara Groseclose and Jochen Wierich, eds. Internationalizing the History of American Art. Views. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009. 244 pp.  (Hardcover ISBN 978-0-271-03200-9 The history of pre-1945 painting and sculpture in the United States has been predominantly written by American scholars. The essays in this volume want to supplement this perceived parochialism of American art history scholarship by addressing an aspect of the historiography ...

A biographical portrait of two sculptors in the shadows: the brothers Miguel Jerónimo and Jerónimo Francisco García (1576-1639/1644

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Manuel García Luque

2017-12-01

Full Text Available This paper offers a first biographical note on the 17th-century sculptors of Granada Miguel Jerónimo and Jerónimo Francisco García, through the use of previously unpublished documents such as their baptismal and death certificates or the will of Miguel. Furthermore, the author presents unknown information and pieces that help to understand more clearly their work in terracotta, fundamental in the transition from Mannerism toward Naturalism in Andalusian sculpture.

Gemstones

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Harrell, James

2012-01-01

The gemstones of ancient Egypt, broadly defined, include all rocks, minerals, and biogenic materials used for jewelry (beads, pendants, ring stones, and cloisonné inlays), amulets, seals, and other small decorative items (figurines, cosmetic vessels, and inlays in furniture and sculpture). At least 38 gemstone varieties were used by the Egyptians, but ancient mines in Egypt are known for only nine of these. Some of the gemstones were imported from sources in Asia while others certainly came f...

Proximity: representations of fragile space through hapticity and vision

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Garrett, Stephen Francis

2017-01-01

This research paper investigates the phenomenology of touch and its relationship to my sculptural practice. My studio research has been engaged in site-responsive interventions developed as a series of ephemeral artworks. Core to this is the relationship between vision and touch. My paper charts the evolution of this and how I consider these factors when making art. My process stems from my engagement with the notion of hapticity-how we understand the tactile experience of space and place ...

Towards a reconstruction of the contributions of the Argentine experience to the development of International Human Rights Law: the voices of Claudia Fontes and Paula Bombara

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Estefanía Giaccone; Viviana Kühne; Agustina Vázquez

2017-01-01

In the present dissertation, we intend to relate and contrast the representations that emerge from legal and political-institutional discourses on the crime of forced disappearance of persons in the Argentinian historical experience. In this sense, we will analyze the representations of the crime of forced disappearance of persons in two artistic works: The Reconstruction of Pablo Miguez Portrait, Claudia Fontes’ sculpture, and The Sea and the Serpent, a novel by Paula Bombara, in order to re...

Los procesos técnicos de la cantería durante la Segunda Edad del Hierro en el occidente de la meseta

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Rodríguez Hernández, Jesús

2013-01-01

This paper reconstructs the technical processes involved in producing the stone works made by the communities of Western Iberia during the Late Iron Age. For this study, we use both archaeological and ethnographic data. We analyze the characteristics of granite, the extraction process in the quarry, the available means of transport, the tools used and the carving process, focusing analysis on the zoomorphic sculptures known as “verracos”. Assessment of these technical aspects is essential for...

108th Convention of the American Psychological Association. Washington, DC, August 4-8, 2000

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2000-04-01

Washington, DC--the nation's capital--celebrates a history rich in diversity and character. One of the most popular cities for sightseeing, Washington contains countless points of interest for its visitors. The world's largest museum complex, the Smithsonian Institution, invites you to explore exhibits that highlight the scientific, cultural, political, and technological developments of the United States and its people. Visit the home to original pieces of the American heritage, such as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, that have helped to shape the way we live today. The art lovers among you will delight in the seven major art galleries. See the modern art and sculpture of the Hirshhorn Museum and the newly opened Sculpture Garden; the Sackler Gallery's collection of Asian art; and the only museum devoted to the art and culture of Africa, the National Museum of African Art. In Washington, there is music in the air, from the Kennedy Center's many stages and the clubs of Georgetown and Adams Morgan to the military bands that give concerts on the Mall. Whatever your culinary desire, be it authentic Texas chili or the finest Asian cuisine, you'll find it at one of the city's internationally famous eateries. What a perfect place for APA to convene its first annual convention of the new millennium!

Arts and Climate

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Cegnar, T.

2010-09-01

Arts and climate science have more in common points than it appears at first glance. Artistic works can help us to directly or indirectly learn about climatic conditions and weather events in the past, but are also very efficient in raising awareness about climate change nowadays. Long scientific articles get very little response among general public, because most people don't want to read long articles. There is a need to communicate climate change issues more powerfully and more directly, with simple words, pictures, sculptures, installations. Artistic works can inspire people to take concrete action. A number of communication media can fit this purpose. Artists can speak to people on an emotional and intellectual level; they can help people to see things from another perspective and in new ways. Artists can motivate change; they have the freedom to weave facts, opinions, thoughts, emotion and colour all together. Paintings are witnesses of the past climatic conditions. We can learn from paintings, architectural constructions and sculptures about the vegetation, weather events, animals, and way of living. Mentioning only some few examples: old paintings in caves, also Flemish painters are often shown for their winter landscapes, and paintings are very useful to illustrate how fast glaciers are melting. At the end, we shall not forget that dilapidation of art masterpieces often depends on climatic conditions.

Géneros y modernidad en la escultura española de fines del siglo XIX. Una aproximación a través de seis piezas del Prado depositadas en Canarias

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Carlos Reyero

2013-11-01

Full Text Available Se analiza un grupo deseis esculturas que pertenecen a las colecciones del Museo del Prado. Están depositadas en el Museo de Bellas Artes de Santa Cruz de Tenerife desde 1908. Estas piezas fueron expuestas en Madrid, poco después de esculpidas o modeladas por sus autores (Moratilla, Carretero, Menéndez Entrialgo, Cabrera, Ridaura y Coullaut-Valera, con motivo de las exposiciones nacionales celebradas en 1867, 1897, 1899 y 1901. A pesar de que la crítica contemporánea subrayó la importancia de los temas para valorarlas, este viejo punto de vista contribuyó a reflexionar sobre las modernas tendencias en la escultura española del siglo XIX.The object of analysis is a group of six sculptures that belongs to the Prado Museum Collections. They are deposited in the Fine Arts Museum of Santa Cruz de Tenerife from 1908. These pieces were exhibited in Madrid, soon after they were carved or modeled by their authors (Moratilla, Carretero, Menéndez Entrialgo, Cabrera, Ridaura y Coullaut-Valera, on the occasion of the national exhibitions celebrated in 1867, 1897, 1899 y 1901. In spite of contemporary criticism emphasized the importance of subjects in order to appraise them, this old point of view contributed to think over modern trends in nineteenth century spanish sculpture.

El Santo Sepulcro. Imagen y funcionalidad espacial en la capilla de la iglesia de San Justo (Segovia

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Carrero Santamaría, Eduardo

1997-06-01

Full Text Available The parish church of San Justo in Segovia is located outside the city, in the suburb of El Cerrillo. Inside the church there are Romanesque wall paintings, an articulated reclining statue of Christ known as el Cristo de los Gascones, a chapel in the first storey of the tower and, finally, a sculptured tympanum in the door that gives way to the chapel. All of them can be dated to the 12th and 13th-centuries. The analysis of these elements gives us the key to the functionality of the tower chapel, as one of the areas dedicated to the devotion of the Holy Sepulchre in Castile.[fr] Hors des murs de la ville de Segovie, au lieu-dit El Cerrillo, se trouve l'église de San Justo. À l'intérieur, il y a un cycle de peintures murales romanes, une sculpture articulée du Christ gisant connue sous le nom de Cristo de los Gascones, une chapelle au-dessous de la tour et un tympan sculpté sur la porte d'accès à la chapelle. Tous ces éléments sont attribués aux XIIᵉ et XIIIᵉ siècle. Leur étude montre que cette chapelle était sans doute dédiée au culte du Saint-Sépulcre en Castille.

Children’s Negotiations of Visualization Skills During a Design-Based Learning Experience Using Nondigital and Digital Techniques

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Smith, Shaunna

2018-01-01

In the context of a 10-day summer camp makerspace experience that employed design-based learning (DBL) strategies, the purpose of this descriptive case study was to better understand the ways in which children use visualization skills to negotiate design as they move back and forth between the world of nondigital design techniques (i.e., drawing, 3-D drawing with hot glue, sculpture, discussion, writing) and digital technologies (i.e., 3-D scanning, 3-D modeling, 3-D printing). Participants i...

Challenge Accepted : Aplicación móvil para activar la capacidad creativa

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Ocaña Tallón, Jorge Juan

2016-01-01

This project talks about creativity and how to activate creativity skills which all people have, but making it in a funny and easy way creating a challenge for the users. At the same time, this challenges will be a boost and a call to use this app, which is the final aim of the project. Competences related with graphic design, sculpture, writing, painting, photography, recycling, architecture will be trained through weekly challenges proposed but the app to users. Moreover, a system of gamifi...

Shop Class for the Next Millenium: Education through Computer-Enriched Handicrafts

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Eisenberg, Mike; Eisenberg, Ann Nishioka

1998-01-01

In this paper we use our experiences with the HyperGami program as a springboard for a broader look at the future of computationally-enriched handicrafts. HyperGami is an educational application for the design and construction of mathematical models and sculptures in paper; as such, it serves as a source of examples and insights for the more general problem of how to integrate the "high-tech" features of computation with the "low-tech" features of traditional craft materials in education. We ...

Mortars and treatments in the restoration of the Altarpiece of the High Altar of the Pilar Basilica

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Luxán, M. P.; Dorrego, F.; Sotolongo, R.

2000-01-01

The altarpiece of the Assumption of Mary is located in the High Altar of the Pilar Basilica in Zaragoza and is one of the most important works of the Spanish Artistic Heritage. The work, sculptured in alabaster, was carried out between 1509 and 1518 by Damián Forment. The present paper covers the guidelines for the design of repair mortars used to restore the altarpiece. They are based on compatibility criteria with the existing materials and treatments in the altarpiece, according ...

Mathematical Practice as Sculpture of Utopia: Models, Ignorance, and the Emancipated Spectator

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Appelbaum, Peter

2012-01-01

This article uses Ranciere's notion of the ignorant schoolmaster and McElheny's differentiation of artist's models from those of the architect and scientist to propose the reconceptualization of mathematics education as the support of emancipated spectators and sculptors of utopia.

Applying the EBU R128 loudness standard in live-streaming sound sculptures

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Højlund, Marie Koldkjær; Riis, Morten S.; Rothmann, Daniel

2017-01-01

to preserve a natural sounding dynamic image from the varying sound sources that can be played back under varying conditions, an adaptation of the EBU R128 loudness measurement recommendation, originally developed for levelling non-real-time broadcast material, has been applied. The paper describes the Pure......This paper describes the development of a loudness-based compressor for live audio streams. The need for this device arose while developing the public sound art project The Overheard, which involves mixing together several live audio streams through a web based mixing interface. In order...

Art for the Apocalypse: Sculpture by Frink in Losey’s The Damned

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Susan Felleman

2014-07-01

Full Text Available Blacklisted and exiled, American director Joseph Losey finished The Damned in England in 1961 but Hammer Films did not release it until 1963 (then with severe cuts and it wasn’t seen until 1965 in the U.S., further changed and retitled These Are the Damned. Adapted by Evan Jones from The Children of Light, a novel by H.L. Lawrence, The Damned is a strange hybrid of science fiction, horror and social commentary that in some ways anticipates by a decade Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. Beautifully photographed in black-and-white on location in Weymouth, it brings a mysterious American stranger (Macdonald Carey—perhaps a fugitive—into a violent confrontation with a gang of Teddy Boys and ultimately into a deadly, dystopic government experiment with radioactive children. Among the film’s considerable changes to Lawrence’s narrative was the addition of a major character: a sculptor, whose cliff-top studio is a vivid and key location and whose works function as visual omens of a social and technological apocalypse to come. Freya Neilson (Viveca Lindfors was conceived expressly to employ the work of sculptor Elisabeth Frink (1930-1993, whose scarred, distressed figural works of the period included anthropomorphic birds, winged men, fallen men, horse heads and other morbid ciphers of existential dread. In the film these works of plaster and bronze embody the age of anxiety even as they represent art as a redemptive alternative to the cold-bloodedness of both lowbrow Teddy Boy (Oliver Reed and highbrow Government scientist (Alexander Knox. Associated with the postwar structure of feeling that Herbert Read characterized as “the geometry of fear,” Frink’s work performs a major role in The Damned, giving form to psychosocial ills and fears of the postwar generation. 

Primeras resultados de las excavaciones realizadas en la Villa de la Estación (Antequera, Málaga

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Romero, Manuel

2006-12-01

Full Text Available The present article describes and attempts a first approach to the structures and materials from a recently discovered Roman Villa in Antequera. The Villa is particularly remarkable for its mosaics and sculptures, from which the importance of the site arises.El artículo describe y realiza un primer estudio de las estructuras y los materiales de una villa romana recientemente excavada en Antequera. Entre ellos destacan el repertorio musivo y escultórico, de los que emerge la importancia del yacimiento.

From soil in art towards Soil Art

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Feller, C.; Landa, E. R.; Toland, A.; Wessolek, G.

2015-02-01

The range of art forms and genres dealing with soil is wide and diverse, spanning many centuries and artistic traditions, from prehistoric painting and ceramics to early Renaissance works in Western literature, poetry, paintings, and sculpture, to recent developments in cinema, architecture and contemporary art. Case studies focused on painting, installation, and cinema are presented with the view of encouraging further exploration of art about, in, with, or featuring soil or soil conservation issues, created by artists, and occasionally scientists, educators or collaborative efforts thereof.

The Armour of Hope and other works

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Just, Kate

2013-01-01

The series of work entitled 'The Skin of Hope' was produced during a 2012 Australia Council for the Arts studio residency in Barcelona, where I was accompanied by my partner Paula and our adopted daughter, Hope. Blurring the usual divide between familial life and art practice, the residency inspired a series of hand knitted sculptures and photographs weaving an account of the ways that Hope and I acknowledge, bond and imprint each other at skin level. Materialising our past wounds and present...

Nothing Great Is Easy

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Stansbie, Lisa

2014-01-01

A solo exhibition of 13 pieces of art work.\\ud \\ud Nothing Great is Easy is an exhibition of sculpture, film, drawing and photography that proposes reconstructed narratives using the sport of swimming and in particular the collective interaction and identity of the channel swimmer. The work utilises the processes, rituals/rules, language and the apparatus of sport.\\ud \\ud “Nothing great is easy” are the words on the memorial to Captain Matthew Webb who was the first man to swim the English ch...

A new species of Chilicola from Bahia, Brazil (Hymenoptera, Colletidae, with a key to the species of the megalostigma group

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Favizia Oliveira

2011-12-01

Full Text Available The bee genus Chilicola Spinola (Xeromelissinae is recorded from the State of Bahia, Brazil for the first time, based on a new species of the megalostigma group of the subgenus Hylaeosoma Ashmead. Chilicola (Hylaeosoma kevani sp. n. is described and figured from males collected in Wesceslau Guimarães, Bahia. The species can be distinguished on the basis of coloration, size, integumental sculpturing, and structure of the hidden metasomal sterna and genitalia. A revised key to the species of the megalostigma group is provided.

Reflection of Crusade Ideas in Medieval Art of 12* and 13* Centuries with Special Emphasis on Crusade Motives in Polish Art

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Katarzyna Kabulak

2004-01-01

Literary inheritance of the Middle Ages has always been an invaluable source for researchers o f this epoch. It is the most valuable word for us. It needs to be mentioned, however, that a medieval recipient of literature was doubtlessly a member of a small elite. Few could claim to possess the ability to read and write. What appealed to the masses was an image – the most influential carrier of ideas. Wall paintings, sculptures, portals at the entrance to churches, coins with iconography best ...

Rock Pore Structure as Main Reason of Rock Deterioration

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Ondrášik Martin

2014-03-01

Full Text Available Crashed or dimensional rocks have been used as natural construction material, decoration stone or as material for artistic sculptures. Especially old historical towns not only in Slovakia have had experiences with use of stones for construction purposes for centuries. The whole buildings were made from dimensional stone, like sandstone, limestone or rhyolite. Pavements were made especially from basalt, andesite, rhyolite or granite. Also the most common modern construction material - concrete includes large amounts of crashed rock, especially limestone, dolostone and andesite.

Simulation-based Analysis of the Differences in the Removal Rate of Chlorides, Nitrates and Sulfates by Electrokinetic Desalination Treatments

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Paz-Garcia, Juan Manuel; Johannesson, Björn; Ottosen, Lisbeth M.

2012-01-01

than chlorides and nitrates. A physicochemical model for electrochemically-induced reactive-transport processes is described and used for a theoretical analysis of the influence of the chemical interactions on the removal rate of the target ions. Simulations for the electro-desalination of a brick......Due to their abundance in the natural environment, chloride, nitrate and sulfate salts are considered the main responsible for the salt-induced decay processes in building materials and sculptures. Electro-desalination techniques, enhanced with carbonated clay buffer poultice placed between...

O Gnaisse Facoidal: a mais Carioca das Rochas.

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Kátia Leite Mansur; Ismar Souza Carvalho; Carlos Fernando Moura Delphim; Emilio Velloso Barroso

2008-01-01

The city of Rio de Janeiro is known by its natural beauties. The mountains and the sea make the city the postcard ofBrazil. The sculpture of the carioca landscape is closely related to the augen gneiss, very resistant rock to the weatheringand, for this reason, it stands out in the relief. It gives form for Sugar Loaf and Corcovado, for example. Augen gneisswas used in the construction of most of the historical buildings of the city, including museums and churches, manyof them were built in t...

MONUMENTS TO THE PATRIOTIC WAR OF 1812

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Frolov Vladimir Pavlovich

2012-10-01

Full Text Available The article covers a relevant historical and cultural problem of elaboration and maintenance of monuments of the military glory of 1812. The author considers various architectural and sculptural monuments illustrating heroic events of Patriotic war of 1812, built in the two Russian capitals - Moscow and Saint Petersburg in different historical periods, and also in primordial Russian towns, such as Smolensk, Vyazma, and Maloyaroslavets. Architectural and composition-related features of this or that monument erected against the background of historic events of the war of 1812 are analyzed in detail. The author demonstrates the links between architecture and sculpture within the framework of town-planning solutions implemented in the pieces that have found their places in the towns enlisted above. The value of symbols of the Victory and Glory of the Russian army and the Russian people is marked. The names of the most famous heroes of this war, starting from a field marshal and ending with a soldier are inscribed. By addressing the historical and cultural heritage of Russia, the author informs readers about the most significant events of the war. The author mentions an acute problem of the modernity, that is, preservation and restoration of monuments, and shares his view point. The value of the historic and cultural heritage of Russia for military and patriotic education is emphasized. The article is prepared within the framework of the year of the Russian history.

Application of digital radiography in the analysis of cultural heritage

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Oiveira, Davi F.; Calza, Cristiane; Rocha, Henrique S.; Nascimento, Joseilson R.; Lopes, Ricardo T., E-mail: davi@lin.ufrj.br, E-mail: ccalza@lin.ufrj.br, E-mail: henrique@lin.ufrj.br, E-mail: joseilson@lin.ufrj.br, E-mail: ricardo@lin.ufrj.br [Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil). Lab. de Instrumentacao Nuclear

2013-07-01

The scientific examination of artworks has gained increasing interest in the last years, allowing the characterization of materials and techniques employed by the artists. This analysis can be extremely valuable to conservation and restoration treatments. However, the fact that every artworks is a unique piece emphasizes the necessity of working with non-destructive techniques. Although radiography has been used in the technical examination of museum objects for many decades, digital radiography is rapidly becoming a preferred modality for this essential tool in the advanced examination of works of art. The ability to electronically combine images from the large painting into a single composite image file was extremely valuable and results in higher quality images than those achieved with conventional radiography. These images can be also processed and improved using adequate software. Additional advantages of digital radiography include the possibility of an almost immediate analysis of the results, use of an only recording film and absence of chemical processing. Radiographic imaging can be applied to the analysis of virtually all media including paintings, sculptures, woodworks, engravings, etc. This paper reports some case studies of the use of digital radiography in the study of paintings and sculptures, showing the feasibility and advantages of this technique for this kind of purpose. The radiographic images revealed the conservation state of the analyzed objects and various details of its execution in order to assist recently restoration processes. (author)

Application of digital radiography in the analysis of cultural heritage

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Oiveira, Davi F.; Calza, Cristiane; Rocha, Henrique S.; Nascimento, Joseilson R.; Lopes, Ricardo T.

2013-01-01

The scientific examination of artworks has gained increasing interest in the last years, allowing the characterization of materials and techniques employed by the artists. This analysis can be extremely valuable to conservation and restoration treatments. However, the fact that every artworks is a unique piece emphasizes the necessity of working with non-destructive techniques. Although radiography has been used in the technical examination of museum objects for many decades, digital radiography is rapidly becoming a preferred modality for this essential tool in the advanced examination of works of art. The ability to electronically combine images from the large painting into a single composite image file was extremely valuable and results in higher quality images than those achieved with conventional radiography. These images can be also processed and improved using adequate software. Additional advantages of digital radiography include the possibility of an almost immediate analysis of the results, use of an only recording film and absence of chemical processing. Radiographic imaging can be applied to the analysis of virtually all media including paintings, sculptures, woodworks, engravings, etc. This paper reports some case studies of the use of digital radiography in the study of paintings and sculptures, showing the feasibility and advantages of this technique for this kind of purpose. The radiographic images revealed the conservation state of the analyzed objects and various details of its execution in order to assist recently restoration processes. (author)

Characterization of highly anisotropic three-dimensionally nanostructured surfaces

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Schmidt, Daniel

2014-01-01

Generalized ellipsometry, a non-destructive optical characterization technique, is employed to determine geometrical structure parameters and anisotropic dielectric properties of highly spatially coherent three-dimensionally nanostructured thin films grown by glancing angle deposition. The (piecewise) homogeneous biaxial layer model approach is discussed, which can be universally applied to model the optical response of sculptured thin films with different geometries and from diverse materials, and structural parameters as well as effective optical properties of the nanostructured thin films are obtained. Alternative model approaches for slanted columnar thin films, anisotropic effective medium approximations based on the Bruggeman formalism, are presented, which deliver results comparable to the homogeneous biaxial layer approach and in addition provide film constituent volume fraction parameters as well as depolarization or shape factors. Advantages of these ellipsometry models are discussed on the example of metal slanted columnar thin films, which have been conformally coated with a thin passivating oxide layer by atomic layer deposition. Furthermore, the application of an effective medium approximation approach to in-situ growth monitoring of this anisotropic thin film functionalization process is presented. It was found that structural parameters determined with the presented optical model equivalents for slanted columnar thin films agree very well with scanning electron microscope image estimates. - Highlights: • Summary of optical model strategies for sculptured thin films with arbitrary geometries • Application of the rigorous anisotropic Bruggeman effective medium applications • In-situ growth monitoring of atomic layer deposition on biaxial metal slanted columnar thin film

To attach or not to attach? The effect of carrier surface morphology and topography on attachment of phoretic deutonymphs of Uropoda orbicularis (Acari)

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Bajerlein, Daria; Adamski, Zbigniew; Kacalak, Wojciech; Tandecka, Katarzyna; Wiesner, Maciej; Jurga, Stefan

2016-08-01

Previous studies on preferences of phoretic deutonymphs of Uropodina for attachment sites have shown that they frequently select smooth and hydrophobic surfaces. The aim of our study was to provide the detailed morphological and topographical characteristics of beetle body surfaces to which deutonymphs frequently attach and to verify how the presence of setae and surface sculpture affects deutonymph attachment. The study was conducted on Uropoda orbicularis (Müller, 1776) and its common beetle carriers: Aphodius prodromus (Brahm, 1790), Aphodius fimetarius (Linnaeus, 1758), Onthophagus nuchicornis (Linnaeus, 1758) and Margarinotus carbonarius (Hoffmann, 1803). Morphology and topography of elytra, femora, propygidia and pygidia of beetles were analysed mainly using SEM methods supported with CLSM and AFM techniques. The hypothesis that deutonymphs may attach to surfaces covered with setae, if seta density is low enough not to disturb mite movement, was tested. The study revealed that deutonymphs attach to surfaces of various types as follows: (i) smooth, (ii) hairy, i.e., covered with setae, (iii) flat and (iv) sculptured. Smooth body parts and body parts covered with setae of low density were most frequently and intensively occupied with deutonymphs. Surfaces of high seta density were avoided by mites. Within elytra of Aphodius beetles, deutonymphs definitely preferred flat surfaces of elytral intervals. On the contrary, densely punctuated propygidium and pygidium in M. carbonarius were heavily infested with deutonymphs. We conclude that carrier surface morphology and topography are important for Uropodina deutonymph attachment, but these two factors cannot fully explain the observed relation.

The largest specimen of Apateon and the life history pathway of neoteny in the Paleozoic temnospondyl family Branchiosauridae

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N. B. Fröbisch

2009-02-01

Full Text Available Two distinct developmental trajectories, metamorphosis and neoteny (the retention of larval somatic features in adult animals, have been reported for the small gill-bearing branchiosaurids of the Late Carboniferous and Early Permian of central Europe. Based on a very large specimen of the species Apateon caducus (Ammon, 1889, anatomical features characteristic for the neotenic phenotype of branchiosaurids are described. Large neotenes lack changes that occur during a short phase of transformation into terrestrial adults (metamorphosis, such as ossification of the braincase and palatoquadrate and intercentra, further ossification of the girdles and formation of muscle attachment scars and processes on the limb bones. They also lack a distinct sculpturing of the dermal skull roofing elements with deep polygonal ridges and grooves. Instead, larval somatic features are retained including ossified branchial denticles indicative of open gill slits and accentuated larval-type sculpturing of the dermal skull roof. Large size, high degree of ossification as compared to the larvae, and the presence of uncinate processes on the ribs clearly demonstrate an adult ontogenetic stage. Neotenes remained in the aquatic environment throughout their life and were most likely not capable of effective terrestrial locomotion. The frequency distribution of the two phenotypes in modern salamander populations and the environmental cues that influence the development of them provide a comparative framework for the discussion of the evolution of the two life history pathways in branchiosaurids. doi:10.1002/mmng.200800012

O Gnaisse Facoidal: a mais Carioca das Rochas.

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Kátia Leite Mansur

2008-09-01

Full Text Available The city of Rio de Janeiro is known by its natural beauties. The mountains and the sea make the city the postcard ofBrazil. The sculpture of the carioca landscape is closely related to the augen gneiss, very resistant rock to the weatheringand, for this reason, it stands out in the relief. It gives form for Sugar Loaf and Corcovado, for example. Augen gneisswas used in the construction of most of the historical buildings of the city, including museums and churches, manyof them were built in the 19th century. It was used in the sculpture of ornaments, facades and frames of doors andwindows. The exploitation of the augen gneiss was presented by Jean Baptiste Debret in his book "Voyage Pittoresque etHistorique au Brésil". A picture of quarry is presented at Morro da Glória and describes the extraction method by slavelabor. He informes that the augen gneiss is softer, less expensive and more easily exploited. It was destined, mainly, tothe parts of the buildings that should be sculpted. This rock is still present in an important event of the history of thebrazilian arts. Pedra do Sal, a stairway sculpted in the augen gneiss Downtown, was the place that African people metin the past to tell their histories, to do religious cults and to sing. In these meetings in Pedra do Sal samba was born.

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The development of robot art

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Pagliarini, Luigi; Lund, Henrik Hautop

2009-01-01

Going through a few examples of robot artists who are recognized worldwide, we try to analyze the deepest meaning of what is called “robot art” and the related art field definition. We also try to highlight its well-marked borders, such as kinetic sculptures, kinetic art, cyber art, and cyberpunk...... that might classify robot art as a unique and innovative discipline, and to track down some of the principles by which a robotic artifact can or cannot be considered an art piece in terms of social, cultural, and strictly artistic interest....

Two flat-backed polydesmidan millipedes from the Miocene Chiapas-amber Lagerstätte, Mexico.

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Francisco Riquelme

Full Text Available Two species of fossil polydesmidan millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida embedded in amber are described from Miocene strata near Simojovel, in the Chiapas Highlands, Mexico. Maatidesmus paachtun gen. et sp. nov., placed into Chelodesmidae Cook, 1895, and Anbarrhacus adamantis gen. et sp. nov., assigned in the family Platyrhacidae Pocock, 1895. Morphological data from fossil specimens have been recovered using 3D X-ray micro-computed tomography and regular to infrared-reflected microscopy. Both fossil species are recognizable as new primarily but not exclusively, by collum margin modification and remarkable paranotal and metatergite dorsal sculpture.

[About a new medical primary language].

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Borque, Oscar Valtueña

2007-01-01

The author, Medical Doctor from half a century, because his interest in Art, has studied Art Philosophy and History at the Madrid University. He found among the primary civilizations many pictures and sculptures with illness showed as Art, but not included in the books of History of Medicine. In this paper he shows a palimpsest to demonstrate that the four Mesoamerican cultures, before the arrival of Spaniard, without cultural or artistic influences, pictured a lot of congenital malformations and illness. The author exposes his original point of view to explain these findings.

IAEA Newsbriefs. V. 10, no. 3(69). Nov-Dec 1995

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1995-01-01

This issue gives brief information on the following topics: IAEA Director General Addresses United Nations, IAEA Board of Governors' December Meetings, UN General Assembly Commends Work of IAEA, Oceanographic Investigations of Radioactive Pollution, Cancer Radiotherapy Using Heavy Charged Particles, Highlights of the 1995 IAEA General Conference, Director General's Statement to 1995 IAEA General Conference, General Conference Scientific Programme, Countries Invited to More Widely Apply INES Scale, Safety Meeting on Kozloduy in Bulgaria, Selection of Dry Storage Technologies for Spent Fuel, India Presents Sculpture to the IAEA, IAEA Seminars and Symposia, and other short information

A Physical Approach to Tangible Interaction Design

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Jensen, Mads Vedel

2007-01-01

The field of tangible interaction is growing in rich and diverse directions calling for new forms of understanding. In this paper I will present a view on tangible interaction that has a strong focus on movement and interaction qualities. I will describe a design exercise that transfers interaction...... qualities identified from user observations made in particular contexts to the design of new interaction modalities. The exercise was completed with 16 graduate students and resulted in a set of interactive sculptures that aim to convey particular interaction experiences. I will introduce the process...

«Quand’anche l’errore sia stato smascherato…». La genesi estetica della filosofia della storia in J.G. Herder

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Pietro Conte

2012-05-01

Full Text Available Adopting a morphological paradigm based on the equidistance of any art form from the concept of beauty, Herder explicitly subverts normative aesthetics and its claim to impose an everlasting canon and to measure all cultural products by the very same yardstick. Focusing on Herder’s early writings about ancient sculpture, poetry and mythology, I point out how they will later influence his philosophy of history, as it developed in works such as This too a Philosophy of History for the Formation of Humanity and Ideas for the Philosophy of History of Humanity.

Pushing the Limits of Kinetic Arts: Strandbeests

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Jansen, Theo

2017-01-01

In 1990, Dutch artist Theo Jansen introduced the world to his newest creation, the strandbeests. Kenetic sculptures created from plastic tubing, water bottles, and pipes, these beests survive on their own. These herds live on beaches all around the world, surviving on their waterfeelers and sandfeelers to remain safely on the sand. Powered by wind, these new life forms do not require food! Join us for a keynote lecture with Theo as he discusses the story behind the strandbeests as he pushes the limits with these beautiful and unique animals.

Art and soul: powerful and powerless art in Singapore

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T C Chang

2008-01-01

Public art in urban areas offers a window on a city’s soul. Art in the form of sculptures, monuments, and other creative expressions can inform us of the ways artists think of the urban environment, the goals of policy makers in art installations, and the way members of the public interact with art and with each other in the city. Taking Singapore as a case study, I argue that contemporary public art has the power to inform place identity and inspire community aspirations. Unlike the hard pow...

Metaphors of DNA: a review of the popularisation processes

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Sergi Cortiñas Rovira

2008-03-01

Full Text Available This article offers a 1953-present day review of the models that have popularised DNA, one of the fundamental molecules of biochemistry. DNA has become an iconic concept over the 20th century, overcoming the boundaries of science and spreading into literature, painting, sculpture or religion. This work analyses the reasons why DNA has penetrated society so effectively and examines some of the main metaphors used by the scientists and scientific popularisers. Furthermore, this article, taken from the author's PhD thesis, describes some recent popularisation models for this molecule.

Metaphors of DNA: a review of the popularisation processes (Spanish original version

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Sergi Cortiñas Rovira

2008-03-01

Full Text Available This article offers a 1953-present day review of the models that have popularised DNA, one of the fundamental molecules of biochemistry. DNA has become an iconic concept over the 20th century, overcoming the boundaries of science and spreading into literature, painting, sculpture or religion. This work analyses the reasons why DNA has penetrated society so effectively and examines some of the main metaphors used by the scientists and scientific popularisers. Furthermore, this article, taken from the author's PhD thesis, describes some recent popularisation models for this molecule.

Egyptské výtvarné umění XX. století a jeho role ve společnosti (se zaměřením na malbu a sochařství)

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Nováková, Hana

2011-01-01

EGYPTIAN ART OF THE 20TH CENTURY AND ITS ROLE IN THE EGYPTIAN SOCIETY (CONCERNING THE ARTS OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE Hana Nováková Abstract This thesis is a contribution to the research of the Egyptian Visual Arts in the 20th century. Egypt has long tradition of pre-Islamic and Islamic arts. Early in the 20th century the new phenomenon emerged - the modern Egyptian art. This term does not mean the visual art influenced by the modern Western art, but just the visual art influenced by the style...

Pushing the Limits of Kinetic Arts: Strandbeests

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Jansen, Theo

2017-01-12

In 1990, Dutch artist Theo Jansen introduced the world to his newest creation, the strandbeests. Kenetic sculptures created from plastic tubing, water bottles, and pipes, these beests survive on their own. These herds live on beaches all around the world, surviving on their waterfeelers and sandfeelers to remain safely on the sand. Powered by wind, these new life forms do not require food! Join us for a keynote lecture with Theo as he discusses the story behind the strandbeests as he pushes the limits with these beautiful and unique animals.

Volume Sculpting Using the Level-Set Method

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Bærentzen, Jakob Andreas; Christensen, Niels Jørgen

2002-01-01

In this paper, we propose the use of the Level--Set Method as the underlying technology of a volume sculpting system. The main motivation is that this leads to a very generic technique for deformation of volumetric solids. In addition, our method preserves a distance field volume representation....... A scaling window is used to adapt the Level--Set Method to local deformations and to allow the user to control the intensity of the tool. Level--Set based tools have been implemented in an interactive sculpting system, and we show sculptures created using the system....

Two Flat-Backed Polydesmidan Millipedes from the Miocene Chiapas-Amber Lagerstätte, Mexico

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Riquelme, Francisco; Hernández-Patricio, Miguel; Martínez-Dávalos, Arnulfo; Rodríguez-Villafuerte, Mercedes; Montejo-Cruz, Maira; Alvarado-Ortega, Jesús; Ruvalcaba-Sil, José L.; Zúñiga-Mijangos, Luis

2014-01-01

Two species of fossil polydesmidan millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida) embedded in amber are described from Miocene strata near Simojovel, in the Chiapas Highlands, Mexico. Maatidesmus paachtun gen. et sp. nov., placed into Chelodesmidae Cook, 1895, and Anbarrhacus adamantis gen. et sp. nov., assigned in the family Platyrhacidae Pocock, 1895. Morphological data from fossil specimens have been recovered using 3D X-ray micro-computed tomography and regular to infrared-reflected microscopy. Both fossil species are recognizable as new primarily but not exclusively, by collum margin modification and remarkable paranotal and metatergite dorsal sculpture. PMID:25162220

Cultivating the Uncanny

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Jochum, Elizabeth; Goldberg, Ken

2016-01-01

the uncanny response does not arise from the figure of the robot itself but from the actions it performs. These actions are designed to stretch the boundaries between the animate and the inanimate in new directions, provoking strong reactions as viewers become participants in the artworks and challenging...... reactions invoked by non-anthropomorphic robot sculptures. We analyze three examples: The Telegarden (1995-2004), Patrick Tresset’s Six Robots Named Paul (2012) and Louis-Philippe Demers’ The Blind Robot (2013) to demonstrate how non-anthropomorphic robotic artworks evoke the “experiential uncanny” where...

« Quelque chose de rouge » : l’esthétique des tableaux vivants dans Salammbô

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Jullien, Dominique

2016-01-01

L’écriture de Flaubert dans Salammbô est gouvernée par un principe analogue au tableau vivant, qui tire le roman vers les arts visuels et les arts du spectacle. Le tableau vivant, pratique culturelle qui atteint sa plus grande popularité au cours du Second Empire, traverse à la fois le théâtre, la peinture, la photographie et la sculpture, arts avec lesquels l’écriture de Flaubert entretient une relation d’imitation ou de rivalité. La question du tableau vivant permet de renouveler la réflexi...

Repercussions of differential deindustrialization in the City

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McAtackney, Laura

2017-01-01

, a period of sectarian conflict spanning from the late 1960s to the signing of the Belfast Agreement in 1998. Many of the period’s tensions have subsided from actual violence but have remained unresolved among present-day local communities, particularly in community heritage discourses and governmental...... policies. McAtackney considers how these legacies of the past affect Belfast’s contemporary urban landscape and community identities through examples of civic memorialization practices (e.g., murals, sculptures) and other material interventions (e.g., walls, graffiti, memorials) in the historically...

Artificially evolved functional shell morphology of burrowing bivalves

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Germann, D. P.; Schatz, W.; Hotz, Peter Eggenberger

2014-01-01

The morphological evolution of bivalves is documented by a rich fossil record. It is believed that the shell shape and surface sculpture play an important role for the burrowing performance of endobenthic species. While detailed morphometric studies of bivalve shells have been done...... dimensional (3D) objects, the first ever artificial evolution of a physical bivalve shell was performed. The result was a vertically flattened shell occupying only the top sediment layers. Insufficient control of the sediment was the major limitation of the setup and restricted the significance of the results...

POLLEN AND SEED SURFACE MORFOLOGY IN SOME REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GENUS RHODODENDRON SUBSECT. RHODORASTRUM (ERICACEAE IN THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST

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I. M. Koksheeva

2015-05-01

Full Text Available Comparative study of pollen and seed morphology of three species of Rhododendron L. subsect. Rhodorastrum (Maxim. Cullen (Rh. dauricum L., Rh. mucronolatum Turcz., Rh. sichotense Pojark. is performed. Results of discriminant analysis of the total of morphometric characters of pollen and seeds have proved the distinctness of all three species from each other. Differences of polen are observed in the type of sculpture (granulate, rugulate, microrugulate and in the diameter of tetrads. The coefficient of elongation of the exotesta cells is established as a valuable morphometric character

Indian gift unveiled at CERN: the statue of the Indian deity Shiva was unveiled by His Excellency K M Chandrasekhar, ambassador (WTO Geneva), shown above signing the visitors' book, Anil Kakodkar, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and secretary of the Indian Department of Energy, and CERN's director-general, Robert Aymar.

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2004-01-01

On 18 June CERN unveiled an unusual new landmark - a statue of the Indian deity Shiva. The statue is a gift from CERN's Indian collaborators to celebrate CERN's long association with India, which began in the 1960s. The statue was made in India in the traditional style. The original sculpture was a wax model, around which a soil mould was made. Melting the wax left a hollow into which liquid metal was poured, and once cooled the mould was split and the statue polished and given its antique finish.

Face the voice

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Lønstrup, Ansa

2014-01-01

will be based on a reception aesthetic and phenomenological approach, the latter as presented by Don Ihde in his book Listening and Voice. Phenomenologies of Sound , and my analytical sketches will be related to theoretical statements concerning the understanding of voice and media (Cavarero, Dolar, La......Belle, Neumark). Finally, the article will discuss the specific artistic combination and our auditory experience of mediated human voices and sculpturally projected faces in an art museum context under the general conditions of the societal panophonia of disembodied and mediated voices, as promoted by Steven...

Stone sculptures of goddesses on the boats from Goa, west coast of India

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Gaur, A.S.; Kerkar, R.

Goa situated on the central west coast of India, has served as an overseas trading post since the early historic times. An onshore exploration along the river Mhadei in the north Goa on the west coast of India yielded 13 boat motifs of different...

Basic sculpturing methods as innovatory incentives in the development of aesthetic form concepts

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Thomsen, Bente Dahl

2009-01-01

  Many project teams grapple for a long time with developing ideas to the form concept because of a lack of methods to solve the many form problems they face in sketching. They also have difficulty in translating the project requirements for product proportions or volumes to an aesthetic form...

Constructing memory through artistic practices

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Massart, Cecile

2015-01-01

Cecile Massart is a visual artist who lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. Her teaching career includes Academy of Ixelles, Ecole Superieure des Arts Plastiques et Visuels in Mons, and Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Visuels La Cambre in Brussels. Cecile Massart has presented her extensive artistic research at numerous international conferences. Her works are featured in private and public collections. Since 1994, Cecile Massart has been investigating international sites for radioactive waste storage, exploring how this 21. century archaeological stratum is being inscribed in the landscape. Researching radioactive waste sites around the world for over 20 years, her main focus has become their identification in the landscape. Her ideas are communicated through her visual research and writings that aim to raise the awareness of radioactive disposal sites and to study their life within their surroundings for future generations. Her drawings, films, books and exhibitions investigate a new kind of architecture of the sites that become research platforms. Her first graphic research, edited under the title Un site archive pour Alpha, Beta, Gamma, helps in revealing their true nature. Her photographs, silk-screen prints, installations and pictures testify to the need to preserve the memory and knowledge of such sites across generations ensuring the safety of the living world. With this objective in mind, to build a memory, she has developed an architectural vocabulary functioning as warning sculptures to identify the nuclear repositories in the landscape: markers or archi-sculptures. In the following sections, Cecile Massart describes her work in her own words. For more details on her work, see www.cecilemassart.com

Irregular Shaped Building Design Optimization with Building Information Modelling

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Lee Xia Sheng

2016-01-01

Full Text Available This research is to recognise the function of Building Information Modelling (BIM in design optimization for irregular shaped buildings. The study focuses on a conceptual irregular shaped “twisted” building design similar to some existing sculpture-like architectures. Form and function are the two most important aspects of new buildings, which are becoming more sophisticated as parts of equally sophisticated “systems” that we are living in. Nowadays, it is common to have irregular shaped or sculpture-like buildings which are very different when compared to regular buildings. Construction industry stakeholders are facing stiff challenges in many aspects such as buildability, cost effectiveness, delivery time and facility management when dealing with irregular shaped building projects. Building Information Modelling (BIM is being utilized to enable architects, engineers and constructors to gain improved visualization for irregular shaped buildings; this has a purpose of identifying critical issues before initiating physical construction work. In this study, three variations of design options differing in rotating angle: 30 degrees, 60 degrees and 90 degrees are created to conduct quantifiable comparisons. Discussions are focused on three major aspects including structural planning, usable building space, and structural constructability. This research concludes that Building Information Modelling is instrumental in facilitating design optimization for irregular shaped building. In the process of comparing different design variations, instead of just giving “yes or no” type of response, stakeholders can now easily visualize, evaluate and decide to achieve the right balance based on their own criteria. Therefore, construction project stakeholders are empowered with superior evaluation and decision making capability.

Looking West: Understanding Socio-Political Allegories and Art References in Contemporary Romanian Cinema

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Király Hajnal

2016-09-01

Full Text Available The representation of other arts in cinema can be regarded as a different semiotic system revealing what is hidden in the narrative, as a site of cultural meanings inherent to the cinematic apparatus addressing a pensive spectator, or a discourse on cinema born in the space of intermediality. In the post-1989 films of Romanian director Lucian Pintilie, painterly and sculptural references, as well as miniatures become figurations of cultural identity inside allegories about a society torn between East and West. I argue that art references are liberating these films from provincialism by transforming them into a discourse lamenting over the loss of Western, Christian and local values, endangered or forgotten in the post-communist era. In the films under analysis – An Unforgettable Summer (1994, Too Late (1996 and Tertium Non Datur (2006 – images reminding of Byzantine iconography, together with direct references and remediations of sculptures by Romanian-born Constantin Brâncuşi, participate in historico-political allegories as expressions of social crisis and the transient nature of values. They also reveal the tension between an external and internal image of Romania, the aspiration of the “other Europe” to connect with the European cultural tradition, in a complex demonstration of a “self-othering” process. I will also argue that, contrary to the existing criticism, this generalizing, allegorical tendency can also be detected in some of the films of the generation of filmmakers representing the New Romanian Cinema, for example in Radu Jude’s Aferim! (2015.1

An operator calculus for surface and volume modeling

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Gordon, W. J.

1984-01-01

The mathematical techniques which form the foundation for most of the surface and volume modeling techniques used in practice are briefly described. An outline of what may be termed an operator calculus for the approximation and interpolation of functions of more than one independent variable is presented. By considering the linear operators associated with bivariate and multivariate interpolation/approximation schemes, it is shown how they can be compounded by operator multiplication and Boolean addition to obtain a distributive lattice of approximation operators. It is then demonstrated via specific examples how this operator calculus leads to practical techniques for sculptured surface and volume modeling.

Advanced theories of hypoid gears

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Wang, Xudong

2013-01-01

In order to develop more efficient types of gears, further investigation into the theories of engagement is necessary. Up until now most of the research work on the theories of engagement has been carried out separately on different groups, and based on individual types of profiles. This book aims at developing some universal theories, which can not only be used for all types of gears, but can also be utilized in other fields such as sculptured surfaces. The book has four characteristics: the investigations are concentrated on mismatched tooth surfaces; all the problems are dealt with from a

The 'horns' of a medical dilemma: Alexander the Great.

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Russell, Gül A

2004-06-01

Retrospective 'diagnosis' of clinical disorders of famous historical figures has been of medical interest. In the absence of a patient's 'body', the validity of 'physical symptoms' and their interpretation by contemporary diagnostic criteria are questionable. When the symptoms have been gleaned from the patients's effigy which, as in the case of Alexander the Great, is submerged in legend, the enterprise becomes inherently hazardous. In the present paper, some of the conceptual problems underlying retrospective diagnoses will be identified. Then the use of iconographic records, such as numismatics and sculpture, to provide evidence of clinical symptoms will be shown to be highly misleading.

Occult knowledge and sacred geometry. A new interpretation of a portrait of Rubens and his son from the Hermitage Museum

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Teresa Esposito

2017-02-01

Full Text Available This paper explores the diversity and complexity of Rubens’s humanist interests and illustrates his appropriation of learned and esoteric knowledge, by discussing the anonymous painting in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg in which Rubens is portrayed together with his son Albert. This portrait also depicts a sculpture from Rubens’s collection, that of Hecate Triformis, who in antiquity was considered to be a goddess of the underworld. By focusing on the books, manuscripts, Gnostic gems, and the Hecate statue from the artist’s collections, this paper will provide a new iconographic analysis of the Hermitage painting.

[Conversations with the Sphinx. Images of Greek myth in Freud's collection].

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Burke, Janine

2006-01-01

In Freud's art collection, the myth of Oedipus, a central tenet of psychoanalysis, is represented by several Greek statues and vases, as well as a reproduction of Ingres' painting. Originally a protective male Egyptian deity, in Greek myth, the Sphinx was female and associated with death. In addition, Freud had sculptures of Medusa the Gorgon, a terrifying winged female, and of provocative Baubo, both also figuring in his writings. By describing these works of art and some of their mythological ramifications, the author suggests that they represented aspects of feminity not really covered by Freud's theories.

Hairstyles in the arts of Greek and Roman antiquity.

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Haas, Norbert; Toppe, Francoise; Henz, Beate M

2005-12-01

Styling one's hair seems to be an innate desire of humans to emphasize their beauty and power. As reviewed here, hairstyles were influenced by preceding cultures, by religion, by those depicted for gods and emperors on sculptures and coins. In addition, they were determined by aspects of lifestyle such as sports, wealth, and the desire to display inner feelings. The historical changes in fashions can be exemplarily followed by a visitor to an art collection of Graeco-Roman antiquity. The study of hairstyles permits an insight into very basic aspects of the self-conception of individuals and of the respective societies.

An Analogue - the Logos of the Universal Tools of Architects and Chefs

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Fisker, Anna Marie

2017-01-01

and Gertrude Stein. There is considerable evidence to suggest that Gertrude Stein was a major influence in both the career and personal life of Picasso. Gertrude Stein, as the prominent champion of Picasso began with the purchase of the 1904 painting”Young Girl with A Basket of Flowers”. However, the painting...... and Picasso, food along with painting and sculpturing inspired related movements in art, music, literature and architecture. In the beginning, it was not a priori that the cubistic perception of spatial construction could be utilized in other areas than painting. The symbols of cubism were not rational...

Plurielles

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Eliana Magnani

2011-09-01

Full Text Available Plurielles sont les recherches, les approches, les méthodes et les techniques que le lecteur retrouvera affirmées encore cette année dans les articles et notices de cette quinzième livraison du Bucema. Que ce soient les procédés physiques et chimiques de datation ou d’analyse des sites archéologiques et des matériaux de construction et de décor ; les moyens raisonnés d’observer, comprendre et restaurer sculptures, architectures et peintures murales, de les consigner, restituer et recréer en 3...

Indian concepts on sexuality.

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Chakraborty, Kaustav; Thakurata, Rajarshi Guha

2013-01-01

India is a vast country depicting wide social, cultural and sexual variations. Indian concept of sexuality has evolved over time and has been immensely influenced by various rulers and religions. Indian sexuality is manifested in our attire, behavior, recreation, literature, sculptures, scriptures, religion and sports. It has influenced the way we perceive our health, disease and device remedies for the same. In modern era, with rapid globalization the unique Indian sexuality is getting diffused. The time has come to rediscover ourselves in terms of sexuality to attain individual freedom and to reinvest our energy to social issues related to sexuality.

Digital Sculpting with Mudbox Essential Tools and Techniques for Artists

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de la Flor, Mike

2010-01-01

Digital sculpting is the use of tools to push, pull, smooth, grab, pinch or otherwise manipulate a digital object as if it were made of a real-life substance such as clay. Mudbox is the premier sculpting solution for digital artists, allowing them to naturally and easily sculpt detailed, organic characters and models in a way that feels like traditional sculpting.This book guides CG professionals through the process of creating amazing digital sculptures using the Mudbox arsenal of ground-breaking digital sculpting and 3D painting tools, and porting the models into their Maya or Max work.Artis

[The development of the ethical thinking in children and the teaching of ethics in pediatrics].

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Lejarraga, Horacio

2008-10-01

The child's ethical thinking is not installed in his mind as a single act, but as a consequence of an evolving process. Kohlberg, based on Piaget's studies, described three main developmental stages: preconventional, conventional and post conventional. However, Vigostky and others emphasized the importance of the environment for the moral sculpture of children. Three models can be recognised for teaching ethics in children: the deontological way, the descriptive way, and the only one morally acceptable: the one used by Socrates, by which ethics becomes not merely an adjective, but an institutionalised social practice built on axiological basis.

Towards a reconstruction of the contributions of the Argentine experience to the development of International Human Rights Law: the voices of Claudia Fontes and Paula Bombara

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Estefanía Giaccone

2017-12-01

Full Text Available In the present dissertation, we intend to relate and contrast the representations that emerge from legal and political-institutional discourses on the crime of forced disappearance of persons in the Argentinian historical experience. In this sense, we will analyze the representations of the crime of forced disappearance of persons in two artistic works: The Reconstruction of Pablo Miguez Portrait, Claudia Fontes’ sculpture, and The Sea and the Serpent, a novel by Paula Bombara, in order to read them into the perspective of law, with the jurisprudence and communications of international organizations that shape our unit of study.

Venetian Commodities

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Fisker, Anna Marie

2017-01-01

families, like the Cornaros, in the 14th century had large plantations devoted to producing sugarcane. The proposal deals with the historical identity of Venice, i.e. how the Venetians designed an identity through sugar - embodied through and crystalized in - events and images. Sugar being extravagant...... expensive was usually kept under lock and key and even in Venetian standards being able to waste large amounts on decorations was a sign of a society’s wealth. Sugar sculptures became a fashionable way to show off and Venice fostered creators of some of the most spectacular banquet decorations ever seen...

Controverses autour de l'anatomie dans les traités artistiques pendant la période moderne en France

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Maria Portmann

2016-01-01

Dès la Renaissance, en France, les artistes s’intéressent de près à l’anatomie afin de représenter le corps humain le plus justement possible. Influencé par ses pairs, l’Eva Prima Pandora et le Livre de Pourtraicture de Jean Cousin font largement référence aux proportions de Vitruve par l’intermédiaire d’Albrecht Dürer et à l’anatomie pour justifier la primauté de la peinture sur la sculpture en prenant comme point de départ les commentaires de Benedetto Varchi. Dans ces deux œuvres, Jean Cou...

A second Leonardo da Vinci?

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Nakano, Mitsuko; Endo, Toshitaka; Tanaka, Shigeki

2003-10-01

We describe a young woman who suddenly began mirror writing with her right hand and has not reverted to normal writing for more than 6 years, although she writes normally with her left hand. She is ambidextrous, although she had previously used only her right hand for writing and drawing. Since it is much easier for her to use right-handed mirror writing, she uses her left hand only for writing meant to be read by others and her right hand for all other writing. Her hobbies are sculpture and painting, and her chief complaint is migraine accompanied by sensory and perceptive disturbances.

Partnership between painters and sculptors in 17th-century Spain: on model drawings by Francisco Rizi for an altarpiece of the Expectant Virgin

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Lamas-Delgado, Eduardo

2013-01-01

Full Text Available This paper deals with a case study of the collaboration between sculptors and painters in the context of the construction of altarpieces in 17th-century Spain. It analyses a drawing by Francisco Rizi (Madrid, 1614-Escorial, 1685 in the British Museum depicting a sculptural group and fragments of an architectural framework, and relates it to two other drawings by the same artist in the National Library of Spain. They are identified as fragments of the design drawing of the former altarpiece of the Expectant Virgin in the church of the Calced Trinitarians in Madrid.

A semi-automatic image-based close range 3D modeling pipeline using a multi-camera configuration.

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Rau, Jiann-Yeou; Yeh, Po-Chia

2012-01-01

The generation of photo-realistic 3D models is an important task for digital recording of cultural heritage objects. This study proposes an image-based 3D modeling pipeline which takes advantage of a multi-camera configuration and multi-image matching technique that does not require any markers on or around the object. Multiple digital single lens reflex (DSLR) cameras are adopted and fixed with invariant relative orientations. Instead of photo-triangulation after image acquisition, calibration is performed to estimate the exterior orientation parameters of the multi-camera configuration which can be processed fully automatically using coded targets. The calibrated orientation parameters of all cameras are applied to images taken using the same camera configuration. This means that when performing multi-image matching for surface point cloud generation, the orientation parameters will remain the same as the calibrated results, even when the target has changed. Base on this invariant character, the whole 3D modeling pipeline can be performed completely automatically, once the whole system has been calibrated and the software was seamlessly integrated. Several experiments were conducted to prove the feasibility of the proposed system. Images observed include that of a human being, eight Buddhist statues, and a stone sculpture. The results for the stone sculpture, obtained with several multi-camera configurations were compared with a reference model acquired by an ATOS-I 2M active scanner. The best result has an absolute accuracy of 0.26 mm and a relative accuracy of 1:17,333. It demonstrates the feasibility of the proposed low-cost image-based 3D modeling pipeline and its applicability to a large quantity of antiques stored in a museum.

The Byzantine Silver Bowls in the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial and Tree-Worship in Anglo-Saxon England

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Michael D. J. Bintley

2011-12-01

Full Text Available The ten Byzantine silver bowls included amongst the grave goods interred in the chamber of the Mound 1 ship burial at Sutton Hoo remain one of the most puzzling features of this site. It has been suggested that these items, which lay separated from the rest of the silver in the burial and close to the head of the body-space (where no body was found, may have had some special meaning which has never been discovered. This paper will argue that one of the possible keys to unlocking their significance may be found in the central roundel that adorns the centre of each bowl in the form of a rosette. These bowls, which are thought to have been manufactured in the eastern provinces of the Byzantine Empire in c. 600, entered the British Isles in unknown circumstances before coming into the possession of the man buried in (or commemorated by the Mound 1 burial. Through comparison with contemporary sculpture and vernacular literature, I will suggest that this central rosette, which was associated with both the cross of Christ and sacred trees in Byzantine sculpture, may have served as a conventional bridge between Christian and pre-Christian religious traditions associated with sacred trees in Anglo-Saxon England. The central rosettes adorning each of these bowls may have been understood as the flower of a sacred tree. Since the latter appears to have figured in Anglian paganism it is possible that the bowls may helped to convert the Anglian aristocracy, bridging a gap between Germanic insular religious traditions and those that were being introduced to Britain at the time that the ship burial itself took place.

The concept of a model of plastic bodily image in architecture

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Malakhov Sergey

2017-01-01

Full Text Available One of the key problems of architectural mastery is lack of acute feeling of the plastic image and bodily self-determination of an architectural object at the initial (and the subsequent stage when the design model author is trying to see and understand the context where the future object should appear, literally be born out of thin air. This sensuous amnesia is caused, among other reasons, by the lack of experience in “sculptural modeling”, “hand molding” and today’s common practice of facilitated transfer to analytical computer design. The loss of intense bodily experience, mental connection of one’s own body with an imaginary object, has an effect as well. In its turn, it deprives the object of sensuous corporeal nature, transforms it into a mechanistic conglomerate. The article deals with the body concept, bodily and plastic categories in relation to the architectural shaping and suggests the concept of mediator models linking reality and the designer’s imagination integrated into a new typology of “models of plastic bodily images” (MPBI. The principal medium of these models and the procedures for their creation are based on synthesis of form, interpretation of the “bodily experience”, tactile contact with model material, sculptural forming techniques and sensory evaluations of subject-environment interaction. The proposed typology of models has been piloted by the author in numerous educational and conceptual projects. The results of experiments and developed theoretical principles related to models of plastic bodily images will help achieve better results in the course of basic design and special composition training of architects.

Marble Deterioration and Climate: Examples from the Schlossbrücke Berlin

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Pirskawetz, S.; Siegesmund, S.; Weise, F.; Rieffel, Y.; Plagge, R.

2012-04-01

Protective structures for works of art or antique artefacts have a long architectural tradition and have been known in Germany since the 19th century. The effect of such covers on the microclimate around artworks of natural stone, and hence, their protective capability are insufficiently documented and understood. In 2007, an inter-disciplinary model project and part of a pilot study coordinated by the Berlin State Office for the Protection of Monuments was planned with the aim of developing an innovative winter covering system for marble statuaries located on the Schlossbrücke in Berlin. Such a system would need to fulfil the various requirements for structural stability, aesthetics, climate and practical use. This applied research represents the first complex scientific study of the sustainability of a winter covering system. A climate monitoring system was designed to create a dense database for the numerical prediction of the effect of protective systems, and to compare the given climate conditions to the known factors influencing the marble deterioration. Based on these findings a prototype of an innovative shelter was designed and tested. The project shows, that beside a temporary covering regular inspection and maintenance combined with regular cleaning ensures an effective and sustainable protection of marble sculptures. Such a maintenance program is the precondition for preserving the sculptures of the Schlossbrücke as a historical ensemble. Important scientific results of the project are transferable to similar objects of Carrara marble. The results throw a new light on the conventional protection of such objects and leads to a discussion on the necessity of an all-season protection.

Penile representations in ancient Greek art.

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Rempelakos, L; Tsiamis, C; Poulakou-Rebelakou, E

2013-12-01

The presentation of the cult of phallus in ancient Greece and the artistic appearance of the phenomenon on vase figures and statues, as indicative of the significant role of the male genitalia in all fertility ceremonies. The examination of a great number of penile representations from the ancient Greek pottery and sculpture and the review of the ancient theater plays (satiric dramas and comedies ). Phallus in artistic representation is connected either with gods of fertility, such as the goat-footed and horned Pan or the ugly dwarf Priapus or the semi-animal nailed figures Satyrs, devotees of the god Dionysus accompanying him in all ritual orgiastic celebrations. Phallus also symbolizes good luck, health and sexuality: people bear or wear artificial phalli exactly like the actors as part of their costume or carry huge penises during the festive ritual processions. On the contrary, the Olympic gods or the ordinary mortals are not imaged ithyphallic; the ideal type of male beauty epitomized in classical sculpture, normally depicts genitals of average or less than average size. It is noteworthy that many of these images belong to athletes during or immediately after hard exercise with the penis shrunk. The normal size genitalia may have been simply a convention to distinguish normal people from the gods of sexuality and fertility, protectors of the reproductive process of Nature. The representation of the over-sized and erected genitalia on vase figures or statues of ancient Greek art is related to fertility gods such as Priapus, Pan and Satyrs and there is strong evidence that imagination and legend were replacing the scientific achievements in the field of erectile function for many centuries.

Sonic morphology: Aesthetic dimensional auditory spatial awareness

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Whitehouse, Martha M.

The sound and ceramic sculpture installation, " Skirting the Edge: Experiences in Sound & Form," is an integration of art and science demonstrating the concept of sonic morphology. "Sonic morphology" is herein defined as aesthetic three-dimensional auditory spatial awareness. The exhibition explicates my empirical phenomenal observations that sound has a three-dimensional form. Composed of ceramic sculptures that allude to different social and physical situations, coupled with sound compositions that enhance and create a three-dimensional auditory and visual aesthetic experience (see accompanying DVD), the exhibition supports the research question, "What is the relationship between sound and form?" Precisely how people aurally experience three-dimensional space involves an integration of spatial properties, auditory perception, individual history, and cultural mores. People also utilize environmental sound events as a guide in social situations and in remembering their personal history, as well as a guide in moving through space. Aesthetically, sound affects the fascination, meaning, and attention one has within a particular space. Sonic morphology brings art forms such as a movie, video, sound composition, and musical performance into the cognitive scope by generating meaning from the link between the visual and auditory senses. This research examined sonic morphology as an extension of musique concrete, sound as object, originating in Pierre Schaeffer's work in the 1940s. Pointing, as John Cage did, to the corporeal three-dimensional experience of "all sound," I composed works that took their total form only through the perceiver-participant's participation in the exhibition. While contemporary artist Alvin Lucier creates artworks that draw attention to making sound visible, "Skirting the Edge" engages the perceiver-participant visually and aurally, leading to recognition of sonic morphology.

Pedro García y el color del vidrio

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María Teresa González Vicario

1999-01-01

Full Text Available El vidrio es uno de los materiales que ha alcanzado una dimensión escultórica en el siglo XX. Fue a mediados de este siglo, aproximadamente, cuando tuvo lugar su incorporación a la escultura contemporánea, y aunque España se ha sumado con un cierto retraso a esta nueva vertiente del lengueje escultórico, no son pocos los nombres de escultores que podrían ser citados por haber descubierto las posibilidades que el vidrio encierra como material escultórico. Uno de ellos es Pedro García, quien ha encontrado en el vidrio laminado, un material de procedencia industrial, su medio de expresión plástica. El análisis de su evolución artística hasta el momento actual constituye el objeto de este artículo, para lo cual se ha partido de unas primeras obras que obedecen a un planteamiento constructivo, racionalista, y en las que el vidrio ha sido trabajado en frío.The apparition of glass as a new material in sculpture dates from the middle of the XXth century. Spain has incorporated the sculptoric possibilities of glass later than other countries, but it has had an important following by an important group of sculptors. One of them is Pedro García, who has found in laminated glass, an industrial type of glass, his chief inspiration. This article traces the history of his artistic evolution. In the beginning his sculptures were very constructive and rational. Later, he developed a special technique working on glass in the process of formation through heat.

Making medieval art modern

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Elizabeth den Hartog

2015-12-01

Full Text Available Janet T. Marquardt’s book ‘Zodiaque. Making medieval art modern’ discusses the historical context, history and impact of the Zodiaque publications issued by the monks from the abbey of Ste-Marie de la Pierre-qui-Vire in Burgundy between 1951 and 2001 and links the striking photogravures, the core business of these books, to the modern movement. Although Marquardt’s view that the Zodiaque series made a great impact on the study of Romanesque sculpture is somewhat overrated, her claim that the photogravures should be seen as avant-garde works of art and the books as a “museum without walls” is entirely convincing.

Ukrainian and European Baroque in the Context of “Sister Arts” Idea

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Olga Shikirinskaya

2015-08-01

Full Text Available The article deals with the “Sister Arts” tradition as the interrelationship of various art forms (poetry, fiction, painting, theatre, music etc. relative to the Baroque period. “Sister Arts” criticism, based on E.G. Lessing essay “Laocoön…” uses the inter-art analogies to appreciate the importance of literature in the Arts, as well as to comprehend aspects of the modern approach to the synthesis of the arts. The article presents the aesthetic concept of Baroque art and its realization in architecture, sculpture, decorative and applied arts, music and literature on the background of the European and Ukrainian cultural tradition.

Seeing art in objects from the Pacific around 1900: how field collecting and German armchair anthropology met between 1873 and 1910

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Christian Kaufmann

2015-06-01

Full Text Available Reports by travellers on their discovery of works of art in remote places become more frequent in the early years of the 19th century. In 1842 sculptures from Hawai’i are mentioned in a handbook of art history, based on an artist’s field drawings. In the 1860s scientists start collecting ethnographica, including works of aesthetic value, which begin to reach European and overseas museums in the late 1870s. Between 1894 and 1900 collecting and discussing art, often based on documentation obtained in the field and with the help of local interlocutors, becomes an accepted practice in leading museums, both in Germany and the USA.

Linear polarization-discriminatory state inverter fabricated by oblique angle deposition.

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Park, Yong Jun; Sobahan, K M A; Kim, Jin Joo; Hwangbo, Chang Kwon

2009-06-22

In this paper, we report a linear polarization-discriminatory state inverter made of three-layer sculpture thin film fabricated by oblique angle deposition technique. The first and third layers are quarter-wave plates of zigzag structure and the middle of them is a circular Bragg reflector of left-handed helical structure. It is found that the normal incidence of P-polarized light on this polarization-discriminatory state inverter becomes the S-polarized light at output, while the incident S-polarized light of wavelength lying in the Bragg regime is reflected. The microstructure of the linear polarization-discriminatory state inverter is also investigated by using a scanning electron microscope.

Building Bridges Through Meaningful Occupation

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Jennifer Fortuna

2017-07-01

Full Text Available Mary Block, MS, OTR/L, an occupational therapist and artist based in Illinois, provided the cover art for the Summer 2017 issue of The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy (OJOT. Generations is a sculpture made from concrete that measures 240 x100 in. (6.096 x 2.54 m. The piece was commissioned by Mary’s home town, the Village of Deerfield, IL. Mary always knew she wanted to be an artist. When competing paradigms altered Mary’s career path, the field of occupational therapy helped her to shape a new worldview. In uncertain times, meaningful occupation empowered Mary to start over again where she originally began

The technical processes of quarrying in the Late Iron Age of Western Iberia

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Jesús RODRÍGUEZ HERNÁNDEZ

2013-01-01

Full Text Available This paper reconstructs the technical processes involved in producing the stone works made by the communities of Western Iberia during the Late Iron Age. For this study, we use both archaeological and ethnographic data. We analyze the characteristics of granite, the extraction process in the quarry, the available means of transport, the tools used and the carving process, focusing analysis on the zoomorphic sculptures known as “verracos”. Assessment of these technical aspects is essential for the analysis of the finished products and constitutes a first step in better understanding the status of stonemasons within the protohistoric societies of the Western Iberian Peninsula.

Chiasmus

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Cady, Stephen

2009-02-01

Chiasmus is a responsive and dynamically reflective, two-sided volumetric surface that embodies phenomenological issues such as the formation of images, observer and machine perception and the dynamics of the screen as a space of image reception. It consists of a square grid of 64 individually motorized cube elements engineered to move linearly. Each cube is controlled by custom software that analyzes video imagery for luminance values and sends these values to the motor control mechanisms to coordinate the individual movements. The resolution of the sculptural screen from the individual movements allows its volume to dynamically alter, providing novel and unique perspectives of its mobile form to an observer.

Moisture and salt monitoring in concrete by evanescent field dielectrometry

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Riminesi, C.; Marie-Victoire, E.; Bouichou, M.; Olmi, R.

2017-01-01

Monitoring the water content and detecting the presence of soluble salts in concrete is a key issue for its maintenance. Evanescent field dielectrometry, originally developed for the diagnostics of frescoes and mural paintings, is proposed as a tool for monitoring the decay of cement-based materials. A measuring system, based on a scalar network analyzer and a resonant probe, has been realized and tested on concrete samples taken from historical buildings in France or purposely developed in the laboratory. Measurements on water-saturated and oven-dry samples provide the basis for calibrating the instrument for on site monitoring of concrete historical buildings, sculptures and cement-based artifacts.

Saint-Pierre-le-Moutier (Nièvre : le dernier portail polychrome de Bourgogne ?

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Juliette Rollier-Hanselmann

2008-09-01

Full Text Available C’est à l’occasion d’une campagne de sondages en recherche de peintures murales dans l’église romane et gothique de Saint-Pierre-le-Moutier , au sud de Nevers, que nous avons été amenés à observer de près le superbe portail situé contre la face nord. Des polychromies anciennes, complètement inédites, dont notamment des inscriptions latines, apparaissent sous une croûte noire. L’état alarmant des sculptures, fortement menacées par la pollution et les intempéries, nécessite que l’on s’y intéres...

Radioactive wastes storage rock porosity study using neutron radiography

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Peterka, F.

1995-01-01

Neutron radiography and neutron transmission analysis application to porosity study was mainly dealing with the building industry, the art protection and the basic research. Cooperation with the building industry has produced the solution of number of problems. Cement hydratation, concrete material, red brick sample, roofing tiles protection and epoxy resin efficiency for sand stones sculpture protection, can be cited as example. Many valuable experiences (like samples thickness, penetrating substances, detection techniques for the different experiments) were achieved. These can be used in the rockies formation studies too. Resolution is the proposal to JAERI and PNC for the cooperation, which can even be on the international basis. (J.P.N.)

L’objet à l’œuvre dans l’art des British Young Artists Objecting to materialization: Some artworks by Young British Artists

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Charlotte Gould

2006-01-01

Full Text Available While an artwork is never merely an object, the relationship between the two has come to define some of the historical evolutions of art, and especially that of the 20th century, going from representation to presentation. The works of the Young British Artists, at the very end of the century, have suggested a way out of both the dematerialization process inaugurated by some of their elders and the very weighty materialism of the New Sculpture of the eighties with its “truth to material” motto, by adopting a lighter approach, unencumbered with history, which does away with the unbearable heaviness of things.