Framing the Golgotha in Renaissance Painting by Péter Bokody

“…In the master narrative of the period the emphasis is customarily put on the emergence of three-dimensional space. Initially painters aimed at generating homogenous depth within their work, a prerequisite of coherent immersive experience. …”
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Abnormal Respiratory Symptoms of Workers and Sampling of Organic Vapors Using Solid-phase Microextraction Devices in a Golf Ball Manufacturing Factory by Wen-Hsi Cheng, Nai-Yu Chen

“…The highest worker time weighted average exposure concentration of n-butyl acetate was 16.92 ppm, and that for ethyl acetate was 19.69 ppm, as measured in a closed spray room. Painters’ and printers’ symptoms of respiratory tract abnormalities (RTA) were strongly correlated with their exposures to organic solvents as determined from the answers to a questionnaire survey on workers’ RTA symptoms. …”
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„Wie die Geschichtsschreiber der Welt die Geschichte des Felsens schreiben“. Die zerschlagene Gedächtnislandschaft in der „Saison in den Alpen“ von Mieczysław Jastrun by Elżbieta Dutka

“…Mieczysław Jastrun stayed with a group of Polish painters and writers in Switzerland for three winter months between 1946 and 1947. …”
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Who’s In and Who’s Out? War News from Mexico and the Framing of Evil by Alan Hirsch

“…The artist, his right arm cocked in painterly position, takes in the scene that he will frame for us. …”
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In Sight of Mont Blanc: an Approach to Ruskin’s Perception of the Mountain by Laurence Roussillon-Constanty

“…Grand admirateur de Wordsworth, il prend soin par la suite de faire précéder chaque section de Modern Painters d’extraits de The Excursion, se faisant ainsi l’héritier d’une tradition romantique pour laquelle la montagne est le lieu privilégié de l’expression du sujet lyrique et le reflet d’une intériorité sans cesse en mouvement. …”
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‘Over-hopefulness and getting-on-ness’: Ruskin, Nature, and America by Sara Atwood

“…Such associations, he proposes in Modern Painters III ‘can be felt only by the modern European child . . . . …”
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‘Why is it that a photograph always looks clear and sharp, — not at all like a Turner?’ John Ruskin & Perceptual Aberration by Lawrence Gasquet

“…In volume IV of Modern Painters, Ruskin contends that photographs might after all be more on Turner’s side than he and other critics might have first thought: ‘Photographs never look entirely sharp; but because clearness is supposed a merit in them, they are usually taken from very clearly marked and un-Turnerian subjects; and such results as are misty and faint, though often precisely those which contain the most subtle renderings of nature, are thrown away, and the clear ones only are preserved. …”
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Blood Lead Levels among Blood Donors and High-Risk Occupational Groups in a Mining Area in Ghana: Implications for Blood Transfusion among Vulnerable Populations by Veronica Agyemang, Joseph K. Acquaye, Samuel B. E. Harrison, Felix B. Oppong, Stephany Gyaase, Kwaku P. Asante, Edeghonghon Olayemi

“…We enrolled 40 participants each from the following high-risk occupational groups: small scale miners, painters/sprayers, drivers/fuel station attendants, and auto-mechanics as well as 40 healthy blood donors (made up of teachers, traders, and office workers). …”
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