L'œuvre d'art en tant que témoignage: les artistes confrontés à la guerre by Dolores Fernández Martínez

“…But there is also the example of Picasso painting « Guernica ». To what extent this example, that portraits the yearnings of people, can be considered testimonial? …”
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The Architectural Perspective of the Apotheosis of Venice by Veronese: Geometrical Analysis and Digital Restitution by Silvia Masserano

“…From the geometric comparison of the two works, in reference to the location of the main vanishing point and its relation to the real enclosure, it was found that the author planned the perspective apparatus of the painting by assigning a precise position to the observer. …”
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Grandeur et décadence des femmes peintres entre la fin de la monarchie et la première moitié du XIXe siècle by Vera de Ladoucette

“…Two representations of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, twenty-three years apart – her Self-Portrait with Two Pupils from 1785 and the Painting Representing the Late Madame Vincent, Pupil of Her Husband by Marie-Gabrielle Capet – sum up this change. …”
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Fragments of the past: The intersection of AI, historical imagery, and early childhood creativity by Ilene R. Berson, Michael J. Berson

“…Drawing from implementation research in preschools, we explore the potential of an AI‐powered painting tool to foster historical imagery, creativity, and self‐expression. …”
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Cinabrio y mercurio en Teotihuacán y, en particular, en el túnel bajo el templo de la Serpiente Emplumada, México by Julie Gazzola

“…A detailed study on the occurrence of the mineral in Teotihuacan revealed its particular use in funerary and ritual domains as well as in mural painting. On the one hand, this mineral can be considered as an indicator of social status, this resource—of prestige—being reserved for the elites and, on the other hand, its deposit on the body of the deceased was part of a ritual linked to the notion of rebirth. …”
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The Value of African Wisdom: Reflections on Modern Education in Uganda. by Sekiwu, Denis

“…It explores the status of African wisdom in the wake of colonialism, painting the hegemonic character of Western knowledge production. …”
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Spectrochemical Technology in Nanomaterial Preparation and Art Appraisal Technology Research by Xiao Tang

“…In addition, this paper also carried out art identification work, using spectral technology to detect some paintings and calligraphy. The experimental results show that the Raman spectra of these paintings and calligraphy papers are in the visible region because their fluorescence is too strong, and almost all the peaks are submerged. …”
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The afterlife of François Le Moyne’s Annunciation on eighteenth-century Portuguese azulejos by Rosário Salema de Carvalho

“… Considered lost until a few years ago, the Annunciation painted by François Le Moyne in 1727 (and turned into a print, in the following year, by Laurent Cars) was widely copied, both in paintings and prints. …”
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Polychrome relief decoration in the Sanctuary of the Hathor Shrine: preliminary remarks by Paulina Staszkiewicz

“…The research led to a preliminary identification of deterioration factors, as well as types of damage to the limestone, plaster, and painting layers. Unique in this respect were the changes in color of the polychrome decoration and limestone, likely caused by high-temperature chemical reactions.…”
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La Crucifixion aux saintes femmes du Grand séminaire de Strasbourg. Expressivité et sens de la nature dans l’art allemand vers 1520 by Christian Heck

“…A Crucifixion with Holy Women, from the Grand séminaire in Strasbourg – on deposit at the Musée de l’Œuvre Notre-Dame –, completely absent from the scientific bibliography, is an important work of German painting, circa 1520. The seal on the reverse of the panel shows that it belonged to the daughter of Duke Julius Franz of Saxony-Lauenburg, Sibylle, who married Louis-Guillaume, Margrave of Baden-Baden, in 1690. …”
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Smoking Hot: the Odalisque’s eroticizing Cigarette by Liesbeth Grotenhuis

“…Hidden in the harem, the painting made the odalisque available for western eyes: lounging, dancing and above all, blatantly smoking. …”
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South Africa and Sweden: A Story of Solidarity, Trust, and Shared Common Values by Håkan Juholt

“… I have a beautiful painting of Oliver Tambo and Olof Palme in my off ice. …”
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Research on Modern Book Packaging Design under Aesthetic Evaluation Based on Deep Learning Model by Yuanyuan Li

“…Book packaging design is different from painting. It is a kind of design process that combines artistry and practicality and has double characteristics. …”
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La Madonna della Clemenza, l’incidence de la réintégration picturale sur le maintien des fonctions portées par l’œuvre restaurée by Stéphanie Ricordeau

“…In the Basilica Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome is kept the Madonna della Clemenza, an encaustic on canvas and wood, from  the sixth or seventh century. This painting, still an object of worship and devotion, has emerged as a major work of the Christian Occident, both by its beautiful realization and  by the historical testimony that it represents. …”
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« Une constellation dans la nuit de l'histoire, une tache lumineuse devant les ténèbres de la mort » : l'œuvre d'Ernst Wilhelm Nay vue par Werner Haftmann by Vincenza Benedettino

“…Jahrhundert, published by Haftmann in 1954, and exhibitions catalogues, this study retraces the fundamental stages of the path to the consecration of Nay’s abstract painting undertaken by the art historian in Germany and internationally. …”
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After the birth/death of Kant/Derrida by Thomson Terrence

“…With this in mind, I then read Derrida’s picking up of this tear in his discussions of the Parergon, Ergon and the hors d’oeuvres-the starter outside and before the main work-in The Truth in Painting. My aim is to unravel a view in which we can say simultaneously, perhaps metaphorically but also methodologically, that Derrida’s death frames Kant’s birth, and that the birth of deconstruction frames the death of critique.…”
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New research findings on 11th-early 13th-century polychrome wood sculpture at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, Brussels by Emmanuelle Mercier

“…11th- to early 13th-century medieval polychrome sculptures can be considered as ancestral testimony of knowledge, practices, and the exchange of carving and painting techniques in the Middle Ages. This paper aims to provide an analysis of 50 years of research in Belgium, including recent case studies. …”
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La possibilité d’une île : la mythologie du Bronx, archipel enchanté, dans trois textes autobiographiques de Jerome Charyn by Sophie Vallas

“…This paper proposes to see Charyn’s nostalgic painting of the Bronx in the 1940s first as a historically documented evocation, but also as a mythologizing enterprise: as the reader follows Charyn from one mythical landmark to the next, he realizes that an imaginary geography, a magical cartography of the Bronx are being drawn before his eyes while a powerful Melvillian intertext puts the final touches to the recollection of an "evilly enchanted ground". …”
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Building climate resilience in Indonesia: The role of cool roofs by Beta Paramita

“…BeCool's solar reflective paint allows for a cooler surface on painted roofing materials, similar to the effect of wearing white clothes during the day. …”
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Łaska w ikonach by Monika Wąchocka

“…Knowledge and application of adequate painting techniques is included in the canon. Its aim is creating an appropriate image which is a true “window to another world’, to a reality already divinized. …”
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