Do apóstolo ao peregrino: a iconografia de São Tiago na escultura devocional medieval em Portugal by Begoña Farré Torras

“…The purpose of this article is to explore the evolving iconography of Saint James the Greater, as a pilgrim, in medieval votive sculpture in Portugal. The first part of the text focuses on the origins of this figuration in an Iberian context, taking into account two lines of influence: the iconography of Christ himself as a pilgrim, and popular imagery. …”
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Vito Acconci. Spaces of Play by Monica Manolescu

“…Various examples are analyzed, both literary and artistic (early texts, the emblematic Following Piece, which was one of the earliest examples of performance art, and The American Gift, combining sound and sculpture in a museum space). Acconci strikes a balance between freedom and constraint, playing with existing models according to set protocols in game-like fashion and offering a constantly renewed artistic practice.…”
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A Sometimes Mercurial Process: New Protocols for the Preservation of Singapore’s Time Based Art Collection by Mar Cruz

“…The conservation of Time Based Media (TBM) artwork deals in the world of bits, bytes, checksums and obsolescence, terms far different from the conservation of paper, paintings or sculpture. The processes behind the conservation of TBM artworks reflect the same esoteric nature. …”
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Simulacra of emptiness. The model as habitable space by Elena Mucelli

“…In particular, the examination stems from the hypothesis that the more research is oriented towards the study of the relationship between emptiness and the human figure, the more the scale of the model chosen to experiment with spatial qualities approaches real life, a 1:1 scale, and employs an interdisciplinary approach to identify possible points of contact between research conducted in architecture, sculpture and photography.…”
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Franco Vaccari. Experiencing darkness towards Shamanism by Sergio Poggianella

“…This paper examines one of the most symbolic and meaningful artworks by Franco Vaccari, Dark Sculpture, an artwork/temporary performance in which darkness becomes a play of presence-absence, inspired, both conceptually and visually, by the transition from light to dark. …”
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Wooden Churches of Lithuania by Tiziana Campisi, Liucija Berežanskytė

“…The strong link between architecture and the uncontaminated nature of places defines the identity of architectures, so that they sometimes appear almost like a large wooden sculpture, carved in a unique piece. The meticulous knowledge of the buildings has created an atlas of construction techniques, proposing itself as a tool for the conservation and preservation of refined building heritage; the atlas is divided according to themes as wood species, processing methods, construction phases, mutual relationship between the various technical units.…”
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Pascal Häusermann et le motel L’Eau vive : une conception d’avant-garde ? by Alexandra Buvignier-Legros

“…For the hotel, the Swiss architect applied his new conception of housing and town planning linked with prospective architecture and sculpture architecture. He designed an ensemble of nine hotel units, as well as the reception area and caretaker’s lodgings, in a natural setting. …”
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Henry James’s Spectral Archaeology by Stefano Evangelista

“…Looking, at the same time, back to Prosper Merimée’s use of the fantastic in “La Venus d’Ille” (1837) and forwards to Sigmund Freud’s parallel between archaeology and psychoanalysis in “The Aetiology of Hysteria” (1896), James sets up an intricate set of relations and metaphorical correspondences between stone and language, sculpture and literature, antiquity and modernity, aesthetics and psychology. …”
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« Quelque chose de rouge » : l’esthétique des tableaux vivants dans Salammbô by Dominique Jullien

“…A cultural practice which reached its peak popularity during the Second Empire, the tableau vivant intersects theater, painting, photography, and sculpture, genres and media which Flaubert sought either to emulate or to rival in his writing. …”
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Dark Aesthete: Gothic Elements in the Fiction of Walter Pater by Geoffrey Johnston Sadock

“…Walter Pater is today celebrated for his imaginary portraits, ekphrastic meditations on landscape, paintings, and sculpture; for his aesthetic method and prose style. …”
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The Dumbarton Oaks Tlazolteotl: looking beneath the surface by Jane MacLaren Walsh

“…Using the Dumbarton Oaks Tlazolteotl sculpture as a case study, the article presents the results of archival research to flesh out the object’s acquisition history and analysis using scanning electron microscopy to determine whether pre-Columbian lapidary technology was used to fashion the artifact, or whether it was carved or reworked in modern times.…”
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De Félix Martin-Sabon à Pierre Pradel, une histoire de plaques de verre by Anne-Bénédicte Mérel-Brandenburg

“…The richness of the corpus thus offers new objects of study, from the history of photography to a multidisciplinary approach: painting, sculpture, decorative arts, archaeology, museology and pedagogy.…”
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La femme allaitant des serpents et ses liens avec la Luxure by Raphaël Guesuraga

“…Since the nineteenth century, it is a fact recognized by all that the woman suckling snakes in Romanesque sculpture is a representation of lust. However, several elements would tend to strongly put in perspective this affirmation. …”
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Document publication. Survey of 1545 Livonia and the Great Duchy of Lithuania borderline audit (Livonian officers report) by Tomas Čelkis, Darius Antanavičius

“…Specifically, iconographic information and the depicted border mark "sculpture" are particularly important to the researchers. …”
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A New Species of Afrotropical Ants in the Genus Bothroponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae) by Abdulmeneem M. A. Joma, William P. Mackay

“…The clypeus lacks a medial longitudinal carina, the head is subquadrate, the sculpture is mostly foveolate, and the second gastral segment nearly lacks sculpturing. …”
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L’antiquaire Georges Joseph Demotte, le Louvre et les musées américains. S’approprier le discours sur le patrimoine médiéval de la France au sortir de la Première Guerre mondiale... by Christine Vivet-Peclet

“…Each of these collectors, whose profiles and tastes were very different, referred in the way they chose to present their collections to France, its heritage and its museums, but less to the Louvre than to other institutions such as the Musée de Sculpture comparée and the Musée de Cluny.…”
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Echanges et transformations de l’Annonciation : D’un groupe statuaire en marbre (Toulouse, Musée des Augustins,XIIe siècle) à un bas-relief en bronze d’Igor Mitoraj (Rome, Santa Ma... by Sandra Gorgievski

“…In spite of radically distinct cultural models and divergent religious practice, both the vivid statues from a lost XIIth century Romanesque church in Toulouse and the 2006 newly sculpted doors of a church in Rome attempt to stage the message sent by God through the Angel Gabriel. In the modern sculpture, obvious discrepancies in the religious symbols―like the inversion of the arch-positions of the angel and the Virgin, the incomplete, broken bodies―and the silent withdrawal of forms, convey an allusive presence of the spiritual. …”
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Auger Lucas, pintor de carruajes en el París del siglo xviii. «Entre el polvo del cobertizo y el estiércol de la cochera» by Raúl Martínez Arranz

“…Auger Lucas (1685-1765) comenzó una prometedora carrera como pintor en París a principios del siglo xviii, que le llevó a ganar el Grand Prix de Rome a los veinte años y a ser admitido en la Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture como pintor de historia. Sin embargo, el cambio en el sistema artístico que se estaba produciendo en esos años y la aparición de nuevas oportunidades laborales, ajenas a las disciplinas oficiales más tradicionales, le hicieron enfocar su trabajo hacia el ámbito de la pintura de carruajes. …”
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Landschaftsgedächtnis und Geschlechterdiskurse in ausgewählten Werken von Elsa Bernstein und Maria Waser by Monika Mańczyk-Krygiel

“…The end of the drama—a combination of a mythical being after death with a sculpture of the Madonna carved in rock—is usually interpreted as the apotheosis of Christianity and the triumph of a new religion (and thus a new world order) over the pagan world. …”
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Olabiyi Babalola J. Yai (1939-2020): Philosopher, Polymath, Humanist by Sanya Osha

“…Yai’s writing, in other words,was an exercise in textural sculpture, akin to a furnace of skewed intellectual contestation, and a work of unyielding scribal architecture. …”
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