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Excavating the Medieval Image: Manuscripts, Artists, Audiences: Essays in Honor of Sandra Hindman Open
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Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade Open
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Annotating Colonialism Open
This exhibition review essay compares three recent interventions into historic cultural representations at the American Museum of Natural History: the Digital Totem that was placed in the Northwest Coast Hall in 2016 to partially modernize…
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Thomas Murner’s translation of Virgil’s Aeneid into German (Strasbourg: Johann Grüninger 1515) is accompanied by a selection of 112 of the 143 Aeneid woodcuts from the complete edition of Virgil’s works edited by Sebastian Brant. The latte…
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In the Author's Hand: Holograph and Authorial Manuscripts in the Islamic Handwritten Tradition Open
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Images of Dominican Saints and Blessed in the Philippines Open
The article is an attempt to highlight the role of the Dominicans in the history of Philippine art, which is more recognized in the field of architecture but much less in other media. With the exception of only a handful of pieces (a woodc…
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The Making of Prints: Forms and Techniques of Printmaking in Nigeria Open
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The peculiarities of conventional techniques in textile processing make a significant contribution to the artwork’s value in terms of aesthetics and originality. The woodcut relief printing technique, also known as block printing, is a con…
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The Application of Traditional Chinese Woodcut Printmaking Language in Digital Painting Based on Intelligent Computing Open
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By the mid-seventeenth century, images of natural elements that originated in Dutch Brazil circulated in Europe. These were often included in art collections (the Libri Picturati ) and natural history treatises (the Historia Naturalis Bras…
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Image-matching technology applied to Fifteenth-century printed book illustration Open
This article examines how image-matching and content-based image retrieval technologies can be fruitfully applied to track the reuse and circulation of illustrations found in Fifteenth-century printed books. The possibility of tracking pre…
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The Women of Atelier 17: Modernist Printmaking in Midcentury New York Open
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This article presents discoveries and inventions from different periods of mankind, which played an important role in social and technological evolution. Thus, from the period of the Ancient World (prehistory - 400 AD), we present: the app…
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The author gives an analysis of the style of the murals in the Church of the Virgin Eleousa in Veljusa (1080-1093), pointing out the distinctive manner of the outstanding artist, similar in many ways to works produced by the previous gener…
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Mutual Influence of Woodcut Art of China and the USSR Open
The article discusses the features of interaction and mutual influence of the art of woodcut of China and the USSR. Chinese woodcut and Soviet engraving reveal the greatest mutual influence and rich genre palette in the middle of the XX ce…
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The main object of this study is the MIPES Indonesia, which I collected during my previous research that was funded by the British Library in London. The present research is primarily aimed at elaborating the tradition of writing and copyi…
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Albrecht Dürer’s Large Passion: Art, History, and Theology Open
This essay analyzes a series of woodcuts collectively entitled the Large Passion (of Christ), which the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer created between 1496 and 1511. The Passion illustrates the biblical story of Jesus Christ’s be…
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Research covered titled visualize prayer road crosses by adopting the Wayang Beber style used a woodcut technique of the printmaking is the artistic research (the creation of art) that is carried out based on the art of printing graphic es…
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The Crossroads of Plastination and Pilgrimage Open
At the Singapore Science Centre in 2010, I went to Body Worlds, an exhibit set up by the Institute for Plastination, founded by Gunther von Hagens. As I later learned, he pioneered plastination—the art, science, and technique of preserving…
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Essay in honor of Robert Motherwell's centenary: “temporalized form”: mediating Romanticism and American Expressionism—Robert Motherwell, Henri Bergson, and the ontological origins of abstraction around 1800 Open
The influence of process metaphysics on the development of abstraction between 1800 and the second half of the 20th century can best be exemplified with the case of the American Expressionist painter and theoretician Robert Motherwell (191…
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The Communication Dilemma of Guqin Art Within the Context of New Media Open
It is difficult to avoid the impact that digital technology has had on the media. Maintaining the original form of traditional art and music within the changing media environment is vital for Chinese traditional art and music communication…
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Detection of symmetry using a crystallographic image processing algorithm Open
This article presents an automated method to quantify and detect symmetry elements in 2D patterns by means of image processing. Escher's woodcuts, a widely recognized didactic tool for crystallographic education of students, were used to d…
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Martin Luther and Lucas Cranach Teaching the Lord’s Prayer Open
Martin Luther wrote and preached on the Lord’s Prayer many times over a 20-year period. When we consider his work on the Prayer we see significant developments as the historical context changes, so that he finds new ways to express his mos…
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“The Twenty-five Joys of Our Lady” is a study, examination, and critical edition of an unpublished fifteenth-century Middle English prose devotion preserved in Bodleian Library MS Don. d. 85. It is here associated with twenty-five “Joys of…
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Then I Saw Open
In 1498, artist Albrecht Dürer published a series of woodcuts depicting scenes from the Book of Revelation, entitled Apocalypse . The impact and reach of Dürer’s work has been widely acknowledged by scholars, and its importance is difficul…