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Some notes about the books of Žygimantas Augustas in the Vilnius University Library
Published 2024-08-01“…The private library of Sigismundus Augustus was a typical Renaissance library, comprising remarkable books on medicine, law, philosophy, literature, etc. …”
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Reframing the ‘South’: Divisions of the Globe and British Geographical Imaginations in the Victorian and Edwardian Era
Published 2016-06-01“…This framework reflected deep-rooted cultural legacies dating back to the Renaissance. It took a paradigm shift in the early twentieth century and major political and scientific evolutions to witness the emergence of new categorizations. …”
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0319 Transparent Paper as a Medium of Copying and Design in the Early Modern Architectural Workshop
Published 2025-01-01“…This article explores the use and function of the lucido technique in architectural workshops from the Renaissance through the late eighteenth century. By examining evidence from written sources and key drawing collections, the study compares the copying practices of architects with those of artists. …”
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Official Sanctity alla Veneziana: Gerardo, Pietro Orseolo and Giacomo Salomani
Published 2013-07-01“…Throughout late-medieval and Renaissance Italy, pious men and women were recognized as saints during their own lifetime and accorded at least local veneration at the site of their tomb after death. …”
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Successful Treatment of Acromegaly and Associated Hypogonadism with First-Line Clomiphene Therapy
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“Nowadays the house would be called a stately home”: Pastoral Relocations in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia
Published 2011-12-01“…In this paper, I will consider the ideological implications of this paradox in relation to the playwright’s use of pastoral models that date from the English Renaissance, and yet reconfigure models of earlier post-second war British theatre, models that – according to many critical accounts – had long been superseded and abandoned. …”
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John Piper et Benjamin Britten : le renouveau de l’opéra anglais et ses décors
Published 2006-06-01“…In this article, John Piper’s contribution to the renaissance of English opera is considered in the wider context of the artistic and political reconstruction of England after the Second World War. …”
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I trovatori come fondamento dell'identità occitana: la linea Jaufré Rudèl-Jean de Nostredame-Frédéric Mistral
Published 2016-06-01“…Rudèl devient ainsi l’incarnation tour à tour de l’amour héroïque à l’intention d’un public italien du XIIIe siècle, des anciens fastes d’une noblesse provençale à la recherche d’une nouvelle identité à la Renaissance, du Romantisme allemand et de l’illusion mistralienne au XIXe siècle.…”
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Alberti, Vasari, Leonardo, from disegno as drawing to disegno as projective milieu
Published 2009-01-01“…The synthesis from which the Renaissance proceeded has a name: disegno. At first sight, according to Alberti, drawing provides the foundation for the three arts, however it was separated from painting (colour), emancipated and totally “apparatused” by perspective. …”
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El Greco's Italian paintings (1560-76) based on Bible texts
Published 2009-06-01“…Even during his years as an apprentice El Greco’s art is proof that he aspired to the highest humanly accessible values exemplified by Renaissance artistic theory, humanism and Christian spirituality — all of which later came to fruition in an unprecedented original combination in Toledo, Spain, where he settled permanently in 1577. …”
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Social and Cultural Sphere and the Development of the Digital Economy
Published 2019-11-01“…The prevailing opinion is that the digital technologies will be an impulse to the cultural Renaissance of Humankind.The article reports that the development of the social and cultural sphere is a critical part of the further technological development of the society. …”
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A Living Architecture for the Digital Era
Published 2019-06-01“…In doing so, he paved the way for Renaissance classicism: architecture focused on precision and representation through drafting rather than approximate construction by artisans. …”
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Density
Published 2019-07-01“…The publication of the planning agenda Towards an Urban Renaissance in 1999 marked a turning point in the approach towards urban development in the UK and specifically towards urban density. …”
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The Politics of Utopia: Walter Pater’s “Lacedaemon”
Published 2016-05-01“…Walter Pater is not usually considered as a politically committed writer, neither is Aestheticism of which he was the gifted theoretician with The Renaissance (1873). Although the political commitments of the Aesthetic movement have been questioned over the last two decades, both by including women aesthetes, and by re-evaluating the movement’s dissemination among the middle classes, discussion of Pater’s political ideas is almost non-existent. …”
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TEISĖS FILOSOFIJA SENAJAME VILNIAUS UNIVERSITETE
Published 2001-01-01“…The following problems of the philosophy of law were discussed: an origin and a foundation of law, a transmission of the legislation, the law as the mean of realization the Christian justice, the theory of statute, the branches of law. The Renaissance philosophy of law in Lithuania criticized the reality of Polish-Lithuanian state, urged to extend the public freedoms, the limits and a content of a civil law. …”
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L’archéologie verticale ou l’étude des graffiti anciens : du document iconographique à la source historique (xie‑xvie siècles)
Published 2024-07-01“…The Middle Ages and the Renaissance produced a set of signs, inscriptions and graffiti that hold significance in a society of images. …”
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Ombres et transparences, de Vinci aux calques numériques
Published 2012-01-01“…Optical devices have since the Renaissance superimposed shadow and transparency; they have evolved from image-making to the continuous representation of motion in 19th-century toys based on the rotation of silhouettes; copying machines, derived from ancient legends defining shadows as the image of persons, led to 18th-century experiments in the simulation of motion. …”
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Thomas Henry Huxley et la Bible
Published 2007-12-01“…According to him, a struggle between free thought and supernaturalism was culminating during the Victorian era, hence the need for a “New Reformation” which was heir to the ideals of freedom defended by the humanists of the Renaissance. This movement opposed the principles of the supporters of what he called “ecclesiasticism”. …”
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Espace urbain et gentrification aux États-Unis, évolution des interprétations
Published 2006-06-01“…Other studies show that post-industrial urban space is very similar to pre-industrial urban space, such as that of the Renaissance cities. (Kotkin) But Gentrification could be much more than this, a part of a much larger shift in the political economy and culture of the late 20th and early 21st century.This paper focuses on the various theories linked to the radical reapropriation of many central and inner cities in North America in the past three decades.…”
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TEISĖS FILOSOFIJA SENAJAME VILNIAUS UNIVERSITETE
Published 2001-01-01“…The following problems of the philosophy of law were discussed: an origin and a foundation of law, a transmission of the legislation, the law as the mean of realization the Christian justice, the theory of statute, the branches of law. The Renaissance philosophy of law in Lithuania criticized the reality of Polish-Lithuanian state, urged to extend the public freedoms, the limits and a content of a civil law. …”
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