Religious Mapping, Epistemic Risk and Archival Adventure in Athambile Masola's Ilifa by Pumla Gqola

“…In Ilifa, specific appearances of religious language, as well as the rhetorical uses to which religious imagery and the disruption of Christian iconography are put, reveal the poet’s understanding of the making of transgenerational southern African feminist publicness. …”
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Le Cycle pictural de la cour d’appel de Toulouse par Georges d’Espagnat (1942-1944) : un témoignage de la permanence d’une formule décorative by Coralie Machabert

“…He uses a measured style and a traditional iconography adapted with the period and the function of the place. …”
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A new Dilmun-related seal from Umm al-Quwain (U.A.E.) by Dominika Majchrzak, Michele Degli Esposti

“…The seal’s morphology and iconography display elements associated with the Dilmun culture, centered in Bahrain during the late 3rd and first half of the 2nd millennium BC. …”
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L’œuvre de miséricorde du Roi : la statue de Louis XIV pour l’Hôtel de Ville de Paris par Antoine Coysevox, 1687-1689 by Alexandra Woolley

“…This royal charitable action of « feeding the hungry », a work of mercy, is associated with the iconography of the second bas-relief which represents Religion striking down Heresy, celebrating the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, decided in 1685. …”
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Getting ready for the Second World War. Fascist Propaganda and Ideology in L’Avventuroso (1938–40) by Manuela Di Franco

“…The analysis examines recurring themes, character archetypes, and iconography to assess the role of comics as a vehicle for propaganda. …”
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Profesoři Hermenegild a Karel Škorpilové působící v Bulharsku 2. část by Ludvík Skružný

“…It focuses on numismatics, sphragistics, paleography, historical demography, geography and iconography. Thanks to the knowledge of these auxiliary historical sciences, he was able to more accurately solve historical issues and show evidence that Pliska is the older center of the country than Veliki Preslav. …”
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Romanesque polychrome wood sculptures in Italy: towards a Corpus and a comparative analysis of the data from art-historical and technical studies by Grazia Maria Fachechi, Susanna Bracci

“…This will help to establish the relationship, which was certainly created, between the nature of pigments, iconography, and symbolism of colors.…”
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Antoine Haumont : une patiente collecte photographique des paysages ordinaires du sport by Olivier Pégard

“…By presenting twelve photos the aim of the article is to make interested audiences aware of the existence of a rich iconography dedicated to spaces and practices relating to sports (more than 1,000 images). …”
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Framing the Golgotha in Renaissance Painting by Péter Bokody

“…The distorted skull and the crucifix on Holbein’s painting map to this iconography and offer its personalized rereading.…”
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Pour une archéologie des peintures murales, la Chasse royale de la chapelle Sainte-Radegonde à Chinon (Indre-et-Loire) : étude technique et résultat des datations par le 14C by Amaëlle Marzais

“…The thematic exploration and analyses financed by the Regional Archaeology Department in 2019 allow us to address neglected aspects of the Royal Hunt, painted on the north wall of the nave of the Sainte-Radegonde Chapel in Chinon (Indre-et-Loire). The iconography had been discussed on several occasions since the discovery of this painting in 1965, but the technical aspects, as the implementation processes, tools, materials and gestures used, had not yet been studied. …”
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Fooling the eye: trompe l’oeil porcelain in High Qing China by Chih-en Chen

“…Porcelain imitation of other materials, or so-called ‘trompe l'oeil’ porcelain, popular from the late Yongzheng to the Qianlong period, has been regarded as an aesthetic representative of Chinese emperors as well as an iconography of court power. Several studies have been conducted to understand the connection between porcelain and emperors’ connoisseurship; however, much of that research has focused on the physical characteristics of porcelain and corresponding imageries, namely the painted antiquity cataloging album. …”
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Désenchanter l’habitat spatial : environnements artificiels et mondes sans nature dans Aurora (K. S. Robinson), Shangri-La (M. Bablet) et Nos Temps contraires (G. Toriko) by Gatien Gambin

“…These fictions are a part of narratives and iconography of space habitats defined notably by Gerard K. …”
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Embodied aesthetics and populist appeal of communist portraits in contemporary Kerala by Anagha Anil

“…This paper proposes to discuss communist iconography, such as portraits of yesteryear leaders circulated via social media and displayed in communist family homes, as sites where affective energies are generated and realised. …”
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Distance in Art or the Art of Distance: the Illusory Search for Depth and its Treatment in the First Landscape Representations by Fernando Linares, Isaac Mendoza

“…With the Renaissance, an authentic landscape view began to develop through deductive reasoning and the visual experience of the image, thus surpassing the basic and flat medieval iconography. The Renaissance perspective, as a ‘symbolic form’, helped to value space as something different from the flat surface on which it is painted, although it was not the only system used to represent the three-dimensional spatiality of the scene, being one more among other possibilities. more perceptive and intuitive. …”
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'Homo bulla': variations axiologiques sur l’éphémère by Jean-Alexandre Perras

“…Bubbles feature in Dutch vanitas paintings as well as in satirical iconography representing the first economic ‘bubble’ in 1720. …”
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The Portrait of heshuo Guo-qinwang Yunli as the Source for Weapons and Horse Equipment of Oirats and their Neighbors in the first half of the 18th Century by Leonid A. Bobrov

“…Conclusions. Materials of Qing iconography are currently not being actively used to study the Oirat cultural heritage. …”
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Ombres et lumières croisées : l’appropriation prométhéenne de la lumière dans les peintures de Wright of Derby (1734-97) et John Martin (1789-1854) by Muriel Adrien

“…Wright of Derby’s first night pieces are often suggestive of the stock forms of religious iconography. However, these paintings continuously glorify human labour and effort and the new control of technical and scientific progress. …”
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The Facial Approximation of the Skull Attributed to Jan Žižka (ca. AD 1360–1424) by Cicero Moraes, Johari Yap Abdullah, Jiri Šindelář, Matěj Šindelář, Zuzana Thomová, Jakub Smrčka, Mauro Vaccarezza, Thiago Beaini, Francesco Maria Galassi

“…The final face was the result of the cross-referencing of all data and the completion of the structure respected the iconography attributed to Jan Žižka.…”
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A Critical Review of the Equality Iranian God/Goddess ‎with the Gods/Goddess of Greeks Case Study: Vanand, Ashi and Nike by Reza Mehrafarin, Shahin Aryamanesh

“…Various views have been expressed about these figures, as some believe that the Parthians with using Greeks iconography, depict the Iranian goddess. So described the Nike goddess in the Parthian period was identical with the Ashi and Vanand. …”
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The Wandering Character in the Coen Brothers’ Films: When the Southern Gothic Meets the Western by Julie Assouly

“…Those archetypes can be found in their contemporary versions in Blood Simple (1984), Raising Arizona (1987) or No Country for Old Men (2007) – movies in which the iconography of the Western is pregnant – and to some extent in Fargo (1996) which provides a re-reading of the frontier myth. …”
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