Novelty Perspectives on Art and Heraldic Display of Nineteenth Century Historicist Retables in the Temes Banat by Mihaela Vlăsceanu

“… In this study I will question the function of images and symbols present on a selection of nineteenth-century altars in the Banat region, analyzing the use of heraldic symbols and particular iconography related to the holy kings of Hungary, providing an interpretation of the political engagement of their formulation and use. …”
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Voir une chenille, dessiner un serpent à plumes. Une relecture analogique de l’hybridité et des êtres imaginaires en Mésoamérique préhispanique by Dimitri Karadimas

“…This contribution suggests to look at the figure of Quetzalcoatl – in the Teotihuacan iconography as in the later Aztec one – by analyzing imaginary beings and the representations of hybrids in Mesoamerica as an analogical transcription of real beings according to the principles of formal analogy. …”
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Chevolución, Chesucristo: historia de un ícono en dos clichés by Verushka Alvizuri

“…The construction of his iconography and the uses of his memory. The stereotypical image of Che Guevara has two faces: the heroic Marxist warrior and the Christian martyr. …”
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Les désastres de la guerre by Jean-Philippe Chimot

“…For this conflict with no holds barred, Goya invents an iconography less noble than the contemporary styles (late Rococo or Neo-Classical), without however falling victim to the inevitable opportunism of the period’s popular engravings. …”
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La violence seigneuriale à la fin du Moyen Âge, vue par les représentations pédagogiques en France by Pierre Prétou

“…The use of pictures to teach the medieval seigniory in France turns the lessons of history into a weird morale teaching. The iconography deployed, continuously since the Second World War, insert systematically crude or discreet representations of violence at the heart of the lordship system. …”
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Representations of Masked Figures: A Comparative Study and an Interpretative Approach to their Cult-Use and Meaning by Maria G. Spathi

“…An examination of their iconographic characteristics in relation to other representations of similar iconography, as well as literary sources mentioning the use of masks in ritual, shed light on their use in initiation rites.…”
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La Documentation photographique by Magali Hamm, Nathalie Petitjean

“…In order to follow the evolutions of Geography, the collection presents a more and more diversified iconography: maps, photographs, but also drawings or advertisements, all this documents being considered as geographical ones. …”
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Djelfa 41-43. Un camp d’internement en Algérie : addenda iconographique by Bernard Sicot

“…Un camp d’internement en Algérie (Paris, Riveneuve éditions, 2015), a book that gathers - to trace the history and life of this emblematic place where were deported, with many others and as Max Aub, hundreds of Spaniards - archive documents, texts, often unpublished testimonies and an iconography that I was not able to complete, some images which existence I supposed remained without finding. …”
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Imaginer la ville de demain sans « reproduire les clichés » de genre by Elsa Koerner

“…This paper stresses new leads to overcome the perceived neutrality of public space. Iconography and planning documents are tools for imagination of a city freed from the norms of the gendered social order. …”
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Right ventricular failure due to subacute massive pulmonary embolism by Claudio Giumelli, Giacomo Bussolati, Patricia Granauro, Paolo Montanari

“…The case is accompanied by interesting iconography, including electrocardiogram, echocardiogram, ventilation-perfusion, pulmonary scintigraphy, and chest angio-computed tomography. …”
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Pointes, hachoirs et marteaux by Eva Belgherbi

“…The practice of a physically demanding art such as sculpture and the revolt against the repression of the Suffragettes stimulated an iconography that made reference to Gentileschi’s depiction of the Old Testament story of Jael and Sisera. …”
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Mémoire et images du travail dans les parfumeries grassoises (1900-1950) : les clichés du genre by Coline Zellal

“…The comparison between oral history, written sources and iconography reveals how gender conditioned the history of the fragrance industry.…”
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Palaiologan renaissance painting in the Latin-occupied Aegean. Three icons from Hospitaller Leros by Kefala Konstantia

“…However, certain elements of their iconography and style point to their attribution to a Constantinopolitan painter active in the first half of the fifteenth century. …”
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Représenter la victoire militaire d’une femme by Marjolaine Massé

“…The image here circumvents the impossibility of showing a woman as a warrior yet presents a demonstration of power through its materiality and its triumphant imperial iconography. It is also indicative of a time when sovereigns – in need of dynastic legitimacy for power they have usurped – attempted to consolidate their lineage, here with the use of imagery, on a volatile political chessboard.…”
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Venus Caelestis na monetach Julii Soemias – problemy interpretacji w kontekście historycznym by Anita Smyk

“…The paper discusses the iconography and ideology of the coins and attempts to determine the role of this Roman goddess with regards to the self-presentation of Julia Soaemias, especially in the context of her son’s religious activities.…”
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Le continuum Gibson : le Cyberespace et les récits du Mervyn Kihn de Gibson by Thomas A. Bredehoft

“…These stories deal directly with present-day survivals of the nineteen sixties and the nineteen thirties ; Gibson’s use of hallucinatory iconography associated with the sixties and "visionary futurism" associated with the thirties in his visual descriptions of cyberspace hints at the relevance of these stories for interpreting the construct of cyberspace. …”
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Fillettes et garçonnets dans les pratiques rituelles du monde grec de l’époque classique à l’époque impériale by Sophie Laribi-Glaudel

“…In the Ancient Greek world, as soon as they were born and during their first seven years of life, i.e. early childhood, girls and boys were the subjects of a several rituals documented by literature, iconography and epigraphy since the Archaic Period. …”
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Salida, tránsito, destierro : una aproximación al imaginario transnacional de los jóvenes by Chabier Gimeno-Monterde

“…According to the interviews and analyses of virtual networks, the iconography of vandalism and exclusion which emanates from the « banlieues » acts both as a pull factor and a deterrent factor in the migration projects of many young people, who prefer to avoid France as a step or as a destination. …”
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L’image de l’oasis comme matériel de terrain by Irène Carpentier

“…Oasis iconography is rich and longstanding, but its use in research remains little explained. …”
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The Dumbarton Oaks Tlazolteotl: looking beneath the surface by Jane MacLaren Walsh

“…They have consistently posed problems for researchers due to anomalies of theme, material, size, technical virtuosity and iconography. This paper offers a historical and scientific approach to objectively determining the authenticity of unprovenienced pre-Columbian artifacts. …”
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