0318 "Oh, what sights to behold in this church turned upside down" by Eva L.E. Janssens

“…Commenting on the numerous pictured Catholic clergymen engaged in various abominable practices, this poem provides a unique glimpse into the thinking of its spin doctor – it is attributed to the theologian and emblematist Paulus de Kempenaer (Brussels, ca. 1554 – The Hague, 1618?). By analysing the iconography in relation to de Kempenaer's poem, this comprehensive study aims to unravel the purpose and intended audience of De Rhoemse Kercke.…”
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L’alliance normando-tupi au xvie siècle : la célébration de Rouen by Beatriz Perrone-Moisés

“…It also briefly considers some elements of the illustration of this performance, comparing it with the Tupi iconography of the same epoch.…”
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An In-depth Exploration of an Unexamined Reliquary in the Church of Mar Tadros-Blat, Syria by Dana Khouli

“…By conducting a detailed analysis of its carvings and symbolic iconography, the study seeks to unravel the religious motifs embedded in its design and interpretation, elucidating their connections with saints, pivotal figures intricately associated with sarcophagus reliquaries. …”
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La sculpture de l’Antiquité tardive et du haut Moyen Âge en péninsule Ibérique, une révision nécessaire by Gisela Ripoll

“…The objective of this presentation is to offer a state of knowledge on this material, on iconography and production, in order to identify future work mechanisms, especially archaeometric analysis.…”
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De l’Antiquité à la science-fiction : la réinvention de Babylone dans les représentations artistiques occidentales des xxe et xxie siècles by Ariane Aujoulat

“…The iconography of Babylon and the Tower of Babel, often confused legendary places, underwent a surprising transformation beginning in the twentieth century. …”
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Protocole d’errance d’une forme by Francesca Cozzolino, Coralie Maurin, Kristina Solomoukha

“…This text looks back at the developmental stages of an animated short film that grew out of image-based research into Zapatista iconography, grounded in an ethnographic investigation in Chiapas. …”
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Kristus ukřižovaný na palmě, „locus tristis“ a emblematika 17. století by Pavel Panoch

“… The paper deals with a curious iconography of a stone relief decorating the statue of St. …”
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Transformations des représentations corporelles durant l’Épiclassique mésoaméricain (600 à 900 apr. j.‑c.) by Juliette Testard

“…The Epiclassic period (600 to 900 A.D.) was a time of great upheaval on the central Mesoamerian Altiplano. The iconography of Cacaxtla-Xochitecatl (Tlaxcala) and Xochicalco (Morelos) is markedly different—especially in its representation of the human body—from images from Teotihuacan (Mexico). …”
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From Vietnam, VA, to Iraq, CA: The Spectrality of Violence in An-My Lê’s Small Wars and 29 Palms by Barbara Kowalczuk

“…However, the spectrality of past and impending violence permeates the photographs and confirms the haunting legacy of war iconography. We will examine how Lê uses the American landscape and creates images haunted by the invisible visibility of violence.…”
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An Investigation of a Printer’s Block (Manchester, John Rylands Library, 17252) by Emerson Storm Fillman Richards

“…Other scholars believe that it was made in the eighteenth century and it imitates the medieval iconography. Lacking more scientific investigations, the exact date of the woodblock cannot be established. …”
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Les ducs, le roi et l’Orient : le rêve d’unité et de croisade de Philippe le Hardi à travers le manuscrit Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 12201 by Rémi Plotard

“…The commission of these three manuscripts by the Duke of Burgundy, takes on a powerful political meaning in the confusion of the early 15th century. Analyzing the iconography can reveal clues about the diplomatic ambitions of the duke. …”
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Une trompe romaine (tuba) à Brie-Comte-Robert (Seine-et-Marne) ? by Cyril Driard, Fabien Pilon

“…Although fragmentary and allowing only a modest contribution to music instruments history, these two objects, discovered at Brie-Comte-Robert, are probably the pieces of the fourth copy of this type of musical instrument, ultimately more known by iconography, than archaeological material.…”
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Vision et visibilité : la rhétorique visuelle des suffragistes et des suffragettes britanniques de 1907 à 1914 by Myriam Boussahba-Bravard

“…In such a context, suffragist iconography conveyed singularly effective visual rhetoric persuading the Edwardians through varied eye-catching media, shows, processions, posters, postcards, photographs, accessories and many other common objects. …”
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Medieval Naturalia by Chantal Stein

“…This paper explores the discourse between extant tangible objects and contemporary texts such as bestiaries, lapidaries, and alchemical compendia to examine how the iconography of the artifact’s form and the iconology of the ornamentation contributed to the overall signification of the naturalia.…”
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Politicisation and the Rhetoric of Shanghai Urbanism by Non Arkaraprasertkul

“…Using the city as a primary source, this paper succinctly presents specific information derived from the observations needed to authenticate the research, i.e. to understand the existence of contemporary architecture as a means of urban iconography, which will contribute to the theory of how we conceive and experience the hybridized urban complexity in Asian cities in a practical manner from the perspectives of both the pedestrian and architect-planner critical to the awareness the far-reaching consequence of Shanghai’s urban environment.…”
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A cidade de São Paulo e seus rios: uma história repleta de paradoxos by Isabel Cristina Moroz-Caccia Gouveia

“…The research, based on historiography and iconography, points out the importance of the rich river network for the foundation and establishment of the city and shows how throughout time and as the city expanded, these hydric resources were deteriorated and came to be seen as obstacles to the urban growth, becoming targets of interventions and transformations. …”
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Au‑delà de la frontière binaire du genre : les personnages sculptés recuay (100‑700 apr. J.‑C., sierra nord-centrale du Pérou) by Alexia Moretti

“…This contribution questions how this gender fluidity occurs in the iconography of the Recuay sculptures to allow a better comprehension of the essence of the carved figures.…”
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Cinephemera Round Trip. Postcards for and by Anselmo Ballester by Stefania Babboni, Sara Martin

“…Comparing cine-postcards, preparatory sketches, and posters from the Ballester collection, spanning a period of fifty years, we will focus on how photographic postcards of national and international movie stars, represented the main models for the painter, aimed at creating an iconography consistent, and adaptable to multiple cinematographic genres. …”
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Texte/image/manuscrit : une relation problématique ? by Elena Koroleva

“…The choice of subject for the first miniature – the creation of Eve in many copies of our text – is not directly linked to the content of the chronicle, but is instead prompted by the image itself and its iconography, which informs the reader of the serious character of the book and adds value to the manuscript as an object.…”
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Les terres cuites des Salines de Kition : étude d’un culte chypriote d’époque classique by Pauline Maillard

“…Produced in local workshops, those figurines are very close in iconography to contemporary Greek products. Nevertheless, they reveal the fine, local “tour de mains” of Kitian coroplasts. …”
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