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Marco De Pietri deposited Relationships between Egypt and Karkemish during the 2nd millennium BC: a brief overview in the group
Egyptology on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThe present paper analyses the mutual influences between Egypt and the city of Karkemish (present Jarabulus) during both the 2nd and the 1st Millennium BC. This Syrian city was indeed an important site located on the Euphrates river, along the border between modern Turkey and Syria and is surely better known for its strong relationship with the…[Read more]
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Marco De Pietri deposited La piazza dov’è? Un’indagine sul concetto di ʻpiazzaʼ nell’età pre-classica in the group
Egyptology on Humanities Commons 5 years agoA brief reflection on the concept of pre-classical antiquity square, analyzing some archaeological and textual sources.
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Marco De Pietri deposited “Non è morto col morire; ma di nuovo il suo nome sarà lodato sopra la terra in eterno…” in the group
Egyptology on Humanities Commons 5 years agoSome historical and scientific information about Giuseppe Botti “the Second”, especially about his contacts with the Università degli Studi di Pavia, regarding an unpublished papyrus of Amduat (12th hour) (Italy).
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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited Fragmento e todo: duas imagens urbanas entre oriente e ocidente, c. 1600 in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThis article analyzes representations of cities in two pictures created around 1600: Theodor de Bry’s engraving of Macao, and the views of Kyoto attributed to Iwasa Katsumochi Matabei. The relationship between fragmented and total forms of repre- sentation is studied in both pictures. The European engraving depicts urban space as a whole, while t…[Read more]
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Manfred Engel deposited Mediating the Dream / Les genres et médias du rêve. Ed. by Bernard Dieterle and Manfred Engel. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2020 (Cultural Dream Studies; 4) — Contents and Preface in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 5 years agoRepresentations of dreams – no matter if factual or fictional – are influenced not only by cultural patterns but also by the specific opportunities offered and the specific challenges posed by the genre or medium which was chosen for them. The essays in this volume consider, in detailed case studies, variants of factual dream reports and fic…[Read more]
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Anne Swartz deposited Review, -Agnes Pelton- Desert Transcendentalist- at the Whitney Museum of American Art in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis exhibition review examined “Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist,” recently on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. This exhibition is a traveling show and this venue was its second installation.
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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited The Missing ‘Brazilianness’ of Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Art and Architecture in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis chapter examines a few of the landmark narratives on the issue of national character published between 1880 and 1940. Following the views of Lucio Marcal Ferreira Ribeiro Lima Costa patron, Costa held that it was instead the simple architecture of anonymous master builders that embodied the functional, technical, and aesthetic homogeneity of…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited From Isis-kite to Nekhbet-vulture and Horus-falcon: Changes in the identification of the bird above Osiris’s phallus in temple ‘conception of Horus’ scenes in the group
Egyptology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months ago‘Conception of Horus’ scenes in Egyptian temples date at least from Ramesside to Greco-Roman times. This article seeks to establish whether any changes to their composition or interpretation occurred over this long time-span. The main differences noted centre upon the identity of the bird above Osiris’s phallus, as follows. In the iconic ‘conc…[Read more]
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Christiane Wagner deposited Art Style, Art & Culture International Magazine, no. 6 in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoArt Style | Art & Culture International Magazine is an open access,
biannual, and peer-reviewed online magazine that aims to bundle cultural
diversity. All values of cultures are shown in their varieties of art. Beyond
the importance of the medium, form, and context in which art takes its
characteristics, we also consider the significance of…[Read more] -
Christiane Wagner deposited Art Style, Art & Culture International Magazine, no. 5 in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoArt Style | Art & Culture International Magazine is an open access,
biannual, and peer-reviewed online magazine that aims to bundle cultural
diversity. All values of cultures are shown in their varieties of art. Beyond
the importance of the medium, form, and context in which art takes its
characteristics, we also consider the significance of…[Read more] -
Christiane Wagner deposited Art Style, Art & Culture International Magazine, no. 4 in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoArt Style | Art & Culture International Magazine is an open access,
biannual, and peer-reviewed online magazine that aims to bundle
cultural diversity. All values of cultures are shown in their varieties of
art. Beyond the importance of the medium, form, and context in
which art takes its characteristics, we also consider the significance
of…[Read more] -
Maximilian Kaiser deposited Künstlerbiographien und historische Netzwerkforschung: Anwendungsbeispiele aus dem Bereich der digitalen Kunstgeschichte in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agobook chapter about artists’ biographies and networks
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Edmundo Murray deposited The Diplomacy of Art: Irish, Spanish and Latin American Artwork in a Historic Building of Geneva in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThis article focuses on the works of art offered by Irish, Spanish, Brazilian and other governments and institutions to embellish the Centre William Rappard since 1926 to date. The Centre William Rappard is the first building in Geneva designed to house an international organization. It was built for the International Labour Office, and…[Read more]
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Christiane Wagner deposited Art Style, Art & Culture International Magazine, no. 1 in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoArt Style | Art & Culture International Magazine is an open access, biannual, and peer-reviewed online magazine that aims to bundle cultural diversity. All values of cultures are shown in their varieties of art. Beyond the importance of the medium, form, and context in which art takes its characteristics, we also consider the significance of…[Read more]
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Alicia Mihalic deposited Review of Barbara Burman and Ariane Fennetaux, The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women’s Lives, 1660-1900 in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoBarbara Burman and Ariane Fennetaux, The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women’s Lives, 1660-1900, Yale University Press, London, England, 2020, Appendix: Pockets in the Old Bailey, Notes, Archives, Bibliography, Index, Picture Credits, 161 Colour Illustrations, 264 pages, Softback, £19.99.
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Ben Newbound deposited A ring from Pylos in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoA three-page paper on the artistry of a bronze age ring whose discovery was reported in 2019.
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Lloyd Graham deposited Iconographic similarities between Permian “goddess plaques” (Ural region, 7-8th centuries CE) and Horus cippi (Egypt, 8th century BCE – 2nd century CE) in the group
Egyptology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThe iconography of the Horus cippus, an amulet popular in Egypt from the late Third Intermediate Period to Roman times (8th century BCE – 2nd century CE), is unexpectedly recapitulated in bronze “goddess plaques” of the 7-8th centuries CE made by Permian peoples – Finno-Ugric groups from the Ural region of northern Eurasia. The likely expla…[Read more]
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Cristelle Baskins started the topic CFP — IAS sponsored session at RSA Dublin 2021 in the discussion
Art History on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoPainted Faces: Documenting the Tradition and Reach of the Renaissance Frescoed Façade in Rome and Beyond In early sixteenth-century Rome, as the architectural language of grand domestic spaces was being further refined, elaborate façade fresco decorations came into incredible popularity. These cycles, some of which were designed to root the st…[Read more]
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Edmundo Murray deposited Centre William Rappard: Home of the World Trade Organization, Geneva in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThe first building in Geneva designed to house an international organization, the Centre William Rappard has played host to the International Labour Office since it first opened its doors in 1926, and later to the General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade secretariat and to the World Trade Organization. “Centre William Rappard: Home of the World…[Read more]
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Raphael Grazziano deposited Todo objeto é uma imagem: Sauerbruch Hutton segundo Harun Farocki Every object is an image: Sauerbruch Hutton according to Harun Farocki in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoHarun Farocki’s last film, Sauerbruch Hutton Architects (2013), is studied by comparing it to other works by the director and analyzing its scenes. The article elaborates what is the position of this office regarding architecture as a producer of images, and then verifies what is its underlying spatiality. As a result, one can see how the…[Read more]
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