Koos, Marianne
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Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte
According to Diderot, ressemblance was a central quality in eighteenth-century portraiture – and yet it was ultimately less important than the particular manner of execution, le faire. Bold brushstrokes, art critics agreed in Paris around 1750, not only enliven the subject, but also testify to the artistic enthousiasme, the genius of a painter. Whi...
Huth, Andreas
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Unless they hold a professorship, most academics at German universities are employed on a fixed-term basis. Regardless of their academic achievements such as publications, conferences, and lectures, they lose their job after a few years. Art historians are no exception. Notwithstanding years-long criticism and protest by those affected, as well as ...
Sorrentino, Vincenzo
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This article deals with national communities in Naples and their churches during the early modern period. Florentine, Lombard, and Genoese merchants had all received special privileges that exempted them from taxes on their trading and from local jurisdiction. These three nationes had different forms of government and the foundations and following ...
Peters, Olaf
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Woodfin, Warren T.
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The covered cup, discovered in 1981 during the salvage excavation of a burial mound in southern Ukraine, is an impressive example of secular metalwork from around 1200. The cup’s interior contains a cast silver-gilt lion and a hitherto undetected siphon mechanism, making it one of the first preserved automata from Europe and the earliest known West...
Schneider, Marlen
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Silver, Larry
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Farhat, Georges
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This article revisits the controversy reported on in Martino Bassi’s 1572 Dispareri, a pamphlet denouncing Pellegrino Tibaldi’s noncompliance with rules of perspective and architecture in adapting Milan Duomo to the requirements of Tridentine Reform. The inquiry involves a social, material, and technical approach to both the pamphlet and the Annunc...
Mellenthin, Paul
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Zeising, Andreas
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From the mid-1920s onward, radio, which in its early days had still been experimental in many respects, became a companion of everyday life. The professionalization of program content was accompanied by a change in the appearance of the radio itself: simple receivers with headphones were replaced by elegant radio furniture with a modernist touch me...
