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Bartolomeo Ammannati: Moving Stones, Managing Waterways, And Building An Empire For Duke Cosimo I De' Medici, Felicia M. Else 2011 Gettysburg College

Bartolomeo Ammannati: Moving Stones, Managing Waterways, And Building An Empire For Duke Cosimo I De' Medici, Felicia M. Else

Art and Art History Faculty Publications

This study, drawing on new information from unpublished documents, reconsiders the working methods and responsibilities of sculptor and architect Bartolomeo Ammannati in the context of Cosimo I de' Medici's creation of a grand ducal Tuscan empire. Ammannati was an indispensable part of the broader enterprise of ducal and grand ducal building activity, urban development, and court bureaucracy. His success was reliant on skills different than those emphasized by Giorgio Vasari. Instead of divinely inspired disegno or rampant terribilità, Ammannati showed his technical, organizational, and supervisory skills to move stones, build bridges, manage waterways, and keep track of expenses - the …


L’Évolution Du Patrimoine: Identity Politics And Cultural Policy In Contemporary Senegalese Art, 1960-2010, Hannah Shambroom 2011 Connecticut College

L’Évolution Du Patrimoine: Identity Politics And Cultural Policy In Contemporary Senegalese Art, 1960-2010, Hannah Shambroom

Art History Honors Papers

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From The Port Of Mocha To The Eighteenth-Century Tomb Of Imam Al-Mahdi Muhammad In Al-Mawahib: Locating Architectural Icons And Migratory Craftsmen, Nancy Um 2011 Binghamton University--SUNY

From The Port Of Mocha To The Eighteenth-Century Tomb Of Imam Al-Mahdi Muhammad In Al-Mawahib: Locating Architectural Icons And Migratory Craftsmen, Nancy Um

Art History Faculty Scholarship

This article introduces and analyzes the tomb of the Qāsimī Imām al-Mahdī Muhammad (r. 1686-1718) in the village of al-Mawāhib, northeast of Dhamār. Unlike many of the mosques and tombs associated with the other Zaydī imams of Yemen, al-Mahdī’s mausoleum has never been published, but merits close examination. While most historians consider his imamate to have been an era of both religious and political decline, this period was marked by increased cross-cultural interaction and artistic production. In particular, the tomb of al-Mahdī features unique decoration above its mihrāb and a remarkable wooden cenotaph. In order to explain the meaning and …


Archaeology Not Much Like Indiana Jones, Aldemaro Romero Jr. 2011 CUNY Bernard M Baruch College

Archaeology Not Much Like Indiana Jones, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


Icarus Returned: The Falling Man And The Survival Of Antiquity, Sharon Sliwinski 2011 Western University

Icarus Returned: The Falling Man And The Survival Of Antiquity, Sharon Sliwinski

Data and Test Instruments

This chapter examines the so-called "Falling Man" photograph: Richard Drew's infamous image of an anonymous man in free fall, following his jump from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Using Aby Warburg's iconographical method, I read this figure as a latter-day Icarus, putting Drew's photograph in dialogue with other representations of Icarus as a way to explore the image's unconscious force.


Stealing Horses And Hostile Conflict: 1833-1834 Drawings Of Mato-Tope And Sih-Chida, Kimberly Minor 2011 University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Stealing Horses And Hostile Conflict: 1833-1834 Drawings Of Mato-Tope And Sih-Chida, Kimberly Minor

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

The first documented Native American art on paper includes the following drawings at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska: In the Winter, 1833-1834 (two versions) by Sih-Chida (Yellow Feather) and Mato-Tope Battling a Cheyenne Chief with a Hatchet (1834) by Mato-Tope (Four Bears) as well as an untitled drawing not previously attributed to the latter. These images were produced and collected during the winter of 1833-1834 when the German Prince Maximilian of Wied and artist Karl Bodmer resided at Fort Clark in North Dakota. These drawings remained with Prince Maximilian’s estate until they were placed on long term loan …


Kunstgeschichte. Open Peer Reviewed Journal, 2011 Kenyon College

Kunstgeschichte. Open Peer Reviewed Journal

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

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Saints And Geography, Margaret Cormack 2011 College of Charleston

Saints And Geography, Margaret Cormack

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.


Art Of Representation: Portraits Of The Founding Fathers, Ellen Kathryn Corrigan 2011 Eastern Illinois University

Art Of Representation: Portraits Of The Founding Fathers, Ellen Kathryn Corrigan

Faculty & Staff Research & Creative Activity

Text panel from “The Art of Representation: Portraits of the Founding Fathers,” a local exhibit in support of the Booth Library installation of the ALA-PPO/NEH traveling exhibition Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World, on display January 12-February 25, 2011.


History In 3-D: Digitally Archived Works Of Art, 2011 Kenyon College

History In 3-D: Digitally Archived Works Of Art

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.


Featured Website: Medieval Hungary, 2011 Kenyon College

Featured Website: Medieval Hungary

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.


Intriguing Finds Of Metal Detectorist, 2011 Kenyon College

Intriguing Finds Of Metal Detectorist

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.


Late 15th-Early 16th Century Graffiti Incised By Handwork Apprentices Discovered In Nunnery Near Aachen Germany, 2011 Kenyon College

Late 15th-Early 16th Century Graffiti Incised By Handwork Apprentices Discovered In Nunnery Near Aachen Germany

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.


The Multiple Identities Of Azerbaijan, Babajide George Iloba 2011 Khazar University

The Multiple Identities Of Azerbaijan, Babajide George Iloba

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

This paper focuses on the emerging Azerbaijani identity and its competing articulations in the Republic of Azerbaijan, in Iran, and in Diaspora. The northern Republic of Azerbaijan has a population of over 8 million people, the majority of whom have different social and political experiences than over 30 million Azeris in the South, or in Iranian Azerbaijan. However, there are formidable historical, socio-cultural, ethnic, and linguistic ties that bind all Azerbaijanis together as one people. This necessity of coming together finds its highest expression in Diaspora and among the Azeri émigrés. In the process, the Azeri Diaspora experiences a host …


Turkish Language In Iran (From The Ghaznavid Empire To The End Of The Safavid Dynasty), Zivar Huseynova 2011 Khazar University

Turkish Language In Iran (From The Ghaznavid Empire To The End Of The Safavid Dynasty), Zivar Huseynova

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

It is well known that throughout History/ Archaeology Persians and Turks have been collecting within the same nation in states of peace and war and creating empires under the names of various dynasties. There are many sources giving evidence to the fact that Turks lived and ruled in these lands. In the article we will give information about the status of the Turkish language exclusively during the period of time from the Ghaznavid Empire until the end of the Safavid Empire. Beginning by the Ghaznavid government in 961, in later centuries the Kharazms, Seljuks, Teymuris, Elkhans, Aq Koyunlus, Kara Koyunlus, …


Resemblances In The Wedding And Natal Customs Of Azerbaijanis And Bulgarians, Zlatozhivka Zdravkova,, Reneta Zlateva 2011 Angel Kanchev University of Ruse

Resemblances In The Wedding And Natal Customs Of Azerbaijanis And Bulgarians, Zlatozhivka Zdravkova,, Reneta Zlateva

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

The present article describes the natal rites and customs of the Azerbaijan and Bulgarian nations. Special attention is paid to the resemblances in the practicing and understanding of the traditions. Despite the fact that the two nations live in regions remote from each other, they have common beliefs and strive to provide prosperity for the home, family and children.


Schamachi/Şamaxı In 1683/1684 – Engelbert Kaempfer’S Intercultural Contacts, Lothar Weiss 2011 Khazar University

Schamachi/Şamaxı In 1683/1684 – Engelbert Kaempfer’S Intercultural Contacts, Lothar Weiss

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

As secretary of a Swedish delegation to the court of Shah Sulaimān, Engelbert Kaempfer (1651-1716) travelled through what is today Azərbaycan for 77 days. He stayed in Scha- machi/Şamaxı, the former capital of the Persian province of Šervān, for four weeks, including his visit to Bakı and the oil fields of Apsheron – this report (Lemgo 1712) is well known. Not so well known are details of his stay in Scha- machi; his diary and his liber amicorum (auto- graph book with five entries from Schamachi, in five languages; not shown before) give the names of seven or eight of …


Romanian Immigrant Travel Routes To America, Mihaela Mudure 2011 Babes-Bolyai University

Romanian Immigrant Travel Routes To America, Mihaela Mudure

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

This paper claims the existence of various immigrant travel routes in American literature. The literary argumentation relies on Domnica Radulescu and her first novel Train to Trieste and on Alta Ifland‘s collection of short stories Elegy for a Fabulous Land. Both writers were born in Romania and were confronted with totalitarianism and its impositions upon individual identity. Travel and mobility have shaped the identities of these two writers in decisive ways which draw the contours of an emerging hyphenated ethnic literature: Romanian-American literature.


Short Overview Of The Evolution Of Modern Greek State, Shalva Tchkadua 2011 Telavi State University

Short Overview Of The Evolution Of Modern Greek State, Shalva Tchkadua

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

No abstract provided.


Unchaste Veneration In Titian's Worship Of Venus, Fern Luskin 2011 CUNY La Guardia Community College

Unchaste Veneration In Titian's Worship Of Venus, Fern Luskin

Publications and Research

The identity, activities, and attributes of Venus and her devotees in Titian's Worship of Venus have long been misunderstood. Although based on Philostratus' Erotes, Titian's actual textual source was Demetrios Moschos' Italian translation of the Erotes. Previous analyses of Titian's painting have relied either on faulty transcriptions and translations of Moschos' Amori, or on the original Greek or Loeb edition of Philostratus, which differ from Moschos' work. A careful translation of Moschos' text, closely compared to Titian's painting, yields a new interpretation of its theme, riddles, and humorous double entendres pointing toward a decidedly unchaste Venus worshipped not …


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