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Crafts Of Color: Tupi Tapirage In Early Colonial Brazil, Amy Buono Jan 2012

Crafts Of Color: Tupi Tapirage In Early Colonial Brazil, Amy Buono

Art Faculty Books and Book Chapters

"Tyrian purple. Lamp black. Lead white. Cadmium yellow. Ultramarine blue. The materiality of color, as it is often discussed, has a fixed quality. Pigments and dyes derived from many natural substances-minerals, earths, plants, and animals-have stable optic qualities. Lapis lazuli can be reliably counted upon to be blue. Dyes made from cochineal consistently fall within a certain range at the red end of the spectrum. Similarly, we might expect that the green feathers of a bird such as the Festive Parrot (Amazona festiva), after molting, would be replaced by equally green plumes. As the excerpt above suggests, from …


Florentine Convent As Practiced Place: Cosimo De’Medici, Fra Angelico, And The Public Library Of San Marco, Allie Terry-Fritsch Jan 2012

Florentine Convent As Practiced Place: Cosimo De’Medici, Fra Angelico, And The Public Library Of San Marco, Allie Terry-Fritsch

Art History Faculty Publications

By approaching the Observant Dominican convent of San Marco in Florence as a “practiced place,” this article considers the secular users of the convent’s library as mobile spectators that necessarily navigated the cloister and dormitory and, in so doing, recovers, for the first time, their embodied experience of the architectural pathway and the frescoed decoration along the way. To begin this process, the article rediscovers the original “public” for the library at San Marco and reconstructs the pathway through the convent that this secular audience once used. By considering the practice of the place, this article considers Fra Angelico’s extensive …


The Mozarabic Horseshoe Arches In The Church Of San Román De Moroso (Cantabria, Spain), Gregory B. Kaplan Jan 2012

The Mozarabic Horseshoe Arches In The Church Of San Román De Moroso (Cantabria, Spain), Gregory B. Kaplan

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.


The Yonne Valley Builder: An Identifiable Master Introducing A Unique Blend Of Cistercian And Non-Cistercian Northern Burgundian Design To The Oise, Cynthia Marie Canejo Jan 2012

The Yonne Valley Builder: An Identifiable Master Introducing A Unique Blend Of Cistercian And Non-Cistercian Northern Burgundian Design To The Oise, Cynthia Marie Canejo

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.


Revealed: Hidden Art Behind The Gospel Truth Jan 2012

Revealed: Hidden Art Behind The Gospel Truth

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.


Bath Abbey Archaeologists Discover Cathedral Remains Jan 2012

Bath Abbey Archaeologists Discover Cathedral Remains

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.


The Medieval Mystery Of Nine Men's Morris Investigated At Creswell Crags In Derbyshire Jan 2012

The Medieval Mystery Of Nine Men's Morris Investigated At Creswell Crags In Derbyshire

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.


Archaeologists Uncover Slate At Nevern Castle "That Kept Evil Spirits At Bay" Jan 2012

Archaeologists Uncover Slate At Nevern Castle "That Kept Evil Spirits At Bay"

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.


Egyptian Blue Found In Romanesque Altarpiece Jan 2012

Egyptian Blue Found In Romanesque Altarpiece

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.


Italian Art Experts Who Restored A Cryptic Medieval Fresco Depicting A Tree Of Fertility Have Been Accused Of Censoring The Work By Painting Over The Numerous Phalluses Which Dangle From Its Boughs Jan 2012

Italian Art Experts Who Restored A Cryptic Medieval Fresco Depicting A Tree Of Fertility Have Been Accused Of Censoring The Work By Painting Over The Numerous Phalluses Which Dangle From Its Boughs

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.


Useful Videos On Medieval Architecture Jan 2012

Useful Videos On Medieval Architecture

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.


Featured Website: Norfolk Churches/Suffolk Churches Jan 2012

Featured Website: Norfolk Churches/Suffolk Churches

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.


Book Review: Kathryn M. Rudy. Virtual Pilgrimages In The Convent: Imagining Jerusalem In The Late Middle Ages, Jennifer Lee Jan 2012

Book Review: Kathryn M. Rudy. Virtual Pilgrimages In The Convent: Imagining Jerusalem In The Late Middle Ages, Jennifer Lee

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.


Archaeologists Reveal 6th-Century Baptistry In Kosovo Jan 2012

Archaeologists Reveal 6th-Century Baptistry In Kosovo

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.


Saintly Bodies, Mortal Bodies: Hagiographic Decoration On English Twelfth Century Baptismal Fonts, Frances Altvater Jan 2012

Saintly Bodies, Mortal Bodies: Hagiographic Decoration On English Twelfth Century Baptismal Fonts, Frances Altvater

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.


Fifteenth-Century Woodcarvings Of Angels And Demons Rediscovered At St. Clement’S, Outwell, Norfolk Jan 2012

Fifteenth-Century Woodcarvings Of Angels And Demons Rediscovered At St. Clement’S, Outwell, Norfolk

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.


Furness Abbey Grave Yields Treasures Of A Prosperous Medieval Abbot Jan 2012

Furness Abbey Grave Yields Treasures Of A Prosperous Medieval Abbot

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.


A Dutch Angel’S Cellphone Number Is In Demand Jan 2012

A Dutch Angel’S Cellphone Number Is In Demand

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.


Personal Piety Or Priestly Persuasion: Evidence Of Pilgrimage Bequests In The Wills Of The Archdeaconry Of Sudbury, 1439-1474, Matthew Champion Jan 2012

Personal Piety Or Priestly Persuasion: Evidence Of Pilgrimage Bequests In The Wills Of The Archdeaconry Of Sudbury, 1439-1474, Matthew Champion

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.


The Medieval Stained Glass Photographic Archive Jan 2012

The Medieval Stained Glass Photographic Archive

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.


Useful Videos On Medieval Manuscripts Jan 2012

Useful Videos On Medieval Manuscripts

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.


New Image Collections Jan 2012

New Image Collections

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.


Anglo-Saxon Christian Grave Find Near Cambridge "Extremely Rare" Jan 2012

Anglo-Saxon Christian Grave Find Near Cambridge "Extremely Rare"

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.


Two Medieval Brooches Discovered Jan 2012

Two Medieval Brooches Discovered

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.


York Saint's Shrine On Show For First Time In 400 Years Jan 2012

York Saint's Shrine On Show For First Time In 400 Years

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.


Renaissance Score Engraved In Church's Exterior Jan 2012

Renaissance Score Engraved In Church's Exterior

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.


Badge Dug Up In Field Linked To Cult Of St. Ursula Jan 2012

Badge Dug Up In Field Linked To Cult Of St. Ursula

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.


An Amateur Actress Uncovered A 500-Year-Old Long-Lost Vault At A Historic Church After Accidentally Putting Her Foot Through The Floor Tiles During Rehearsals Jan 2012

An Amateur Actress Uncovered A 500-Year-Old Long-Lost Vault At A Historic Church After Accidentally Putting Her Foot Through The Floor Tiles During Rehearsals

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.


Peregrinations: Journal Of Medieval Art And Architecture (Volume 3, Issue 3) Jan 2012

Peregrinations: Journal Of Medieval Art And Architecture (Volume 3, Issue 3)

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.


Apocalypses New: The Recently Discovered Beneventan Illustrated Beatus In Geneva In Its South Italian Context, Roger E. Reynolds Jan 2012

Apocalypses New: The Recently Discovered Beneventan Illustrated Beatus In Geneva In Its South Italian Context, Roger E. Reynolds

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.