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From diagnostic investigations of art to technical art history. Birth of a methodology for the study of art history (1874-1938)-Dalla diagnostica artistica alla technical art history-Nascita di una metodologia di studio della storia dell'arte (1874-1938)
No full textLA COLLANA TECHNICAL ART HISTORY - La Technical Art Hislory unisce l'esperienza e le conoscenze di storici dell'arte, restauratori e scienziati, nel campo della conservazione, in una prospettiva di studio incentrata sulla materialità dell'opera d'arte, ma che si estende anche ad altri ambiti, dalla filologia alla storia economico-sociale, al pensiero filosofico. La collana vuole essere una sponda e un luogo di confronto per quanti, in ogni ambito, anche accademico, conducono una ricerca e una didattica ispirate alla Technical Art History e alimentate dalla contaminazione disciplinare con il mondo della conservazione e delle scienze applicate
Materialità e Imaging. Le ricerche radiografiche di Alan Burroughs su Giorgione e Tiziano alle radici della Technical Art History
No full textThe thesis Materiality and Imaging. Alan Burroughs’ X-ray studies on Giorgione and Tiziano at the Roots of Technical Art History aim to retrace the beginning of Technical Art History, searching for the documents that show the pioneering work of few art historians and scientists in the field of scientific analysis of artworks. This took place in 1920s and 1930s in both America and Europe and the archives of Harvard Art Museums Archives, the National Gallery of London, and Centre de Recherche des Musées de France preserve much of this memory. In particular, the thesis focuses on the contribution of the art historian Alan Burroughs and his mentor Edward Forbes, being the outstanding figures of a crucial event: the international X-ray campaign promoted by Fogg Art Museum since 1926. The first book on X-ray in art studies was published by Burroughs (Art Criticism from a Laboratory, Boston 1938), stressing the contribution of the scientific approach to art history. This manual is groundbreaking for the methodology: Burroughs deals with specific critical issues in art studies “testing the tool” of X-ray. The thesis focuses on one issue, which is the topic of the 9th chapter in his book: the distinction between Giorgione and the young Titian. In order to detect the technical features that may differ one painter from the other, Burroughs studied several paintings through X-rays. A significant group of works is reviewed testing Burroughs’ results and following achievements by art historians and conservation scientists. The history of the conservation and technical research, relating to those paintings, may balance the real value of Burroughs’ legacy and his confidence in the new methodology, which is now called Technical Art History
θ dependence in trace deformed SU (3) Yang-Mills theory: A lattice study
Full text linkIn this paper we investigate, by means of numerical lattice simulations, the topological properties of the trace deformed SU(3) Yang-Mills theory defined on S1×R3. More precisely, we evaluate the topological susceptibility and the b2 coefficient (related to the fourth cumulant of the topological charge distribution) of this theory for different values of the lattice spacing and of the compactification radius. In all the cases we find results in good agreement with the corresponding ones of the standard SU(3) Yang-Mills theory on R4
Raffaello a Capodimonte: l'officina dell'artista
No full textLe collezioni di Capodimonte conservano un nucleo di opere raffaellesche di grande interesse attraverso il quale è possibile avere una idea larga e variata del valore e dell’ineguagliabile versatilità del lavoro del maestro, ma anche della vasta e differenziata attività della sua bottega, nella quale lavorarono artisti di grande valore, e infine della fortuna delle sue creazioni, immediatamente replicate, copiate e diffuse in innumerevoli esemplari. È un nucleo formato da opere di ogni periodo della vita dell’artista, e che copre molti generi diversi: va dai frammenti della prima opera nota di Raffaello, la pala d’altare con l’Incoronazione di San Nicola da Tolentino, dipinta a diciotto anni per la chiesa di Sant’Agostino
di Città di Castello, alla Madonna del Divino Amore e a quella detta della Gatta, tra gli ultimi capolavori usciti dalla sua bottega. Accanto alle opere definite ‘autografe’ cioè eseguite in tutto o in gran parte dal maestro, si è esplorato il mondo complesso delle copie, dei multipli, delle derivazioni.
Le novità emerse dalla campagna di indagini diagnostiche condotte dal Museo, dal CNR, dal LAMS/CNRS e dall’Università Vanvitelli, con l’utilizzo di tecnologie e metodologie d’avanguardia, ci hanno mostrato i dipinti e i disegni non solo come appaiono ai nostri occhi, ma anche nel loro farsi, ricostruendo il lavoro del maestro e dei suoi aiutanti, impegnati nel processo creativo ed esecutivo, ideale e manuale insieme, che porta alla realizzazione delle opere. Queste sono in realtà oggetti complessi e stratificati, definiti nel loro aspetto attuale da caratteri materiali, dall’usura del tempo e dai danni, e anche dalle manomissioni e dalle restituzioni operate con i restauri. Conoscere meglio questi aspetti può aiutare il visitatore a comprendere più a fondo l’opera, lo storico a interpretarla, il conservatore a preservarla con migliore consapevolezza
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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