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A Fresh Look at the Tomb of Alexander VII
No full textThesis (B.A. in Art History)--John Cabot University, Spring 2024.At the end of his career, Gianlorenzo Bernini was called upon to execute the tomb of Alexander VII Chigi in Saint Peter’s Basilica. Bernini had presented tomb design drawings to the Pope during his lifetime and those drawings became the model for the tomb. But, with eleven years passing since the death of the pope and eighteen years passing since Alexander’s review of the presentation drawings, Bernini made modifications which are evident in the tomb as it was completed in 1678. After considering the writings of Bernini scholars and completing a visual analysis of the tomb, this thesis examines the tomb’s variance from the presentation drawings and identifies the degree to which these changes incorporate elements found in previous works by Bernini. The analysis of these variances provides insight into the tomb’s function as both a tribute to the Pope as well as a final testament to Bernini
Catwalks and Collecting: Alexander Fury on Westwood and Galliano
No full textFashion journalist, author, and critic Alexander Fury and MFIT Curator Colleen Hill discussed Fury’s latest book, Vivienne Westwood: The Complete Collections (Yale University Press, 2021). The conversation included an overview of highlights from Fury’s personal collection of fashion, which includes designs by Westwood, John Galliano, Christian Lacroix, among others
The Author of the Alexander Romance
No full textThis paper, which is based on a portion of the introduction of the author’s edition of Il Romanzo di Alessandro (Mondadori: Fondazione Valla 2007), surveys the generic components of the Alexander Romance in an attempt to arrive at a definition of the work. The argument builds on Merkelbach’s categorisation of elements and uses Fusillo’s insight into the novel as an ‘encyclopaedic genre’ to propose that ‘historical novel’ is not, as Hägg contended, a misnomer for the work. The main components I discuss are: ‘life’; praxeis; chreiai; Cynic elements, including choliambic poetry and utopian perspectives; and the Egyptian aspects of the narrative. A concluding jeu d’esprit offers a characterisation of the putative author, his antecedents and his process of composition.Richard Stoneman was for 25 years editor for classics at Croom Helm and then Routledge. In 1997 he was appointed an Honorary Fellow in the department of classics, University of Exeter. After retiring from publishing in 2006 he has been pursuing his researches on the Alexander legends and teaching a course on the subject at Exeter. His Penguin translation of the Alexander Romance was published in 1991, and a volume of translated Legends of Alexander the Great appeared from Everyman in 1994. Also in 1994 he co-edited Greek Fiction with John Morgan. His edition of the Greek recensions of the Alexander Romance was published (volume I) by the Fondazione Valla in 2007 – volumes II and III will follow over the next few years – and his Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend appeared from Yale University Press in spring 2008. He is the author of a number of other books on Greek history and travel, and is writing a book on oracles
Fashion Culture: Alexander McQueen: Unseen
No full textAlexander McQueen’s spectacular shows were full of extraordinary moments and people. Author and photographer Robert Fairer will discuss his stunning, high-energy photographs of McQueen’s runway shows. Fairer, who was Vogue's backstage fashion photographer for more than a decade, was an integral part of the whirl of activity behind the scenes. In "Alexander McQueen: Unseen," Fairer's images, which capture both the glamour and the grit, represent a new genre of fashion photography and are a treasure trove of inspiration. Robert Fairer joins writer and consultant John Matheson (of Instagram's @McQueen_Vault) in a talk moderated by MFIT’s senior curator of education Tanya Melendez-Escalante
Elsewhere: Alexander Brodsky, Ilya Utkin, Nigel Coates, Luc DeLeu, Roni Horn, Peter Weibel
No full textPublished to accompany an exhibition at the John Hansard Gallery (September - November 1996) that explored the change in open spaces brought about by art, technology and the need for a sustainable environmen
Odoardo Fialetti (1573-c.1638): the interrelation of Venetian art and anatomy, and his importance in England
No full textBolognese artist Odoardo Fialetti (1573 – c.1638) is a fascinating figure upon which curiously little work has been done. Though he is a rarely discussed pupil of Tintoretto, Fialetti’s oeuvre is vast (some 55 known paintings and approximately 450 prints) and incredibly diverse. His work encompasses religious subjects, portraits, books on drawing and sport, maps, and illustration for treatises on city defences, literary texts, and anatomy. His work was influential for several hundred years after his death, not only in Venice and northern Italy, but also in France where his designs were used as decoration on faïence produced at Nevers, and England, where his paintings were much admired at court. Fialetti’s close association with Sir Henry Wotton, and the careful copy of his drawing book made by Alexander Browne in the mid-seventeenth century, attest to his impact on the formation of an Italianate sensibility in the appreciation of the visual arts in Early Modern England. In the realm of science, Fialetti’s influence can be deduced from his drawings of curiously animated cadavers in detailed landscapes to those of future generations of anatomists and illustrators throughout Europe. Because of the diverse associations and projects throughout his career, the study of Fialetti is inherently interdisciplinary, encompassing the history of art, history of science and history of the Venetian book trade, as well as crossing geographical boundaries in linking Venetian art and English tastes of the late renaissance and early baroque. Through examination of his extant oeuvre, as well as discussion of lost work, I aim to recognise Fialetti’s status as an artist responding to contemporary artistic debates (disegno versus colorito), a changing cultural climate and the burgeoning importance of the printed medium
John Osborn Diary - Accession 1523 M739 (796)
No full textThis collection consists of a photocopied typescript copy of the diary of John Osborn(e) who resided in Union County, North Carolina. The diary spans from January 1, 1800 through October 2, 1802 and offers a detailed account of life on the farm and of the weather in the area. The diary was loaned to the National weather Records Center for microfilming by Miss Clara Laney, Register of Deeds, Union County, Monroe, NC in 1968. The diary includes provenance of the diary up to 1968 and also includes a list of people mentioned and places visited, as well as comments by various researchers who have studied the dairy. The author of the diary (John Osborn(e)) has not been fully identified, however one researcher surmised that John was the youngest son of William Osborne whose household in Mecklenburg County, NC in the 1790 census includes Abel Osborne, Capt. James Osborne, Widow Osborne, Alexander Osborne, Robert Osbourne, and John Osborne.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/2704/thumbnail.jp
Foster children
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to examine how a replaced child is affected by its past experiences with neglectful parents, and what it means for the development of the child during, and after placement. To explore the question, we have examined three different cases: each through the lenses of four theorists’ perspectives. The first case is the story of Jørn, as told in the documentary Er du mors lille dreng, which follows his interactions with various caregivers within the Danish Social System, at three stages of his life: as an infant, then ten-, then eighteen-year-old. The Second case is the story of Lisbeth Zornigs’ experience of abuse and neglect as told in her autobiography Vrede - er mit mellemnavn. In our third case, another autobiography, is the story of Camilla Johnson, who recounts her life experience - including abuse - with various foster families, in the documentary film Svært barn har mange navne. Each of these cases treat issues of foster children’s experience of neglect within the context of foster families and the social system, more broadly. Each of these cases reflect various developmental consequences that foster family placement has on foster children, including family and social system abuse neglect on one hand, and attachment and care, on the other. The four theorists’ whose perspectives informed our analysis are: Kari Killén, John Bowlby, Daniel N. Stern and Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, whose perspectives we applied each case, individually. Applying the perspectives to our cases revealed several diverse and varied but still in some way equal outcomes. The outcome which was equal in all of them is how their change of caregivers will create a distrust of others, as the fear of being abandoned is placed so deep in them. Based on the theories applied, we can also see that in all three cases the replaced child developed psychological injuries. A misplacement of children can also have an impact on the children's development as their needs cannot be met. In this assignment we will not highlight the idea of "the good placement" but instead discuss errors and shortcomings in the system, based on our three cases. Children are all different, and because of this, the effects of family-placement upon foster children, resists simple or clear interpretation
Evaluating Research Impact through Open Access to Scholarly Communication
Full text linkScientific research is a competitive business – in order to secure funding, promotion and tenure researchers must demonstrate their work has impact in their field. To maximise impact researchers undertake high priority research, aim to get results first, and publish in the highest impact journals. The Internet now presents a new opportunity to the scholarly author seeking higher impact: s/he can now make their work instantly accessible on the Web through author self-archiving. This growing body of open access literature (coupled with new publishing models that make journals available for-free to the reader) maximises research impact by maximising the number of people who can read it, and making it available sooner. Open access also provides a new opportunity for bibliometric research. This thesis describes the relatively recent phenomenon of open access to research literature, tools that were built to collect and analyse that literature, and the results of analyses of the effect of open access and its effect on author behaviour. It shows that articles self-archived by authors receive between 50-250% more citations, that rapid pre-printing on the Web has dramatically reduced the peak citation rate from over a year to virtually instant and how citation-impact – now widely used for evaluation – can be expanded to include a new web metric of download impact
The true interest of Great Britain, Ireland and our plantations: or, A proposal for making such an union between Great Britain and Ireland, and all our plantations, as that already made betwixt Scotland and England ... And a new method of husbandry by greater and lesser canals .. with proposals for removing the hurtful parts of the heretable courts and jurisdictions, and of the present holdings and tenures of lands in Scotland, and other such obstructions to all good law, power, government, union, industry and improvements whatsoever.
No full text"A letter and remonstrance, &c. to the Right Honourable Philip Lord Hardwicke, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, Arthur Onslow, esquire, speaker of the House of Commons, and Mr. attorney and Mr. sollicitor general, from Sir Alexander Murray, of Stanhope, baronet ... London 1740," p. 1-20 at end.Mode of access: Internet.With bookplates of Edward Barrett Curteis, Wm. Fred. D'Arley, Sir John Deas Thomson, and John Deas Thomson, esqr, commissioner of the navy
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