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Francesco Cairo
No full textIl volume costituisce il primo catalogo ragionato dell'opera pittorica di Francesco Cairo (Milano 1607- 1665).
Scandito dalla schedatura scientifica delle circa 130 opere autografe dell'artista, dei dipinti di attribuzione incerta e di quelli perduti, il libro presenta tre saggi introduttivi che ripercorrono la vicenda del pittore e ne collocano il percorso all'interno dei contesti da lui frequentati, dalla Milano degli anni della peste del 1630 alla Torino sabauda, per finire ancora nella Milano di metà Seicento, nella quale Cairo si impone come personalità più influente, in grado di aggionare la cultura figurativa locale sulle coeve, molteplici espressioni del Barocco.
Considerazioni sulla 'seconda maniera' di Francesco Cairo
No full textL'intervento analizza la produzione di Francesco Cairo negli quaranta e cinquanta del Seicento, arricchendo il catalogo di questa stagione dell'artista con nuove opere che ne chiariscono l'adesione alla cultura barocca di estrazione rubensiana e vandyckiana e la conseguente sintonia con le coeve esperienze della pittura genovese
Sustainable Development of the Nile River at Greater Khartoum
No full textSudan is the largest country in Africa, but there is poverty and a lack of infrastructure, skills and opportunity despite its substantial natural resources. The capital of Sudan is Khartoum City,
located at the confluence of the Blue and White Nile Rivers. Unfortunately development on Nile
River Front is limited due to the risk of flooding and erosion. There is a danger that rapid
economic development may take place in this unique area without sustainable development
planning. This research project aims to develop strategies to protect the Nile River banks by
suitable stabilization methods so that development can take place safely.
Data has been collected about hydrology, morphology, geotechnical factors, soil classifications, river pattern systems, driving forces, and the main problems restricting sustainable development and engineering works for the Nile River. In addition the following have been reviewed: historical background, existing land uses, current environmental situations, and the economic and social conditions of the study areas. Research identified Cairo, Egypt as a similar case study, where data collected by the author included historical background, current situations, strategic visions and development plan for Nile River Shores. Further information was collected about sustainable development from a general literature review.
From these collected data a set of guidelines and indicators for sustainable development was
established related to environmental, economic and social factors. Based on those guidelines and
indicators, methods of stabilization of the banks for each shore were specified and a proposed
development plan was established. Methods of stabilization of banks and the development plan
were refined and evaluated to establish a final version of the development plan: Sustainable
Development of the Nile River Front (SDNRF) at Greater Khartoum. From refinement and evaluations, barriers and constraints for implementation were specified with their suggested
solutions. Finally, conclusions and recommendations related to the SDNRF Manual about
development and regulations were established
Francesco Cairo, Alessandro Tiarini e la strana storia delle ante di Sant'Eufemia a Milano
No full textPartendo dall’analisi di un trascurato dipinto tardo cinquecentesco anonimo, raffigurante il Martirio di Sant’Eufemia, conservato nella chiesa di San Paolo Converso a Milano, l’articolo ne ricostruisce le vicende di provenienza e la singolare storia conservativa. Si riesce così ad appurare che la tela è il frutto dell’assemblaggio delle due ante esterne dell’organo della chiesa di Sant’Eufemia, celebrate dalle fonti milanesi sei e settecentesche come opera prestigiosa di Tiziano o di Veronese. Sulla scorta di questa precisazione il contributo ricostruisce la fortuna antica dei dipinti, testimoniata anche dalla copia seicentesca eseguita da Francesco Cairo, e smentisce l’ipotesi di un collegamento tra le ante della chiesa milanese e una tela ivi conservata dedicata anch’essa a Sant’Eufemia, nella quale viene invece riconosciuta la mano di Alessandro Tiarini
Francesco Cairo. Diana
No full textIl testo illustra un capolavoro dipinto da Cairo intorno al 1645-165
Cairo: A Memoir
No full textComing of age as a Jew in Egypt, the author protested against the British occupation and, as a young journalist, interviewed Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan El-Banna. Amid the crackdown on suspected Zionists and communists, he emigrated to France. Years later he returned to Cairo, this time as a correspondent for Le Monde, to interview another important Egyptian—President Gamal Abdel Nasser
Precisazioni su Salvator Rosa a Milano (e una data per Francesco Cairo)
No full textNell'articolo si ricostruisce la storia inedita della commissione a Salvator Rosa e a Francesco Cairo delle due pale che decoravano l'Oratorio della Confraternita di San Giovanni Decollato in piazza San Fedele a Milano. La ricostruzione, basata su ricerche d'archivio e indagini storiche e filologiche sui dipinti, consente anche di fornire nuovi dati sul contesto di committenza nel quale Rosa si muove negli anni Sessanta. Si fornisce altresì la data di un'altra importante pala d'altare del Cairo, fino a oggi avanzata solo su base induttive
Adapting authoritarianism: institutions and co-optation in Egypt and Syria
No full textThis PhD thesis compares Egypt and Syria’s authoritarian political systems. While the tendency in social science political research treats Egypt and Syria as similarly authoritarian, this research emphasizes differences between the two systems with special reference to institutions and co-optation. Rather than reducibly understanding Egypt and Syria as sharing similar histories, institutional arrangements, or ascribing to the oft-repeated convention that “Syria is Egypt but 10 years behind,” this thesis focuses on how events and individual histories shaped each states current institutional strengthens and weaknesses. Specifically, it explains the how varying institutional politicization or de-politicization affects each state’s capabilities for co-opting elite and non-elite individuals.
Beginning with a theoretical framework that considers the limited utility of democratization and transition theoretical approaches, the work underscores the persistence and durability of authoritarianism. Chapter two details the politicized institutional divergence between Egypt and Syria that began in the 1970s. Chapter three and four examines how institutional politicization or de-politicization affects elite and non-elite individual co-optation in Egypt and Syria. Chapter five discusses the study’s general conclusions and theoretical implications.
This thesis’s argument is that Egypt and Syria co-opt elites and non-elites differently because of the varying degrees of institutional politicization in each governance system. Rather than view one country as more politically developed than the other, this work argues that Syria’s political institutions are more politicized than their Egyptian counterparts. Syria’s political arena is, thus, described as politicized-patrimonialism. Syria’s politicized-patrimonial arena produces uneven co-optation of elites and non-elites as they are diffused through competing institutions. Conversely, the Egyptian political arena remains highly personalized as weak institutions and individuals are manipulated and molded according to the president’s ruling clique. This is referred to as personalized-patrimonialism. As a consequence, Egypt’s political establishment demonstrates more flexibility in ad hoc altering and adapting its arena depending on the emergence of crises.
This study’s theoretical implications suggest that, contrary to modernization and democratization theory’s adage that institutions lead to a political development, politicized institutions within a patrimonial order actually hinder regime adaptation because consensus is harder to achieve and maintain. It is within this context that Egypt’s de-politicized institutional framework advantages its top political elite. In this reading of Egyptian and Syrian politics, Egypt’s personalized political arena is more adaptable than Syria’s. These conclusions do not indicate that political reform is a process underway in either state
L'età barocca: Milano, Cremona e Bergamo
No full textIl saggio analizza le esperienze della pittura di ritratto nei vari centri lombardi in epoca barocca. Attraverso la ricognizione delle opere di Francesco Cairo, dei fratelli Nuvolone, di Carlo Ceresa e di altri protagonisti di quella stagione figurativa, viene posto in risalto lo scarto che divide la produzione milanese, influenzata dai modelli aulici della coeva ritrattistica di corte, da quella di centri come Bergamo e Cremona, nei quali quel genere artistico si declina con accenti più schiettamente realistici
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