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Gli affreschi di Altichiero nell’Oratorio di San Giorgio: glorificazione dinastica e identitaria del ‘miles egregius’ Raimondino Lupi di Soragna
No full textThis paper is devoted to the Oratory of St. George in Padua, which is examined in light of the devotional and propaganda needs of its patron.
The author sets the Oratory against the background of the refined visual strategies developed in the cultural environment connected with the court of the Da Carrara, rulers of Padua. Commissioned as a funerary chapel by Raimondino Lupi di Soragna (born near Parma, a Paduan citizen since 1376), the Oratory was decorated by Altichiero
between 1379 and 1384. The main protagonists of the painted cycle, that is, Saints George, Catherine and Lucy, had long since been the object of devotion for both Raimondino and other members of his family. Yet, the specific narrative choices, with regard to the episodes effectively represented, reveal a peculiar interpretation of the lives of the saints that the author of this article relates to both the personal stories of Raimondino himself and the intended funerary use of the chapel. The free-standing tomb of Raimondino, now partially destroyed, originally stood in the middle of the Oratory. It was decorated with sculpted portraits of Raimondino and nine members of his family. The sculpted effigies interacted visually with the portraits of the Lupi family members painted in the votive scene on the left wall of the Oratory, where the individuals are presented by their respective patron saint to the Virgin and Child Enthroned. The iconographic programme is completed by episodes of the Life of Christ on the counter-façade and on the end wall of the chapel, and figures of saints and angels on the ornamental frames that articulate the pictorial space. Together with homage to the mendicant orders, there emerges a clear predilection for martyr saints as well, all associated with some of the most popular and venerated saints of Padua - an obvious tribute to Raimondino’s adoptive homeland.
Devotion, therefore, coexists in the Oratory with personal, dynastic promotion through the very same images that can thus be seen as conveyng multiple and composite messages
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
“Patria dalla quale sono usciti tanti scultori eccellentissimi”: dopo Donatello, fino alla fine del Cinquecento
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