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L'Allegoria di san Tommaso in Sant'Eustorgio a Milano: proposte iconografiche e iconologiche
No full textThe article explores the iconographic and iconological aspects of the early and complex Allegory of saint Thomas Aquinas, frescoed in the second half of the XIVth century on the eastern wall of the Visconti Chapel in the basilica of Sant’Eustorgio in Milan.
Through examination it is revealed how the fresco, deriving its composition from a variety of sources, holds a plurality of meanings that are interconnected with the philosophical thought of Saint Thomas and the glorification of his doctrine, with the influence of the Visconti patronage and with the role of the Preachers in the promotion of the cult of their eminent brother.
In particular the dissertation recognises strong relationships between the representation of the Aquinas’ Allegory and not only the so-called Triumphs of saint Thomas, but also thematic and compositional models coming from Dominican and Augustinian devotion and figurative prototypes peculiar to illuminated legal manuscripts
LA CAPPELLA VISCONTI IN SANT'EUSTORGIO E LA CULTURA FIGURATIVA LOMBARDA NELLA SECONDA META' DEL TRECENTO
No full textIl presente elaborato prende l’avvio da un’approfondita analisi storico critica della cappella Visconti nella basilica milanese di Sant’Eustorgio per poi estendere il campo d’indagine alle manifestazioni artistiche, primariamente pittoriche, dei territori sottoposti al dominio visconteo durante il secondo Trecento al fine di esaminare gli aspetti storici, stilistici, tipologici e iconografici che le caratterizzano e interpretarle in rapporto alle committenze e alla sfaccettata realtà politica, figurativa e cultuale che le hanno prodotte.
Il lavoro si apre delineando la vicenda critica degli studi relativi alla cappella Visconti, dalle più antiche menzioni alle ultime pubblicazioni.
Il secondo capitolo ricostruisce, attraverso la disamina delle fonti eustorgiane, la storia dello spazio sacro precisando la datazione degli interventi decorativi e il rapporto tra i Visconti e la locale comunità domenicana.
I capitoli terzo e quarto, in stretto dialogo tra loro, chiariscono come le tormentate vicende conservative della cappella siano la principale causa dell’impoverimento dei suoi affreschi trecenteschi che, tuttavia, testimoniano ancora un cantiere sontuoso e illustre e l’uso di tecniche preziose e raffinate.
Il capitolo quinto è interamente volto all’analisi iconografica e iconologica di tali pitture e al tentativo, finora mai perseguito, di intraprendere una lettura complessiva della simbologia sottesa all’intero sacello.
Lo studio degli aspetti stilistici degli affreschi delle pareti laterali della cappella Visconti, cui è dedicato il sesto capitolo, è finalizzato all’individuazione e alla configurazione delle personalità artistiche coinvolte nel cantiere, con particolare riguardo alla produzione del valente frescante responsabile della parete orientale. La ricerca si allarga dunque al contesto della cultura figurativa della seconda metà del Trecento attraverso una prospettiva di scambi e relazioni, precedenti e derivazioni, integrando le metodologie proprie della connoisseurship con l’analisi di dati tecnico-esecutivi e mettendo in luce anche alcuni brani pittorici inediti.
Il lavoro si conclude con un ampio apparato iconografico costituito, per la maggior parte, da fotografie d’archivio e realizzate nel corso dei numerosi sopralluoghi di studio alla cappella Visconti e ad altri cantieri lombardi trecenteschi.The dissertation begins with an in-depth historical-critical analysis of the Visconti chapel in the Basilica of Sant’Eustorgio in Milan and then extends the field of investigation to the artistic manifestations, primarily pictorial, of the territories subjected to the Visconti’s rule during the second half of the 14th century in order to analyse their historical, stylistic, typological and iconographic features and interpret them in relation to the patronage and the multisided political, figurative and cultic context that produced them.
The thesis opens by delineating the literature on the Visconti chapel, from the oldest mentions to the latest publications.
The second chapter reconstructs, through the examination of the sources, the history of this sacred space, specifying the chronology of the decorative interventions and the relationship between the Viscontis and the local Preachers community.
The third and fourth chapters, in close connection with each other, clarify how the troubled history of the conservation of the chapel is the main cause of the deterioration of its frescoes which, however, still testify to a sumptuous and illustrious site and the use of precious and refined techniques.
The fifth chapter deals entirely with the iconographic and iconological analysis of these paintings and for the first time proposes a comprehensive interpretation of the underlying significance of the entire sacred space.
The study of the style of the frescoes on the side walls of the Visconti chapel, to which the sixth chapter is dedicated, aims to identify and define the personalities involved in the worksite, with particular attention to the production of the talented artist who is responsible for the eastern wall. The research therefore extends to the context of the figurative culture of the second half of the 14th century through a perspective dealing with exchanges and relationships, precedents and derivations, integrating the connoisseurship method with the analysis of technical data and also revealing some unpublished frescoes.
The work concludes with a wide iconographic apparatus consisting mostly of archive images and photographs taken during the numerous study visits to the Visconti chapel and other 14th century Lombard buildings
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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