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New Information about Goldsmith Stefano Piazza
Get PDFU radu se na temelju novih arhivskih istraživanja iznose do sada nepoznati podaci o djelatnosti zlatara Stefana Piazze u Zadru. Od njega je bratovština Bl. Dj. Marije od Snijega iz crkve Sv. Donata, 1691. godine naručila izradu srebrnog pokrova za stariju sliku Bogorodice s Djetetom. Osim srebrnog svijećnjaka iz 1691. godine, Piazza je za bratovštinu Sv. Jeronima iz crkve Sv. Šime tijekom 1692. i 1693. godine izradio i veći broj drugih zlatarskih predmeta, uglavnom liturgijske namjene [srebrni lik Krista, korice za matrikulu, kalež i pliticu od pozlaćenog srebra, srebrno škropilo, četiri srebrna svijećnjaka i predočnicu (pax)]. Stefano Piazza bio je član bratovštine Sv. Silvestra koja je imala sjedište u istoimenoj zadarskoj crkvi, a umro je u Veneciji dana 28. rujna 1703. godine. Njegov sin Francesco (Zadar, 21. prosinca 1684. - 17. rujna 1721.) također se u izvorima spominje kao zlatar. Donose se i drugi arhivski podaci iz njegovog života i djelovanja, također i podaci o drugim članovima obitelji Piazza, te još nekim zlatarima koji su djelovali u Zadru krajem 16. i tijekom 17. i 18. stoljeća.The article presents new information about the life and work of goldsmith Stefano Piazza in Zadar, based on the archival investigation. In 1691 he was commissioned by the fraternity of the Blessed Virgin of the Snow, to make a silver cover for the painting of the Virgin displayed on the marble altar, which the Venetian altar makers Girolamo and Francesco Garzotti made for the fraternity in the church of St Donatus around 1675. The cover was made of silver plate procured in Venice, which Piazza polished and decorated. Neither the painting nor the silver cover have been preserved, and we do not know what they looked like but it is likely that the cover was made in a similar way as other silver painting covers - covering a large part of the painting and with openings for the faces and hands of the figures. Apart from the already known piece of information about the 1691 silver andlestick, it has been established that during 1692 and 1693, Piazza made a series of other metalwork objects, mostly liturgical, for the fraternity of Croatian and Albanian soldiers in the service of the Venetian Republic, dedicated to St Jerome, which gathered in the church of St Simeon for which they had a marble altar made. These objects included a silver figure of Christ, the covers for the parish register, chalice and paten of gilt silver, a silver aspergillus, four silver candlesticks and a pax. Stefano Piazza was a member of the fraternity of St Sylvester (also known as della Pietà e della Misericordia) which had its seat in the Zadar church dedicated to the same saint, and for which the fraternity steward made a list of reliquaries and other silver objects in 1690. He died in Venice on 28 September 1703. His son Francesco (Zadar, 21 December 1684 - 17 September 1721) is also mentioned in the sources as a goldsmith.
Stefano Piazza (? - Venice, 7 September 1703) was probably the son of a north Italian goldsmith Francesco of Stefano, who is mentioned as being in Zadar between 1652 and 1668. Given that according to the available information not a single work of Stefano Piazza has been preserved, nothing can be said about his skills as a craftsman or artistic achievements, but it can be assumed that he was a respectable goldsmith who was frequently contacted by local commissioners because of his skill in making a variety of objects. Other archival data about his life and work are also published here, as well as information about other goldsmiths who worked in Zadar in the late sixteenth and during the seventeenth century
Nuove acquisizioni documentali su villa Valguarnera a Bagheria (Palermo)
No full textA palazzo Valguarnera-Gangi di Palermo è stato fortuitamente rinvenuto il “libro di fabrica del casino della Bagaria” (1712-1779), da considerare un prezioso “frammento” del disperso archivio Valguarnera. Rispetto al corpus documentario già noto questo ritrovamento contribuisce in modo sostanziale alla messa in luce delle lunghe fasi di completamento della villa.New documentary findings on Villa Valguarnera in Bagheria (Palermo)
At Valguarnera-Gangi palace in Palermo it was fortuitously found the “libro di fabrica del casino della Bagaria”; namely a volume including documents relating to the construction of villa Valguarnera in Bagheria (1712-1779), to be considered as a precious “fragment” of the lost Valguarnera archive. Compared to the already known documentary corpus, this finding substantially contributes to the highlighting of the long-lasting steps of completion of the villa
La valutazione d’impatto socio-economico e culturale della ricerca nelle scienze umane e sociali: uno studio di caso in una Università del Regno Unito
Get PDFThe aim of this paper is to describe the impact of research on society, economy and culture in the Humanities and Social sciences. In the first part of the paper, we describe the principal characteristics of the evaluation of research impact in the United Kingdom (UK), with a special focus on the new national exercise of research evaluation: the ‘Research Excellence Framework’ (REF2014). In the second part of the paper we present a case study in a British university campus where good practices of impact evaluation have been recently introduced. The main results of this study show that impact evaluation of Social sciences and Humanities research is a today’s key challenge for the academia, especially due to the difficulty in identifying the appropriate indicators for research impact measurement. Finally, we present the main themes of the current debate about the evaluation of the impacts in different fields of researc
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
La valutazione della ricerca nelle Scienze umane: uno studio empirico sulle principali liste di riviste di Storia e filosofia della scienza
Get PDFL’articolo si concentra sull’uso di liste di riviste per la valutazione della ricerca nell’ambito delle Scienze umane e in particolare nel settore di Storia e filosofia della scienza.
A un panorama delle principali problematiche inerenti l’uso delle liste di riviste con particolare attenzione alle iniziative di valutazione della ricerca in Italia segue uno studio che ha messo a confronto le liste di riviste ERIH, Norwegian list, CIRC e ANVUR.
Nelle conclusioni vengono proposte considerazioni sull'uso delle liste di riviste per la valutazione della ricerca del settore considerato, anche in relazione al dibattito internazionale originato dal Manifesto di Leiden, e alcune riflessioni sui database internazionali e gli strumenti in uso nel sistema della valutazione scientifica in Italia
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
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