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ACS Appl Mater Interfaces
January 2025
Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, Università di Pisa, via Moruzzi 13, 56124 Pisa, Italy.
Understanding paint structures at the nanoscopic level can address key questions related to artistic techniques, paint formulation, and long-term preservation of artworks. This involves examining spatial chemical complexity, the formation of molecular networks, and interactions between organic and inorganic constituents. Depending on the paint preparation methods, proteins and drying oils, the most common binders in traditional artistic practices, can be integrated to produce paints with diverse structures and nanoscale chemical intricacies.
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January 2025
Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Dalton Building, Manchester Metropolitan University, Chester Street, Manchester, M1 5GD, England.
Leonardo de Vinci is considered one of the greatest artists that has ever lived. His work includes the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper are celebrated worldwide. His talents expand beyond his art and his contributions to disciplines such as engineering, astronomy, geometry, botany, geology have revealed is him as a polymath.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe aim of this paper is to review portraits from the Renaissance to the Romantic eras, created before the invention of photography, and to discuss their usefulness to plastic surgeons. Before photography and film were invented, portraits played a critical role in documenting individuals, conveying power, and immortalizing people's appearance and identity. Portraits were not merely simple representations of a person's physical appearance; they played a crucial role in conveying the subject's inner qualities and social position, as well as the cultural values of the era.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInsects
July 2024
Faculty of Fine Arts, Atatürk University, Erzurum 25240, Türkiye.
In this compilation, the focus is on the Cochineal insect ( Costa, 1835 (Hemiptera: Dactylopiidae)), a creature native to South America that produces a potent natural red pigment known as "carmine". This pigment, utilized for obtaining the color red, has been an integral part of the art world for thousands of years. Indigenous cultures, in particular, have employed the dye extracted from this insect in the creation of textile dyes and paintings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Lesbian Stud
July 2024
School of Postgraduate Studies, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain.
The past decade has witnessed an unprecedented rise in trans* representation in literature, with works of fictions that go from critically acclaimed best sellers like Torrey Peters' (2021) to Booker-Prize winner postcolonial-centred study of non-binary characters in Bernardine Evaristo's (2019). In this blossoming context of exploring trans* voices, Ali Smith's (2014) breaks the mould in its defiance of traditional representations of transivity, usually grounded on medico-legal discourses. Following the precept of transnormativity as well as the theories of hapticality of Jeanne Vaccaro and Laura Marks, which respectively explore the possibilities of trans* identity perceived as a collective process of crafting and the potential found in a haptical approach to the visual, I hereby discuss Smith's representation of trans*masculine identity outside the regime of medicine.
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