‘A FONDNESS FOR BEING SAD’: SOME PORTUGUESE SOURCES FOR ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING’S POETICS OF MELANCHOLY IN SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE (1850) by Paula Guimarães

“…The article thus intends to suggest, through a brief comparative analysis, that her apparently contradictory poetics of melancholy very probably derived from a specifically Portuguese poetic tradition, namely the ‘fondness for being sad’ of Luís de Camões, as well as the sorrowful love of Mariana Alcoforado’s epistles (1669) and of Soror Maria do Céu’s mannerist poems, an influence that is supported in the great similarity of motives and language that can be found in the respective texts. …”
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Design and ecological thinking. The new narratives of contemporary design placing Earth on centre stage by Alessandro Valenti, Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin

“…With their experimentation, research and, above all, questions, the studio attempts to imagine different futures by revealing the limits of the mannerist creativity embedded in a certain way of thinking about design. …”
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Techniques reproductibles et artistiques dans L’Œuvre au Noir de Marguerite Yourcenar : transposition et référence communicative by Hanae Abdelouahed

“…How is formed the symbiosis of the diegesis and Ekhprasis in the novel by Marguerite Yourcenar? Mannerist processes allow the author to play on two different display modes: the text and the image called by the text. …”
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Denise Scott Brown’s active socioplastics and urban sociology: from Learning from West End to Learning from Levittown by Marianna Charitonidou

“…Taking as its starting point Scott Brown’s endeavour to redefine functionalism in ‘Architecture as Patterns and Systems: Learning from Planning’, and ‘The Redefinition of Functionalism’, which were included in Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time (2004), the article sheds light on the fact that the intention to shape a new way of conceiving functionalism was already present in Learning from Las Vegas, where Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour suggested an understanding of Las Vegas as pattern of activities. …”
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Danzig am Mittelmeer. Die Bronzeskulptur des Neptunbrunnens – Ikonographie, Bilderfindung und Bedeutung by Albert Boesten-Stengel

“…Among the works of the Dutch Hubert Gerhard (1550– 1620), trained until to 1581 in Florence in the circle of Giambologna and later active in Augsburg and Munich as a leading Northern Mannerist artist, the Archangel Vanquishing Lucifer (1588) at the facade of St Michael’s Church (M unich) comes most close to the movement expressed in the Gdańsk Ne ptune. …”
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Naître, aimer, mourir. Les lits (et leurs habitants) dans la peinture bolonaise des xvie et xviie siècles by Michele Danieli

“…So, the paradigm of luxury furniture is to be looked for in the mannerist painting of Florence or Rome or in Flemish engravings, articles that were more accessible to artists than the real royal objects. …”
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Giordano Bruno ou la curiosité militante by Gisèle Venet

“…Prolixity allows the freeing of language that in turn frees the mind, although the restrained form of a mannerist sonnet can still express the ever moving oxymoronic reality of the world. …”
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Between the ideal and the reality: The human body through the eyes of European artists by Janusz WAŁEK

“…The new non­­‑ideal forms of art that appeared in Mannerist art made the artists develop a much wider artistic language, which brought into being a variety of individually interpreted artistic representations of the human body. …”
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‘A FONDNESS FOR BEING SAD’: SOME PORTUGUESE SOURCES FOR ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING’S POETICS OF MELANCHOLY IN SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE (1850) by Paula Guimarães

“…The article thus intends to suggest, through a brief comparative analysis, that her apparently contradictory poetics of melancholy very probably derived from a specifically Portuguese poetic tradition, namely the ‘fondness for being sad’ of Luís de Camões, as well as the sorrowful love of Mariana Alcoforado’s epistles (1669) and of Soror Maria do Céu’s mannerist poems, an influence that is supported in the great similarity of motives and language that can be found in the respective texts.…”
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The Allegorical House of Temperance: on the Semantics of Space in Spenser’s Faerie Queene by Elena V. Haltrin-Khalturina

“…Spenser’s artistic manner is considered; in particular, his partaking of the mannerist style. There is offered an analysis of one of the most puzzling passages of the poem, the House of Temperance. …”
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Multi-Approach Study Applied to Restoration Monitoring of a 16th Century Wooden Paste Sculpture by Auxiliadora Gómez-Morón, Pilar Ortiz, Rocio Ortiz, Francesco Colao, Roberta Fantoni, Jacques Castaing, Javier Becerra

“…A multi-approach study has been designed to evaluate the mannerist-style masterpiece of the Christ of the Expiration (Museum Brotherhood, Seville, Spain), a polychrome wooden paste sculpture of the 16th Century that was restored in the Andalusian Historical Heritage Institute (IAPH). …”
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Consolidación de un modelo palaciego basado en la domus vitruviana: del Palazzo dei Tribunali de Roma al Palazzo Te de Mantua = The consolidation of a palatial model based on the V... by Antonio Miguel Gómez Gil, María Mestre Martí

“…This typological model should be considered as one of the taxonomies that have so far not been highlighted in the Italian Mannerist architecture of Bramante’s circle.  Resumen El artículo demuestra que los palacios exentos, del Bajo Renacimiento italiano, ejecutados por ar­quitectos del círculo de Bramante, comparten un mismo esquema compositivo en planta, basado en el estudio de la domus vitruviana. …”
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Stylizacja na język warszawskich blokersów w kreskówce Blok ekipa by Konrad K. Szamryk

“…Moreover, all the above-mentioned exponents are deliberately cumulated, so the type of stylization in the cartoon might be perceived as reconstructive-manneristic. …”
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