Characterization of Soluble Salts on the Frescoes by Saturnino Gatti in the Church of San Panfilo in Villagrande di Tornimparte (L’Aquila) by Valeria Comite, Andrea Bergomi, Chiara Andrea Lombardi, Mattia Borelli, Paola Fermo

“…This phenomenon can lead to cracking, flaking and detachment of the pictorial layer, ultimately ruining the work of art. However, the characterization of soluble salts via chemical analysis can be employed to determine the conditions of the artifact and establish the proper restoration and/or conservation strategies to be adopted. …”
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Paintings as Objects of Discourse Analysis: Two Case Studies by Magdalena Łuczkiewicz

“…The analysis is presented in the form of individual case studies of each work of art, making use of certain discourse categories (in particular, with the help of the categories of colour, line, character, disposition, opposition and intertextuality). …”
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RECORDING MICHELANGELO'S DAVID: ULTRA-HIGH RESOLUTION 3D SCANNING AND MODELING FOR DIGITAL AND PHYSICAL REPRODUCTION by G. Tucci, A. Conti, V. Bonora, L. Fiorini, L. Fiorini, G. Pagliaricci

“…In the twentieth century, the physical reproduction of a work of art was considered only a business activity and a replica would rarely be on display in a museum. …”
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The author and his critics: two decades (Comparison of the 1960s and 1970s critical reflexions of Vincent Šikula’s works) by Vladimír Barborík

“…The process can be tracked through the dominant means of expression of critical reflexion: in comparison with the previous period of time there is no historical interpretation of a literary work of art based on historical materialism of the Marxist provenance and what gets to the forefront is the individual – „a human“. …”
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‘Definition of poetry’: Frege vs. Jakobson by Tatiana V. Tsvigun, Alexey N. Chernyakov

“…It helps reveal the common semiotic mechanisms at play in any work of art, which motivate the ‘definition of poetry’ as a distinct statement about a unique world. …”
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Architectural and artistic features of the entrance portal of the church in Velykyi Khodachkiv of Ternopil region by N. Yavna

“…The portal is characterised by the expressiveness of architectural details, the integrity and aesthetics of this work of art were created according to the laws of beauty. …”
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More than a Man, Less than a Painter: David Smith in the Popular Press, 1938–1966 by Paula Wisotzki

“…Reporting regularly relied on photographic portraits to present these artists as modernist innovators who were an extension of (or even a replacement for) the work of art. Jackson Pollock came to epitomize the Abstract Expressionist artist, with “action” photographs capturing his radical painting method. …”
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Investigation of Originality and “Appropriation” in the Creation of Visual Arts by Mojdeh Derakhshani

“…As a result, they were able to create new functions for a previous work of art.In this regard, the present study aimed to focus on the concept of originality with an approach of appropriation in the visual arts. …”
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Violence/Power/Force and Struggle over Time in Contemporary Brazil: Forum on the Actuality of Benjamin’s ‘Critique of Violence’ at Its Centenary, Part V by Rafael Barros Vieira

“…As Benjamin points out in one of the variants of the essay on the work of art, fascism is the conservation of relations of production and property through violence. …”
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GERMANIC NOMINATIONS OF BRITISH TITLES AND THEIR FUNCTIONING IN THE 19 th CENTURY FICTION TEXTS by Galina T. Bezkorovaynaya

“…The undertaken semantic and functional analysis of lexemes earl, knight, lord / lady enabled the author to conclude that when they indicate social status of the character depicted in the work of art or are used as an etiquette form of address, they implement direct meaning. …”
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<b>Fontes: dois contextos expositivos para a incomensurabilidade</b> by Elisa de Sousa Martinez

“…Palavras-chave arte contemporânea, instalação, semiótica visual Abstract The meaning of a work of art is produced by the relationship established within the context of the exhibition, as well as with the other works with which it builds the one sensitive and cognitive course. …”
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Multispectral Imaging and <i>p</i>-XRF for the Non-Invasive Characterization of the Anonymous Devotional Painting ‘<i>Maria Santissima delle Grazie</i>’ from Mirabella Imbáccari (S... by Antonella Privitera, Maria Francesca Alberghina, Elèna Privitera, Salvatore Schiavone

“…This work presents the results of the in situ, non-invasive diagnostic investigations performed on the canvas oil painting depicting Madonna and Child, venerated as ‘<i>Maria Santissima delle Grazie</i>’ by the local religious community. The work of art (72 cm × 175 cm) is located on the high altar of the main Church in Mirabella Imbáccari, near Catania (Sicily, Italy). …”
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Role of Wedding Ritual Terms in Formation of Cultural Identity of Rusyns in Eastern Slovakia: Ethnolinguistic and Aesthetic Aspects of Research

“…The main objective of the research is to find an interdisciplinary common ground in the understanding of identity as a phenomenon in ethnolinguistics (simbols of the language of culture), in linguoculturology (language as an instrument of defining Rusyns identity), aesthetics (ontology of the work of art, perception and originality of artifacts created by ethnics). …”
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Due pale d’altare nella chiesa di Santa Chiara a Montelupone: una copia seicentesca dell’Annunciazione di Barocci e una Sacra Conversazione di Onofrio Gabrieli da Messina (1695) /... by Michele Catinari

“…It is about a copy of the Annunciation by Federico Barocci, yet in the chapel of dukes of Urbino in the sanctuary of Loreto, for which we tried to understand the relationship with the other copies or derivation from the shop of the painter of Urbino, and the altarpiece of the church, depicting a Madonna with Child and Saints attributed to Onofrio Gabrieli because of his signature: in this case the work of art has been inserted in the Sicilian master’s path, person with a traveling career, which the canvas for Marche is yet another piece.…”
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The communicative function of olfactory images in the novels of P. Suskind Perfume and T. Salih The Season of Migration to the North by Almussa, Yara

“…The initial theoretical point, based on the existing developments in the field of literary studies and cultural studies, is the idea of olfactory images as an essential component of the poetics of a work of art. The role played by olfactory images in revealing the characters of the two heroes Jean-Baptiste Grenouille and Mustafa Said is considered. …”
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LITERARY REPUTATION OF STANISLAV LEM

“…Lem focused on the receptive aspect of the work of art; it is the reader’s perception that forms, in his opinion, the structure of the work. …”
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Historia de las mujeres en España: historia de una conquista History of the women in Spain: history of a conquest by María Eugenia Fernández Fraile

“…This situation has prevailed in Spain up to the democracy: From then (1978), a series of changes have been happening that transform the situation of the women with their participation in the public sphere (work, politics, art, mass media) and with a change into the model of familiar relationships.…”
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Color study of historic silks by María Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual, Rosa Herráez-Hernandez, Pilar Campíns-Falcó, Lucía Rojo Iranzo, Ester Alba Pagán

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AESTHETIC ASPECTS OF EKPHRASIS IN GUY DE MAUPASSANT’S SHORT STORY «UN PORTRAIT» («A PORTRAIT») by T. P. Karpukhina

“…Both the main character of the story as a human being in the flesh and the image in the picture as a still, non-living work of art, manifest themselves as equally significant aesthetic objects, united by one common inherent quality, i.e. the magic and charm of beauty. …”
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Konstruowanie atlasu. Surrealizm - fotografia - Reprodukcja by Tomasz Szerszeń

“…The aim of the editors of the journal was to move away from the metaphysical and ocularcentric paradigm in favour of a more horizontal and relational (and in effect anthropological) positioning of a work of art. The question of reproduction is problematised in “Documents” in terms of a discussion on the aura of works and objects from other cultures: displaced and uprooted from their cultural context. …”
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