Recently added articles from Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art:
Botticelli's Birth of Venus as wedding painting.
Jan 01, 2008; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Vasari's 1550 edition of the Lives contains the earliest description of Botticelli's Birth of Venus: " ... today still at Castello, in the villa of the Duke Cosimo, there are two paintings, one the birth of Venus and those breezes and winds that bring her to ...
Severed torsos and metaphorical transformations: Christina of Sweden's Sale delle Muse and Clytie in the Palazzo Riario-Corsini.
Jan 01, 2008; ... Art collecting in Rome during the second half of the seventeenth-century was punctuated by an enhanced interest in excavations, the trade of antiquities, and the publication of antiquarian studies. (1) Queen Christina of Sweden, who abdicated the throne in 1654 and moved to Rome in the ...
The Last Supper by Marcos Zapata (c. 1753): a meal of bread, wine, and guinea pig.
Jan 01, 2008; ... A large painting entitled The Last Supper can be found today in the Cathedral of Cuzco, Peru. It features an image of Christ surrounded by the apostles, all of whom flank a platter holding what is traditionally considered a roasted guinea pig, which is called cuy in the Spanish adaptation ...
Allegorizing Aryanism: Fernand Cormon's The Human Races.
Jan 01, 2008; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] At the end of the nineteenth century, Fernand Cormon created ten wall paintings depicting prehistoric animals, the beginnings of human industries, and the development of humanity from the Paleolithic to the Iron Age for the amphitheater of the New Galleries of ...
Women, agriculture, and civilization in Diego Rivera's murals of Chapingo.
Jan 01, 2008; ... The association of farming and women is very old and widespread. For some scholars, women, who are biologically linked to nourishing and the provision of food, are to be held responsible for the transcendental discovery of agriculture, and consequently, civilization. (1) The hypothesis is ...