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Water Optics and Water Colour Remote Sensing
Water is irreplaceable natural resources on the planet for people to survival and develop. Declining water quality has become a global issue of significant concern as anthropogenic activities expand and climate change threatens to cause major alterations to the hydrological cycle. Thus, monitoring the physical, chemical, and biological status of rivers, reservoirs, lakes, coastal waters, and oceans is immensely important. Remote sensing has the potential to provide an invaluable complementary source of data at local to global scales. This book-Water Optics and Water Colour Remote Sensing-provides an overview of the current state of the science on water optical properties and water colour rem...
Water Optics and Water Colour Remote Sensing
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Water Optics and Water Colour Remote Sensing" that was published in Remote Sensing
Pietro Porcinai and the Landscape of Modern Italy
Born in Florence in 1910, Pietro Porcinai grew up on the classic grounds of the Villa Gamberaia in Settignano where his father served as head gardener. Although he studied agriculture in college, Porcinai’s true interest lay in the landscape architecture practice he founded in 1938. Early projects centered in the area of Arezzo, whose style reflected modernized traditional models. In the postwar era the office flourished, producing modern gardens of remarkable design and use of plants. In these works, Porcinai convincingly demonstrated the affinity between historical architecture and landscapes uncompromisingly modern. During his long and productive career he also consulted on autostrada planning, and designed public parks, memorials, and even a Pinocchio theme park-at times collaborating with noted architects such as Renzo Piano, Carlo Scarpa and Oscar Niemeyer. This book, the first English-language study on Pietro Porcinai provides a comprehensive and richly illustrated overview of his life and remarkable achievements.
Nuncius
Annali di storia della scienza.
Donatello Among the Blackshirts
Focuses on the appropriation of visual elements of the classical, medieval, and Renaissance past in Mussolini's Italy.
The Portrait of Eccentricity
In this companion to his The Cornucopian Mind and the Baroque Unity of the Arts, Maiorino examines the links between Renaissance and the modern versions of the Groteseque. In this interdisciplinary study, the term &"eccentricity&" refers to styles of playful extravagance. Maiorino focuses on the rhetorical figures of excess employed by a critic-historian (Giorgio Vasari), on the willful artificiality of a painter (Giuseppe Arcimboldo), and on the programmatic and interpretive commentary of a theorist (Gregorio Comanini). Maiorino draws subtle and persuasive connections between the images he discusses and the grotesque &"face&" of sixteenth-century poetics and rhetoric. He sets the mannerist and the grotesque against the philosophical seriousness of Renaissance humanism, interpreting them as a celebration of the ludic and fantastic possibilities of art itself. Aiming at pleasure rather than instruction, this art plays on the boundaries of the natural and the artificial, the credible and the impossible, taking delight in parody, excess, disjunction, and exaggeration.
Botanical Progress, Horticultural Innovation and Cultural Changes
This book highlights religious, artistic, political, and economic consequences of horticultural pursuits, exploring the roles of peasants, botanists, horticulturists, nurserymen, and gentlemen collectors in these developments, and offering a reflection on horticulture's future in the context of environmental devastation and ecological uncertainty.
Medici Gardens
Medici Gardens challenges the common assumption that such gardens as Trebbio, Cafaggiolo, Careggi, and Fiesole were the products of an established design practice whereby one client commissioned one architect or artist. The book suggests that in the case of the gardens in Florence garden making preceded its theoretical articulation.
Paesaggio
Una raccolta di saggi come questa vuole essere soprattutto la testimonianza di un percorso disciplinare, un cammino simile peraltro a quello compiuto in altre università italiane e tuttavia unico nella sua evoluzione e particolare come ogni esperienza lo è. Dieci anni di lavoro scientifico e didattico sul paesaggio meritavano una riflessione e noi l'abbiamo fatta nell'unico modo che conosciamo: scrivendo. Non c'è, dunque, né potrebbe esserci nessuna volontà celebrativa, è solo un modo, fra i tanti, di compiere una sorta di autoanalisi, di comprendere più approfonditamente noi stessi e di far meglio conoscere agli altri la nostra vicenda, quello che abbiamo prodotto, come l'abbiamo fatto e quali risultati sono stati conseguiti, al fine di poterlo confrontare e mettere a disposizione di quanti si occupano della stessa area disciplinare o di problematiche ad essa vicine.
