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Science and Art
Science and art are increasingly interconnected in the activities of the study and conservation of works of art. Science plays a key role in cultural heritage, from developing new analytical techniques for studying the art, to investigating new ways of preserving the materials for the future. For example, high resolution multispectral examination of paintings allows art historians to view underdrawings barely visible before, while the use of non-invasive and micro-sampling analytical techniques allow scientists to identify pigments and binders that help art conservators in their work. It also allows curators to understand more about how the artwork was originally painted. Through a series of...
The Universal Timekeepers
Atoms are unfathomably tiny. It takes fifteen million trillion of them to make up a single poppy seed—give or take a few billion. And there’s hardly anything to them: atoms are more than 99.9999999999 percent empty space. Yet scientists have learned to count these slivers of near nothingness with precision and to peer into their internal states. In looking so closely, we have learned that atoms, because of their inimitable signatures and imperturbable internal clocks, are little archives holding the secrets of the past. David J. Helfand reconstructs the history of the universe—back to its first microsecond 13.8 billion years ago—with the help of atoms. He shows how, by using detector...
Wisdom Embodied
Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art --
Italian Medieval Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters
"The collection of Italian medieval sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters began with the acquisition in 1908 of a Romanesque column statue; today the Museum's holdings comprise more than seventy works dating from the ninth to the late fifteenth century ... The birthplaces of these works range from Sicily to Venice; some typify local styles, others illustrate the intense artistic exchanges taking place within Italy and between Italy and the wider world ... Technological advances of the last decades have made it possible to determine more precisely the materials and techniques from which works of art are made, the history of their alteration, and the mechanisms of their...
Geomaterials in Cultural Heritage
Papers from a session of the 32nd International Geological Congress.
Football and European Identity
Shifting European identities, cultural loyalties and divisions are often expressed more directly through attitudes to 'the people's game' game than in any other arena. This book examines European football journalism from throughout the last century to present a unique cross-cultural analysis of changing European national and regional identities. Building on detailed research into original language sources from across Western Europe, from the early 20th century to the present day, Football and European Identity traces this fascinating evolution. The resulting cross-cultural analysis of national identity in Europe provides the basis for a unique study of the interplay between football, society, politics and the print media, in three parts: Part 1: Old Europe national identity in the football writing of England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain Part 2: Nations within a State examines the status of Corsican, Catalonian and Basque identities Part 3: New (Football) Worlds explores the response of Europe’s presses to the emergence of Africa, South East Asia and the USA as major forces in world football
Ternitti
La vicenda di un popolo tenace, la tragedia del lavoro che nutre e uccide, la meschinità di un uomo e la fierezza di una donna: tutto si compone con la semplice necessità delle umane cose in un romanzo luminoso e maturo.
Il quarto livello
All'inizio degli anni Novanta Stato e mafia hanno condotto una trattativa di cui le indagini stanno finalmente svelando i contorni. Ma quali ne furono gli obiettivi? Chi i partecipanti? E, soprattutto, quale l'organizzazione? Ne hanno fatto parte gli esecutori materiali di intimidazionie stragi; i boss mafiosi decisi a ricattare il governo; una politica collusa che tentava in vario modo di usare Cosa Nostra. E, in cima alla piramide, c'è stato un Quarto livello: quello di chi ha mosso fili nell'ombra, depistato indagini, inquinato prove, corrotto o ricattato. A dare inizio a tutto un elenco di nomi che Vito Ciancimino appuntò su una cartolina e spedì a se stesso nel 1990, scomparsa assieme al famoso papello. Ne restano una fotocopia e i racconti del figlio Massimo. Vi sono indicati personaggi di alto livello professionale e istituzionale che avrebbero agito, in maniera organica, al di fuori delle proprie funzioni. Maurizio Torrealta cerca per primo di fare luce su queste figure e ne ricostruisce le vicende, per capire se e a quale interesse superiore sarebbe stata sacrificata la società italiana, con azioni di cui solo ora si comincia a chiedere conto.
