Search results for "Gothic"

L’architettura gotica in Sicilia centro-orientale nelle perizie degli architetti d’età moderna

2018

L’ARCHITETTURA GOTICA IN SICILIA CENTRO-ORIENTALE NELLE PERIZIE DEGLI ARCHITETTI D’ETÀ MODERNA Il contributo si concentra sulla percezione e sulla valutazione da parte degli architetti siciliani d’età moderna di opere costruite sull’isola in età gotica. L’occasione del confronto emerge soprattutto dalle perizie redatte durante l’elaborazione di nuovi progetti (di ammodernamento, di completamento) che contemplano la salvaguardia o la distruzione delle strutture del passato. Le relazioni selezionate in questa occasione affrontano pertanto questioni di carattere prevalentemente estetico e di linguaggio, ma anche le ragioni inerenti alle strutture e quelle relative alle economie (di cantiere, d…

Gothic architecture: technologies and construction site management

2018

During the Gothic times, between the XIV and the XV centuries, depending on the location, many interesting developments occurred. Such an architectural movement moved towards completely new directions and ideas if compared to the previous centuries’ construction. First of all the concept of the space, inner or external, that became highly polycentric and driven to the highness and to a certain dematerialization of the solids. Such a novel vision was often related to the new religious fervour of that time. Some examples are the reduction of the masonry’s sections, a massive usage of large coloured glazing, and the creation of light groined vaults. On the exterior, all of that corresponded to…

Tra medioevo e prima età moderna: eclettismi nel Mediterraneo : Ecclettismo consapevole: alcuni casi di approfondimento.

2019

Coexistence and mixture phenomena of different architectural idioms in the early 1500s Sicily are not rare. The present essay evaluates two late Gothic masters, Antonio Belguardo and Girolamo Vicchiuzzo (his epigone), whose activity in Palermo and Alcamo protracts in various and "eclectic" buildings, which go beyond the first half of the XVIth century.

Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic Romances and the Sea

2021

Biographical materials and the writer’s journals show that Ann Radcliffe had some personal knowledge of the sea and to some extent of sailing. She was also a lover of nature, an enthusiast of 17th -century landscapists, a connoisseur of Pre-Romantic poetry, who was also familiar with contemporary esthetic tastes and theories. In this context, the article analyzes seascapes, maritime and nautical references, motifs of storm and shipwreck in Radcliffe’s Gothic romances, including some poetical lines inspired by the sea with which The Mysteries of Udolpho is interspersed. The writer’s descriptions of the sea and her use of this element in her works are discussed in relation to her fictional ch…

Present participles in the new Gothic palimpsest

2015

A new Gothic text has recently been discovered and it is contained in a palimpsest bifolium of the Archive of the Board of Trustees of San Petronio’s Basilica in Bologna. Two scholars of Milan, R. Bianca Finazzi and Paola Tornaghi, have studied the palimpsest. The author received their paper directly from the two colleagues, who had received word of the interest the discovery of the new Gothic text had kindled in him. In his examination of the text, the author was able to find two cases confirming and one supplementing what he had written in Melazzo (1992) about the two different Gothic forms of the nominative singular of the present participle in the masculine, of which one ends in -ndaand…

Ardel Haefele-Thomas, Queer Others in Victorian Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity, Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2012

2014

Jaume Mateu y el retablo de San Sebastián de Villar del Cobo (Teruel)

2014

[ES] In 1428 the painter Jaume Mateu, who was trained in the workshop of the international Gothic master of Valencia, Pere Nicolau, painted an altarpiece dedicated to San Blas for the jurist Juan Gomez from Villar del Cobo. The parish church of this town still retains some paintings that belong to an old Gothic altarpiece with scenes of San Sebastián, San Fabián, San Jorge and a Crucifixion. This study analyzes the style of the preserved works and places them in the circle of the Valencian painter documented in Villar.

Martín I y la aparición del gótico internacional en el reino de Valencia

2003

This article focuses on the real presence of Martin I in the Kingdom of Valencia during a long period of time. This fact supposed the arrival and establishment of flemish, Italian painters and the own Crown of Aragón in the city of Turia. Orders not only by Martin I, first as a prince and later as the king, and close members of his court, but also by the own City Council allowed Valencia to be one of the most interesting cities for understanding the development of the International Gothic Style in the Crow of Aragon.<br><br>La presencia de Martín I en el reino de Valencia durante largos periodos de tiempo supuso un atractivo para el establecimiento de pintores flamencos, italian…

La historia de la dinastía en imágenes : Martín el Humano y el rollo genealógico de la Corona de Aragón

2002

Este artículo estudia el rollo genealógico de la Corona de Aragón conservado hoy en la biblioteca del monasterio de Poblet. La obra debió ser encargada por el rey Martín el Humano (1396-1410) para conmemorar a sus predecesores en el trono y, probablemente, servir de ejemplo a su hijo y presunto sucesor, Martín el Joven, rey de Sicilia, antes de su muerte, acaecida en 1409. El autor analiza el carácter de las imágenes reales pintadas en el pergamino, con el fin de precisar el significado político y cultural del rollo en relación con textos históricos y otros manuscritos iluminados que pueden vincularse a la corte durante el reinado de Martín el Humano. Las imágenes de los antiguos reyes de A…

Injustice in the Ruins and a Disordered Post-Apocalypse: Gothic Ideology in the Digital Game World of Fallout 3

2020

The Gothic is an influential source for storytelling in a wide range of digital games. Thus far, interpreting it in games and how they are informed by Gothic ideology has been little studied. This study seeks to address this gap in research by investigating these issues in the narrative of the action role-playing game, Fallout 3. More specifically, through a close reading of the game narrative and by drawing on theories of the Gothic, ideological aspects of the Gothic are analyzed in detail with specific reference to non-player characters and their actions and dialogue along with elements of the mise-en-scéne, style, and simulation. Results show how classic Gothic ideology is reproduced in …