Artists and patronage in late fourteenth-century Iran in the light of two catalogues of Islamic metalwork

1985 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila S. Blair
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
The Sun ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Private Collection ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Lengthy Discussion

Islamic metalwork has in recent years been the subject of several important new publications. James W. Allan has written a lavishly illustrated guide to a recently acquired private collection whose pieces attest to the high quality of objects available to the discriminating collector. The 27 pieces span the variety of wares produced in the medieval Islamic world: bowls, ewers, candlesticks, inkwells, incense burners, and other objects produced in Egypt, Syria, the Jazira, Iran, and India from the tenth to the seventeenth century. Multiple photographs in both colour and black and white accompany a lengthy discussion of each piece. In the introduction the author offers a brief summary of the Islamic metalware tradition (its origins, expansion, and decline) and discusses the symbolism inherent in its decoration, particularly the imagery of light and darkness and the sun.

The Discovery of an Early Bearing-Dial

1953 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 294-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl V. Sølver
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
The North ◽  
Late Medieval Period ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
North Western

It has hitherto been generally presumed that the division of the horizon into thirty-two points was a development of the late medieval period. Such a division, it has been said, was impossible in the pre-compass era. ‘It is questionable whether even so many as sixteen directions could have been picked out and followed at sea so long as Sun and star, however intimately known, were the only guides’, one eminent authority has declared; ‘Even the sailors in the north-western waters had only four names until a comparatively late date.’ Chaucer's reference in his Treatise on the Astrolabe to the thirty-two ‘partiez’ of the ‘orisonte’ has for long been quoted as the earliest evidence on the subject. The Konungs Skuggsjà, a thirteenth-century Norwegian work, however, refers to the Sun revolving through eight œttir; and the fourteenthcentury Icelandic Rímbegla talks of sixteen points or directions. An important discovery by the distinguished Danish archaeologist, Dr. C. L. Vebæk, in the summer of 1951, brings a new light to the whole problem and makes the earlier held view scarcely tenable. Vebæk was then working on the site of the Benedictine nunnery (mentioned by Îvar Bárdarson in the mid-fourteenth century) which stands on the site of a still older Norse homestead on the Siglufjörd, in southern Greenland. Buried in a heap of rubbish under the floor in one of the living-rooms, together with a number of broken tools of wood and iron (some of them with the owner's name inscribed on them in runes) was a remarkable fragment of carved oak which evidently once formed part of a bearingdial. This was a damaged oaken disk which, according to the archaeologists, dates back to about the year 1200.

scholarly journals ЕФЕКТИВНІСТЬ САМОСТІЙНОЇ РОБОТИ СТУДЕНТА НАД КОМП’ЮТЕРНО- ГЕНЕРОВАНИМИ НАВЧАЛЬНИМИ ЗАВДАННЯМИ НА ОСНОВІ КОГНІТИВНИХ ПРОТОТИПІВ

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. Popov ◽  
O. A. Ryzhov ◽  
N. H. Vasylchuk
Keyword(s):  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Basic Structure ◽  
Educational Material ◽  
Success Rates ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Training Exercises ◽  
Independent Work ◽  
Experimental Group

The paper analyzes the possibility of intensifying students’ independent work using computer-generated special type of exercises based on prototypes of cognitive structures. Three basic types of tasks (training exercises) that can be automatically generated for the student with the basic structure of cognitive prototype. The evaluation of the academic performance of students who perform independent work course “Parasitology” based on cognitive prototypes, and assess the effectiveness of this type of training exercises to enhance the success of the subject. Experimental results demonstrate the high quality of student perceptions of educational material in the form of MK and qualitatively higher (12 %) success rates in compiling module control the experimental group that performed in the preparation of independent work from the MK.

scholarly journals Detecting individual gravity modes in the Sun: Chimera or reality?

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (H15) ◽  
pp. 345-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael A. García
Keyword(s):  
Asymptotic Properties ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Doppler Velocity ◽  
The Sun ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Velocity Signal ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
Theoretical Developments

AbstractOver the past 15 years, our knowledge of the interior of the Sun has tremendously progressed by the use of helioseismic measurements. However, to go further in our understanding of the solar core, we need to measure gravity (g) modes. Thanks to the high quality of the Doppler-velocity signal measured by GOLF/SoHO, it has been possible to unveil the signature of the asymptotic properties of the solar g modes, thus obtaining a hint of the rotation rate in the core (García et al. 2007, 2008a). However, the quest for the detection of individual g modes is not yet over. In this work, we apply the latest theoretical developments to guide our research using GOLF velocity time series. In contrary to what was thought till now, we are maybe starting to identify individual low-frequency g modes. . .

scholarly journals Features of the competition strategy devoted to the leading goals of subjects with a perfectionistic orientation towards others

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alisa Tuzlukova
Keyword(s):  
Work Performance ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Competition Strategy ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Quality Of Work ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Individual Style ◽  
Job Position

The article presents the results of a study devoted to the establishment of the strategy of competition for achieving various goals in professional activity among working subjects with perfectionistic orientation towards others. The subject of the research is the strategy of competition devoted to the leading goals of subjects with different intensity of the perfectionistic orientation of the personality; the object is the perfectionistic orientation of the working subjects. The subject of the study was 142 employed workers (112 women, 30 men). The perfectionistic orientation is considered as a complex of motives and attitudes of the individual, which are steadily manifested in various types of activity in conscious striving for perfection based on high demands for others, perceived from others, as well as on the person itself, which can provide advantages in achieving competitive goals. It was found that of the strategy of competition of working subjects with perfectionistic orientation towards others include: social goals ("leadership", "higher job position", "praise and support of colleagues"), goals, associated with professional activity ("stability of work performance", "high quality of work performance") and themselves as subjects of the professional activity ("demonstration of an individual style of work performance"). Than the content of the components of the competition strategy to achieve them was established. Competition strategies for achieving the goals of "praise and support of colleagues", "demonstration of an individual style of work performance", "stability of work performance" are insufficiently formed, since they are supported by the content of only one component of the competition strategy or are characterized by the negative influence of the content of all its components. Competition strategies devoted to the goals of "leadership", "higher job position" and "high quality of work performance" are more stable and formed due to their reinforcement by the content of all components of their competition strategy. The data obtained by the authors on the content of competition strategies to achieve these goals allow us to detect motives, behavioral attitudes and actions towards competitors, as well as ideas about them that can ensure the success of subjects with high demands on others in activities related to teamwork. The novelty of the work lies in the study of the achievement of various goals of competition in their complex conditionality by the content of each of the components of the competition strategy of subjects with a perfectionist orientation, focused on others.

XI. —Note on a Gold Standing Cup in the possession of the Duke of Portland, K.G.

Archaeologia ◽  
1905 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-234
Author(s):  
Charles Hercules Read
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Reasonable Doubt ◽  
Rare Occurrence ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Gold Plate ◽  
History Of ◽  
Short Time

Gold plate is of such rare occurrence that I have thought it would be agreeable to the Society to see the very handsome example that the Duke of Portland has been good enough to send up at my request from Welbeck for exhibition. (Plate LXIV.) The metal is evidently of high quality, and the form is by no means inelegant for the period at which it was made. The bowl is beaten into a shell-like form, with elaborate projecting scroll-work enamelled and set with jewels, and having at the back a figure of Pan with Cupid seated astride of his neck all modelled in the round; the stem is formed of a pair of lovers embracing, and the foot is of a lozenge form made up of a number of enamelled scrolls alternating with jewelled bands. The whole of the work is of the most minute finish, not only as regards the chasing and engraving of the gold, but the figures that form so important a feature of the design are modelled with unusual vigour and artistic perfection, and there can be no reasonable doubt that they are the work of a master. I have not, however, been able to trace the artist during the short time the cup has been in my custody. The enamelled work is of interest in the history of the craft, for it well illustrates the transition from the method that characterised the jewellery of the sixteenth century to that prevalent in the seventeenth. The former is commonly found during the last three quarters of the sixteenth century, and consists in cutting away the ground of the design down to a certain depth, and the engraved portions are then filled in with enamel, leaving the design itself in the metal. This style of work required great dexterity on the part of the engraver, for the dividing lines of gold were often of great thinness, and the slightest deviation of the graver would instantly catch the eye and destroy the quality of the work. This class of enamelled decoration for jewellery was succeeded in the seventeenth century by another of a similar effect, but not requiring anything like the same care.

scholarly journals Nikolaus Rungius: Lifestyle and Status of an Early Seventeenth-Century Northern Finnish Vicar

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiina Väre ◽  
Sanna Lipkin ◽  
Jenni A. Suomela ◽  
Krista Vajanto
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Stable Isotope ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Domestic Animals ◽  
Ct Scans ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Protein Rich ◽  
Isotope Analyses

Abstract Vicar Nikolaus Rungius’s (ca. 1560–1629) mummified remains have been the subject of research that has provided a wide variety of information on his life. This article examines the ways Rungius’s health and lifestyle highlight his status as a vicar, and this status is visible in his burial and funerary clothing. He was a relatively large man for his time. CT scans even include indications of certain conditions related to being overweight. Likewise, stable-isotope analyses of his nail keratin support the hypothesis that he was consuming a rather heavy, protein-rich diet. Given his status as the vicar of Kemi parish in northern Finland, he likely made sumptuous use of the rich local natural resources of fish, game, and domestic animals as part of his regular diet. In addition to his diet and health, the vicar’s high-quality clothes, while fragmentary, also open an avenue to extend the exploration of his social status and wealth.

scholarly journals Intensification of High-Quality Brewing Processes

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-53
Author(s):  
Zoriana M. Romanova ◽  
Serhii M. Loiko ◽  
Mykola S. Romanov ◽  
Ludmila O. Kosogolova ◽  
Mikhail D. Khlynovskiy
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Study ◽  
Quality Standards ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
High Standards ◽  
Beer Production

Brewing is a complex process that involves many stages and successive operations. The issues of intensifying the brewing processes are of great importance in improving the ways to obtain a high-quality finished beer product and maintain high standards of its quality in the future. The relevance of the subject matter is conditioned by the stable demand for high-quality beer products in society and the urgent need to create effective technologies for the production of high-quality beer, taking into account the introduction of the latest technologies for the intensification of brewing processes. The purpose of the study is to determine the main factors that are important from the standpoint of intensifying the processes of quality brewing, in the context of assessing the prospects for their subsequent consideration when planning the beer production processes. The leading approach of this study is a combination of a systematic analysis of the peculiarities of brewing processes in the context of searching for opportunities for its intensification, with an analytical study of real options for intensifying the brewing processes, from the standpoint of maintaining high-quality standards of finished beer and increasing the overall production rate. The main results obtained in the course of this study should be considered the substantiation of the main factors of the brewing processes intensification in the context of creating a mathematical model for calculating the possibilities of its implementation in the activities of breweries to increase the rate of brewing high-quality beer. The prospects for further research are determined by the preservation of a stable demand for high-quality beer products, combined with an increase in the need to intensify the processes of its production, in accordance with the set standards for the quality of beer production.

scholarly journals Srebrna oltarna pala u Kotoru

Ars Adriatica ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Nikola Jakšić
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Visual Quality ◽  
The Right ◽  
Made In

The article analyses a silver altarpiece in Kotor Cathedral which was made in the repoussé technique in the mid-fifteenth century. The figure of St. Tryphon (fig. 11) is the only saint which had been preserved from an earlier, fourteenth century altarpiece. Two figures (Christ and St. Peter; fig. 2, 3) were made by master John of Basel, active in Kotor until 1440 when he moved to nearby Dubrovnik where he was commissioned, by the Franciscans, with a silver crucifix, still preserved. The figures of three saints (fig. 6, 8), in the right part of the middle row (fig. 5), distinguish themselves from the others with their visual quality and are the work of a master who trained in a more developed artistic centre. A more numerous group of figures, the author of the article attributes to a local goldsmith called Marin Adamov (fig. 5, 9, 10). His work on the altarpiece is directly testified with a document dated in 1445. Finally, the altar piece was dismantled and re-assembled in the seventeenth century when the Venetian master goldsmithVenturin added the figures (of a mediocre quality) of St. Francis and St. Jerome (fig. 13). The author of the paper proposes a reconstruction of the original appearance of the altarpiece in the mid-fifteenth century. Accordingly,saints’ figures were arranged in two rows, with Christ figure in the centre of the upper row. The lower centre figure was St. Tryphon, flanked by St. Marc the Evangelist and St. Simeon the Righteous whose Kotor feast coincides with that of St. Tryphon.

scholarly journals L'oratorio della Madonna del Piano a Sesto Fiorentino

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Milloschi
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
New Science ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Sacred Image ◽  
Madonna And Child

The Oratorio della Madonna del Piano stands in the area of the new Science and Technology Centre of Florence University, in the municipality of Sesto Fiorentino. The first part of this study traces the history and life of the oratory within the territorial context of Sesto. Consequently, it addresses the subject of the fourteenth-century image of the Madonna and Child that was venerated here, the construction of the original tabernacle and that of the seventeenth-century chapel, analysing the historic, artistic and iconographic elements of the frescoes. The second part of the book recounts the history of devotion to the Madonna del Piano, and the results of a survey carried out in 2001 among the people of Sesto Fiorentino, with interviews on life in Val di Rose and on devotion to this sacred image during the 20th century. The work is concluded by a presentation of the restoration of the architectural structure and of that of the frescoes inside the oratory, carried out between 2000 and 2001.

scholarly journals Preparing a law teacher to implement the goals and content of the subject

2020 ◽  
Vol 87 ◽  
pp. 00016
Author(s):  
N.S. Zhdanova ◽  
L.N. Aksenova
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Legal Consciousness ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Legal Tradition ◽  
High Quality ◽  
National Tradition ◽  
Legal Thinking ◽  
The Subject

The paper examines the features of the training and activities of a law teacher in the context of the Russian legal tradition. The author concludes that teaching law based on the national tradition of legal thinking will provide a high quality of education and the formation of a highly moral legal consciousness of young people.

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