Borenius, Tancred, (1885–2 Sept. 1948), Professor of History of Art, University College, London, 1922–47; Lecturer since 1914; Secretary to the Diplomatic Mission notifying the independence of Finland to Great Britain, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, and the Holy See, 1918; Temporary Diplomatic Representative of Finland in England, 1919; Secretary, Finnish Delegation to Economic Conference, London, 1933; Member of the Finska Vetenskaps Societeten, Helsingfors; Conseiller d’honneur of the Chambre Internationale des Experts d’art, Paris; Managing Director and Hon. Acting Editor, 1940–45, of The Burlington Magazine, Ltd; took the initiative to, and directed excavations of Clarendon Palace, near Salisbury, 1933; Commissioner for England, Leonardo da Vinci Exhibition, Milan, 1939; Hon. Secretary-General, Polish Relief Fund, 1939; Hon. Appeal Director, Finland Fund, 1940

2007 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Da Vinci ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Economic Conference ◽  
Holy See ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
Relief Fund ◽  
History Of ◽  
University College London

Evolution of Ink Drawing in History of Art

2015 ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Jeļena Koževņikova
Keyword(s):  
Da Vinci ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
Pablo Picasso ◽  
Salvador Dali ◽  
Marc Chagall ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Drawing Technique

Drawings created by ink, have a long history of constant developing and evolving, in the result establishing itself as a self-contained drawing technique. Many giants of art, such as Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519), Titian (~1488 – 1576), Albrecht Dürer (1471 – 1528), Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985), Pablo Picasso (1881- 1973) and Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) are well known for theirs artworks made with ink. The aim of the research: Trace and analyze evolution of ink drawing technique, through in ink created artworks of some well-known painters of 15-20 centuries.

scholarly journals PROFESSOR ZDZISŁAW ŻYGULSKI JR.: AN OUTSTANDING PERSON, A GREAT PERSONALITY, A MUSEUM PROFESSIONAL, A RESEARCHER ON ANTIQUE WEAPONS, ORIENTAL ART AND EUROPEAN PAINTING (1921–2015)

Muzealnictwo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-13
Author(s):  
Teresa Grzybkowska
Keyword(s):  
Museum Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
Large Set ◽  
New York University ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Polish Art ◽  
Set Up

Professor Zdzisław Żygulski Jr. (1921–2015) was one of the most prominent Polish art historians of the second half of the 20th century. He treated the history of art as a broadly understood science of mankind and his artistic achievements. His name was recognised in global research on antique weapons, and among experts on Rembrandt and Leonardo da Vinci. He studied museums and Oriental art. He wrote 35 books, about 200 articles, and numerous essays on art; he wrote for the daily press about his artistic journeys through Europe, Japan and the United States. He illustrated his publications with his own photographs, and had a large set of slides. Żygulski created many exhibitions both at home and abroad presenting Polish art in which armour and oriental elements played an important role. He spent his youth in Lvov, and was expatriated to Cracow in 1945 together with his wife, the pottery artist and painter Eva Voelpel. He studied English philology and history of art at the Jagiellonian University (UJ), and was a student under Adam Bochnak and Vojeslav Molè. He was linked to the Czartoryski Museum in Cracow for his whole life; he worked there from 1949 until 2010, for the great majority of time as curator of the Arms and Armour Section. He devoted his whole life to the world of this museum, and wrote about its history and collections. Together with Prof. Zbigniew Bocheński, he set up the Association of Lovers of Old Armour and Flags, over which he presided from 1972 to 1998. He set up the Polish school of the study of militaria. He was a renowned and charismatic member of the circle of international researchers and lovers of militaria. He wrote the key texts in this field: Broń w dawnej Polsce na tle uzbrojenia Europy i Bliskiego Wschodu [Weapons in old Poland compared to armaments in Europe and the Near East], Stara broń w polskich zbiorach [Old weapons in Polish armouries], Polski mundur wojskowy [Polish military uniforms] (together with H. Wielecki). He was an outstanding researcher on Oriental art to which he dedicated several books: Sztuka turecka [Turkish art], Sztuka perska [Persian art], Sztuka mauretańska i jej echa w Polsce [Moorish art and its echoes in Poland]. Prof. Zdzisław Żygulski Jr. was a prominent educator who enjoyed great respect. He taught costume design and the history of art and interiors at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, as well as Mediterranean culture at the Mediterranean Studies Department and at the Postgraduate Museum Studies at the UJ. His lectures attracted crowds of students, for whose needs he wrote a book Muzea na świecie. Wstęp do muzealnictwa [Museums in the world. Introduction to museum studies]. He also lectured at the Florence Academy of Art and at the New York University. He was active in numerous Polish scientific organisations such as PAU, PAN and SHS, and in international associations such as ICOMAM and ICOM. He represented Polish art history at general ICOM congresses many times. He was also active on diverse museum councils all over Poland.

“That Free Play of Human Affection”: The Humanist Ethics of Walter Pater’s The Renaissance

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 486-521
Author(s):  
Thomas Albrecht
Keyword(s):  
Da Vinci ◽  
Free Play ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
Fundamental Freedom ◽  
Secular Humanism ◽  
Aesthetic Responses ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Fundamental Uncertainty ◽  
Ethical Vision

Thomas Albrecht, “‘That Free Play of Human Affection’: The Humanist Ethics of Walter Pater’s The Renaissance” (pp. 486–521) This essay aims to refute received, persistent misconceptions of Walter Pater’s Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), and of aestheticism generally, as an asocial and amoral sensualism, and as a deliberate separating of art from human lives and the world. Contrary to these misconceptions, it finds a humanist ethical vision in The Renaissance, specifically in the essays Pater devotes to Botticelli, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci. Drawing on an established post-Enlightenment, post-Romantic tradition of Victorian secular humanism, Pater defines this vision in terms of human sympathies for the feelings and suffering of other persons. And he defines it in aesthetic terms, in terms of art’s unique capacity to depict human feelings and suffering, and thereby to arouse sympathies in the viewer. At the same time, the essay contends that Pater in The Renaissance also defines his ethical vision in a more unprecedented, radical way. Beyond the solicitation of human sympathies, he frames it in terms of a fundamental uncertainty and unpredictability, a fundamental freedom and singularity, of human ethical relationships and responses. For Pater, this uncertainty and freedom are the qualities that make an ethics genuinely ethical. Pater finds these qualities, and this kind of genuine ethics, epitomized in the unpredictability and freedom of human aesthetic responses, including his own, to art and beauty.

From Illusion to Reality: A Brief History of Robotic Surgery

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Vito Marino ◽  
Galyna Shabat ◽  
Gaspare Gulotta ◽  
Andrzej Lech Komorowski
Keyword(s):  
Robotic Surgery ◽  
Da Vinci ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
Greek Mythology ◽  
Surgical Robots ◽  
History Of ◽  
Critical Phases ◽  
And Training ◽  
Current Popularity

Purpose. Robotic surgery is currently employed for many surgical procedures, yielding interesting results. Methods. We performed an historical review of robots and robotic surgery evaluating some critical phases of its evolution, analyzing its impact on our life and the steps completed that gave the robotics its current popularity. Results. The origins of robotics can be traced back to Greek mythology. Different aspects of robotics have been explored by some of the greatest inventors like Leonardo da Vinci, Pierre Jaquet-Droz, and Wolfgang Von-Kempelen. Advances in many fields of science made possible the development of advanced surgical robots. Over 3000 da Vinci robotic platforms are installed worldwide, and more than 200 000 robotic procedures are performed every year. Conclusion. Despite some potential adverse events, robotic technology seems safe and feasible. It is strictly linked to our life, leading surgeons to a new concept of surgery and training.

scholarly journals From the History of the Journal “Severny Vestnik”. Commentary to the Commentary

Literary Fact ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 261-277
Author(s):  
Mikhail V. Stroganov
Keyword(s):  
Essential Role ◽  
Da Vinci ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
Personal Relationship ◽  
Short History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

The history of literary associations, including the history of any journal, is primarily the history of people's relationships with each other. In such a history, personal likes and dislikes play the most essential role. This law of personal sympathies and antipathies manifests itself very expressively in a rather short history of the journal “Severny Vestnik”, published by L.Ya. Gurevich (1891–1898). The article offers significant additions to comments to published texts on the history of the journal. A.L. Volynsky and N.K. Mikhailovsky showed equal harshness and indelicacy in their polemics, but their contemporaries almost unanimously sided with Mikhailovsky as an older and deserved writer. Volynsky acquired a reputation as an unscrupulous person and gossip begins to gather around his name. Volynsky demonstrated unacceptable immodesty towards D.S. Merezhkovsky and Z.N. Gippius and allowed himself to use of someone else's material, bordering on plagiarism. But most importantly, in the plot of the book about Leonardo da Vinci, he depicted his personal relationship with Merezhkovsky and Gippius and his interpretation of the relationship between them. In addition, he expelled Merezhkovsky from the journal “Severny Vestnik”, which closed for him the opportunity to publish his novel about Leonardo da Vinci.

The Study of Medieval Art I: 1900–50

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. M. Kauffmann
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Medieval Art ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Medieval Studies ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
Art Historians ◽  
History Of

This chapter examines the history of the study of medieval art in Great Britain during the first half of the twentieth century. Before 1932, no British university offered an honours degree course in the history of art. In the case of the British Academy, art did not figure in any of its sections until 1923 when the title of Section Two was changed to Medieval and Modern History and Archaeology and Art. Three fellows of this section include M.R. James, G.F. Warner and O.M. Dalton. This chapter also highlights the contributions of continental art historians to the development of British medieval studies. They include Hugo Buchtal, Otto Demus and Ernst Kitzinger.

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