scholarly journals Prilog poznavanju djelovanja Mateja Andrijina Moronzona*

Ars Adriatica ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Barbara Španjol-Pandelo

Matteo Moronzon, a member of the Venetian family of woodcarvers, was mentioned for the first time in 1407 according to the present known archival documents. Probably after being trained in his father's workshop in Venice, he moved to Zadar with his family – his wife Francisca and sons Pietro and Francesco. In 1418 he undertook the commission of furnishing carved choir stalls for the cathedral of St. Anastasia in Zadar. Various archival documents testify that Matteo lived and worked in Zadar for many years. Therefore it can be assumed that he probably founded his own workshop in Zadar where his son Francesco was trained too. Apart from the attempt to reconstruct Matteo's life and career, the aim of this paper is to interpret one important woodcarving work of art preserved in situ: choir stalls in the former cathedral of Rab, today the arch parish church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Rab. Without doubt Matteo was the master carver in the production of the choir stalls in Zadar. Since he lived in Zadar it was not unusual that he had the main role in carving the stalls. In Zadar the selection of motives is more balanced and there are no significant differences in the modelling of decorative elements. However, the question whether Matteo carved absolutely everything or he had assistants arises. Considering the amount of work that had to be done it must be assumed that he had assistants who participated in work and helped him to shape the stalls. However, in literature Matteo was considered the only and undisputed author of the choir stalls in Zadar, mostly because of the preserved document. The analysis of the choir stalls in Rab by Ivo Petricioli as well as their evident formal and stylistic similarities with the stalls from the cathedral in Zadar have led to the general acceptance of the hypothesis that they were carved at the workshop of Matteo Moronzon. However, a comprehensive comparative analysis that could confirm that hypothesis was still missing. The analysis of the details and the whole led to the overall conclusion that there were a huge number of similarities between the choir stalls in Rab and Zadar. Therefore it was concluded that Matteo was the principal designer of the choir stalls in Rab who also carved the best parts in Rab, while others, less successful parts, were made by his apprentices and assistants who at the time lived on the island of Rab. In this respect, if Matteo was accepted as the author of the choir stalls of the cathedral in Zadar he must also be accepted as the author of the choir stalls from the excathedral in Rab.

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 284-298
Author(s):  
Elena M. Shabshaevich

The article presents a focused look at the professional relations of the composer and pianist Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829—1894) with his main Russian publishers — V.V. Bessel and P.I. Jurgenson. The article is based on musical and historical research concerning the history of the Bessel and Jurgenson publishing houses, works on copyright, A.G. Rubinstein’s epistolary, and archival documents from the Russian National Museum of Music. For the first time in music science, there are revealed some pages of the history of personal and business contacts of the three named persons, primarily the conflicts related to the rights to publish the composer’s works in Russia. The first documented contract for the publications of A.G. Rubinstein was received by P.I. Jurgenson (for op. 82, 1868). However, the contract of A.G. Rubinstein with the trading house “Bessel and Co.”, concluded in 1871 (though Rubinstein’s first work had been published by Bessel two years earlier), was much more extensive and significant. Under this contract, it was supposed to publish more than fifty A.G. Rubinstein’s works of various genres, so in the 1870s, V.V. Bessel became the main Russian publisher of the composer. However, in 1879, A.G. Rubinstein unexpectedly changed his main publisher in Russia. This position was taken by P.I. Jurgenson, whose trading house also published an extensive list of Rubinstein’s compositions, as well as his literary works. This is evidenced by several notarized contracts, stored in the Russian National Museum of Music, between Rubinstein and “P.I. Jurgenson” company. Thus, the two leading Russian publishers of A.G. Rubinstein legally formalized their relations with the composer, which allows us to follow, in a reasoned and substantive way, the process of maturation of the institution of copyright for music publications in Russia in the last third of the 19th century.Using the example of A.G. Rubinstein, in comparison with the position of M.A. Balakirev, the article also raises the issue of granting copyright to a publisher not only in Russia, but also “forever and for all countries”. The comparative analysis of publications of the same composer by different publishing companies is also new to Russian musicology, this helps identify certain accents that publishers put in popularizing A.G. Rubinstein’s works. The publication of the composer’s works by various publishers also highlights new aspects in his creative process, in the history of the creation, receipt of the opus number, and the titles of some of his works.


2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e16119-e16119
Author(s):  
M. Ponz-Sarvisé ◽  
A. Calvo ◽  
M. Redrado ◽  
P. A. Nguewa ◽  
L. Abella ◽  
...  

e16119 Background: Id1, involved in cell differentiation, proliferation, tumor angiogenesis and metastasis, has recently showed to mediate lung MTS from breast cancer (PNAS 2007). The expression of Id1 in human cancer has been related to poor prognosis breast, prostate (Gil-Bazo, Amer Soc Clin Oncol GU. 2009) and other non-adenocarcinoma tumors. To date one study showed remarkable Id1 expression (exp.) in 28% of unselected human BCa using a new MoAb (195–14) for immunohistochemistry (IHC) analysis. Our aim is to study Id1 exp. in a group of PP BCa and their matched MTS using this MoAb (195–14). Methods: We selected 22 patients (pts) treated in our institution. Formalin-fixed and paraffin- embedded bladder biopsy samples of each patient and matched MTS samples of 9 of them were stained and scored for tumor and endothelial Id1 exp. Anti-human Id1 rabbit MoAb 195–14 (1:500), (Biocheck), was used for IHC. Results: 90% of pts were males; median age was 61. Most pts had PP advanced (22,7 % stage III; 68,2% stage IV) BCa. Primary tumor samples and additional 9 matched MTS biopsy samples were analyzed. In contrast with the previous data 80% of primary invasive BCa and more than 75% of MTS showed tumor cell Id1 exp. As previously reported Id1 exp. in tumor samples endothelial cells reached 70%. We also observed Id1 exp. in tumor in situ areas near the invasive carcinoma in 16 out of 20 pts expressing Id1 in the primary tumor. Conclusions: For the first time using a MoAb against Id1 and in accord with our previous observations in prostate cancer the selection of PP pts increases tumor cell Id1 exp. from 28 up to 80%. Interestingly we show BCa MTS to express Id1 with a similar exp. pattern than primary tumors. Id1 exp. profile in PP and metastatic initiation of BCa needs further research. Id1 exp. in tumor in situ areas suggests Id1 as an initial factor in the BCa carcinogenic process and in the case of being confirmed Id1 could represent a target in BCa prophylaxis. No significant financial relationships to disclose.


Author(s):  
М.К. Курбанов ◽  
Д.А. Курбанова

Искусство туркменских бахши-дестанчи имеет древние истоки и отличается жанровым богатством и стилевым разнообразием. Эпическое наследие туркмен в достаточной степени изучено филологами, этнографами, однако специальных исследований, раскрывающих природу сохранения изустной традиции и описывающих методы передачи эпических жанров из поколения в поколение в Туркменистане, до сих пор нет. Цель статьи – описать бытующие школы эпического сказительства, выявить их жанровые, исполнительские особенности, сохранившиеся в искусстве бахши-дестанчи традиции наставничества, а также охарактеризовать методы, позволяющие сказителям хранить в памяти огромное количество эпических песен и текстов. Для решения намеченных целей были осуществлены следующие задачи: проанализированы эпические жанры различных локальных школ; проведен сравнительный анализ исполнения эпоса одним и тем же сказителем в различные периоды времени, а также наставника и его учеников; определены факторы, влияющие на изменение дестанов. В качестве методологической базы использованы труды А. Лорда, В. В. Бартольда, В. М. Жирмунского, В. Я. Проппа, Е. Э. Бертельса, Б. Н. Путилова, К. Райхла. Источниками для анализа послужили образцы эпического наследия из аудио фонда Туркменской национальной консерватории, а также полевые аудио/видео материалы из личного архива авторов. Впервые в статье в качестве жанров эпических сказителей рассматриваются не только традиционные эпосы и дестаны, но и жанр легенды с музыкой, а также излюбленные в народе музыкально-поэтические транскрипции произведений поэтов-классиков. Проведенные исследования позволили выявить формообразующую роль песен и их функции, осуществляющие развитие музыкальной драматургии в дестанах. Впервые в работе выявлены «песни-маяки», составляющие каркас эпического сказания и способствующие запоминанию повествования в памяти народных сказителей. Незакреплённость песенных мотивов к текстам, а также использование в песнях мелодий-тем (музыкальных напевов, характерных для конкретных локальных школ) определяет особенности туркменского дестанного исполнительства. Учитывая тенденцию к ослабеванию интереса молодого поколения к древней традиции, изучение методов преемственности, используемых в процессе сохранения традиции устного наследия, представляется своевременным и актуальным. The art of Turkmen bagshy-dessanchy (epictellers) is ancient and distinguished by its genre richness and stylistic diversity. The epic heritage of Turkmens has been sufficiently studied by philologists and ethnographers, but there are no special studies in Turkmenistan revealing the nature of the oral tradition preservation and the methods of transmitting epic genres from generation to generation. The purpose of the article was to reveal the genre and performing features of the schools of epic epic-telling in Turkmenistan, describe the traditions of mentoring that have survived in the art of bagshy-dessanchy, and identify methods that allow Turkmen storytellers to keep in memory a huge number of songs and texts. To solve these goals, the following tasks were carried out: the epic legends of various local schools were analyzed; a comparative analysis of the performance of the epic by the same narrator in different periods of time was carried out; revealed differences in the performance of the same legend by the mentor and his students; the factors and means influencing the change of destans have been determined. The works of A. Lord, V. Barthold, V. Zhirmunsky, V. Propp, E. Bertels, B. Putilov, K. Reichl were used in the article as a methodological base. The sources for the analysis were samples of the epic heritage from the Fund of audio materials of the Turkmen National Conservatory, as well as field audio-, videomaterials from the authors’ personal archives. In the article, for the first time, not only epic cycles and destans, but also the genre of legend with music, as well as poetic transcriptions of the classical poet’s works were considered as the main genres of bagshy-destanchy. The studies helped to identify the formative role of epic songs and their important functions, thanks to which the development of the musical dramaturgy in epic genres was carried out. For the first time, we identified the beacon songs, that make up the frame of Turkmen epic works, thanks to which the epic text remembering in the memory of bagshy-dessanchy. The looseness of song motifs with texts, using the theme-melodies (musical tunes, which characteristic of specific local schools) in epic songs showed the particularities of Turkmen destan performance. Taking into account the tendency towards a gradual weakening of the interest of the younger generation in the ancient tradition, the identification of the methods used in the process of preserving the oral epic heritage is highly relevant.


Menotyra ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Regimanta Stankevičienė

The article presents a high altar painting of “Our Lady with the Child” in the Krekenava Basilica of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (Our Lady of Krekenava; pine, canvas, oil; size: 172 × 111 cm). Parsons of Krekenava Church were Samogitian archdeacons. The picture was donated by Nicolao Povetrius (Mikalojus Povetrijus), a parson of the church in 1622–1634. It was announced that he brought the picture from Rome. However, the fabrics and artistic features of the painting show that it was created by a Lithuanian painter instead. Iconographic analysis suggests that the painting was painted on the basis of three old prototypes related to St. Luke authorship. These are icons from two very famous churches of Rome (S. Maria Maggiore (Salus Populi Romani) from the Basilica of the same title and S. Maria del Popolo from the church of the same title) and one from Poland and Lithuania, which is highly respected (Our Lady of Częstochowa from Jasna Góra Pauline Monastery Basilica). It was noticed that from the end of the 16th century, the copies of S. Maria Maggiore icon were created on the basis of the original image, e.g. a Jesuitic copy of 1569, which transferred the original painting into the image of the modern times (at present, in S. Andrea al Quirinale monastery). Such copies very quickly spread in Lithuania, where representations of Our Lady of Częstochowa became more and more popular. The derivations of the icon of S. Maria del Popolo were also created. This is testified by the altar painting of the Zarasai Parish Church (until 1610). The combination of several important aspects of origin (St. Luke authorship), cult and iconography of miraculous images of Our Lady in one painting are considered to be an aspiration to create the most suitable ideal image of Our Lady. Applying this method by combining the iconography of S. Maria Maggiore and Our Lady of Częstochowa, a high altar painting of Our Lady of Tytuvėnai Church was created at the same period and benefited by Vilnius Bishop Eustachy Wołłowicz (Eustachijus Valavičius). Krekenava and Tytuvėnai paintings are among the earliest images of the miraculous derivations of Our Lady in Lithuania. The iconography taken from prototypes was supplemented by crowns. The derivation of venerable archaic images of Our Lady was a process of re-evaluation and innovative expose, which took place in the post-Tridentine Church. The process was launched in Rome, and customers of the Krekenava image and other mentioned paintings of Our Lady in Lithuania were high or higher Catholic priests who studied or visited Rome and other Italian cities for other purposes. It is likely that they visited famous paintings and brought their copies. The paintings of Krekenava and Tytuvėnai because of oil painting technique and style are examples of the New Times painting, which was called “Latin” in Lithuania. They have archaic features taken from the prototypes. However, the origin of prototypes dissociates them from the Eastern Orthodox tradition of sacral paintings of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, to which they are often wrongly attributed. Only wood panels and selection of symbolic gold plating background (golden colour in the Krekenava image) testifies to the impact of the latter tradition.


Author(s):  
Nikolai S. Baikalov

The historical experience of library services for the population, accumulated in the areas of new economic development of the late Soviet era, needs to be generalized. At the same time, the processes of formation and development of libraries in sparsely populated territories of Siberia and the Far East have not received sufficient coverage in the special literature. This paper examines the features of the libraries organization in the construction areas of the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) in the period of the 1970s — 1980s. The research materials include archival documents, most of which are introduced into research discourse for the first time, as well as oral stories of participants in the all-Union construction project, collected by the author in the BAM regions. The libraries formation in the mainline construction zone was carried out at an accelerated pace within the framework of the state network of the Ministry of Culture of the RSFSR and the trade union system of transport builders. As a result, the provision of library services to builders was higher than in neighboring regions. However, the accessibility of libraries remained low, because the construction areas were characterized by a low population density, poor development of transport and infrastructure facilities, personnel shortage, and insufficient material and technical support. At first, the book collections were acquired spontaneously from the number of the publications donated or collected from the local population. As soon as the library systems stabilized, the central organizations “Soyuzkniga” and “Roskniga” became the main sources of book supplies, but they could not meet the reader’s demand of the mainline builders. The BAM had formed a special readership, which was distinguished by a high educational level, cultural and linguistic diversity, and the shaped reader’s interests and needs. This was due to the careful selection of those arriving at the construction site as part of Komsomol detachments. Along with their main functions, the libraries were a place for communication and leisure for workers, which compensated for the lack of other social and cultural institutions. Due to the weakness of the Party and state control, they had greater independence in cultural and mass work, which was reflected in the widespread distribution of different associations and library clubs, the acquaintance of readers with the works of authors banned by the Soviet censorship, and the development of amateur literary creativity.


2021 ◽  
pp. 385-402
Author(s):  
A. V. Spichak

The question of providing financial assistance to women of clerical rank in the Tobolsk diocese in the 1820—1830s is considered. The results of a comparative analysis of the stages and terms of office work on this issue before and after the opening of the Tobolsk guardianship of the poor are presented. Particular attention is paid to the examination of the petition documents that were compiled in the Tobolsk spiritual consistory from the words of women of clerical rank who applied for financial assistance to the Tobolsk archbishop during this period. The novelty of the research is seen in the fact that the issue under consideration is being studied for the first time on the basis of documents of the Tobolsk spiritual consistory. The documents stored in the State Archives in the city of Tobolsk testify to the existence of a certain algorithm for recording a request, two different established procedures for conducting cases on the charity of female clergymen before and after 1823. The criteria, by which the selection of requests was carried out among the many requests for assistance, were identified. Criteria have been established for choosing between two types of salary — a guardianship allowance and a ten-ruble poorhouse salary. The reasons for the complete denial of support are also named.


Foods ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Bancalari ◽  
Vincenzo Castellone ◽  
Benedetta Bottari ◽  
Monica Gatti

Plant derived beverages have recently gained consumers’ interest, particularly due to their intrinsic functional properties. They can also act as non-dairy carriers for probiotics and prebiotics, meeting the needs of lactose allergic/intolerant people and vegans. Direct fermentation of fruit and vegetables juices by probiotic lactic acid bacteria could be a tool to increase safety, shelf-life, nutrients bioavailability and to improve sensorial features of plant derived juices. This study aims to screen wild Lactobacillus casei-group strains isolated from dairy matrices for probiotic features, such as acid and bile salts resistance, and test them for the potentiality to ferment celery and orange juices. Strains’ ability to produce exopolysaccharides (EPS) in situ is also checked. These evaluations were performed for the first time in fruit and vegetables matrices by means of an impedometric analysis, recently shown to be a suitable and rapid method to measure microorganisms’ growth, acidification performances and EPS production. This study allowed the selection of three potentially probiotic L. casei-group wild strains able to ferment fruit and vegetable juices and also producing EPS. These strains with three-in-one abilities could be used to produce new functional fermented plant derived juices.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine A. Kelly ◽  
Judith E. Houston ◽  
Rachel Evans

Understanding the dynamic self-assembly behaviour of azobenzene photosurfactants (AzoPS) is crucial to advance their use in controlled release applications such as<i></i>drug delivery and micellar catalysis. Currently, their behaviour in the equilibrium <i>cis-</i>and <i>trans</i>-photostationary states is more widely understood than during the photoisomerisation process itself. Here, we investigate the time-dependent self-assembly of the different photoisomers of a model neutral AzoPS, <a>tetraethylene glycol mono(4′,4-octyloxy,octyl-azobenzene) </a>(C<sub>8</sub>AzoOC<sub>8</sub>E<sub>4</sub>) using small-angle neutron scattering (SANS). We show that the incorporation of <i>in-situ</i>UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy with SANS allows the scattering profile, and hence micelle shape, to be correlated with the extent of photoisomerisation in real-time. It was observed that C<sub>8</sub>AzoOC<sub>8</sub>E<sub>4</sub>could switch between wormlike micelles (<i>trans</i>native state) and fractal aggregates (under UV light), with changes in the self-assembled structure arising concurrently with changes in the absorption spectrum. Wormlike micelles could be recovered within 60 seconds of blue light illumination. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time the degree of AzoPS photoisomerisation has been tracked <i>in</i><i>-situ</i>through combined UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy-SANS measurements. This technique could be widely used to gain mechanistic and kinetic insights into light-dependent processes that are reliant on self-assembly.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaroslav Boyko ◽  
Christopher Huck ◽  
David Sarlah

<div>The first total synthesis of rhabdastrellic acid A, a highly cytotoxic isomalabaricane triterpenoid, has been accomplished in a linear sequence of 14 steps from commercial geranylacetone. The prominently strained <i>trans-syn-trans</i>-perhydrobenz[<i>e</i>]indene core characteristic of the isomalabaricanes is efficiently accessed in a selective manner for the first time through a rapid, complexity-generating sequence incorporating a reductive radical polyene cyclization, an unprecedented oxidative Rautenstrauch cycloisomerization, and umpolung 𝛼-substitution of a <i>p</i>-toluenesulfonylhydrazone with in situ reductive transposition. A late-stage cross-coupling in concert with a modular approach to polyunsaturated side chains renders this a general strategy for the synthesis of numerous family members of these synthetically challenging and hitherto inaccessible marine triterpenoids.</div>


2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-63
Author(s):  
S. A. Karpukhin

The article considers the competition of verbal aspects from a new perspective. Instead of employing the traditional method of demonstrating this phenomenon — an empirical replacement of the aspect of a verb in a phrase with the opposite — the author examines Dostoevsky’s choice between the variants found in different manuscripts of the same text. For the first time, based on a two-component theory of the semantic invariant of a verb type, the aspectual meaning of the selection of a verb aspect is revealed and, as a result of contextual analysis, an artistic interpretation of the selected type is proposed.


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