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The first major programme under the Government of India to popularise scientific temper among the people was the Vigyan Mandir (temple of knowledge/science) experiment in 1953. It was created by S. S. Bhatnagar , at the time Head of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), in Delhi and launched by Nehru on 15 August.
The history of art focuses on objects made by humans for any number of spiritual, narrative, philosophical, symbolic, conceptual, documentary, decorative, and even functional and other purposes, but with a primary emphasis on its aesthetic visual form.
Based largely at courts and in intellectual circles around Europe, Maniera art couples exaggerated elegance with exquisite attention to surface and detail: porcelain-skinned figures recline in an even, tempered light, acknowledging the viewer with a cool glance, if they make eye contact at all.
Technical art history was slow to penetrate art history departments at universities, as it had to compete with the emerging ‘new’ art histories in the 1970s and 1980s. [7] Nowadays, several universities around the world offer training and research programmes based on technical art history. [4] New York University; Stockholm University
Painterliness is a concept based on German: malerisch ('painterly'), a word popularized by Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin (1864–1945) to help focus, enrich and standardize the terms being used by art historians of his time to characterize works of art.
Academic art – Style of painting and sculpture; Anthropic units – Academic term in archaeology, social studies and measurement; Beauty – Characteristic that provides pleasure or satisfaction; Canon (basic principle), a rule or a body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field of art or philosophy
The best method of controlling the environment is by using a centralized climate control or HVAC system where incoming air is washed, cleaned, heated, or cooled, adjusted to specific conditions, and then injected into the storage space. An appropriate alternative is a localized climate control system where air conditioners cool the air and ...
Giovanni Morelli. Giovanni Morelli (25 February 1816 – 28 February 1891) was an Italian art critic and political figure. [1] As an art historian, he developed the "Morellian" technique of scholarship, identifying the characteristic "hands" of painters through scrutiny of diagnostic minor details that revealed artists' scarcely conscious shorthand and conventions for portraying, for example ...