Oil painting on tinplate by Francisco José Resende by Ana Rita Veiga

“…This article focuses on the study of execution techniques, material composition and condition of three oil paintings on tinplate – a thin sheet of steel coated with tin - by the Portuguese painter Francisco José Resende (1825-1893). Although the choice to paint on a metallic support was not very common in the nineteenth century, the painter executed several works on this support. …”
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Paint handling in Leonardo’s Mona Lisa: guides to a reconstruction by Sandra Šustić

“…Mona Lisa, the precious legacy of Leonardo da Vinci, represents a zenith of methodological innovations in painting. How the painter managed to obtain such delicacy of the tonal transitions still occupies the mind of contemporary art researchers. …”
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Finding Clara: Establishing the Biographical Details of Clara Peeters (ca. 1587–after 1636) by Jean Bastiaensen

“…This article is the first to shed light on the life of Antwerp painter Clara Peeters. Analysis of the existing literature and studies of untapped archival pieces led to the discovery that Clara Peeters could be one Clara Lamberts, born into the third generation of a family of painters in Mechelen around 1587, and later becoming the wife of the painter Henrick II Peeters. …”
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Représenter « avec » le rite : réflexivité et danse rituelle dans un tableau murui-muina by Oscar Ivan Garcia

“…Analyzing a painting of the Amazonian painter Brus Rubio Churay dedicated to the murui-muina ritual dances, I will show the particular link that the artist establishes between art and ritual: his painting is less a representation of the ritual and more a representation “with” the ritual. …”
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« A reality that almost amounts to illusion » by Martine Lambert-Charbonnier

“…Thus “behind the veil” the painter expresses his quest for harmony and fertility in the cosmos, a meaning decadent writers are keen to subvert to make the picture a symbol of corruption and passion.…”
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Nitrogen Fertilizer and Growth Regulator Impacts on Tuber Deformity, Rot, and Yield for Russet Potatoes by Mark S. Reiter, Steven L. Rideout, Joshua H. Freeman

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Images ‘in the air’ in George Moore’s Lewis Seymour and Some Women and Modern Painting by Fabienne Gaspari

“…After his failure to become a painter in Paris, Moore started to write novels in the 1880s. …”
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Reading and (not) seeing? by Sandra Saayman

“…Breyten Breytenbach, who is a poet, novelist, essay-writer and painter, very rarely evokes his own pictorial oeuvre in his texts. …”
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Cosimo D’Amico: from the realism to hyper-realism by Giuseppina Vara

“…The Author introduces Cosimo D’Amico, a still little-known Sicilian painter whose technical mastery can be declined in heterogeneous and ever-new genres and pictorial imageries, ranging from metaphysical scenes to material landscapes, from ambiguous figures to portraits so real that they look alive.…”
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The spirituality of Andrei Rublev's Icon of the Holy Trinity by J. Reimer

“… This article focuses on the work of Rublev who is considered to be the greatest medieval Russian Orthodox painter of icons and frescoes and whose work has influenced generations of Russian artists, theologians, writers and philosophers. …”
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Sorolla : vers l’immersion by Pierre Géal

“…The familiarity of Sorolla's painting is not only the result of the subjects he represents and their universality, nor of the faithfulness to reality, which is often attributed to this virtuoso painter. It also stems from the use of particular techniques too often hastily characterized as "photographic". …”
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Les peintures mates d’Antoine Wiertz (1806-1865) by Karine Janssen

“…This study concludes that the appearance of those artworks is not a result of the artist’s intent but caused by the combined action of various changes inherent to the painter’s technique.…”
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Robert Louis Stevenson and the ‘Optic Nerve’. Portraiture in Weir of Hermiston by Clotilde De Stasio

“…Not much has been written so far about the marked visuality in the opening chapters and the influence of the Scottish painter Raeburn on Stevenson’s writing. I shall try to demonstrate that, while delineating the powerful image of the Scottish Judge, Lord Braxfield, the writer had in mind his portrait by Raeburn. …”
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Osobnost a dílo Matouše Radouše a tvorba renesančních epitafů v Chrudimi by Ondřej Jakubec, Radka Milotová

“… The article focuses on the personality of Matouš Radouš, a painter, (†1631), of the town Chrudim, and with his outstanding and partly well preserved work – the epitaphs of prominent Chrudim burghers. …”
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Α Byzantine icon of the Theotokos Hodegetria (Temple Gallery, London) by Triviza Eleni

“…The depiction of the Virgin Mary in half-length, turning to the right, with her gaze fixed on the viewer, the manner of the depiction and attitude of Jesus Christ, the rendering of their facial features, the imposingness of the two figures and their movements, the pleats of the clothes and the configuration of the two halos indicate the work of a highly skilled painter. The iconographic and stylistic features of the icon are dated to around 1400.…”
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Greek Textual Archaeology and Erotic Epigraphy in Simeon Solomon and Michael Field by Stefano Evangelista

“…This article examines the use of the Greek language as object of desire in works by the painter Simeon Solomon and the poetic duo Michael Field (Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper). …”
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Du socle au paysage : essai pour un nouveau regard sur les reliefs by Claire Portal

“…Landforms are considered here as landscapes patterns constituting the "geographical basement " for landscape painter, holding a cultural aspect emanating from a new field of research, cultural geomorphology. …”
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O comércio de “couro dourado”/guadameci entre Córdova e Lisboa: um contrato de venda de 1525 by Franklin Pereira

“…“The trade of gilt leather/guadameci between Córdoba and Lisbon: a contract from 1525” deals with a document of imports between a gilt leather maker from Lisbon, working for the court, and a painter from Córdoba; the list includes altar fronts, wall hangings and cushions. …”
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Réunir une documentation pour l’Art Brut : les prospections de Jean Dubuffet dans l’immédiat après-guerre au regard du modèle ethnographique by Baptiste Brun

“…The early prospecting for artefacts from the fringes of the art world, which would lead the painter to develop the concept of art brut in the summer of 1945, was the occasion for a genuine sharing of experience with the world of psychiatry as well as that of ethnographers. …”
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Découverte, étude et restauration de peintures murales (ca. 1400) en l’église Saint-Jean à Malines by Marjan Buyle, Anna Bergmans

“…The artistic quality of these two major paintings of Saint Christopher and Saint George with dragon reveal the hand of a painter experienced in monumental compositions.…”
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