A Whole World: Reading Global Byzantium Through Coptic Art

A World of Art

E arly in the fifteenth century, a figure known as La Pittura—literally, “the picture”—began to appear in Italian art (Fig. 280). As art historian Mary D. Garrard has noted, the emergence of the figure of La Pittura, the personification of painting, could be said to announce the cultural arrival of painting as an art. In the Middle Ages, painting was never included among the liberal arts—those ...

Anthracosis in a Coptic mummy.

The laboratory results from the mummy of a 25–35-year-old adult male (“Moses”/Q.445-2012) dating from the Middle Coptic period (AD 4th to 8th century) are reported. This individual was recovered from the Coptic necropolis of Qarara in Middle Egypt during the joint excavation performed by the Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen (Germany) and the Egyptian Museum of Barcelona in March 2012. Speci...

Global Art

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Mathematics through Art - Art through Mathematics

Computer software can be used for artistic design and as a means to facilitate the understanding of mathematical concepts. We discuss some of the issues that arise when we use computers in this way, and some of our own experiences teaching both art and mathematics students using software that can assist in the design and coloring of symmetric images.