Portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven

Direct Digital Imaging of Vincent van Gogh’s Self-Portrait – A Personal View

The ability to accurately record the color of a painting within an American museum is explored. Limitations in imaging techniques and hardware are current barriers to high quality. Interestingly, simple colormanagement techniques provide large improvement. Perhaps the greatest advantage is a decrease in visual adjustment. A review is presented of the author’s experiences in trying to digitally ...

Hypothyroidism in the “Arnolfini Portrait” (1434) by Jan Van Eyck (1390–1441)

BACKGROUND The Arnolfini portrait painted by Jan van Eyck in 1434 remains one of the most puzzling yet alluring paintings of prerenaissance western art. PURPOSE The painting is renowned for its exactitude in brush strokes, textures and the distinctive morphology of the main character Arnolfini. The nature of these requires pathological consideration. METHODS Diagnostic and pathological anal...

Black Holes, Bandwidths and Beethoven

It is usually believed that a function φ(t) whose Fourier spectrum is bounded can vary at most as fast as its highest frequency component ωmax. This is in fact not the case, as Aharonov, Berry and others drastically demonstrated with explicit counter examples, so-called superoscillations. It has been claimed that even the recording of an entire Beethoven symphony can occur as part of a signal w...

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Born in 1944, I grew up in a world in which polio was both a gripping fear and real threat. Then in a matter of a few years-polio was eradicated by a vaccine developed by Jonas Salk. Later I learned that Salk's efforts were built on pioneering work of many others, including John Enders, Thomas Weller and Frederick Robbins (Nobelists, 1954), and David Bodian, who pioneered studies of polio patho...

"Beethoven on Beethoven: Playing His Piano His Way." By William S. Newman