Symbolism in Fatimid Pottery Decorative Arts

Classification of decorative patterns in Kamares pottery

An important feature of the Minoan culture is the pottery of Kamares style, that documents the Cretan cultural production between the first half of the II millennium BC. This high level painted production characterized by the combination of several diverse motifs, presents an enormous decorative repertoire. The extraordinary variety of combinations between elementary motifs according to a compl...

Digital archive project to catalogue exported Japanese decorative arts

Japanese ceramic and lacquer objects have been collected and used as interior decorations in Europe since the early seventeenth century, and in the nineteenth century the fashion for Japonisme saw a boom of importing various Japanese decorative arts. Museums and private collections all over the world have rich holdings of Japanese decorative arts, however, the systematic research of Japanese de...

Automatic Classification of Decorative Patterns in the Minoan Pottery of Kamares Style

An important feature of the Minoan culture is the pottery of Kamares style, that documents the Cretan cultural production between the first half of the 2nd millennium BC. This high level painted production, characterized by the combination of several diverse motifs, presents an enormous decorative repertoire. The extraordinary variety of combinations between elementary motifs according to a com...

Medical Symbolism, in Connection with Historical Studies in the Arts of Healing and Hygiene

a large amount of information bearing upon the history of Medicine and Symbolism. His style is pleasant, his language well chosen, and the subject interesting; so that although the book is learned it is easy reading. So far as we know, this is the first medical work in which the "Aryan " origin of learning and belief is not universally accepted, and in which there is also demonstrated how much ...

Mme. de Pompadour: Self Promotion and Social Performance through Architecture and the Decorative Arts