Visualizing Community: Art, Material Culture, and Settlement in Byzantine Cappadocia

Pseudo-Kufi: Reflection of the Islamic Art in the Byzantine Art

Calligraphy was very important from the beginning in Islamic civilization because of the Rasm of the Holy Quran. The presence and application of the Kufic script, as one of the most common forms of calligraphy in the early Islamic age, with its own visual and conceptual features in the Greek churches and monasteries of the tenth and eleventh centuries (fourth and fifth centuries (AH)) raises ma...

foundations for understanding and interpretation of byzantine art

the byzantine art belogs to the world of christianity. the world of christianity has some characteristics which generally reflect the art works belonging to the christian era. any interpretation, critic and studies of the byzantine era art is possible only if it is done on the basis of knowing the world it belongs to. the core of chritian world is the sacred writ and the divine words. the adven...

Efficient Byzantine Fault Tolerance Supplemental Material

Proof: If a correct server s executes o with sequence number i, it must have received f + 1 valid COMMIT messages for 〈o, i〉 from a quorum Q of servers. The proof is by contradiction. Suppose there is another correct server s′ that executes o with sequence number i′ > i. By the MinBFT algorithm, this can only happen if it receives f + 1 valid COMMIT messages for 〈o, i′〉, from a quorum Q′ of f +...

Insanity, Art and Culture

Insanity, Art and Culture

He sets out to examine the paintings of psychotics, to see if the symptoms shown are due to the illness alone or possibly to cultural background and secondly, whether the symptomatic significance is of universal or irrelevant character. In the course of the investigation various artistic mediums such as sculptoring, needlework and painting are studied. It is very necessary that in a concisely w...