The realistic representation of the human figure is one of the hallmarks of ancient Greek art. It reflects the increasing importance of observation in that culture. In painting and sculpture the transition from pure decoration to naturalist representation began in the Archaic period (600 – 480 BC), and continued through the Pre-Classical (480 – 450 BC) and Classical (450 – 400 BC) periods of Gr...

OBJECTIVE The most commonly used instrument for the research and treatment of excessive internet use is Young's Internet Addiction Test (IAT). While the IAT has been translated to several languages (including Persian) and has demonstrated good psychometric properties across several independent studies, there is still a room for alternative assessment instruments. This study reports a validation...

in persian society, illustrators and skilled portraitists developed a particular method of painting in qajar era, a period in which artwork and historical treasures can be considered among the best, especially in painting and they reflect the tastes of kings and social circumstances of that time. one of the best works of that time is illustrated pen cases created mainly in tehran, shiraz and is...

This paper reports on the initial idea of a core conceptual model for the Golden Agents Project, which aims to integrate several heterogeneous datasets about cultural heritage of the Dutch Golden Age. We hypothesize that the combination of event and storytelling modeling would provide us a common infrastructure to represent and retrieve some core information regardless to its specific nature: p...

hahve khane painting is influenced by naghali (narration) due to the atmosphere of narrating religious and mythical narration stories. examination of sound and illustration adaptation in this type of painting, considering the influence of naghali on ghahve khane painting, is the subject of this research. ghahve khane painting is divided into three categories by content: “martial”, “religious”, ...

It is difficult for most of us to imagine making sense of the social world without automatically thinking about the beliefs, emotions, desires, and intentions of other people. Picture yourself in a preschool classroom. You see a boy and a girl rushing to the painting easels in the art area. The girl quickly dons a painting apron. The boy is turning his head back and forth with a frown on his fa...

UNLABELLED Tinnitus is a debilitating condition that is widespread yet difficult to successfully diagnose and treat. This symptom can seriously affect the individual's life quality. OBJECTIVES The aim of current study was to compose and validate a Persian version of the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI-P). MATERIALS AND METHODS The linguistic validation of the original version of THI into P...

firdausi shahnameh has been illustrated more than any other literary work in the history of persian paintings. so far, many studies have been carried out on these historical paintings of shahnameh. most of these studies have been formalistic and have been considered to be merely representational works of written text. those studies have been focused on form, performing techniques and style clas...

Practitioners of the geosciences, design, and engineering disciplines communicate complex ideas about shape by manipulating three-dimensional digital objects to match their conceptual model. However, the two-dimensional control interfaces, common in software applications, create a disconnect to three-dimensional manipulations. This research examines cutting, deforming, and painting manipulation...

In this note, 30,227 paintings by fifty well-known modern and contemporary Australian artists sold at auction over the period 1973-2003 are used to construct a hedonic price index. The attributes included in the hedonic regression model include the name, age and living status of the artist, the number of works sold, the size and medium of the painting, and the auction house, month and year in w...