ARHA110 Introduction to Western Art: Renaissance to Modern This course surveys the development of Western art from the Renaissance through the modern period. We will examine art's changing status within specific social and artistic contexts: from the Church and court of the Renaissance, through the formation of art academies in the late 16th century, to the development of an increasingly indivi...

The identity of subjects in many portraits has been a matter of debate by art historians that relied on subjective analysis of facial features. Developing automated face verification technique has thus garnered interest to provide a quantitative way to reinforce the decision arrived by the art historians. However, most existing works often fail to resolve ambiguities concerning the identity of ...

This article presents the results of a qualitative study examining a series of artistic and cultural activities that emerged over the last years in Brazil in the context of psychiatric reform. Using both semi-structured interviews with users and mental health professionals as the authors of these activities, as well as participant observation in cultural and artistic events within the period 20...

Painters and cartographers have developed artistic landscape rendering techniques for centuries. Such renderings can visualize complex three-dimensional landscapes in a pleasing and understandable way. In this work we examine a particular type of artistic depiction, panorama maps, in terms of function and style, and we develop methods to automatically generate panorama map reminiscent rendering...

INTRODUCTION. In an outstandingly visual and hyperconnected society, cultural artistic competence training for soon-to-be teachers should be coherent with the social transformations taking place in environment conditioning them. To implement properly, we believe it is necessary to assess whether or not current study programmes meet this challenge connect professional world they will encounter. ...

(L'éducation artistique et culturelle à l'école en Europe) and German (Kunst-und Kulturerziehung an den Schulen in Europa). The contents of this publication may be reproduced in part, except for commercial purposes, provided the extract is preceded b y a reference to 'Eurydice network', followed by the date of publication of the document. PREFACE The role of arts education in forming the compet...