One of the important compendiums of Jewish mystical lore, a composition known to scholars as 3 Enoch or the Book of the Heavenly Palaces (Sefer Hekhalot) offers a striking re-interpretation of the canonical account of Moses’ reception of Torah. In this text the supreme angel Metatron, also associated in Sefer Hekhalot with the seventh antediluvian patriarch Enoch, is depicted as the one who rev...

Mysore city is known as the ‘city of palaces’. It is an ancient, historical, cultural capital and a heritage city in India. The city has been recognised as a heritage city under the cultural tag both by the state and national governments. The total harmony of architectural buildings, sites, lakes, parks and open spaces and the back drop of Chamundi hills adds to the city’s attraction. The city ...

The art of Rococo, which we are interested in studying this research and highlighting its values characteristics, is an artistic trend that goes back to the classical origins. spread began as a new face Renaissance France at beginning eighteenth century 1715 AD, “Rococo” prevailed most European countries. Where he grew up flourished France, it was widely Germany, but disappeared from after Fren...

This paper is referred to the experiences run at Iuav since 2004 in the framework of the EU-FSE founded Courses of Collaborative Composition. In these courses we built up some work/game thought as meaning of a distance collaborative game. Rally around these games, we delivered specific knowledge and portions of technical knowledge referred to the issue of formal structure, shape grammar, and co...

Qureshi A, Rizvi F, Syed A, Shahid A, Manzoor H. The method of loci as a mnemonic device to facilitate learning in endocrinology leads to improvement in student performance as measured by assessments. Adv Physiol Educ 38: 140–144, 2014; doi:10.1152/advan.00092.2013.— Cognitive psychology has demonstrated that the way knowledge is structured in memory determines the ability to retain, recall, an...

The logistics and cost of environmental monitoring can represent challenges for heritage managers, partly because of the sheer number of environmental parameters to consider. There is a need for a system, capable of monitoring the holistic impact of the environment on cultural materials while remaining relatively easy to use and providing remote access. This paper describes a dosimetric system ...

Chests represented important piece of the household and sacral furniture until end 18th century. They were commonly used as containers, both for everyday needsand also special occasions such in case marriage/dowry chests. Nowadays chests can be found museums, monasteries, palaces, historic buildings, but alsoin private collections, with some them having great aesthetic, ethnographic historical ...

The experience of the recent earthquakes in Italy caused a shocking impact in terms of loss of human life and damage in buildings. In particular, when it comes to ancient constructions, their cultural and historical value overlaps with the economic and social one. Among the historical structures, churches have been the object of several studies which identified the main characteristics of the s...