“D and fables I fashion,” wrote 18th-century Italian poet and librettist Pietro Metastasio, “and even while I sketch elaborate fables and dreams upon paper ... I so enter into them that I weep and am offended at ills I invented” (1). Metastasio might have been describing the work of his contemporary Giambattista Tiepolo, whose art blended history, mythology, legend, and scripture in a grand man...

The subject of the study are frescoes created in cities Krakow and Lodz, where contemporary underground artists address theme Judaism. purpose work is to investigate specificity artistic-figurative component murals which indicates an appeal historical events associated with Jewish population Poland. methodology based on principle scientific reliability completeness; philosophical, historical, c...

The calibration of natural aquifer model parameters in real world cases is a challenging goal that requires a careful tuning work, whose complexity increases with the number of available data. Paradoxically, instead of making easier the subsurface model numerical assessment, a high spatial density of data highlights the local scale heterogeneity effects, complicating the calibration procedure w...

Author Information Baltimore, MD Our propensity to believe that an outline of the human brain is inscribed in one of the most famous paintings of the godhead is both a reflection of the revolution initiated by the Renaissance and a function of how the organ of our humanity psychophysically interprets images. In 1306, Giotto completed a cycle of frescoes in the Arena Chapel in Padua and signed t...