The churches of St. Eustache, the Meryemana and St. Daniel are located in the Göreme area in Kapadokya, Turkey. Each of the three structures is composed of a main church with a refuge system. Nowadays these churches have limited access: they cannot be visited by a common tourist. Thus, they are a meaningful sample of rupestrian architecture, containing important mural paintings and suggestive s...

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”, ...

The Historical and Cultural Heritage of Punta Begoña Galleries in Getxo (Bizkaia, North Spain) are currently restoration after being abandoned for years. For that reason, many graffiti, which directly affect the wall paintings, appear on most their walls. Moreover, several graffiti overlap each other, makes removal more difficult. all these reasons, chemical characterization pigments is a prior...

From two samples of microbial biofilms, damaging the mural paintings at the Saint-Catherine chapel of Castle Herberstein (Austria), four and nine coryneform bacteria were isolated, respectively. A polyphasic taxonomic study of these isolates, including morphological, biochemical and chemotaxonomic characterization, REP-PCR fingerprinting, 16S rDNA sequence analysis, DNA base ratio and DNA-DNA h...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact current watercolour painting market situation in China on development China. In addition, investigates role environment as a moderating variable relationship between state and its future development. Theoretical framework: Contemporary Chinese art culture exist society that open pluralistic. Through efforts several generations, the...

From Paleolithic cave paintings to Baroque Florence’s Artemisia Gentileschi, scholars have uncovered many cases in which women’s art was credited to their male contemporaries. This reoccurring dynamic communicates a cultural attitude of explicit disbelief in female abilities known as classical sexism. Even today, this trend persists as female artists’ work is continually dismissed as derivative...

“Chartjunk” is Edward Tufte’s term for extraneous features that add nothing to the information content of a graph. The worst collections of chartjunk are illustrations in newspapers and non-technical magazines. These figures are drawn by professional artists who are art-school graduates. To them, aesthetic beauty or visual interest is more important than statistics or the shape of a transcenden...

The Afrasiab murals discovered in the northeast of Samarkand, Uzbekistan—the center ancient Silk Road—are presumed to date mid-seventh century during Sogdian era. Although previous studies have examined primary materials pigments used these using chemical and microscopic analyses, in-depth investigations pigment raw material composition not been conducted verify results studies. We applied X-ra...

In the considerable creative legacy of Ukrainian artist Modest Sosenko (1875–1920), murals and sacred easel paintings he created for more than ten Galician churches deserve special attention. His contemporaries noted that artist’s works were characterised by his own ‘Sosenko style’, which boldly organically combined Byzantine traditions reinterpreted 16 th – 17 century masters with modern Europ...