The article is dedicated to one of the least explored in art history culture France phenomena XVI century – School Fontainebleau. Fontainebleau style stages formation analysis presented, First and Second Schools founders’ creative works main trends are described. nature with its dominant Italian traditions as manner foundation, leading northern influence analyzed. comparative was ca...

Previous research focused on sexual prejudice has shown that lesbian and gay adolescents are at greater risk of peer harassment and victimization than their straight counterparts. Peer victimization such as exclusion, however, may also be related to conventional expectations adolescents hold about their social environment. This study examined adolescents’ (N = 1069) attitudes and reasoning abou...

OBJECTIVE To explore personality traits considered to be important in selection of trainees by consultant anaesthetists in a developing country. METHODS A questionnaire listing 28 traits was sent to 125 consultant anaesthetists. The raters were asked to mark each trait on a scale of 1 to 10, with one being least desirable and 10 as most desirable. Listing of five most desirable and one least ...

Diagnostic and Symptom Quantification Procedures Masters or Doctoral-level clinicians conducted diagnostic evaluations and clinical ratings. Diagnoses were confirmed by consensus conference. Among a random sample of 10 subjects, the level of inter-rater agreement for diagnosis was high, with kappa = 0.86. Symptoms were quantified with the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS), Scale for the Ass...

name from the village of his birth, was considered second only to Michelangelo among his 16th century peers. In Italy, Pontormo was among the first exponents of Mannerism, a style of painting that stressed artifice over realism. The National Gallery of Art offers this view: “Mannerism’s artificiality—its bizarre, sometimes acid color, its illogical compression of space, the elongated proportion...

abstract  in the wake of renaissance, not only then art and literature pieces but the resulting diverse expressions well reflected the turning revolts in science, philosophy, and politics, and their association which is tremendously clear even among a single artist’s works, e.g. donatello’s sculptures, transparently echoing challenges between old traditions and then new reformations vastly infl...