The relationship between language and memory was examined by testing accessibility of general knowledge across two languages in bilinguals. Mandarin-English speakers were asked questions such as "name a statue of someone standing with a raised arm while looking into the distance" and were more likely to name the Statue of Liberty when asked in English and the Statue of Mao when asked in Mandari...

This paper presents the initial results of the “Minerva Project” obtained by means of two different 3D scanning techniques. The Minerva of Arezzo is a bronze statue (Archaeological Museum in Florence) currently under restoration. The “Minerva project” intends to show how 3D techniques can integrate standard diagnostic methods giving useful and powerful tools to the restorers. The main goal of t...

In the example of the Venus statue there are the uncovered or so called original version and the covered or hidden version. Having the two objects, the visible and the covered, we have to acknowledge the fact that it is still an object, no matter of its presentation. These two different presentations of it are then divided into the known and the unknown. The statue covered with a veil raises mo...

There always have been patterns where there have been designs. Figure 1 shows both very famous, aesthetically beautiful, but perfectly different two statues that are known as treasures of the world. The statue of David, for example, gives us sharp, or even likely, European impression while the statue of Basara gives us centripetal, oriental impression. Figure 2. Celica (Toyota, Japan) and F355 ...

In this paper, I present an Aristotelian solution to the problem of material constitution. The problem of material constitution arises whenever it appears that an object a and an object b share all of the same parts and yet are essentially related to their parts in different ways. (A familiar example: A lump of bronze constitutes a statue of Athena. The lump and the statue share all of the same...

We quantitatively investigated the eighth century heavy metal pollution in Heijo-kyo (Ancient Nara), the first large, international city of Japan. In this metropolis, mercury, copper, and lead levels in soil were increased by urban activity and by the construction of the Great Buddha statue, Nara Daibutsu. Mercury and copper pollution associated with the construction of the statue was particula...

THE University has lately taken into its care a piece of Florentine statuary. The statue of Galileo has been moved from the Ulster Museum to what, it is hoped, will be a permanent home in the Medical Biology Centre where it has been placed in a well-lit position at the north end of the front corridor. The statue was originally brought from Florence to Belfast by the late Professor Sir William W...

purchased by a French private collector who placed the statue in a Parisian garden, where it endured two more decades of outdoor exposure to urban pollutants and acid rain. In December 2007, the piece was shipped to Sotheby’s in New York to be sold at an auction of Greek and Roman antiquities.2 Looking beyond the superficial, curators and conservators from the Yale University Art Gallery discer...