Giovanni Battista Passeri (c.1610-1679) who was an Italian painter, a poet and priest, wrote baroque artist’s biographies that contain the life of Francesco Borromini one greatest architect Baroque.

DIvERTicuLA occur in the large bowel and are herniations of the mucous membrane through acquired defects in -the muscular coats-the small pouches being covered by serosa; exicept in the smallest sacs muscle fibres are only found in the neck. When first 'formed the necks are wide and the diverticula globular-later the necks become attenuated and the pouches flask shaped. The appendices epiploica...

background: solvents, which are widely used in industry, are able to dissolve another substance for creating a solution. solvents have various effects on human health based on their type and chemical composition. methods: this was a cross-sectional study to investigate the harmful effects of solvents on wood painters in yazd city. to achieve information, a census questionnaire was prepared and ...

One can infer an artist's identity from his or her artworks, but little is known about the neural representation of such elusive categorization. Here, we constructed a 'neural art appraiser' based on machine-learning methods that predicted the painter from the functional MRI activity pattern elicited by a painting. We found that Dali's and Picasso's artworks could be accurately classified based...

Traditional assimilation theory suggests immigrant adaptation into society as a function of catching up to the status of the host society. Recent Chinese immigrants, rather than climbing socioeconomic ladders over time, may have achieved a socioeconomic status comparable to that of native-born whites soon after arrival, as measured by their homeownership rates (Painter et al, forthcoming). The ...

In this paper, we describe a method to manipulate a paintbrush for a painting robot. The robot has multi-fingered hands and a stereo vision system. It grasps a paintbrush with its own hand and paints a picture on a canvas. Because a brush is deformable, adequate control of a paintbrush is a challenging task. It is necessary to develop several manipulation methods with feedback control using bot...