At the turn of the century scholars of Egyptian art were startled by the appearance of life-size portrait heads in excavations at Gizeh, the site of a large necropolis of the Old Kingdom. Until their discovery it was considered an almost invariable rule that private sculpture of the period represented types, not individuals. The Sheikh el Beled and several other representations of individuals w...

celebrated for her meticulous attention to detail, form, and color. Her collection of 833 paintings, which portray more than 900 species of plants, comprises her life’s work and is on permanent display in the Marianne North gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Because North painted with oils, rather than with watercolors, and because she predates color photography, her bod...

The paper presents a work of art showing a presumably myasthenic patient painted more than 50 years before the disease was first described.

Despite the fact that we feel immersed in a rich and continuous flow of visual sensations, our visual system samples only a small fraction of the luminance variations present in the environment. Such sparse sampling inevitably comes along with a loss of information. And this is advantageous since it decreases the computational and metabolic needs of the system to e.g., generate, classify, and s...

A came easily to Hans Holbein the Younger. Son and student of master painter Hans Holbein the Elder, he showed extraordinary talent at a young age in his native Augsburg, a bustling commercial town in southern Germany. Fascination with Italian renaissance took him to Lombardy, where he studied the work of Leonardo da Vinci and the portraits of Lorenzo Lotto. While still a teen, Holbein moved to...

INTRODUCTION Electrical restitution, relating action potential duration (APD) to diastolic interval (DI), was believed to determine the stability of heart rhythm. However, recent studies demonstrate that stability also depends on long-term APD changes caused by memory. This study presents a new method for investigation of rate- and memory-dependent aspects of restitution and for assessment of m...

The article examines the process of birth and development mythologem “happy soviet childhood” in a children’s pictorial portrait. author identifies two stages: 1930s 1950s–1960s. In Stalin’s time, images were depicted utopian world “bright future”. It was like “paradise garden” “golden age”. Surrounded by natural abundance, small models looked at “fathers” served as educational models. After Wo...