Water often plays a significant role in Giorgio Andreotta Calò’s works, and this is particularly evident for the sculptures presented in Scolpire il tempo. The title itself is an obvious reference to Andrej Tarkovskij, in whose films water appears consistently with symbolical meanings that seem to have deeply inspired Calò in his works. Water acts in Tarkovskij’s films as a mirror of reality, i...

In this study, a culture-independent Illumina MiSeq sequencing strategy was applied to investigate the microbial communities colonizing the ancient painted sculptures of the Maijishan Grottoes, a famous World Cultural Heritage site listed by UNESCO in China. Four mixed samples were collected from Cave 4-4 of the Maijishan Grottoes, the so-called Upper Seven Buddha Pavilion, which was built duri...

Sculptures are visionaries of a country’s culture from time immemorial. Chinese sculptures hold an aesthetic value in the global market, catalysed by opening country's gates. On other hand, this paved way for many duplicates and replicates original sculptures, defaming entire artwork. This work proposes defrauding model that deploys Siamese-based Convolutional Neural Network (S-CNN) effectively...

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...

Daily-life foldable items, such as popup tents, the curved origami sculptures exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art of New York, overstrained bicycle wheels, released bilayered microrings and strained cyclic macromolecules, are made of rings buckled or folded in tridimensional saddle shapes. Surprisingly, despite their popularity and their technological and artistic importance, the design of su...