The Transfiguration scene depicted in a Byzantine church at Shivta, Israel, is one of two figurative examples of the scene from the early Christian period. The use of Egyptian blue pigment in the wall painting was investigated with various analytical methods. Visible Induced Luminescence (VIL) imaging was used in-situ in order to map the distribution of the Egyptian blue pigment in the painting...

As Theodore Stebbins tells the story, a painting entitled Two Hummingbirds and an Orchid was presented to Sotheby Parke Bernet for auction. It was purported to be by the American painter, Martin Johnson Heade, so naturally, Sotheby’s contacted Stebbins, the foremost expert on Heade, to authenticate the work. After comparing an 8 x 10 transparency of the painting to photos of known Heade works, ...

In this paper, I propose a new methodology for analysing landscape drawing methods using a GIS. The subject of my analysis is the genre of Japanese screen paintings known as rakuchū rakugai zu, created between the 16th and 18th centuries. Rakuchū rakugai zu provide bird’s-eye views of the then-capital city of Kyoto, including buildings, natural features, and human activities. The methodology in...

Expressionist Painting: City Landscape City Landscape depicts a nonrepresentational scene.8 A sense of entrapment (or a means of escape) is felt as the applied and colorful paint appears to leak out from the central part of the support. Loosely constructed geometric shapes recall a rock-like surface, which enclose and frame the color within and assist the eye inward toward the colorful scene. E...

This paper describes the development of an autonomous robot for painting the interior walls of buildings. The robot consists of a painting arm with an end effector roller that scans the walls vertically and a mobile platform to give horizontal feed to paint the whole area of the wall. The painting arm has a planar twolink mechanism with two joints. Joints are driven from a stepping motor throug...

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the iranian world has a well-established tradition of images that goes back to anitiquity. the structure relation between text and image become increasingly intricate in illustrated manuscripts, at least from the middle of forteenth century onwards. these links can be observed through the composition and layout of the paintings. these relations seem to be expressed in some persian poetical text...

Can knowledge help viewers when they appreciate an artwork? Experts' judgments of the aesthetic value of a painting often differ from the estimates of naïve viewers, and this phenomenon is especially pronounced in the aesthetic judgment of abstract paintings. We compared the changes in aesthetic judgments of naïve viewers while they were progressively exposed to five pieces of background inform...

This study intends to exam Clive Bell’s theory of significant form. For Bell, a painting could not be a work of art if line and color were used to recount anecdotes, express ideas, and indicate the lifestyle of an age. In his influential book Art, Bell claimed that William Powell Frith’s famous narrative painting The Railway Station was not a work of art. This paper used Frith’s painting as the...