Abstract The north-eastern French city of Nancy is one the centres Art Nouveau. It has been analysed in detail many classical reviews Nouveau, but mainly relation to decorative applied art works produced at School Art. study pays attention also architecture. architectural and artistic qualities iconic Nouveau monument Villa L. Majorelle are detail, basic data about É. André, H. Gutton, J. Horne...

Abstract The aim of the paper is a spectral study mural fresco from Serbesti wooden church, Dambovita county, partially painted, historical monument 1828 (or 1804 after some other documents). Spectral techniques as X-ray Fluorescence wavelengths dispersive (WDXRF), diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) or Raman spectroscopy, have been used in order to highlight prese...

Should the practice of the historic preservation of built and landscape heritage necessarily be based on conservation? Monuments, listed buildings, landscapes, and other forms of built heritage, are typically regarded as immutable and untouchable—objects to be “conserved”—and as a result tend to fade from public imagination and memory (Rietveld et al., 2017). Current conservative preservation p...

The ‘propaganda model’ of news production in capitalist democracies elaborated by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky in 1988 was met with initial hostile criticism and then more or less complete neglect. In the last five years, there has been a renewal of interest, although opinion remains seriously divided. This article adopts a sympathetic stance towards the main ideas of the model, but sugges...