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The article analyzes the folklore formulas of the Turkic peoples of Siberia, describing characters with images of the Sun and the Moon on their bodies. In addition to the portraits, there are similar formulas that also mention the images of the celestial bodies when describing a character in motion; thus, the author distinguishes two types of portraits, static and dynamic. At first glance, static portraits are semantically related to the well-known motif of a wonderful appearance; however, as evidenced by the mate...

Dante Alighieri’s Inferno 28 is the place of the sowers of discord and scandal who are responsible for causing a split within their own communities; among them in the ninth bolge of the eighth circle is Muhammad whose mutilated body represents the division he brought to Christianity. A historical contextualization of the Inferno, however, confirms that the hostility between Christianity and Islam had emerged earlier with the rise of Islam as a political power in the seventh century. This paper examines Medieval an...

According to available information, it is still true that the most translated Czech novel is The Good Soldier Schweik (1921-23) by Jaroslav Hasek. By 2013, it had been translated into 58 languages. Schweik’s journey to the world began with translations into German, initially continuing mainly in the countries of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire and further in Russia and Ukraine. This artistic vision of war absurdities became widely known, especially after WWII and inspired such famous antimilitary works like Cat...

This paper analyses Brentano’s aesthetical approach to two questions concerning value. The first, whether all presentations essentially have a positive intrinsic value. Thesecond, if there is a kind of relation between two presentations that assigns higher value to one of them. The results Brentano came to are that, first, there are certain conditions inquality judgement of presentations for them to have intrinsic value. Second, Brentano introduces six main types of relations, explaining why he attributes higher p...

The mission of public administration in the broadest sense of the word is to serve the citizens by fulfilling their demands. On the other hand, in order to fulfill this mission, it must prepare a pool of employees who accept and are able to provide these services ethically. Focusing exclusively on ethics in public administration, this study presents the efforts made by the Albanian governments in reforming the public administration, starting with the government of Ismail Qemali until 1930. This study not only give...

This paper aims to give an overview on a starting research process. The research aims to study correlations between the Renaissance Revival garden design in Italy and Hungary. The turn of the 19th and 20th centuries is characterized by an urge to seek a definition of national identity and also by Historicism with the revival of former artistical styles all over in Europe. Evoking the Italian Renaissance in Hungary has historical roots and special meanings. Italian models appear in main artworks emerged in Renaissa...

The Renaissance is a pinnacle of European humanistic culture that can only be erased from human history at the risk of destroying the very meaning of history. Of the same evidence, however, is the fact that the rinascita was due to a series of political, cultural and social conditions that, emerging from the Italian land, were different in all countries where it was propagated, and almost absent, appearing in short, decorativ spurts, in others. What united them in the most concrete way was the generous idea of hum...

The Lugoj Cavalry Barracks are located in Timis county, part of the Banat region located in the west of Romania. Considering their historical and architectural value, the Lugoj Cavalry Barracks were studied as part of the classification procedure for their inclusion in the national Historical Monuments Registry. The barracks are an architectural ensemble that consist of several distinct buildings. The aim was to completely diagnose the barracks as a whole and follow their individual evolution, in order to establis...

The main issue of the study is scientific explanation of the causes, strategies and mechanisms of renovation of art as holistic aesthetic system. The objective of the study is to specify and describe the strategy and mechanisms of artistic experimentation in Russian Pre-Romanticism and explain the dialectics of interaction of two (identical equation and contraposition) aesthetic systems in Russian Literary Process of the late XVIII century period. The research design is based on complex approach, involving combina...

The scientific investigation deals with the stream of consciousness as a constituent of spontaneity poetics in the writings of British and American authors of different literary epochs. The stream of consciousness reflects the complicated and steady mental process of the detailed fixation of thoughts, senses, and unconscious movements. The purpose of our paper is to solve such problems: to explain the notion of stream of consciousness from the spontaneity poetics point of view; to characterize the types of stream ...

The concept of electronic, or ’born-digital‘ literature points to literary works that rely on digital media, which form an indispensable part of the aesthetic experience. The concept is only beginning to gain traction in literary studies, and as such, it still represents a relatively obscure part of it. Given that we are poised to rely more and more on digital media in the future, the concept is likely to remain relevant. Nevertheless, as it stands now, the different forms of interaction between electronic and pri...

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is one of the most promising current design methods and plays a vital role in visualising the architectural process from the early de-sign phase up to the use of the buildings. However, there is a large gap in research on the evolutionary steps of architectural visualization from the outstanding discoveries of the Renaissance up to digital building information model we use nowadays. Particularly in response to the question: Which fundamental developments in architectural visual...

The most prominent period of Hungarian history in arts and science was during the reign of King Matthias (1443-1490). His humanist upbringing, his education and his political successes made him a renowned ruler of his time. In parallel with the emergence of Italian early Renaissance gardens, royal and ecclesiastical gardens were established in the Kingdom of Hungary. The numerous links well characterise and explain the affinity between early Renaissance gardens in Italy and Hungary. Alongside the king's bountiful ...

The paper examines Karel van Mander’s consistent descriptions of artistic incompetence, technical mediocrity, and creative failure in Het Schilder-Boeck – or The Book of Painting, first published in Alkmaar 1604 – in the attempt to understand the functionality of his remarks – from an aesthetic, ethical, and pedagogical standpoint – as cautionary tales for apprentices and young patrons. It will be argued that, by establishing a sharp distinction between “excellent masters” and “mediocre painters,” Van Mander’s nar...

Sometimes readily accepted as a minimalist and associated with other musicians of his generation, Philipp Glass or Steve Reich, and other times considered an oriented composer who adapts his creative vision to the current socio-political or cultural context and melts in his synthetic creations a multitude of styles, genres and musics, John Adams is indeed the image of the successful contemporary American artist. Not only did he feel constantly challenged to compose scores in all genres, but he combined with overfl...

The landscape of central Sicily is marked by the presence of several fortified elite residences, but also hilltop fortifications defined generically "castles". However, in the publications, with some exceptions, have not been investigated by means of the multidisciplinary research including Landscape History and Archaeology, Archaeology of Architecture, Linguistics, Anthropology. The same word “castle” is used continuously to indicate generically the castles in Medieval age without regards to the different archite...

In plate 141 For the Sexes - the Gates of Paradise, copy D, Blake by asking: “Does thy God O Priest take such vengeance, as this” refers to the story of Count Ugolino as it is described in Dante’s Divine Comedy - Inferno Canto XIII (33). The subject of Blake’s preoccupation is the conflict between the Devourer and the Prolific as it was developed in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell in 1789. The conflict between the adverse forces of life, good versus evil, formed ‘two different kind of philosophies’- as Yeats calle...

The Renaissance of 19th-century historiography and of every period of intense artistic and intellectual activity called renaissance is characterized by the exploration of cultural heritage that it inherits and its appropriation, conquest, and revival through this exploration. We are referring to the Carolingian renaissance, the Ottoman, the 12th century one, and the Italian Renaissance with its chronological subdivisions and influences. Corresponding renaissances are also recognized in the Byzantine territory. The...

The author's individual style as a multilevel and multidimensional manifestation of personality is an integral part of the study of modern linguistics and cognitive linguistics. Modern linguistics text aims to move from the study of integrated textual structure to the analysis of the text as an anthropocentric communicative system aimed at the personal linguistic qualities of each author in connection with his psychological, mental, socio-cultural, and cognitive features. We define the author's style and reflectio...

At a time when European academic music, as well as long-established jazz on the continent, were in the advanced stages of experimenting with avant-garde languages (integral serialism, Musique concrete, electronic music, mathematical organization, stochastic music, aleatoricism, minimalism etc., respectively free jazz, cool), the Romanian musical culture had come under the influence of a totalitarian ideology, which imposed aesthetic guidelines centered on the principle of accessibility, thus preventing the alignme...

Along with paintings, drawings, and prints representing workshops and studios in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe, written sources also provide important information concerning the different typologies, functions, and organization of the creative and entrepreneurial spaces of the artist in early modern times. These spaces were often the stage of significant social and cultural exchanges with patrons, commissioners, and collectors, in which art-related explorations coexisted with science-oriented exp...

In this paper, I will approach the connections I have discovered between two composers born in different centuries and cultures, belonging to distinct historical periods, but having certain biographical resemblances, similar compositional conceptions and multiple stylistic options. Gustav Mahler and Alfred Schnittke have in common the combination of various musical styles and different sources of inspiration, the integration of folkloric elements in musical contexts with new aesthetic features and the approach to ...

The general rationale of this article applies to the interest in the visualisation of the historical heritage during the Empire period in France, the trends of retrospectiveism in contemporary art and design, and the need to explore the phenomenon of 'grand style', the idea of which is emerging today in art salons around the world more often. The year 2021 marks the 200th anniversary of the Emperor's death. In this respect, women's costume of the beginning of the XIX century in France is still a relevant research ...

The core of this article is that ideas and mastery of artistic techniques are of par im-portance when making a work of art according to Stanley William Hayter. Our question was then, where do ideas come from and how can we bring them to the surface? This study is about how Hayter showed that ideas are directly related to images. Influenced by Jungian ideas of the collective unconscious, he made use of automatic drawing and the technique of engraving, giving a new use to the burin on a copper plate to make them eme...

The overall theoretical problem of the study is systematization of art history methods and approaches involved in description and analytics of ancient Christian architecture within the frame of the European XVI–XVIII centuries aesthetic thought. The specific challenging issue the article addresses is the role of Palladian art history and art criticism tradition played in formation of national school of Christian architecture studies and architectural art criticism in Russia. The object of the study is the heritage...

During the past century, the main building of the State Hermitage has undergone signif-icant historical metamorphoses: the fall of the residence of the Russian imperial family, the October Revolution of 1917, World War II, and finally gaining the status of one of the most important Soviet and later Russian museums. A lot of literature has been writ-ten about the history of this place, including scientific works about the extensive collec-tion of this museum, including a magnificent collection of Italian paintings ...