Sulla ricomposizione e ricostruzione della cantoria di Giovanni Pisano. Sommario esame di alcuni studi fin qui fatti proposte.

"Progetto di ricomposizione della cantoria di Giovanni Pisano. Rapporti coi pulpiti della Scuola Pisana e con altri progetti" (2 pl., accordion fold.) in pocket.

L'Oratorio della Madonna delle Grazie in San Giovanni Val d'Arno : monografia storico-artistica ... /

Includes bibliographical references.

Protection of roadless areas : hearing before the Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, first session, to receive testimony on the President's announcement to survey approximately 40 million acres for increased protection.

Shipping list no.: 2000-0219-P (pt. 1), 2000-0328-P (pt. 2), 2001-0124-P (pt. 3).

Approximately optimal experimental design for heteroscedastic Gaussian process models

This paper presents a greedy Bayesian experimental design criterion for heteroscedastic Gaussian process models. The criterion is based on the Fisher information and is optimal in the sense of minimizing parameter uncertainty for likelihood based estimators. We demonstrate the validity of the criterion under different noise regimes and present experimental results from a rabies simulator to demonstrate the effectiveness of the resulting approximately optimal designs.

Il restauro della chiesa di San Francesco a San Giovanni in Persiceto: tecniche di rilevo ad alta definizione e sperimentazione di linguaggi diacritici per la reintegrazione delle superfici architettoniche

il lavoro si suddivide in una fase preliminare conoscitiva costituita da una ricerca storico-documentale sui principali eventi che hanno interessato San Giovanni in Persiceto e il complesso conventuale. per comprendere a pieno l'oggetto di studio sono stati studiati a fondo la vita e le opere dell'autore e le tendenze architettoniche del periodo storico in cui esercita. è stato eseguito un rilievo dettagliato impiegando tecniche ad alta definizione, come fotogrammetria e scansioni laser. per realizzare un progetto di restauro consapevole e rispettoso del monumento sono state condotte approfondite analisi tematiche e di degrado, in modo da acquisire una conoscenza diretta dell'edificio. per reintegrare l'unità d'immagine andata perduta, visto l'uso improprio che è stato fatto del bene, indispensabile per la comprensione dell'opera, è stata svolta un'attenta analisi della consistenza materica e una analogica con le opere dell'autore simili. gli interventi cercheranno di facilitare la lettura delle tracce presenti sul manufatto, e in maniera tutt'altro che invasiva verrà proposta la videoproiezione di quella che poteva essere l'immagine e la suggestione concepita dall'architetto. sono stati studiati restauri di casi analoghi e gli interventi della scuola di restauro nata a seguito delle devastazioni prodotte dalla guerra. per gli elementi ben conservati si attuerà un restauro conservativo. si restaura la pavimentazione, attraverso due diverse ipotesi che risolvono le possibili casistiche generate dalla rimozione delle superfetazioni. per valorizzare gli elementi architettonici si è proposto uno schema di sorgenti luminose diversificato in illuminazione generale d'ambiente ed un sistema di luci funzionale agli usi specifici.

K-Theoretic Characterization of C*-Algebras with Approximately Inner Flip

The author is supported by an NSERC PDF.

K-Theoretic Characterization of C*-Algebras with Approximately Inner Flip

The author is supported by an NSERC PDF.

Musical commonplace book : manuscript, [approximately 1790-approximately 1810]

Contains songs, partly from English operas, and instrumental music.

Ah' quest'amplesso, o cara: scena e duetto nella Cleopatra / manuscript, [approximately 1800]

del Sig:re Sebastiano Nasolini :

King of the Renaissance: Art and Politics at the Neapolitan Court of Ferrante I, 1458-1494

In the second half of the fifteenth century, King Ferrante I of Naples (r. 1458-1494) dominated the political and cultural life of the Mediterranean world. His court was home to artists, writers, musicians, and ambassadors from England to Egypt and everywhere in between. Yet, despite its historical importance, Ferrante’s court has been neglected in the scholarship. This dissertation provides a long-overdue analysis of Ferrante’s artistic patronage and attempts to explicate the king’s specific role in the process of art production at the Neapolitan court, as well as the experiences of artists employed therein. By situating Ferrante and the material culture of his court within the broader discourse of Early Modern art history for the first time, my project broadens our understanding of the function of art in Early Modern Europe. I demonstrate that, contrary to traditional assumptions, King Ferrante was a sophisticated patron of the visual arts whose political circumstances and shifting alliances were the most influential factors contributing to his artistic patronage. Unlike his father, Alfonso the Magnanimous, whose court was dominated by artists and courtiers from Spain, France, and elsewhere, Ferrante differentiated himself as a truly Neapolitan king. Yet Ferrante’s court was by no means provincial. His residence, the Castel Nuovo in Naples, became the physical embodiment of his commercial and political network, revealing the accretion of local and foreign visual vocabularies that characterizes Neapolitan visual culture.

Sexism and Imperialism in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Puccini's Madama Butterfly, and Blitzstein's Regina: A Performance Study

This dissertation project comprises three major operatic performances and an accompanying document; a performance study which surveys aspects of sexism and imperialism as represented in three operas written over the last three centuries by examining the implications of prejudice through research as well as through performances of the major roles found in the operas. Mr. Eversole performed the role of Sharpless in the 2014 Castleton Festival production of Madama Butterfly (music by Giacomo Puccini, libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa), conducted by Bradley Moore. In 2015, Mr. Eversole sang the title role in four performances of Mozart and Da Ponte’s Don Giovanni with the Maryland Opera Studio at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, conducted by Craig Kier. Also as part of the Maryland Opera Studio 2015-16 season, Mr. Eversole appeared as Oscar Hubbard in four performances of Marc Blitzstein’s Regina, an adaptation of Lillian Hellman’s 1939 play, The Little Foxes. These performances were also conducted by Craig Kier. The accompanying research document discusses significant issues of cultural, geographical, and sexual hegemony as they relate to each opera. It examines the plots and characters of the operas from a postcolonial and feminist perspective, and takes a moral stance against imperialism, sexism, domestic abuse, and in general, the exploitation of women and of the colonized by the socially privileged and powerful. Recordings of all three operas can be accessed at the University of Maryland Hornbake Library. They are: Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly (the role of Sharpless) July 20, 2014, Castleton Festival production, Bradley Moore, Conductor Castleton, Virginia Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Don Giovanni (title role) November 22nd, 2015, Maryland Opera Studio, Craig Kier, Conductor Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, UMD Marc Blitzstein’s Regina, (Oscar Hubbard) April 8th, 8016, Maryland Opera Studio, Craig Kier, Conductor Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, UMD