Dresden State Art Collections

A selection of Late Bronze Age glass objects from the site of Amarna (Egypt) was analysed for their overall chemical composition, colourants and transition metals associated with the sources of cobalt ore. The objects were analysed by means of Particle Induced X-Ray and Gamma-ray Emission and Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry at the IBC, HZDR, Dresden and the New AGLAE facility, C2RMF, Paris. The data was subsequently compared with further measurements obtained by portable X-Ray Fluorescence (and by Laser-Ablation Inductively-Coupled-Plasma Mass-Spectrometry) in order to sound the potential of these non-destructive methods to obtain new insights into the production process of glass from Amarna and its provenancing.

Ausgangspunkt des Beitrags ist die grose Gruppe von romischen Skulpturen, die ein griechisches Original im Grosen und Ganzen getreu wiedergeben, es aber inhaltlich abwandeln, die sog. Umdeutungen. Wie weit der Spielraum reicht, der sich den Bildhauern bei diesem ambivalenten Umgang mit Statuen klassischer und hellenistischer Zeit bot, veranschaulichen einige Extremfalle, in denen nicht nur die Attribute und die Bekleidung des Originals verandert, sondern sogar das Genus transformiert worden ist. Zu solchen Schopfungen kam es offenbar dann, wenn Bildhauer mit der Aufgabe konfrontiert waren, Statuen anzufertigen, fur deren Kreation das einschlagige Repertoire an Abgussen griechischer Originale nichts Passendes parat hielt, etwa eine weibliche Figur aus dem Gefolge des Bacchus oder ein Hirtenmadchen. Durch die Orientierung an einer im weitesten Sinn ›klassischen‹ Form war es moglich, beim Kaufer den Eindruck zu erwecken, dass eine Statue trotz ungewohnlichen Sujets auf einem Vorbild aus der Blutezeit der griechischen Kunst fust. – Die Besprechung der Spezial-Umdeutungen bietet auserdem die Gelegenheit, die Uberlieferung zweier auserst beliebter statuarischer Typen des Dionysos vorzufuhren, die in der Forschung so gut wie unbekannt geblieben sind. Den Abschluss bildet ein Ausblick auf die Transformation des Genus bei Statuen in sekundaren Zusammenhangen, also in der Spat- und in der Nachantike.

von ihnen besetzten Gebieten unzhlige Kunstwerke. Nach Kriegsende waren es die Siegermchte,

The green mantle of the earth! This metaphor is a poetic image that borrows from the vocabulary of weaving and epitomizes the Renaissance interest in "fashioning green worlds" in art and poetry. Here it serves as a motto for a cultural poetics that made representing living nature increasingly popular across Italy in the Early Modern period. The explosion of landscape art in this era is often associated with the rise of interest in the literary pastoral, narrowly defined, but this volume expands that understanding to show Green’s broad appeal as it intrigued audiences ranging from the ecclesiastic to the medical and scientific to the humanistic and courtly. The essays gathered here explore the expanding technologies and varied cultural dimensions of verzure and verdancy in the Italian Renaissance, and thus the role of visual art in shaping the poetics and expression of greenery in the arts of the 16th-century and beyond.

This article discusses the acquisition of East Asian porcelain for the furnishing of the Japanese Palace, Augustus the Strong’s pleasure palace in Dresden. It focuses on two important documents that give information on how and where porcelain was purchased in 18th century Saxony: firstly, the historic royal inventories, assembled between 1721-1727, which not only record the interior equipment of the palace, but which also refer to a number of porcelain dealers from Dresden and Leipzig by name. Secondly, a set of letters between the Saxon court and Dutch dealers in the Netherlands provide us with information on the porcelain market in Holland between 1716-1718, a timeframe in which two charges of East Asian porcelains were acquired for the Japanese Palace with the help of resident merchants. The article aims to highlight the importance of these local correspondents for the assembly of Augustus the Strong’s East Asian porcelain collection and what networks these dealers drew back upon. Furthermore, it tries to shed further light on the provenience of selected objects from the extant collection of the Porzellansammlung Dresden by connecting them to the above-mentioned purchases made in the Netherlands.

The post-9/11 wars have brought forth a new generation of military veterans in the US and rekindled debates about social and psychological problems related to war experience. These veterans produced a plethora of firsthand war narratives in diverse genres and media. This article explores how public discourse about civil-military relationships, war experience, and trauma, simmering since the domestic divisions over Vietnam, turned to such first-person narratives in recent years to discuss the psychological costs of war and homecoming. It interprets the proliferation of veterans’ writing projects as part of a civic activist movement that, postulating a social crisis in civil-military relationships, seeks to address veterans’ social and emotional struggles through community (re)building and social therapy. The writing projects promote themselves as a means to bridge the experiential gap between civilians and veterans and, in doing so, they enact social reintegration.

Augmented reality (AR) has gained exceptional importance in supporting task performance. Particularly, in quality assurance (QA) processes in the automotive sector AR offers a diversity of use cases. In this paper we propose an interface design which projects information as a digital canvas on the surface of vehicle components. Based on a requirement analysis, we discuss design aspects and describe our application in applying the quality assurance process of a luxury automaker. The application includes a personal view on spatial information embedded in a guided interaction process as a design solution that can be applied to enhance QA processes.