Goddess of France, 1745-1764: Madame de Pompadour and the Rococo Traditions of 18th-Century French Portraiture

The reign of Louis XV of France was spectacular in its advancement of the Late Rococo period due to the patronage of Madame de Pompadour, his head mistress from 1745-1764. Her upbringing as an educated woman in court would influence trends of Late Rococo that she would use to embellish her own public image. I seek to identify and explain the different elements of her court portraits and mythological portraits as a way to examine her roles as patron and mistress. Six portraits, three from each category of court and mythological, will be used as specific examples and to provide visual connections

Craquelure as a Graph: Application of Image Processing and Graph Neural Networks to the Description of Fracture Patterns

Cracks on a painting is not a defect but an inimitable signature of an artwork which can be used for origin examination, aging monitoring, damage identification, and even forgery detection. This work presents the development of a new methodology and corresponding toolbox for the extraction and characterization of information from an image of a craquelure pattern. The proposed approach processes craquelure network as a graph. The graph representation captures the network structure via mutual organization of junctions and fractures. Furthermore, it is invariant to any geometrical distortions. At the same time, our tool extracts the properties of each node and edge individually, which allows to characterize the pattern statistically. We illustrate benefits from the graph representation and statistical features individually using novel Graph Neural Network and hand-crafted descriptors correspondingly. However, we also show that the best performance is achieved when both techniques are merged into one framework. We perform experiments on the dataset for paintings' origin classification and demonstrate that our approach outperforms existing techniques by a large margin.Comment: Published in ICCV 2019 Workshop

La concentración de agroindustrias rurales de producción de quesos en el noroeste del Estado de México: un estudio de caracterización

El propósito de este documento es contribuir al conocimiento sobre el funcionamiento y la dinámica de la agroindustria rural localizada en territorios específicos. Más allá de las cuestiones de rentabilidad y apoyándose en el enfoque de Sistemas Agroalimentarios Localizados, se pretende mostrar las características particulares de la concentración de agroindustrias especializadas de producción de quesos del municipio de Aculco, Estado de México. Se realizó un diagnóstico considerando los recursos específicos de la zona, los actores económicos que interactúan en la cadena productiva local, los productos lácteos y la tecnología empleada en el proceso de elaboración. Se estableció una tipología de las empresas, denominándolas artesanales, diversificadas y comerciales. Las queserías se diferenciaron por el volumen de leche procesada, número de productos lácteos fabricados, tipo de mano de obra, uso de leche en polvo, utilización de descremadora y la actividad organizativa. La agroindustria constituyó la parte central del sistema agroalimentario local dado que los eslabones articulados a ella (productores de leche y recolectores) interactuaron sólo como proveedores de materia prima