32 research outputs found

    Thomas Aquinas’ definition of the imago Dei and the development of lifelike portraiture 

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    The article examines the philosophical basis of the development of man’s lifelike representation during the 13th century while focusing on Thomas Aquinas’ concept of the « image of man », imago Dei. Aquinas undertakes indeed a profound restructuring of the traditional definition of the imago Dei. By doing so he emphasizes the soul/body relationship in the human being and singles out as profoundly important the soul’s possibility to exercise influence on the body. The article cites passages of Aquinas’ writings to demonstrate the philosopher’s thinking. It also refers to contemporary practices in rituals and hagiographic believes to show the relevance of these ideas outside the strictly philosophical and theoretical sphere. Adopting a new notion of the imago Dei meant in the same breath an increasing of the body’s ennoblement. Its most famous paradigm is the stigmata wonder of Saint Francis of Assisi. As a consequence of the new importance assigned to human corporeity, the bodies of virtuous persons become worth being represented. Lifelike portraiture of the 13th century wishes to underline the extraordinary quality of the shown persons. Therefore the resembling artifacts represent, at their beginnings, the human beings while at the most decisive moment of their earthly life : directly after the death when the body has stopped being influenced by the soul and represents a sort of a relic of the latter.Le présent article examine l’arrière-plan philosophique entourant les premières représentations ressemblantes de l’homme au xiiie siècle en prêtant une attention particulière au concept d’« image de Dieu » (imago Dei), dont Thomas d’Aquin renouvelle en profondeur la définition traditionnelle. Il revient en effet au théologien médiéval d’avoir souligné l’étroite solidarité entre l’âme et le corps, ainsi que l’aptitude de la première à modeler le second. La démonstration proposée ici se fonde sur les passages de l’œuvre thomiste éclairant cette thèse. Elle prend appui notamment sur les pratiques en usage à l’époque, les rituels et les légendes hagiographiques afin de mieux examiner les idées thomistes en dehors du cadre strict de la philosophie et de la théorie. L’apparition miraculeuse des stigmates de saint François d’Assise fournit à cet égard un exemple intéressant. Du fait de l’importance nouvelle accordée à la corporéité humaine, les corps des personnes vertueuses se trouvent alors jugés dignes d’être représentés : les portraitures ressemblantes du xiiie siècle sont destinées à rendre visibles les qualités non ordinaires des représentés. Pour cette raison, les premiers artefacts saisissent les portraiturés dans l’instant le plus décisif de leur existence terrestre, c’est-à-dire juste après leur mort, lorsque le corps échappe à l’influence de l’âme et en constitue pour ainsi dire la relique

    Digitale Lehre in der Kunstgeschichte. Eine Handreichung

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    Der Arbeitskreis Digitale Kunstgeschichte will mit dieser Handreichung die Lehrenden in der Kunstgeschichte bei der Realisierung ihrer Veranstaltungen unterstützen und den Erfahrungsaustausch untereinander fördern. Die Handreichung führt kurz in die zentralen Fragen für eine erfolgreiche digital gestützte Lehre ein. Im Sinne einer kompetenzorientierten Lehre werden die spezifischen Besonderheiten der kunsthistorischen Lehre thematisiert und anschließend konkrete Hilfestellungen gegeben. Hier stehen vor allem die technische Infrastruktur, die didaktischen Formate und die kunsthistorischen Quellen und die Literatur im Internet im Vordergrund

    Search for dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks in √s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

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    A search for weakly interacting massive particle dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks is presented. Final states containing third-generation quarks and miss- ing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis uses 36.1 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at √s = 13 TeV in 2015 and 2016. No significant excess of events above the estimated backgrounds is observed. The results are in- terpreted in the framework of simplified models of spin-0 dark-matter mediators. For colour- neutral spin-0 mediators produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a pair of dark-matter particles, mediator masses below 50 GeV are excluded assuming a dark-matter candidate mass of 1 GeV and unitary couplings. For scalar and pseudoscalar mediators produced in association with bottom quarks, the search sets limits on the production cross- section of 300 times the predicted rate for mediators with masses between 10 and 50 GeV and assuming a dark-matter mass of 1 GeV and unitary coupling. Constraints on colour- charged scalar simplified models are also presented. Assuming a dark-matter particle mass of 35 GeV, mediator particles with mass below 1.1 TeV are excluded for couplings yielding a dark-matter relic density consistent with measurements

    Measurements of top-quark pair differential cross-sections in the eμe\mu channel in pppp collisions at s=13\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV using the ATLAS detector

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    Measurement of the W boson polarisation in ttˉt\bar{t} events from pp collisions at s\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV in the lepton + jets channel with ATLAS

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    Search for single production of vector-like quarks decaying into Wb in pp collisions at s=8\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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    Measurement of the charge asymmetry in top-quark pair production in the lepton-plus-jets final state in pp collision data at s=8TeV\sqrt{s}=8\,\mathrm TeV{} with the ATLAS detector

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    Measurement of the bbb\overline{b} dijet cross section in pp collisions at s=7\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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    Measurement of jet fragmentation in Pb+Pb and pppp collisions at sNN=2.76\sqrt{{s_\mathrm{NN}}} = 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

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    Charged-particle distributions at low transverse momentum in s=13\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV pppp interactions measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

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