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Poussin as a painter : from classicism to abstraction
Universally regarded as the father of French painting, Nicolas Poussin is arguably the greatest of all painters of that school. Yet Poussin's reputation has been founded more on the intellectual and philosophical qualities of his art than its sheer visual beauty. In Poussin as a Painter: From Classicism to Abstraction, Richard Verdi redresses the balance, describing and analyzing Poussin's outstanding gifts as a pictorial storyteller, designer and colourist - in short, on the purely aesthetic (and often abstract) aspects of his art that have inspired so many later painters, from Cezanne to Picasso. The book features more than 220 fine illustrations, the majority in colour, and encompasses all aspects of Poussin's art from the mid 1620s to his death in 1665. This ground-breaking study gives new insight into Poussin, and is essential reading for all who admire this seminal French painter.
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Image Scaling by de la Vallée-Poussin Filtered Interpolation
We present a new image scaling method both for downscaling and upscaling, running with any scale factor or desired size. The resized image is achieved by sampling a bivariate polynomial which globally interpolates the data at the new scale. The method’s particularities lay in both the sampling model and the interpolation polynomial we use. Rather than classical uniform grids, we consider an unusual sampling system based on Chebyshev zeros of the first kind. Such optimal distribution of nodes permits to consider near-best interpolation polynomials defined by a filter of de la Vallée-Poussin type. The action ray of this filter provides an additional parameter that can be suitably regulated to improve the approximation. The method has been tested on a significant number of different image datasets. The results are evaluated in qualitative and quantitative terms and compared with other available competitive methods. The perceived quality of the resulting scaled images is such that important details are preserved, and the appearance of artifacts is low. Competitive quality measurement values, good visual quality, limited computational effort, and moderate memory demand make the method suitable for real-world applications.
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Approximation of functions of many variables from the generalized Nikol’skii–Besov classes in the uniform and integral metrics
We obtain the exact order estimates for approximation of the functions of many variables from the generalized Nikol’skii–Besov classes
B
p
,
θ
Ω
R
d
by de la Vallée Poussin sums in the metrics of the spaces
L
∞
R
d
and
L
1
R
d
. These classes of functions for some given Ω coincide with the well-known classical isotropic Nikol’skii–Besov classes.
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On B-statistical uniform nonintegrability of a sequence of random variables
In this paper, we introduce a notion of B-statistical uniform nonintegrability with respect to A (B-UNI(c) w.r.t. A, in short), which is weaker than UNI(c) w.r.t. A (see [3]). We establish the de La Vallée Poussin criterion for B-UNI(c) w.r.t. A, which extends Theorem 2.1 of Chandra et al. (2021) [3]. Moreover, we also give a necessary condition for the sequence of random variables {Xk, k ∈ ℕ} to be B-UNI(c) w.r.t. A.
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Emerging from the Shadows: A Curious History of a Forgotten Painting by Nicolas Poussin
[...]an equally interesting and rather accomplished image has become a part of the State Art Collection of the Kingdom, later Republic, of Yugoslavia (acc. no. 48/01) since the 1930s. Nicolas Poussin, Venus and Adonis, provenance research, replicas, Giovanni Stefano Roccatagliata, Wiliam Ponsonby, Cassiano dal Pozzo, Lord Radstock, art market, Prince Pavle Karadordevic. Резиме Када je Никола Пусен створио сензуалну слику инспирисану митом о Венери и Адонису 1627/28. године, произвео jy je у неколико идентичних реплика, од коих су три признате од стране европске науке. Some of the notable examples are Venus and Adonis in the Musee dex Beaux Artes in Caen in France (previously in the French Royal Collection), Venus and Adonis in the Museum of Rhode Island School of Design, USA, Venus and Adonis with the view of Grottaferatta (of which one half is preserved in the Musee Fabre Montpelier and the other in the Metropolitan Museum of Art), and the picture this paper is dealing with-the love of Venus and Adonis whose best known, autograph, version is currently in the collection of the Kimbell Museum at Fort Worth, Texas. The Kimbell version was created as the autograph original, whereas the other two were subsequently painted as autographs of semi-autograph replicas-most probably due to the high demand of the Roman art market for this particular subject matter, as it will be further elaborated.
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Filtered interpolation for solving Prandtl’s integro-differential equations
In order to solve Prandtl-type equations we propose a collocation-quadrature method based on de la Vallée Poussin (briefly VP) filtered interpolation at Chebyshev nodes. Uniform convergence and stability are proved in a couple of Hölder-Zygmund spaces of locally continuous functions. With respect to classical methods based on Lagrange interpolation at the same collocation nodes, we succeed in reproducing the optimal convergence rates of the
L
2
case and cut off the typical
log
factor which seemed inevitable dealing with uniform norms. Such an improvement does not require a greater computational effort. In particular, we propose a fast algorithm based on the solution of a simple 2-bandwidth linear system and prove that, as its dimension tends to infinity, the sequence of the condition numbers (in any natural matrix norm) tends to a finite limit.
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CONFLICT, TRAGEDY, AND INTERRACIALITY: BOB THOMPSON PAINTS VERGIL'S CAMILLA
In The Death of Camilla (1964), Black American painter Bob Thompson fascinates, disturbs, and provokes enduring questions about race in the United States. In this painting (Figure 1), multicolored nudes clash in battle around two figures frozen in a moment of anguish: a light-skinned female warrioress dying in the arms of a dark-hued male opponent. The power of this painting lies not only in its raw emotion, symbolism, and color, but also in Thompson's daring signification upon the story of Camilla from Vergil's Aeneid and on a seventeenth-century drawing by Nicolas Poussin. While a relatively ‘underknown’ artist, during his life Robert Louis Thompson (1937–1966) received extensive recognition for his compelling reconfigurations of the European old masters and their Classical (Greco-Roman) subjects. Thompson, according to his early biographer, Judith Wilson, may also be ‘the first American artist to put the nation's interracial sex life/sex fantasies on public view.’ In many of his works of reception, Thompson combines these two artistic preoccupations into compelling pieces that foreground tragic contradictions around interraciality in the United States. In his The Death of Camilla painting, I argue, Thompson expands upon the symbolic trajectory of Vergil's story and ‘colors’ Poussin in such a way as to re-present Camilla as collateral damage of the sort of nation building that necessitates interracial conflict.
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Some New Sequence Spaces in n–Normed Spaces Defined by a Museliak-Orlicz Function
In this paper, we introduce some new sequence spaces in n–normed spaces defined by Museliak-Orlicz function. Also we investigate some topological properties and inclusion relations between these spaces
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