Great Hall Research Articles

From RAS to RHO: The making of the great cell biologist Alan Hall (1952-2015).

The fields of cell biology and cancer research are deeply saddened by the untimely death of Alan Hall at the young age of 62. There will be many obituaries, so in this remembrance I would like to describe some events in Alan’s career, and give a personal view on what I think made him an

China-ASEAN Relations, September 2014 to December 2014: Chronology of Events

China-ASEAN Relations, September 2014 to December 2014:Chronology of Events Compiled by Ping Xiaojuan SEPTEMBER 2014 4th Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with Malaysian Supreme Head of State Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah at the Great Hall of the People. Xi expresses his appreciation for Halim’s visit to China as both countries observe the 40th anniversary of their diplomatic relationship. Halim adds that Prime Minister Najib Razak’s successful visit to China in May 2014 has boosted bilateral ties and strengthened their comprehensive strategic partnership. 15th Chinese Vice Premier of the State Council Zhang Gaoli meets Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, Lao Vice President Bounnhang Vorachit, Myanmar Vice President U Nyan Tun, Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Tanasak Patimapragorn and Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh, who arrive Nanning, Guangxi province, to attend the 11th China-ASEAN Expo and the China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit. The ASEAN state representatives have reached a consensus with China on deepening corporation, dealing with differences properly and promoting greater development of bilateral relations. 16th Zhang Gaoli and Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong grace the opening ceremony of the 11th China-ASEAN Expo (CAEXPO) and China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit (CABIS), themed “Jointly Build Maritime Silk Road of the 21st Century”. Singapore is this year’s country of honour. Zhang, in his speech, emphasises the cultural heritage that ASEAN and China share. 25th Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni and the Queen Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse. Xi stresses that China-Cambodia relations now demonstrate a sound development. The Cambodian royal family expresses its willingness to inherit the roadmap of friendship with China paved by the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk and to work actively to promote the continuous development of bilateral relations. 27th Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Tanasak Patimapragorn meet on the sidelines of the annual high-level debate of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN Headquarters in New York. Both sides vow to promote overall strategic partnership between the two countries. [End Page 227] OCTOBER 2014 6th ASEAN Secretary General Le Luong Minh hail the signing of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Disaster Management Cooperation between the ASEAN and the People’s Republic of China as a “milestone in developing partnership with China in the area of disaster management”. The MoU provides for RMB50 million to support the implementation of the ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response (AADMER) Work Program, the operation of the ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance in the area of disaster management (AHA Centre), and the ASEAN Secretariat’s capacity-building programmes on disaster management. 8th Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak meets with Chinese State Councillor Yang Jiechi in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Yang Jiechi points out that China and Malaysia have scored substantive progress in bilateral relations and will continue to advance practical bilateral cooperation. 16th Chinese Premier Li Keqiang meets with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in Milan, Italy. Li points out that China and Vietnam should tap onto the overall direction of the development of bilateral relations and handle maritime differences with care so as to foster favourable conditions for bilateral cooperation. Nguyen states that Vietnam stands ready to work with the Chinese to implement the consensus reached by both sides, strengthen high-level exchanges, cement traditional friendship, and boost mutual understanding and trust. In Milan, Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha meets with Chinese Premier Li. Both sides are keen to advance the friendship that China and Thailand traditionally share. Prayuth says that Thailand would expand cooperation in such fields as economy and trade, infrastructure construction and connectivity, so as to boost Thailand-China relations. 17th In Milan, too, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang meets with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Lee says that Singapore is willing to work with China to successfully implement the cooperative projects planned by the two countries, expand cooperation with China’s central and western regions, and expand cooperation in logistics, investment and green development, in order to promote connectivity and sustainable...

A HIGH-STATUS SEVENTH-CENTURY FEMALE BURIAL FROM WEST HANNEY, OXFORDSHIRE

In 2009, a metal-detector find of a rare garnet-inlaid composite disc brooch at West Hanney, Oxfordshire, led to the excavation of an apparently isolated female burial sited in a prominent position overlooking the Ock valley. The burial dates to the middle decades of the seventh century, a period of rapid socio-political development in the region, which formed the early heartland of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex. The de luxe brooch links the wearer to two other burials furnished with very similar brooches at Milton, some 10km to the east and onlyc1km from the Anglo-Saxon great hall complex at Sutton Courtenay / Drayton, just south of Abingdon. All three women must have been members of the region’s politically dominant group, known as theGewisse. The burial’s grave goods and setting add a new dimension to our understanding of the richly furnished female burials that are such a prominent feature of the funerary record of seventh-century England.

An Anglo-Saxon Great Hall Complex at Sutton Courtenay/Drayton, Oxfordshire: A Royal Centre of Early Wessex?

An archaeological evaluation at the site of an Anglo-Saxon ‘great hall complex’ at Sutton Courtenay/Drayton, Oxfordshire (NGR 448733 193671), previously known primarily from aerial photographs and metal-detector finds, included the partial excavation of two large timber buildings. One of these had been cut into a prehistoric mound or bank and proved to be the largest Anglo-Saxon ‘great hall’ yet identified. The smaller building overlay an earlier sunken-featured building of probable sixth-century date. The geophysical survey and excavation provide significant new information regarding the site, which is probably that of an undocumented royal centre associated with the earliest rulers of the West Saxons.

Enjoy the Opulence of a Bygone Era at Casa Loma

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Annual Meeting HighlightsFull AccessEnjoy the Opulence of a Bygone Era at Casa LomaNick ZagorskiNick ZagorskiSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:18 Feb 2015https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.pn.2015.2b7AbstractThis elegant 98-room castle built by Canadian financier Sir Henry Pellatt in 1914 harkens back to the days of kings, knights, and maidens fair.Like many a youth, Sir Henry Pellatt dreamed of living in a castle and feeling like a king. Unlike most other dreamers, though, Pellatt developed the means to make that dream a reality. Overlooking Toronto from its hilltop perch, Casa Loma was completed in 1914 at a cost of over $3.5 million and was the largest private residence in Canada on its completion.Danielle PettiOne of the leading Canadian financiers of the late 19th century, Pellatt was a shrewd investor in land, railroads, and electricity and amassed a fortune fit for royalty. In 1914, following three years of labor and incurring over $3 million in costs, Casa Loma, a hilltop castle overlooking the city of Toronto, was completed. However, the same financial tides that helped Pellatt realize his vision soon receded, and he and his wife were forced to sell the estate a few years after moving in. The building experienced its own turbulence over the years as well, but thanks to the efforts of the Kiwanis Club and other benefactors, today it still stands on that hill as one of Toronto’s top tourist attractions.From the moment people enter the castle and bask in the Great Hall and its 60-foot ceilings, they are surrounded by opulence. While visitors cannot explore all seven floors, 98 rooms, and 64,000 square feet of the castle, there is plenty to admire.Some of the highlights include the Oak Room, featuring hand-carved oak panels and beams that took French artisans three years to create and the hallway on the main floor modeled after Peacock Alley in Windsor Castle. (Pellatt, the son of British immigrants, was a noted Anglophile, and homages to his heritage are peppered throughout his estate.) Besides the Old World splendor, Casa Loma also boasts many modern marvels—for its time. The building contains an elevator, a central vacuum system, and thousands of electric lights. Plumbing was also quite sophisticated, as Casa Loma features steam pipes that helped keep the flowerbeds in the conservatory warm, while pipes filled with ammonia and brine were used to chill the wine cellar. (The wine cellar is also connected to Henry Pellatt’s study by a secret passage—another medieval touch.) At Casa Loma, even the stables (which can be accessed from the house via an underground passage) speak of opulence.ourism TorontoVisitors who make it to the third floor will be rewarded with a small museum dedicated to the Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada, a reserve regiment in which Pellatt served, as well as a tribute to one of the building’s more interesting historical roles. During World War II, Casa Loma was used as a clandestine base of operations for constructing an early sonar device known as ASDIC (Anti-Submarine Detection Investigation Committee). The castle was open to tourists during this time; the secret project was contained in one section of the building, guarded by only a simple sheet, a padlock, and an “Under Repairs” sign.Once done with the building, visitors can explore the surrounding gardens, which should be in bloom and quite lovely in May, and take a peek at the stables and the carriage room, which houses a collection of vintage cars.Eventually, the tour of Casa Loma will end, but visitors can go back down the hill with a smile and a spring in their step, as for a little while at least, they could feel like the welcome guests of a king. ■Casa Loma is located at 1 Austin Place, a short walk from the Dupont subway stop. The admission fee includes a multimedia audio guide. More information about Casa Loma can be accessed here. ISSUES NewArchived

ANALISIS PENGEMBANGAN OBYEK WISATA ALAM DI RESORT BALIK BUKIT TAMAN NASIONAL BUKIT BARISAN SELATAN

ABSTRACT Taman Nasional Bukit Barisan Selatan (TNBBS) is a nature conservation area which has a lot of potential, flora, fauna and natural attractions that have a high value of naturalness. One of the resorts that were recently developed tourist attraction is its natural Resort Balik Bukit. This study aims to: (1) determine the resource potential of nature in Resort Balik Bukit, (2) determine the potential of human resources that exist around the Resort Balik Bukit, (3) determine that management made in the development of natural attractions Behind Hill Resort, and (4) formulating development strategies of natural attractions Resort Balik Bukit TNBBS. The study was conducted for 3 months, from January to March 2013. Data collected through direct observation, interviews, and literature. Data analysis was done in 2 ways descriptive analysis and SWOT by calculating the weight and rating of EFAS and IFAS. The results showed Resort Balik Bukit TNBBS has tourism potential interest to visitors such as Waterfall, River Way Sepapa, Lower Mountains Forest Ecosystem, Flora and Fauna, Nature landscape, and Stone shaped beam. Potential around the Resort Balik Bukit that support community development activities is the ability to make crafts. Management of natural attractions Resort Balik Bukit performed by TNBBS ranging from planning, organizing, implementation, and supervision, but the development is still less than optimal conducted and no other parties are involved. Based on the research results of the most important strategies that can be applied to the Great Hall TNBBS is promoting potentials in Resort Balik Bukit to the tourist market and cooperated with the parties so that the development of natural attractions Resort Balik Bukit can be better. Keywords: Potential of Nature Tourism, SWOT Analysis , Taman Nasional Bukit Barisan Selatan, Resort Balik Bukit

Analisis Perbedaan Nilai Konsentrasi Logam Berat Cadmium (CD) pada Rumput Laut (Eucheuma cottonii) di Perairan Pamekasan Dan Sumenep – Madura <br><i>[Analysis of Heavy Metal Concentration Difference Value on Cadmium (CD) Against Seaweed (Eucheuma cottonii) in Pamekasan and Sumenep Seashore - Madura]<i>

Abstract Indonesia is well known as an island nation whose territory is ocean and coastline. One of cultivation are known to have high economic value is seaweed (Eucheuma cottonii). Madura sea is one of the sea that the majority of communities dependent on the seaweed by means of cultivated seaweed in the Madura sea, for the example is E.cottonii seaweed. Seaweed is also useful as a tool to detect the presence of heavy metal cadmium in other organisms, such as scallops, shrimp and fish. The purpose of this research was to determine the difference between the levels of cadmium that accumulates in seaweed E.cottonii on Pamekasan and Sumenep seashore and compared the levels of cadmium in seaweed E.cottonii the provisions of the Indonesian National Standard. Tests performed in the Great Hall of sampling Health Laboratory (BBLK) Surabaya. This research was conducted in Jumiang – Pamekasan seashore, and the Saronggi – Sumenep seashore. The materials used for sampling in this study is E.cottonii wet seaweed with 38 days of age weighing 4.53721 kg at each station in Sumenep and 3.47243 kg at each station in Pamekasan. The main parameters were observed in this research is the sum value of accumulated heavy metal cadmium in seaweed. Auxiliary parameters such as water quality and sediment values in seaweed. On the results of research on the analysis of the difference in value against the concentration of heavy metal cadmium in seaweed E.cottonii on Pamekasan seashore can still be said does not exceed a threshold value that is equal to 0.0182 ppm and 0.0262 ppm. However, The value of the levels of heavy metals in waters declared Sumenep exceeds a threshold value that is equal to 0.1314 and 0.1298.

Teens and Tudors: The Pedagogy of Royal Studies

This article describes the outreach project Teens and Tudors: Performing Heywood's Play of the Weather in the Classroom Context , undertaken from February to May 2014, involving the University of Southampton, ICLON at the University of Leiden, and Sorghvliet Gymnasium in The Hague. The aim of this project was to investigate whether the performance space of the Tudor Great Hall can be 're-created' in the classroom, as a tool for teaching secondary school pupils about the socio-political context of the Tudor court, through 1530s drama. In doing so, the project has aimed to explore the pedagogy of royal studies today, through a medium that had a distinct, albeit a different, pedagogical value at its original time of performance.

Reinventing Modern China: Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing by Huaiyin Li (review)

Reviewed by: Reinventing Modern China: Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing by Huaiyin Li Paul G. Pickowicz Reinventing Modern China: Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing by Huaiyin Li. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 338. $52.00. Reading Huaiyin Li’s interesting and innovative book, Reinventing Modern China: Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing, caused me to recall my first visit with the famous Harvard-trained historian Zhou Yiliang. It was July 6, 1971, and I was on a day-long visit to Beijing University. Though Zhou’s father was a prominent capitalist before the revolution, Zhou joined the Communist Party in 1956. He was dying to serve the new revolutionary regime. But when his “ revisionist” sponsor, top culture czar Zhou Yang, fell from power in an initial phase of the Cultural Revolution, so too did Zhou Yiliang. When I met him a few years later in July 1971, he had just returned from [End Page 167] a multi-year term of “reeducation through labor” and was once again dying to serve the latest incarnation of Mao’s revolution. I took extensive notes on his detailed briefing on the unfolding of the Cultural Revolution at Beida, comments that focused on what Zhou clearly viewed as the righteous rebellion of militant Red Guards and the dastardly efforts of such arch counterrevolutionaries as Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping to suppress the new revolutionary upsurge. His lively account was fascinating. During a break in the action, Zhou asked me about the topic of my doctoral dissertation-in-progress. “My goodness,” I thought, “he wants me to say a word about my own research. There’s no way he’ll miss its relevance!” So I told him I was working on a study of the revolutionary martyr Qu Qiubai, the top leader of the Communist Party for a time in the late 1920s, and (more famously) China’s leading Marxist literary critic in the early 1930s. But Zhou said absolutely nothing. He simply stared at me with a frozen face. I was so disappointed. Qu was executed by the Nationalists in 1935. But now, in the middle of the Cultural Revolution, rampaging Red Guards regarded him as a detestable renegade. My topic was politically incorrect. I saw Zhou Yiliang one more time. A few days later, on July 19, he was present (along with others) when I met Zhou Enlai in the Great Hall of the People. During a four-hour discussion the Premier mentioned Zhou Yiliang by name and fondly noted that they shared the same surname. It appeared the two men were on good terms. Zhou Yiliang must have felt that his political situation was now secure. But there were two other fast-rising political leaders at that meeting: Zhang Chunqiao and Yao Wenyuan, later identified as members of the odious Gang of Four. They, too, had plans for Zhou Yiliang. By 1973 they had recruited him into the notorious Liangxiao writing group. Yet again, Zhou was dying to serve. Part of his job was to write historical essays that were intended as sharp attacks on Premier Zhou Enlai himself. Not surprisingly, after the Gang of Four fell in 1976, Zhou Yiliang was arrested and served two more years in prison, this time as an agent of the Jiang Qing clique of villainous, counterrevolutionary demons. Upon his release, he asserted that the Gang of Four had deceived him. Once more (and quite predictably) he was dying to serve. This time, the glorious cause was Deng Xiaoping’s Four Modernizations project. Some observers insisted that people like historian Zhou Yiliang never had a choice: he had to search his soul each time and sincerely embrace [End Page 168] every new political vision that came along. Others were more skeptical: he had no principles, blew with the breeze, believed in nothing, and was a blatant opportunist—a sycophant. Above all, he was dying to serve political leaders who held power or were on the rise. Why is this tale worth telling? Because the Zhou Yiliang story intersects in many revealing ways with the macro-analysis contained in Huaiyin Li’s exciting book, a must read for scholars...

Euroanalysis XVII—analytical chemistry for human well-being and sustainable development

The first Euroanalysis conference took place in Heidelberg, Germany, more than 30 years ago. Since 1972, the meeting have focused on various analytical chemistry issues, and been established as a forum for the analytical community from academia, governance, and industry in Europe with worldwide recognition. Euroanalysis, held biannually, with the venue rotating among European countries, was hosted so far by Austria, Belgium, France, twice in Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, and twice in Poland (the last in 2013). The main organizer of the Euroanalysis conferences is the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences (EuCheMS). The 17th European Conference on Analytical Chemistry, held in Poland from August 25 to 29, 2013, was organized by the Polish Chemical Society and Committee on Analytical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Supported by EuCheMS, IUPAC, and the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the event was jointly organized by the Faculties of Chemistry of the Warsaw University of Technology and the University of Warsaw. The main aim of Euroanalysis XVII was to share ideas on recent developments of instrumentation and application in the field of analytical chemistry towards human well-being and sustainable development. Continuing previous successful conferences, both fundamental research and practical analytical applications were discussed. The conference was held in Warsaw, a city of opportunities, entertainments, art, and science. The conference began with well-attended short courses, organized for Sunday, 25th August. The opening ceremony conducted at the Great Hall at the Technical University of Warsaw was followed by the special plenary lecture given by Professor Adam Hulanicki, distinguished and worldwide recognized Polish analytical chemist. You can read his view on the history of Polish analytical chemistry in this issue. A special session was dedicated to the DAC EuCheMS Award Ceremony of the Robert Kellner Lecture; this time the award was given to Jurgen Popp. After the special laudation given by Paul Worsfold, Raman spectroscopy and its use for biomedical analysis were intensely discussed by Jurgen Popp. The conference program was divided into various thematic sessions, covering environmental, biomedical, forensic, and food analysis; trace elements and speciation; industrial and process analysis; separation techniques; electrochemical methods and devises; as well as recent progress in modern analysis. Analytical methods for cultural heritage and art, education in analytical chemistry as well as chemometrics, quality assurance, and metrology were discussed during the conference. The scientific program was concluded by the special keynote lecture on “Quantification of human errors in chemical analysis using expert judgments” given by I. Kuselman. Close to 600 posters were presented during the entire conference, and six of them were awarded Best Poster Awards by Springer. Besides the presentation given by senior scientists, it is worth highlighting the large number of young scientists and the high scientific level of their contributions. The social program aimed to provide an occasion for informal discussion and enriching friendships with analytical chemistry societies. The key points were as follows: Sunday evening get-together in the main building of the Warsaw University of Technology to greet friends and welcome them to Warsaw; Beer Barbecue party in “Gościniec Wiecha” in Heritage Park outside of Warsaw, an excellent opportunity to taste local specialties of the Mazovian village cuisine on Monday evening; beautiful costumes, live folk music, and dance given by dancers on the stage of the famous “Teatr Polski” gave the chance for a music-and-dance trip around various regions of Poland during the enjoyable Tuesday evening; last but not least was the conference Gala Dinner, which took place on Wednesday in the Main Hall of the Warsaw University of Technology, which specially for this evening was turned into a unique ballroom complemented by a spectacular composition of light and music. The very intense program of Euroanalysis made the days in Warsaw pass extremely quickly. During the closing ceremony, held on Friday, the participants expressed their appreciation to the organizing committee for all their effort to assure an excellent atmosphere during the conference. The next Euroanalysis event will be organized in 2015, in Bordeaux; good luck to our friends from France!

Changes in the acoustics of the Moscow Conservatory Great Hall two years after reconstruction

We present the results of measuring the reverberation time of the Moscow Conservatory Great Hall. Measurements were conducted with a half-year interval over two years after completion of reconstruction. It is demonstrated that the changes in reverberation time at low and middle frequencies are barely distinguishable to subjective perception, and at high frequencies, significant fluctuations are observed, related to seasonal changes in the climatic conditons.

Ham House: 400 Years of Collecting and Patronage

The Green Room at Ham House, the gardens at Stourhead, the Great Hall at Abbotsford, evoke their respective eras most powerfully: the first for the ‘clouded Majesty’ of the early Stuarts, the second for a Claudian world so elegantly constructed by the Augustans, and the last as an unparalleled projection of the Romantic imagination behind the rise of the historical novel. It is predictable then that so much attention is centred here upon a small closet lying at the emotional heart of a house which receives a scholarly tribute. The importance of the Green Room with its close hang of small-scale pictures dating in spirit if not always in detail from the late 1630s, conventionally has been treated as a sanctum sanctorum for the tastes of Charles I. It has been supposed that the Green Room was closely modelled on the closets at Whitehall and elsewhere; the more so since Sir William Murray (later 1st Earl of Dysart), the presiding genius of Ham, had been whipping boy to the King when Prince of Wales. But wait a moment: none of us can really say what the little rooms of the royal palaces in central London looked like. Therefore, how certain can we be that Ham is indeed close to what Charles I actually liked? And then how could Murray afford all this; albeit he did not actually build the house? The two greatest historians of that epic Peace and War which was the reign of Charles I have cumulatively, if separately, devoted 2,500 pages to what the King was up to between 1629 and 1642. It is all too clear that he wasn’t doing anything at all with, or more importantly for, William Murray. Murray is referred to but twice in all those pages: the briefest of walk-on parts. In one he is to be found making a nuisance of himself in Ireland retrieving alienated church revenues; in the other animadverting upon how unrewarding courts are – something he and his erstwhile friend could usefully have learned in their schoolroom from Machiavelli: ‘The court is like the earth, naturally cold, and reflects no more affection than the sunshine of their master’s favour beats upon it’. Murray knew from bitter first-hand experience all about just how clouded majesty could be.

A Written Constitution Without Functioning Constitutionalism Analysis of Xi Jinping's 2012 Speech on Chinese Constitution

This paper examines the 2012 speech by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People (the national parliament building) marking the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the current version of the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China. While Xi’s speech formally functions in an epideictic capacity, its substantive content suggests a severely flawed constitutional system. Through the close analysis of the speech, this paper argues that the text of Xi’s address exposes many critical tensions intrinsic to China’s single-party political system, most notably the flawed implementation of the constitution. In its substantive capacity, the speech served as a stern warning about the gaping chasm that separates the written constitution from actual political practices in China, as well as the pressing need to formalize the Party-state relationship through the separation of powers between the Party and the state.

A Newly Conserved Plafond Painting En riches the Old Town of Tallinn

An exquisite panel muralceiling painting was conserved and restored in the Old Town of Tallinn at the Rahukohtu 5 building on the Patkul viewing platform after more than a decade of exposition to unsatisfactory environmental conditions. This article provides a brief overview of the estate history and its owners, placing the conserved mural within the historical context of ceiling panelling in Tallinn, and addresses the issues of simultaneous exhibition of diverse historical strata and theconception of conserving both the mural and its surrounding space.CV – Hilkka Hi iopHilkka Hiiop (PhD) is the head of Conservation Departement in Art Museum of Estonia as well as being responsible for contemporary art conservation in Kumu Art Museum. She is also assistant professor and coordinator of the artefact conservation branch at the Estonian Academy of Art, Departement of Conservation. She has worked as a conservator of mural paintings in Rome 2003–2009, supervised a number of conservation and technical investigation projects in Estonia, curated exhibitions, and made scientific research on topic of conservation and technical art history. Hiiop’s PhD theses (2012) treated the conservation management of contemporary art.CV – Eva TammekiviEva Tammekivi is a graduate student at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Department of Cultural Heritage and Conservation. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2012 with the thesis titled An Altarpiece Found in the Attic Makes Its Way to the Church: Survey and Conservation of the Altarpiece ‚Lord help me!‘ She has contributed to several studies of interior decoration and has also taken part in conservation and restoration projects including an eighteenth century painted board ceiling in the Old Town of Tallinn, Johann Köler’s altarpiece in St Charles Church in Tallinn, and lunette paintings in the Great Guild Hall of Tallinn.

Rokokó Idill Vagy Egy Rossz Házasság Képei? Az Edelényi Kastély Festményeinek Programja

Abstract General Jean-François L'Huillier had a baroque country house built in Edelény in Borsod county between 1716 and 1728, on an estate he had received from the emperor for his military services. The wall paintings of the rooms as seen today are associated with the third generation of owners: contracts with several painters survive from the time of Countess Ludmilla Forgách, the granddaughter of the founder, and her husband István Eszterházy of Zólyom. The characteristic style and rococo motifs of the figural murals brought other works into connection with the Edelény paintings, those at Taktabáj and Lelesz (Leles) also preserving the name of Ferenc Lieb, a Viennese painter who can be demonstrated between 1758 and 1788 at Igló (Spišská Nová Ves); he was most likely the painter of the six rooms ordered by the countess in 1769. The decorative painting by János Voronieski, who was contracted four years earlier, perished. Later, in 1780, Lieb's son-inlaw Jakab Ignác Fabricius, a painter of Miskolc, adorned the walls of a seventh room in the western wing. In the meantime the count employed portraitist Sámuel Horváth in Pest in 1768 to create a historical series of 225 pieces: the models for the small full-length representations of Hungarian chieftains, kings and ancestors of the Esterházy family were the Nádasdy Mausoleum (1664) and the Esterházy Tropheum, family histories of engravings (1700) — a copy of the latter also included in the Edelény library. The prototype of the gallery of ancestors at Fraknó (Burg Forchtenstein) might have been known to the count, but in his Zólyom (Zvolen) castle there was also a similar series made after the Mausoleum: panels of a wooden ceiling from the first quarter of the 18th century. The Edelény paintings were arranged like a frieze in the upstairs great hall, until then only embellished by stucco work from the time of the construction and by stone carvings with the Forgách arms on the fireplace. The double enfilade upstairs in the eastern wing of the mansion — the sources claim — constituted the private sphere of the couple. In the first room the personifications of the four seasons in costumes appear in genre scenes of agricultural work, accompanied by putti symbolizing the four elements. The walls of the new dining room are adorned with idyllic scenes from the life of the mansion including the itinerary motif of the maiden on the swing, with Venus on a swan-drawn cart opposite her. The four battle-scenes imitating framed paintings allude to the heroic deeds of the ancestors. In the next room the walls of which are painted with wallpaper pattern the ceiling is dominated by Hermes and Amor, while the count's bedroom ceiling is devoted to Jupiter. Here in the door and window reveals a selection of emblems refers to the virtues of the husband, while in the vault sections contemporaneous portrait-like figures — two couples — are shown in fashionable costumes, in the company of Gypsy musicians. In the room of the countess next to the oratory the allegory of good government eulogizes Ludmilla Forgách; the cosmological symbols and personifications of the four parts of the world are depicted on the ceiling of the adjacent cabinet. While the count wished to emphasize the dynastic roots and imperial position of his family and conserved the earlier tradition of the gallery of ancestors, the wife adopted the recent European fashion of profane rococo wall paintings. However, István Eszterházy applied in vain to the empress for the chief administrator's post in the county on several occasions, nor did he receive the St Stephen order. The couple had no children of their own. In 1775 Ludmilla Forgách became a Dame of the Star Cross order; she was extolled for the support of orphans, but at the same time a mocking poem was also written of her supercilious way of life. It is a fact that she left Edelény burdened with debt to her son from her first marriage. The pictorial program completed with the — now lost — gallery of ancestors roots in the baroque tradition of representing the “connubium” of two families which may be fed by rivalry and mutual support alike. The surviving rococo wall paintings represent a singular, genrelike attempt at this iconography.

Exploration on the Origin of Architectures Murals — Analysis on Geographical Features of Song, Liao and Jin Dynasty in Shanxi

Abundant historic buildings still exist in Shanxi, of which architectures built in Song, Liao and Jin Dynasty are in the majority, especially the number and area of murals in this period ranking first in the nationwide, which embody the essence of Chinese traditional culture with great artistic value. The constant abundance and development of culture and art in ancient China are represented on murals of this period, and valuable materials have been provided for our understanding towards the painting technique of ancient murals in Shanxi, which is beneficial for our study on the historical origin of traditional architecture and mural art meanwhile. This paper focuses on the discussion and analysis comprehensively of 6 existing murals including murals of Shousheng Temple of Ruicehng, Shanxi, murals of the Great Hall of Mahavira in Kaihua Temple, Gaoping, murals of Sheli Tower in Jueshan Temple of Lingqiu, murals of Sakyamuni Pagoda in Fogong Temple of Ying County, murals of Amitabha Hall in Chongfu Temple of ShuoZhou and murals of Wenshu Hall in Yanshan Temple of Fanshi.

Picturing power: portraiture and its uses in the New York Chamber of Commerce

List of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction, by Karl KusserowPortraiture's Use, and Disuse, at the Chamber of Commerce and Beyond, by Karl KusserowThe Capitalist Portrait, by Paul StaitiExercising Power: The New York Chamber of Commerce and the Community of Interest, by Elizabeth BlackmarPortraits in the Great Hall: The Chamber's Voice on Liberty Street, by Daniel BluestoneThe Whole Lustre of Gold: Framing and Displaying Power at the Chamber of Commerce, by David L. BarquistMemory, Metaphor, and Meaning in Daniel Huntington's Atlantic Cable Projectors, by Karl KusserowIndex

Adam Gillon

PresidentJoseph Conrad Society of America1975-1995Senior and Founding EditorJoseph Conrad Today1975-1983Adam Gillon Giant ExileG. W. Stephen BrodskyWith the passing of Professor Adam Gillon on 22 November last, the community of Conrad scholars has lost a comrade who was more of exile, than many of us are our lands of origin. One may find proleptic our Adam's birth on 1 7 June, 1921, only weeks before Conrad midwifed The Rover. A serendipitous near-twinning it was, too. With his own origin the same unrestful borderland as Conrad's, Adam would grow up to know as few have, the soul of the rover-author who would become his life's work. But we shall leave a compendium of achievement for a later Tribute our Society's learned journal, and offer there an account of the extraordinary lives of this Peyrol-Xenophon who, even before becoming a scholar, had fought two wars, on a life's anabasis with his devoted Isabel rarely far from his side.That first life was already their remembrance of times past, by the time Adam had emerged as a pioneer the early years of Conrad scholarship's take-off phase. Indeed, his bellwether master work, The Eternal Solitary (1960), was the very first critical biography pressed on a neophyte colleague learning his Conradian bends and hitches, by Adam's fellow Conrad pioneer, Professor (emeritus) and Master Mariner Gerald Morgan.Ever the gentleman, Adam had an ineffable Presence, yet with the common touch of one who had mange de la vache enragee. Many were the conferences graced by that muted bienseance. Especially memorable to this eulogist was that first chance after glasnost over a score of years ago now, at the First International Joseph Conrad Conference sponsored by Marie Curie- Sklodowska University, for Adam and Isabel to live their own Revisited. Their pasts met their present amid brooding portraits of Poland's magnatial great (their luxuriantly drooping moustaches reflecting Adam's), the great hall of Baranow Sandomierski Castle on the Vistula; at uplands Zakopane; at Cracow's Florian Gate and Wawel Castle; and ghastly Majdanek.An engaging teacher and mentor, our Adam Gillon had his own way lived - painfully and courageously - the literature he taught. But he also transcended the tragedy and triumphs of his history. Countless are the scholarly careers launched by his inspiration. Freedom fighter, editor, author, teacher, mentor, film director, and wise guide. We can say no better giving him his due, than to quote an old friend of his and ours: he has done his possible. Port after stormie seas.In Memoriam Adam GillonZdzislaw NajderI met Adam for the first time exactly half a century ago, on 8 January 1963, at some mutual friends. I am holding my hand the copy of his novel Cup of Fury: that day he signed it to me, Polish, in the memory of a NYC. I lived Poland, and a visit US was for me an unusual experience. Professor Gillon, teaching at the New York State University, invited me immediately to give a lecture on Joseph Conrad at New Paltz. He had by then published his first book, The Eternal Solitary: A Study of Joseph Conrad.I read both books. The study of Conrad was not a result of new source research nor a proposal for novel interpretations, but I liked Gillon's general approach, that of placing Conrad's artistic personality within its international context, with the first-hand knowledge of his Polish cultural background (a rarity at that time English-language scholarship). As to the novel, it was for me a painful read. Adam had been brought up Poland and steeped Polish literature and culture general - and by the same token had been exposed both to the murderous brutalities of Germans and the widespread (although far from universal!) anti-Semitism of Poles. I myself could observe that at a close distance: I grew up a Warsaw proletarian district that was one third Jewish. …

An Overview of the China's Two Meetings in 2013 and the Views of the Chinese Economic Policy

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Inflammation, suppuration, putrefaction, fermentation: Joseph Lister's microbiology

This paper focuses on Lister's inaugural lecture at King's College, London, in October 1877. As the new Professor of Clinical Surgery, Lister had much to report, including impressively high survival rates from complex operations previously regarded as foolhardy. Instead, he chose to address the processes of fermentation in wine, blood and milk. His reasons are not obvious to a modern audience, just as they probably were not to those who heard him in the Great Hall at King's. Having brought microbiological apparatus from his laboratory to the lecture theatre and presented proof of bacterial variety and specificity, Lister publicly demonstrated the creation of the first pure bacterial culture in the history of microbiology. It was an ingenious and well-thought-out strategy designed to generate a frame of mind among his new colleagues and future students, receptive to the causative role of bacteria in septic diseases. His timing was impeccable.