De l’Alhambra au palais Fronteira, l’azulejo a transcendé les frontières et les siècles. Habillant les murs d’églises, de palais et de patios, il constitue non seulement une pratique ornementale représentative des goûts et des mentalités d’une époque mais aussi l’expression d’un savoir-faire développé par des faïenciers qui n’ont eu de cesse de perfectionner le geste et l’objet. Jamais appréhendé à la lumière du règne des Philippe, l’azulejo et ses artisans ont évolué au rythme des vicissitudes d’une époque mais aussi en fonction d’un contexte artistique synonyme d’échanges, de circulations et de transferts. Des difficultés économiques aux guerres dynastiques, l’azulejo a été conditionné dans sa matière et dans sa forme par les événements. La réunion des royaumes du Portugal et de Castille en 1580 engendra ainsi de nouvelles possibilités commerciales pour la production de ces carreaux de faïence mais aussi l’apport de nouvelles formules ornementales plus exotiques à l’origine d’un renouvellement des répertoires. La mise en regard des ateliers de Lisbonne, Talavera de la Reina et Séville fait ainsi émerger de nouvelles problématiques dans les processus de création de cet objet ornant et orné, et dans la définition de ces artisans désignés sous les expressions d’ollero, alfarero, malegueiro, maestro en azulejo, pintor de azulejos – une pratique en porte-à-faux entre les sphères artistiques et artisanales. L’alliance des perspectives historiques, culturelles et artistiques permet d’aborder les différentes facettes de l’azulejo, un art enraciné dans son temps et témoin d’échanges. / From the Alhambra to the palace of Fronteira, the azulejo has transcended borders and centuries. Applied on the walls of churches, palaces and patios, ceramic tiles constitute an ornamental art form that reveals esthetic and culture values of a certain time. It is also the expression of a savoir-faire developed by faience makers who were constantly trying to improve the techniques of tile work. Never analyzed in relation to the reign of the Philips, the azulejo and the faience makers have evolved along with the trials and tribulations of an era, where the artistic context was characterized by travels and exchanges. Historical events such as economic crisis and dynastic wars, had conditioned the azulejo in its physical and aesthetic forms. The alliance of the kingdom of Portugal and the kingdom of Castile in 1580, opened up new roads for commercial exchanges while influencing the production of ceramic tile work, as it lead to the renewal of ornamental patterns. The definition of these craftsmen is technically difficult and shows a real imprecision to designate them. Ollero, alfarero, malagueiro, maestro en azulejo, pintor de azulejos, are terms that refer to a creative process where the arts and crafts intersect. The comparative study of the workshops of Lisbon, Talavera de la Reina and Seville was a way to highlight new issues, while bringing together historical, cultural and artistic perspectives that help one to grasp the various aspects of the azulejo.

Este trabalho consiste no estudo sobre a utilização dos estilos vintage e retrô nos arranjos domésticos, considerando a ordem decorativa, as relações entre moda e decoração, os significados atribuídos aos artefatos, a construção e a representação de identidades. A pesquisa tem como objetivo compreender as características do vintage e do retrô, explorar suas maneiras de apropriação e constituição enquanto estratégias para a personalização dos ambientes domésticos. Tem como principais fontes os discursos encontrados nas revistas Casa Claudia e Casa e Jardim, especializadas em decoração, publicadas no período de 2002 a 2011. Nas reportagens, tanto os textos quanto as imagens são recursos importantes para a compreensão dos tipos de arranjos caracterizados como vintage, cuja principal propriedade está no uso de artefatos do passado, ou como retrô, classificados como objetos que se aproveitam de recursos tecnológicos atuais, mas que remetem ao passado. Através de algumas reportagens veiculadas, pretendo discutir a importância da cultura material como recurso para a construção de modelos de estilo de vida. Embora o discurso das revistas privilegie o entendimento do vintage e do retrô como formas de personalização e expressão das individualidades, quero destacar seu caráter social e cultural, evidenciando o conjunto de regras e significados que regulam suas formas de uso. / This work is a study on the use of vintage and retro styles in domestic arrangements, considering the decorative order, the relationship between fashion and interior design, the meanings attributed to artifacts, the construction and representation of identities. The research aims to understand the characteristics of the vintage and retro, explore their ways of appropriation and constitution as strategies for customizing home environments. Its main sources discourses were found in Casa Claudia and in Casa e Jardim magazines, specializing in decoration, published between 2002-2011. In the reports, both the texts and images are important features for understanding of the types of arrangements characterized as vintage, whose main property is the use of artifacts from the past, or as retro, classified as objects that take advantage of current technological resources, but that refer to the past. Through some articles published, I intend to discuss the importance of material culture as a resource for building models lifestyle. Although the discourse of magazines favors the understanding of vintage and retro as forms of customization and expression of individuality, I want to highlight their social and cultural nature, showing the set of rules governing their meanings and forms of use.

Este trabalho consiste no estudo sobre a utilização dos estilos vintage e retrô nos arranjos domésticos, considerando a ordem decorativa, as relações entre moda e decoração, os significados atribuídos aos artefatos, a construção e a representação de identidades. A pesquisa tem como objetivo compreender as características do vintage e do retrô, explorar suas maneiras de apropriação e constituição enquanto estratégias para a personalização dos ambientes domésticos. Tem como principais fontes os discursos encontrados nas revistas Casa Claudia e Casa e Jardim, especializadas em decoração, publicadas no período de 2002 a 2011. Nas reportagens, tanto os textos quanto as imagens são recursos importantes para a compreensão dos tipos de arranjos caracterizados como vintage, cuja principal propriedade está no uso de artefatos do passado, ou como retrô, classificados como objetos que se aproveitam de recursos tecnológicos atuais, mas que remetem ao passado. Através de algumas reportagens veiculadas, pretendo discutir a importância da cultura material como recurso para a construção de modelos de estilo de vida. Embora o discurso das revistas privilegie o entendimento do vintage e do retrô como formas de personalização e expressão das individualidades, quero destacar seu caráter social e cultural, evidenciando o conjunto de regras e significados que regulam suas formas de uso. / This work is a study on the use of vintage and retro styles in domestic arrangements, considering the decorative order, the relationship between fashion and interior design, the meanings attributed to artifacts, the construction and representation of identities. The research aims to understand the characteristics of the vintage and retro, explore their ways of appropriation and constitution as strategies for customizing home environments. Its main sources discourses were found in Casa Claudia and in Casa e Jardim magazines, specializing in decoration, published between 2002-2011. In the reports, both the texts and images are important features for understanding of the types of arrangements characterized as vintage, whose main property is the use of artifacts from the past, or as retro, classified as objects that take advantage of current technological resources, but that refer to the past. Through some articles published, I intend to discuss the importance of material culture as a resource for building models lifestyle. Although the discourse of magazines favors the understanding of vintage and retro as forms of customization and expression of individuality, I want to highlight their social and cultural nature, showing the set of rules governing their meanings and forms of use.

No Brasil, o campo profissional do design não costuma valorizar seu passado histórico e o que se observa é um desconhecimento da produção nacional antes da institucionalização do ensino dessa área do conhecimento. Assim, este trabalho procurou abordar as origens do design gráfico brasileiro por meio de um resgate histórico, analisando uma publicação periódica do início do século 20 como exemplo do que era feito no Brasil no campo do design gráfico antes mesmo dos profissionais utilizarem a denominação designer. A publicação periódica escolhida foi a revista Kósmos, uma das chamadas revistas ilustradas que circularam na cidade do Rio de Janeiro na primeira década do século 20, mais precisamente de 1904 a 1909. Procurou-se determinar e observar as soluções gráficas empregadas na revista de modo que se pudesse contribuir para a sistematização de conhecimento no meio acadêmico e profissional de design. / In Brazil, the design professional field denies its past and so, denies its history. Thus, the designs production before the configuration of design education in this country is unknown by designers and students. This research intended to broach the origins of Brazilian graphic design by doing a history recovery and presenting a periodic like an example of what had been done at graphic designs field in Brazil before the use of the name designer by these professionals. The periodic chosen was Kósmos magazine, the one of the magazines known as illustrated magazines and that were publicated in Rio de Janeiro at the first decade of the twentieth century. It was publicated between 1904 and 1909. We attempted to analyze the graphic solutions used by the magazine chosen in order to improve systematic knowledge in designs academic and professionals fields.

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From flamenco guitarists to parlour pianists, Matisse’s images of music-making often appear within decorative scenes of gleaming carpets, multi-coloured costumes and lavishly embroidered wall hangings. All of these textiles and more comprised what he called ‘ma bibliothèque de travail’, a working library of inspiration that he maintained throughout his career. ‘I am made up of everything I have seen,’ he remarked, to which he might have added, ‘and heard.’ Practising, performing, listening and concert-going: music, like textiles, was a lifelong pursuit. But his passion for them is not simply of anecdotal significance, nor does it explain their mere co-existence as the subject-matter of his art. Rather, just as music and textiles are interwoven at every stage of his life, so too is their structural and conceptual significance in his work. In a series of case studies, a single textile from his working library is paired with the art it inspired: the kasāya robe and 'The Song of the Nightingale'; the Moghan rug and the Symphonic Interiors; and the Bakuba velours and 'Jazz'. In each case, visual form is found to have musical counterpart, both in the textiles themselves and as represented by Matisse. This opens up new, more imaginative possibilities of interpreting his visual musicality, which is found to be metaphysical, modal and motivic in concept. Finally, these separate strands are drawn together in a single synoptic analysis of the Chapel of the Rosary, the artist’s self-proclaimed masterpiece and ‘total’ work of art. This thesis explores the expansive musical space created by the reduced visual form of textiles. Considered together for the first time, these enduring and inseparable continuities of Matisse’s art – music and textiles – suggest not only a means of unravelling his own visual musicality, but point towards a much-needed methodology for interpreting this notion more broadly.

By the penultimate decade of the nineteenth century, the Dukes of Hamilton, premier peers of Scotland, had amassed a superb collection of fine and decorative art. This outstanding collection was dispersed in two series of sales in 1882 and 1919, and the family’s principal seat, Hamilton Palace, ten miles south of Glasgow, was demolished in the 1920s and ′30s. Many of the most significant items are now in the great museums, galleries and libraries of the world or in important private collections. This study will begin by identifying the causes of the 12th Duke of Hamilton’s financial difficulties and the chain of events leading to the dispersal of the collection, with a comparative analysis on the backgrounds of the earlier enforced sales of Fonthill Abbey (1822), Wanstead House (1822), Strawberry Hill (1842), and Stowe (1848). It will continue with a thorough investigation of selected principal beneficiaries, what they acquired and why. These will include Christopher Beckett Denison; various members of the Rothschild family; William Dodge James; the 5th Earl of Rosebery; Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart; and the 5th Earl of Carysfort. A survey of the records of certain national museums and galleries will establish the involvement of the museum sector in the dispersal of the collection, with a review of these institutions’ acquisitions. Finally, this study will consider the extent to which North American collectors benefited from the sales through the international art trade between 1880 and 1930, culminating in an account of the purchase of the Hamilton Palace interiors by the New York dealers, French & Co., and their subsequent acquisition by the newspaper magnate and collector William Randolph Hearst. This research will add a new perspective to the understanding of the break-up of this renowned collection, and of the loss to Scotland’s material culture and heritage. It will contribute to current scholarship on nineteenth-century house sales and increase current knowledge of the socio-economic causes and effects of such events. The question of who benefited from the Hamilton Palace sales will be a new and original area of research within History of Collecting studies, contributing to a fuller appreciation of British collecting between 1880 and 1930 and of the international art trade and market from 1880 to the present day.

L’ornement fait partie intégrante de la musique pour clavecin aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Ce doctorat a pour objet l’étude des ornements dans les pièces pour clavecin seul, de la première édition connue de cette école : Chambonnières en 1670, au premier livre de François Couperin de 1713. Cette dernière date correspond à un tournant historique, celui de la fin du Grand Siècle et un tournant musical dans l’écriture des pièces de clavecin en France. Le corpus est composé au total de douze compositeurs (Chambonnières, Lebègue, Jacquet de La Guerre, d’Anglebert, Marchand, Dieupart, Clérambault, Dandrieu, Le Roux, Rameau, Siret, Couperin) qui ont pu corriger, dans le cadre de l’édition, le travail de la publication et donc celui de l’ornement, contrairement aux pièces des manuscrits. La problématique de cette recherche soulève la question de l’interprétation de l’ornement : Quelle place tient l’ornement dans la société et la musique de clavecin en France ? Y a-t-il une réalité sonore de l’ornement dans les pièces pour clavecin ? Peut-elle et doit-elle être la même aujourd’hui qu’il y a plus de trois cents ans ? Comment a évolué le son du répertoire pour clavecin au travers de la compréhension des ornements ? L’analyse quantitative, stylistique et esthétique des ornements (agréments, ornements écrits et diminutions) dans les éditions, rééditions et dans les enregistrements sonores du microsillon au disque compact, accompagnée de l’analyse des écrits du XVIIe au XXIe siècle sur la perception des ornements au clavecin ainsi qu’un dialogue avec les acteurs de la pratique d’aujourd’hui permettent de comprendre l’évolution de l’utilisation de cet élément indissociable du clavecin baroque. / Ornaments were an integral part of harpsichord music in the 17th and 18th centuries. The aim of this doctoral thesis is to study the use of ornaments in solo harpsichord pieces, from the first known printed edition of the music of this school: Chambonnières in 1670 to the first book by François Couperin in 1713. The latter date represents a turning point in history, with the end of the reign of Louis XIV, and also a musical turning point in the writing of harpsichord pieces in France. The corpus studied is made up of twelve composers (Chambonnières, Lebègue, Jacquet de la Guerre, d’Anglebert, Marchand, Dieupart, Clérambault, Dandrieu, Le Roux, Rameau, Siret and Couperin) who succeeded in correcting printed publications of music, including ornaments, unlike what had been possible with manuscripts. This research focuses mainly on the interpretation of musical ornamentation. What was the importance of ornaments in society and in French harpsichord music? What was the reality of how ornaments were heard in harpsichord pieces? Can and should this reality be the same today as it was more than three hundred years ago? How has the sound of the harpsichord repertoire evolved through our understanding of ornaments? The evolution of this crucial element of Baroque harpsichord music will be explored using quantitative, stylistic and aesthetic analysis of ornaments (agréments, written ornaments and diminutions) in original editions, re-editions, and recordings from the phonograph to the compact disc ; accompanied by an examination of writings from the 17th to the 21th centuries about the perception of harpsichord ornamentation, and testimony from musicians working with this instrument today.

The purpose of this essay is to study the evolution and differences of motifs on bronze age objects associated with men and women, the differences in plastic ornamentation and the differences in grave goods in five danish oakcoffin burials from II-III, and fourtythree swedish cremation graves from period IV-VI. The methods used for the motifs and plastic ornamentation are an iconographical one and for the grave goods I have chosen to make a chart. The spiral motifs on beltplates and the ships on the bronze razors, for example, have played a significant part in bronze age life. The same could be said of the plastic ornamentation on the horse headed razors from period II-III. The grave goods from the danish oakcoffin burials could possibly be seen as something connected with sunpriestesses. The few gravegoods coming from the swedish cremation graves could be viewed as a consequence of larger villagers appearing during the late bronze age.

Graduted work "Cosmological Themes and Geometric Conception in islamic art" is about relationship betweewn religion and cosmological themes in philosophy opinions and their influence to fine art. Theoretic part is about signs of islamic art and give a simply look on religious, science, philosophic, generaly cultural and art influences of islamic culture of "Golden Age" to global culture. The next part is about cosmologie. Third part is about influence of cosmological themes to geometric forms in individual examples of fine art. The last part is about expresive interpretation symbols of cosmologii and geometry. Practic part have video form of own dance creative, which is expresive interpretation influenced by theme od diplom work. Pedagogic part is koncept of Art Project for second degree of Basic School (High school) , which is partly documented and reflected in practic works