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Spanish to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary
Spanish term or phrase:isocefalia
en una de las descripciones de mis interminables cuadros aparece esta frase:
" la marcada isocefalia de la composicion" ni idea, no lo encuentro ni en español.gracias
i·so·ce·phal·ic (#Ås$ sà falÆik), adj. Fine Arts.
(of a composition) having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Also, i·so·ceph·a·lous (#Åsà sefÆà lÃs).
[ISO- + -CEPHALIC]
—i·so·ceph·a·ly (#Åsà sefÆà l"), n.
Michael Powers (PhD) United States Local time: 04:48 Native speaker of: English PRO pts in pair: 12526
Explanation: Listen, it means heads with like structure BUT it does not mean JUST heads....if refers to lining up or arranging the OBJECTS or people in the same manner...just to clarify the point...though it often refers to heads...AND it's used all over the place...
... Brancacci Chapel, Church of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence G 21-23 Terms: narrative;
iconographical conventions; isocephalic composition; aerial perspective ... www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/ARHU/Depts/ArtHistory/ arthfac/spromey/courses/201-96.html - 30k - Cached - Similar pages
ARTH201 - University of Maryland
... 21-11. Terms: narrative; iconographical conventions; isocephalic composition;
aerial perspective; rhetorical gesture. 3. Piero della ... www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/ARHU/Depts/ ArtHistory/courses/ARTH201/FA01/arth201.html - 101k - Cached - Similar pages
Forschungsstelle "Westfälischer Friede": Dokumentation
... in front. Even in the depiction of so many heads, the artist cleverly
avoids a rigid isocephalic composition. Many witnesses appear ... www.lwl.org/westfaelischer-friede/ wfe-t/wfe-txt2-61.htm - 49k - Cached - Similar pages
Forschungsstelle "Westfälischer Friede": Dokumentation
... Dominating Ter Borch's composition is the curving, horizontal frieze created by these
upright figures, a nearly isocephalic frieze of white faces atop upright ... www.lwl.org/westfaelischer-friede/ wfe-t/wfe-txt2-66.htm - 54k - Cached - Similar pages
Images from World History: Late Roman ecclesiastical synthesis
... a naturalistic expressive classicism, with an informal open composition and expressive ... Here,
undifferentiated figures are isocephalic, and their compact forms ... www.hp.uab.edu/image_archive/ulg/ulgb.html - 10k - Cached - Similar pages
Untitled
... practices favored inhumation over cremation frontal, tripartite composition central
figure ... of the Arch of Constantine, AD 312-315 isocephalic arrangement of ...
fog.ccsf.edu/~jcarpent/westout.htm - 101k - Cached - Similar pages
Cultural Periods and Partial List of Terms
... vanishing point), palazzo, triangular (pyramidal) composition, quatrefoil. ... Protestant
Reformation, Counter Reformation, iconoclasm, iconophiles, isocephalic. ... www.stolaf.edu/depts/art/art_151/ terms_culturalperiods.htm - 16k - Cached - Similar pages
Yahoo! Groups : warhol Messages : Message 2758 of 3590
... it among the innumerable cut-out bits of isocephalic and iterative ... on the surface
containing the expanded photograph, in an apparently random composition. ...
groups.yahoo.com/group/warhol/message/2758 - 22k - Cached - Similar pages
FINA A233: Renaissance and Baroque Art in Italy, 1250-1700
Jane Lamb-Ruiz Native speaker of: English, Portuguese PRO pts in pair: 7709
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