isocefalia

English translation: isocephaly

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Spanish term or phrase:	isocefalia
English translation:	isocephaly
Entered by:	Aida González del Álamo

10:27 Jul 3, 2003

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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

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isocephaly

Explanation:
When talking about paintings this may refer to having the heads of the figures in a composition brought to the same level. MWU

Please check it out with the painting in question.

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Valentín Hernández Lima
Spain
Local time: 09:22

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thanks to everyone, specially for the explanations, now I have an idea of what I am talking about.
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isocephaly

Valentín Hernández Lima

isocephalic composition or arrangement

Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X)

isocefalia

Raquel Iglesias

see definition below

Michael Powers (PhD)

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isocephaly

Valentín Hernández Lima
Spain
Local time: 09:22
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in pair: 1336

Grading comment

thanks to everyone, specially for the explanations, now I have an idea of what I am talking about.

9 mins confidence:

isocefalia

Explanation:
Aparece igual que en español.

isocefalia. Norma artística que alinea las cabezas a una misma altura.

isocefalia in the representations of group: the personages are represented in rows, and all are of the same size.

Reference: http://www.codart.nl/?page_id=75

Raquel Iglesias
Spain
Local time: 10:22
Native speaker of:

English,

Spanish
PRO pts in pair: 101

11 mins confidence:

see definition below

Explanation:
Random House Dictionary

i·so·ce·phal·ic (#Ås$ sÃ falÆik), adj. Fine Arts.
(of a composition) having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
Also, i·so·ceph·a·lous (#ÅsÃ sefÆÃ lÃs).
[ISO- + -CEPHALIC]
—i·so·ceph·a·ly (#ÅsÃ sefÆÃ l"), n.

Michael Powers (PhD)
United States
Local time: 04:22
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in pair: 12685

3 hrs confidence:

isocephalic composition or arrangement

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

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Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X)
Native speaker of:

English,

Portuguese
PRO pts in pair: 7709

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