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RENAISSANCE Man (renaissance + man)
Selected AbstractsPerfluorocarbons: Life sciences and biomedical uses Dedicated to the memory of Professor Guy Ourisson, a true RENAISSANCE man.JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE (IN TWO SECTIONS), Issue 7 2007Marie Pierre Krafft Abstract Perfluorocarbons are primarily characterized by outstanding chemical and biological inertness, and intense hydrophobic and lipophobic effects. The latter effects provide a powerful noncovalent, labile binding interaction that can promote selective self- assembly. Perfluoro compounds do not mimic nature, yet they can offer abiotic building blocks for the de novo design of functional biopolymers and alternative solutions to physiologically vital issues. They offer new tags useful for molecular recognition, selective sorting, and templated binding (e.g., selective peptide and nucleic acid pairing). They also stabilize membranes and provide micro- and nanocompartmented fluorous environments. Perfluorocarbons provide inert, apolar carrier fluids for lab-on-a-chip experiments and assays using microfluidic technologies. Low water solubility, combined with high vapor pressure, allows stabilization of injectable microbubbles that serve as contrast agents for diagnostic ultrasound imaging. High gas solubilities are the basis for an abiotic means for intravascular oxygen delivery. Other biomedical applications of fluorocarbons include lung surfactant replacement and ophthalmologic aids. Diverse colloids with fluorocarbon phases and/or shells are being investigated for molecular imaging using ultrasound or magnetic resonance, and for targeted drug delivery. Highly fluorinated polymers provide a range of inert materials (e.g., fluorosilicons, expanded polytetrafluoroethylene) for contact lenses, reconstructive surgery (e.g., vascular grafts), and other devices. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 45: 1185,1198, 2007. [source] Fashion, Time and the Consumption of a Renaissance Man in Germany: The Costume Book of Matthäus Schwarz of Augsburg, 1496,1564GENDER & HISTORY, Issue 3 2002Gabriele MentgesArticle first published online: 11 FEB 200 This article uses the perspective of cultural anthropology to consider the construction of an early modern perception of time and its relation to the dress and personal consumption of a male subject. It focuses on a costume book from the Renaissance compiled by Matthäus Schwarz, a member of the bourgeoisie, who lived in Augsburg from 1496 to 1574. The book contains a collection of 137 drawings, portraying Schwarz's personal choice of dress. It is also an account of Schwarz's life, beginning with his parents, then covering his life,stages from birth to old age. The relationships between body and dress and between the male subject and the world run as a major thread through the book. This article shows how closely connected Schwarz's body is with the life of commodities (dress) and consumption. The life,story of this Renaissance man is expressed in terms of changing fashions, which act as his subjective measure of time. [source] Architecture as a public voice for women in sixteenth-century RomeRENAISSANCE STUDIES, Issue 3 2001C Valone Women in Renaissance Rome used architectural patronage to achieve a public voice; they spoke about radical religious reform and the family, and often their discourse differed from that of Renaissance men. Unhampered by the demands of civic humanism, wealthy women such as Caterina Cibo, Vittoria Colonna, and Giovanna d'Aragona were willing to support the radical rhetoric of poverty proposed by the Capuchins, providing chiese povere, small, unadorned churches , for the newly founded order. Other women chose to talk about family as a bilinear construction as opposed to the patrilinear, patriarchal structure recommended by humanists and the Roman Catholic church. In the Gesù, four related women became patrons of the two large chapels surrounding the high altar in order to talk about reform and the affective relationships between women in the family in terms which were not defined by their husbands or fathers, or by the Jesuits. [source] | ||||||||||