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...project in Germany shows, this rebranding opens up the discipline to science fiction, without limiting itself to this genre. From the perspective of someone who studies the various narratives that are constructed around science, the exclusion of science fiction is striking because it disregards an immensely popular and influential genre. Science fiction is used in science...

...project of a second Order of St. Alexander Newski, or of the red ribbon, to be carried into execution by his widow. St. Andrew, by conversing with Christ, extinguished in his breast all earthly passions and desires, and attained to the happiness of his pure divine love. We often say to ourselves, that we also desire to purchase holy love, the most valuable of all...

...projects such as great churches. According to Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis, the verses formerly accompanying the great bronze and gilt doors of the abbey church with their reliefs of the Passion and Resurrection of Christ read: ‘If thou seekest to extol the glory of these doors, marvel not at the gold and the expense but at the craftsmanship of the work …’ (Suger,...

...Project if you want to see the painting in ultra high resolution. Keep in mind that skulls were not an unusual feature of Northern European portraits at the time, but were most often placed on the back of the painting. They appeared there as a reminder of death, a memento mori, to counteract the worldliness of the portrait itself and suggest that the achievements...