A general method of solution for the runup evolution and some analytical results concerning a more general bathymetry than a canonical sloping beach model are presented. We studied theoretically the water wave elevation and runup generated on a continuous piecewise linear bathymetry, by solving analytically the linear shallow water wave equations in the 1+1 dimensional case. Non-horizontal line…

In his last will and testament, dated 1811, Philadelphia merchant William Poyntell left to his son-in-law ‘all my stained glass which I brought from Europe excepting only two pieces . . .’ Three of Poyntell’s glass panels, kept in the family for over 100 years and now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, have been identified as part of the thirteenth-century glass removed in 1803 from the S…

The career of Émile Molinier at the Musée du Louvre was marked by important research on the works in his care, by his pioneering approach to teaching the history of art, by his forceful personality (which sometimes bordered on intransigence), and by the special relationships he fostered with collectors. The latter resulted in Molinier writing around fifteen catalogues of major private collec…

Seismological, geological and geodetic data have been integrated to characterize the seismogenic structure of the late 2013-early 2014 moderate energy (maximum local magnitude MLmax = 4.9) seismic sequence that struck the interior of the Matese Massif, part of the Southern Apennines active extensional belt. The sequence, heralded by a ML = 2.7 foreshock, was characterized by two main shocks wit…

As the first large subduction thrust earthquake off the coast of western Guatemala in the past several decades, the 2012 November 7 Mw = 7.4 earthquake offers the first opportunity to study coseismic and postseismic behaviour along a segment of the Middle America trench where frictional coupling makes a transition from weak coupling off the coast of El Salvador to strong coupling in southern Me…

Monitoring and understanding induced seismicity is critical in order to estimate and mitigate seismic risk related to numerous existing and emerging techniques for natural resource exploitation in the shallow-crust. State of the art approaches for guiding decision making, such as traffic light systems, rely heavily on data such as earthquake location and magnitude that are provided to them. In …

We obtain 3-D Vp and Vp/Vs from 8 to 70 km depth along the northern Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand, where the downdip limit of interseismic coupling is shallower than 15 km, and where both large shallowslow-slip events (SSEs) and small deep SSEs have been observed. Onshore–offshore marine-seismic data were incorporated, which greatly improved constraint of shallow velocities and the …

In the 1540s, Francesco Primaticcio created a group of large-scale bronze statues for the French king, François I. These statues were copied after famous marble antiques in Roman collections, especially the Belvedere statue court. The display history of the bronzes at Fontainebleau follows a complex trajectory of diffusion of Italian, all’antica artistic norms in sixteenth-century France. Th…

From the fourteenth century until the end of the eighteenth century, almost every town of the Kingdom of Naples had one or more Seggi where the main families used to meet in order to take decisions about the city governement. The Seggi were also the preferred places for locating antiquities and ancient inscriptions of the towns. This paper analyzes the character of such collections, focusing on…

This article examines the primary accounts of the findspot of an 8-foot-tall bronze statue, usually identified as the Emperor Trebonianus Gallus, now residing at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. It identifies a previously-unrecognized source as the origin of the story of the statue’s alleged discovery two centuries ago in the Lateran area of Rome, and argues that the source is not a trus…