This weekend we've been to Augsburg, and the most notable thing I've seen in cathederal museum are Phd thesises from 16th century.
Now there is an excibition in the cathederal, showing works of a painter who had occasionally sold templates for Phd thesises posters and helped candidates to draw custom thesis posters. All in 16th century. Phd candidates who had enough money worked with painter to create a big picture in the poster showing angels, etc, according to the topic and in the very bottom listed the work. Those who could not afford working with artist just bought templates, pre-filled with angels with some free space on the bottom to fill with their name and thesis background.
Unfortunately it is not allowed to take pictures there, so I've examined the thesises posters thoroughly.
1. I've anderstood the thesises (everything is in Latin but it is simpler for me then papers in German I am trying to read)
2. There is a lot of copy/paste between different candidates :) First ~5 statesments are the same, probably it's kind of theory they are arguing about.
3. Layout reminds one of modern Russian diploma thesis posters. Just a bit too many angels on top instead of graphs.
There is also a great excibition of local bishop's ware. Older staff (ca 9th century) reminds Moari carvings and jewelry (quality-wise).
Now there is an excibition in the cathederal, showing works of a painter who had occasionally sold templates for Phd thesises posters and helped candidates to draw custom thesis posters. All in 16th century. Phd candidates who had enough money worked with painter to create a big picture in the poster showing angels, etc, according to the topic and in the very bottom listed the work. Those who could not afford working with artist just bought templates, pre-filled with angels with some free space on the bottom to fill with their name and thesis background.
Unfortunately it is not allowed to take pictures there, so I've examined the thesises posters thoroughly.
1. I've anderstood the thesises (everything is in Latin but it is simpler for me then papers in German I am trying to read)
2. There is a lot of copy/paste between different candidates :) First ~5 statesments are the same, probably it's kind of theory they are arguing about.
3. Layout reminds one of modern Russian diploma thesis posters. Just a bit too many angels on top instead of graphs.
There is also a great excibition of local bishop's ware. Older staff (ca 9th century) reminds Moari carvings and jewelry (quality-wise).