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Anatomical Theatre of Padua, Bo Palace, University of Padua

The Anatomical Theatre of Padua, Northern Italy, is the first permanent anatomical theatre in the World. Still preserved in the Palazzo del Bo, it was inaugurated in 1595 by Girolamo Fabrici of Acquapendente, according to the project of Paolo Sarpi and Dario Varotari. This theatre constituted the model for the…

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Lithography

Lithography is a method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by German author and actor Alois Senefelder as a cheap method of publishing theatrical…

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Port of Roses, Girona counties, Catalonia, Spain

Roses is a town in the region of the Alt Emporda which occupies the southern half of the peninsula of Cap de Creus. It is centered on the village of the same name, located in the center of the Bay of Roses and at the northern end of the Gulf…

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Saint-Romain-en-Gal, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Saint-Romain-en-Gal is a French commune located in the department of Rhône in region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. It is part of the Vienne Condrieu Agglomeration community. Its population is around 1,850 inhabitants. It is part of the Pilat Regional Natural Park. It shares an important Gallo-Roman site with Sainte-Colombe in the south-east. The…

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Robotics simulator

A robotics simulator is used to create application for a physical robot without depending on the actual machine, thus saving cost and time. In some case, these applications can be transferred onto the physical robot (or rebuilt) without modifications. The term robotics simulator can refer to several different robotics simulation…

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Southern Europe still life in seventeenth century

In Spanish art, a bodegón is a still-life painting depicting pantry items, such as victuals, game, and drink, often arranged on a simple stone slab, and also a painting with one or more figures, but significant still-life elements, typically set in a kitchen or tavern. Starting in the Baroque period,…

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Sgraffito

Sgraffito is a technique either of wall decor, produced by applying layers of plaster tinted in contrasting colours to a moistened surface, or in pottery, by applying to an unfired ceramic body two successive layers of contrasting slip or glaze, and then in either case scratching so as to reveal…

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Nihonga 1880 – …

Typically, Nihonga uses traditional water-based pigments, Japanese paper and mounting, unlike Yōga (Western-style) painting, which uses oils on canvas The case for Nihonga and for the painting of contemporary Kanō-school artists was led by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa, invited from the United States to teach at Tokyo Imperial University, and his…

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Underground works tourism

Underground works are a travel destination of interest to a number of travellers. Understand Humans have been digging holes and underground structures since prehistory. As well as expanding natural caves, humans have constructed or expanded countless works of their own efforts underground from early residences of prehistory through to contemporary…

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Elmer Borlongan

Elmer Misa Borlongan (Born January 7, 1967) is a prominent contemporary Filipino painter best known for his distinctive use of figurative expressionism. He rose to prominence as a recipient of the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Thirteen Artist Awards in 1994, and his works have since become one of the…

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Li Fangying

Li Fangying (Chinese: 李方膺 1696 – 1755) was a Qing painter from Jiangsu. He served as a county magistrate for 20 years. As a painter he is best known for painting plant imagery specifically pines, bamboos, plum blossoms and orchids. He was one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou. Li…

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Van Gogh in 1888-1889, artistic breakthrough, Van Gogh Museum

The time in Arles became one of Van Gogh’s more prolific periods: he completed 200 paintings, and more than 100 drawings and watercolours. He was enchanted by the local landscape and light; his works from this period are rich in yellow, ultramarine and mauve. His paintings include harvests, wheat fields…

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Palaeontology, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

The National Museum had one of the most significant paleontological collections in Latin America, totaling about 56 thousand specimens and 18,900 records, divided into paleobotany, paleoinvertebrate and paleovertebrate nuclei. It consisted mainly of fossils of plants and animals, from Brazil and other countries, as well as reconstructions, replicas, models and…

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East Wing, Poldi Pezzoli Museum

Rooms in Renaissance style, was designed as a hall of honor, intended to contain some of the most important works of the collection. Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli could not see it finished and Bertini continued its decoration after the death of the museum founder. Golden Hall The Golden Hall is…

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Metabolism in architecture

Metabolism (Japanese: 新陳代謝) was a post-war Japanese architectural movement that fused ideas about architectural megastructures with those of organic biological growth. It had its first international exposure during CIAM’s 1959 meeting and its ideas were tentatively tested by students from Kenzo Tange’s MIT studio. During the preparation for the 1960…

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Japan Kyoto Night sightseeing route

If you want to immerse yourself in the moist and calm atmosphere unique to the ancient city, night is recommended. The streets seen under the moonlight, the mysterious cherry blossoms and autumn leaves at night. Not only can you see a different look from the daytime, but you can also…

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Bava Pyara caves

Bava Pyara caves (also known as Baba Pyara caves) are an example of ancient man-made caverns. The caves are a part of the Junagadh Buddhist Cave Groups situated in the eastern part of Junagadh of the Indian state of Gujarat. Bava Pyara caves contains artworks of both Buddhism and Jainism.…

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Design Museum of Barcelona, Spain

Barcelona Design Museum (Catalan: Museu del Disseny de Barcelona), is a new center of Barcelona’s Institute of Culture, which works to promote better understanding and good use of the design world, acting as a museum and laboratory. It focuses on 4 branches or design disciplines: space design, product design, information…

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Asian art, Baltimore Museum of Art

The museum’s Asian art collection includes works from China, Japan, India, Tibet, Southeast Asia, and the Near East. The collection is particularly known for its Chinese ceramics, with a particular depth in mortuary wares from the Tang Dynasty (618–907) and utilitarian stoneware from the 11th through the 13th centuries. Although…

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Resilience Art

Art Resilience is an artistic movement created in 2014, based in the Bateau-Lavoir, in Montmartre, Paris. France. Resilience is, originally, a term used in physics which characterizes the capacity of a material subjected to an impact to recover its initial state. It is the capacity to absorb the disturbances, to…

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The Tale of the Pocket Story, Suwon City I-Park Art Museum

Lee Won Bae picture book original exhibition: The Tale of the Pocket Story, is a Korean picture books with warm eyes and a delicate touch of two hundred million of times Picture wonhwajeon ” talk story pocket ” to hold. Yieokbae (b. 1960) is that rimchaek through the medium of…

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Baroque, Neoclassicism and Romanticism (17th-19th centuries), Maricel Museum

The museum included works from the collection of Dr. Jesús Pérez-Rosales that never had been exhibited in public, acquisitions by the Sitges Heritage Association since 2012 (Ramon Casas, Miquel Utrillo, Arcadi Mas i Fondevila, Artur Carbonell i Augustí Ferrer Pino) ​​and donations from artist’s relatives (Pere Jou and Alfred Sisquella).…

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