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Edwardian architecture

Edwardian architecture is an architectural style popular during the reign of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (1901 to 1910). Architecture up to the year 1914 may also be included in this style. Edwardian architecture is generally less ornate than high or late Victorian architecture, apart from a subset…

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Open manufacturing

Open Manufacturing or “Open Production” or “Design Global, Manufacture Local” is a new model of socioeconomic production in which physical objects are produced in an open, collaborative and distributed manner and based on open design and open source principles. Open manufacturing combines the following elements of a production process: new…

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Plantagenet style

Plantagenet style is an architectural building design of churches and cathedrals during the 12th century, characterized by cross-ribbed vaults and extremely curved dome vaults which resulted in the use of thick walls and piers. It is also the start of the transition from the Romanesque style to the Gothic style…

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Italian modern and contemporary architecture

Italian modern and contemporary architecture refers to architecture in Italy during 20th and 21st centuries. Styles Beginning of 20th century The Art Nouveau style was brought to Italy by figures such as Giuseppe Sommaruga and Ernesto Basile (who respectively designed the Palazzo Castiglioni and expanded the Palazzo Montecitorio in Rome).…

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Capriccio Art

In painting, a whim or capriccio means an architectural fantasy, placing together buildings, archaeological ruins and other architectural elements in fictional and often fantastical combinations, and may include staffage (figures). It falls under the more general term of landscape painting. The term is also used for other artworks with an…

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Roman mosaic

A Roman mosaic is a mosaic made during the Roman period, throughout the Roman Republic and later Empire. Mosaics were used in a variety of private and public buildings. They were highly influenced by earlier and contemporary Hellenistic Greek mosaics, and often included famous figures from history and mythology, such…

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Willem van Aelst

Willem van Aelst (May 16, 1627 – 1683) was a Dutch Golden Age artist who specialized in still-life painting with flowers or game. Willem van Aelst was born in Delft on 16 May 1627 as the son of the notary Jan van Aelst and Catharina de Veer. He taught the…

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Picture Gallery in Transformation, Sao Paulo Art Museum

The return of Lina Bo Bardi’s radical crystal easels to the display of the collection presents a selection of 119 artworks drawn from the museum’s diverse holdings, spanning from the 4th century BC to 2008. The easels were first presented at the opening of the museum’s current venue in 1968,…

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Stalinka in architecture

Stalinka, or Stalin style houses – the common colloquial name of apartment buildings that were built in the USSR from the late 1930s to the mid -1950s, mainly during the reign of JV Stalin, mostly in the style of neoclassicism (Stalin’s empire). “Stalinki” are the capital apartment buildings in height…

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Abstract art

Abstract art applied in its strictest sense to forms of 20th-century Western art that reject representation and have no starting- or finishing-point in nature As distinct from processes of abstraction from nature or from objects (a recurring tendency across many cultures and periods that can be traced as far back…

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ISCC–NBS system

The ISCC–NBS System of Color Designation is a system for naming colors based on a set of 12 basic color terms and a small set of adjective modifiers. It was first established in the 1930s by a joint effort of the Inter-Society Color Council, made up of delegates from various…

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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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Guide Tour of Frontierland, Disneyland Paris, France

Frontierland is themed around the American West, the visitor is invited to experience life in the mining town of Thunder Mesa. Themed to the American Frontier of the 19th century, Frontierlands are home to cowboys and pioneers, saloons, red rock buttes and gold rushes along with some influence from American…

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Neoclásico Isabelino

Neoclasico Isabelino is an architectural style that applies to a number of houses and other buildings in Puerto Rico. These include a number in Ponce, Puerto Rico that are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places: Albergue Caritativo Tricoche Antiguo Cuartel Militar Español de Ponce Antiguo Hospital Militar…

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Singerie

Singerie is the name given to a visual arts genre depicting monkeys imitating human behavior, often fashionably attired, intended as a diverting sight, always with a gentle cast of mild satire. The term is derived from the French word for “Monkey Trick”. History The practise can be traced as far…

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Multifuel engine

Multifuel is any type of engine, boiler, or heater or other fuel-burning device which is designed to burn multiple types of fuels in its operation. One common application of multifuel technology is in military settings, where the normally-used diesel or gas turbine fuel might not be available during combat operations…

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Hans Erni

Hans Erni (21 February 1909 in Lucerne, 21 March 2015) was a Swiss painter, graphic artist and sculptor. He designed numerous lithographs, about 300 posters and several murals (for the Swiss Red Cross, the IOC, the UNO and UNESCO, The ICAO as well as many public and private companies), illustrated…

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Indian Sculptures, Salar Jung Museum

Though the collection of stone sculptures in the Museum is scanty, yet they are quite significant as they show the characteristic features of the different styles that prevailed in India. An excellent standing figure of Buddha of 3rd century A.D. unearthed from Nelakondapally is exhibited in the gallery. The figure…

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Postmodern music

Postmodern music is either simply music of the postmodern era, or music that follows aesthetical and philosophical trends of postmodernism. As the name suggests, the postmodernist movement formed partly in reaction to modernism. Even so, postmodern music still does not primarily define itself in opposition to modernist music; this label…

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South India Metal Ware, Salar Jung Museum

The crafts of India are diverse, rich in history and religion. The craft of each state in India reflect the influence of different empires. Throughout centuries, crafts have been embedded as a culture and tradition within rural communities. The diversity of religious beliefs has had a great impact on the…

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Color killer

The color killer is an electronic stage in color TV receiver sets which acts as a cutting circuit to cut off the color amplifiers when the TV receives a monochrome signal. Monochromatic transmission When a receiver is tuned to a monochrome transmission, the displayed scene should have no color components.…

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Textile gallery, Museum of king Shivaji, India

A textile gallery, the first gallery in the city, was opened in April 2010. It illustrates “various techniques of textile manufacturing, regional collections and traditional Indian costumes”. Matrika Design Collaborative is currently designing the museum’s Indian miniature painting gallery. The content developed for the gallery will be converted into Braille…

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Baroque sculpture

Baroque sculpture is the sculpture associated with the Baroque style of the period between the early 17th and mid 18th centuries. In Baroque sculpture, groups of figures assumed new importance, and there was a dynamic movement and energy of human forms—they spiralled around an empty central vortex, or reached outwards…

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