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Phad painting

Phad painting (IAST: Phad, Hindi: फड़ ) is a style religious scroll painting and folk painting, practiced in Rajasthan state of India. This style of painting is traditionally done on a long piece of cloth or canvas, known as phad. The narratives of the folk deities of Rajasthan, mostly of…

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Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 1848 – 1855

Style originated by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB), a group of English artists active between 1848 and 1853 Initially characterized by intense colour, tight handling and predominantly medieval subject-matter, during the later 19th century the style became broader and more muted in colour through the work of the Brotherhood’s followers The…

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Colour banding

Colour banding is a problem of inaccurate colour presentation in computer graphics. In 24-bit colour modes, 8 bits per channel is usually considered sufficient to render images in Rec. 709 or sRGB. However, in some cases there is a risk of producing abrupt changes between shades of the same colour.…

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Charging station

An electric vehicle charging station, also called EV charging station, electric recharging point, charging point, charge point, ECS (Electronic Charging Station) and EVSE (electric vehicle supply equipment), is an element in an infrastructure that supplies electric energy for the recharging of electric vehicles, such as plug-in electric vehicles, including electric…

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Women’s rights in Afghanistan

Women’s rights in Afghanistan are improving but very slowly on an international level. Through different former rulers such as the mujahideen and the Taliban in the later part of the 20th century, women had very little to no freedom, specifically in terms of civil liberties. Ever since the Taliban regime…

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Energy crop

An energy crop is a plant grown as a low-cost and low-maintenance harvest used to make biofuels, such as bioethanol, or combusted for its energy content to generate electricity or heat. Energy crops are generally categorized as woody or herbaceous plants; many of the latter are grasses of the family…

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Clarence House, London, United Kingdom

Clarence House is a royal residence in London, situated on The Mall, in the City of Westminster. It is attached to St. James’s Palace and shares the palace’s garden. For nearly 50 years, from 1953 to 2002, it was home to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. It has since been…

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Collegiate church

In Christianity, a collegiate church is a church where the daily office of worship is maintained by a college of canons; a non-monastic or “secular” community of clergy, organised as a self-governing corporate body, which may be presided over by a dean or provost. In its governance and religious observance…

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Naryshkin Baroque

Naryshkin Baroque, also called Moscow Baroque, or Muscovite Baroque, is the name given to a particular style of Baroque architecture and decoration which was fashionable in Moscow from the turn of the 17th into the early 18th centuries. Naryshkinskoye or Moscow baroque is a conditional name for a specific style…

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Gothic in Monza

For gothic in Monza we mean the artistic experience of the city between the end of the thirteenth century and the first half of the fifteenth century. In this period the city, which was still affected by the importance given by being the capital of the Lombard kingdom, was subject…

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Norman architecture in Sicily

Norman architecture in Sicily developed in’ island during the period of domination of the Normans, who replaced its centralized power to the territorial control of the emirs from 1060 and made it a reign (from 1130), passed then to the dynasty Swabian in 1194. Influences The Arab-Norman architecture in Sicily…

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Remodernist film

Remodernist film developed in the United States and the United Kingdom in the early 21st century with ideas related to those of the international art movement Stuckism and its manifesto, Remodernism. Key figures are Jesse Richards and Peter Rinaldi. Manifesto and philosophy On August 27, 2008, Jesse Richards published a…

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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, United States

The Whitney Museum of American Art WMAA, also known informally as the “Whitney” – is an art museum located in Manhattan. As the preeminent institution devoted to the art of the United States, the Whitney Museum of American Art presents the full range of twentieth-century and contemporary American art, with…

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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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American Impressionism

American Impressionism was a style of painting related to European Impressionism and practiced by American artists in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. American Impressionism is a style of painting characterized by loose brushwork and vivid colors. The style often depicted landscapes mixed with scenes…

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Kingdom of the Scots, National Museum of Scotland

On Level 1, Kingdom of the Scots follows Scotland from its emergence as a nation around 1100 to 1707, when the Union of the Scottish and English Parliaments created the United Kingdom of Great Britain. This gallery showcases some of our most precious objects: the tiny Monymusk reliquary, the Queen…

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Educational robotics

Educational robotics (RE) is a broad term that refers to a collection of activities, instructional programs, physical platforms, educational resources and pedagogical philosophy. There are many schools which are using the robot teacher. RE is a learning medium in which people who are motivated by the design and construction of…

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Religious art

Religious art or sacred art is artistic imagery using religious inspiration and motifs and is often intended to uplift the mind to the spiritual. Sacred art involves the ritual and cultic practices and practical and operative aspects of the path of the spiritual realization within the artist’s religious tradition. Christian…

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The Baroque Rooms, Madama Palace

On the first floor, inside the baroque rooms where Madame Reali lived, the arts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with the picture gallery, the furniture of Piffetti and Prinotto and the sumptuous decorations of the rooms. The monumental staircase of the Juvarra, the archaeological route of the Medieval Court,…

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Sun-free photovoltaics

Sun-free photovoltaics is a photovoltaics technology which does not require sunlight to produce electricity. This technique was developed by research team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Photovoltaic cells convert light to electricity most efficiently at specific wavelengths. The surface featured of Sun-free photovoltaics is engineered such that it converts heat…

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Early Netherlandish painting

Early Netherlandish painting refers to the work of artists, sometimes known as the Flemish Primitives, active in the Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands during the 15th- and 16th-century Northern Renaissance; especially in the flourishing cities of Bruges, Ghent, Tournai and Brussels Their work follows the International Gothic style and begins approximately…

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Review of Fuorisalone, Milan Design Week 2013, Italy

Fuorisalone and Milan design week takes place at venues across Milan from April 8 to 14, 2013. Fuorisalone is one of the most important international design events. The event, which takes place at the same time as the Salone del Mobile, runs through thirteen routes corresponding to as many areas…

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El Masnou, Barcelona Metropolitan Area, Catalonia, Spain

The Masnou is a town and municipality in the county of Maresme. It is situated on the coast between Montgat and Premià de Mar, to the north-east of the city of Barcelona, in the comarca (county) of el Maresme. The town is both a tourist centre and a dormitory town…

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