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The Nine Dream Gardens, Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild

The villa is surrounded by nine gardens, each on a different theme: French, Spanish, Japanese, Florentine, Provençal, exotic, a stone garden, a rose garden, and a garden de Sèvres. They were created between 1905 and 1912 under the direction of landscape architect Achille Duchêne. The entrance to the gardens offers…

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Architecture of Aberdeen

The Architecture of Aberdeen is known for the use of granite as the principal construction material. The stone, which has been quarried in and around the city, has given Aberdeen the epithet The Granite City, or more romantically, and less commonly used, the Silver City, after the mica in the…

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Purple in history and art

Purple is a color intermediate between blue and red. It is similar to violet, but unlike violet, which is a spectral color with its own wavelength on the visible spectrum of light, purple is a composite color made by combining red and blue. According to surveys in Europe and the…

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Gothic Art Collection, National Art Museum of Catalonia

The collection of Gothic art includes works from the end of century XIII until well into the century xv. The origin of the works is mostly from the Catalan territory, although to a lesser extent, works from the territory of the old Crown of Aragon, such as Aragon, Mallorca and…

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Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada

The Vancouver Art Gallery, founded in 1931, is one of the leading Canadian art museums Reflecting Vancouver’s prominence over the past decade on the international stage as a major center for contemporary art, the Gallery is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of the museum experience and to undertaking programs that…

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Guide Tour of National Eugene-Delacroix Museum, Paris, France

The Musée national Eugène Delacroix is an art museum dedicated to painter Eugène Delacroix. At this dedicated museum you can explore the great French painter’s life, his artwork, and his studio. On display are many of Delacroix’s early works including small oil paintings, pastels, and sketches. Delacroix (1798 – 1863)…

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Upper rooms, Sintra National Palace

The main elevation is organized in three bodies, the central of the palace being higher and retreated in relation to the extremes. The other fronts of the building have a complex articulation of protruding and reentrant bodies, highlighting the cubic volume of the Room of Arms. Characteristic feature of this…

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Katsura and Oharano area, Kyoto sightseeing route, Japan

The Katsura area, the Heian period, the place where the Katsura River, which was a sightseeing spot for successive emperors, flows, the Katsura Imperial Villa and the old townscape invite you to a journey of historical romance. The Katsura River, which runs through the southwestern part of the Kyoto Basin…

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Thomas Fearnley

Thomas Fearnley (27 December 1802 -16 January 1842) was a Norwegian romantic painter, a pupil of Johan Christian Dahl and a leading representative of Norwegian romantic nationalism in painting. Fearnley was from Halden, son of one rich merchant. He took on the then new ship drawing hall in Kristiania. One…

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Flexible-fuel vehicle

A flexible-fuel vehicle (FFV) or dual-fuel vehicle is an alternative fuel vehicle with an internal combustion engine designed to run on more than one fuel, usually gasoline blended with either ethanol or methanol fuel, and both fuels are stored in the same common tank. Modern flex-fuel engines are capable of…

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Catalan music palace, Barcelona, Spain

The Palau de la Música Catalana is a music auditorium located in the Sant Pere district (Sant Pere, Santa Caterina and La Ribera) in Barcelona. It was designed by the Barcelona architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, one of the greatest representatives of Catalan modernism. The construction was carried out between…

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Chorweiler district, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Chorweiler is the northernmost district of Cologne. The city district includes the districts of Blumenberg, Chorweiler, Esch / Auweiler, Fühlingen, Heimersdorf, Lindweiler, Merkenich (with Rheinkassel, Langel and Kasselberg), Pesch, Roggendorf / Thenhoven, Seeberg, Volkhoven / Weiler and Worringen. Due to its peripheral location – the actual district of Chorweiler is…

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First class travel

First class is the most luxurious travel class of seats and service on a train, passenger ship, airplane, bus, or other system of transport. It is usually more expensive than business class and economy class, and offers the best service and luxurious accommodation. The first class has a higher rate…

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White point

A white point (often referred to as reference white or target white in technical documents) is a set of tristimulus values or chromaticity coordinates that serve to define the color “white” in image capture, encoding, or reproduction. Depending on the application, different definitions of white are needed to give acceptable…

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Architecture of Leeds

The architecture of Leeds, a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England, encompasses a wide range of architectural styles and notable buildings. As with most northern industrial centres, much of Leeds’ prominent architecture is of the Victorian era. However, the City of Leeds also contains buildings from as early…

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Painting and Calligraphy Collection, Sichuan Museum

Chinese calligraphy and painting has a long history and has formed distinctive national characteristics in historical development. It is an important asset of Chinese traditional national culture. Sichuan’s calligraphy and painting art has a profound tradition. Since the Tang Dynasty, some Kyoto and foreign painters have come with Tang Xuanzong…

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Caricature

A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way through sketching, pencil strokes, or through other artistic drawings. In literature, a caricature is a description of a person using exaggeration of some characteristics and oversimplification of others. Beside the political and…

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Baroque architecture in Portugal

Baroque architecture in Portugal lasted about two centuries (the late seventeenth century and eighteenth century). The reigns of D. João V and D. Joseph I of Portugal had increased imports of gold and diamonds, in a period called Royal Absolutism, which allowed the Portuguese Baroque to flourish. Baroque architecture is…

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Travel agencies guide

Travel agencies organize individual or group travel for their clients, at the very least the combination of transportation and accommodation, or an all-inclusive package holiday. While online booking and aggregators have disrupted the travel business, travel agencies still dominate some markets, such as business travel, cruise ships, multi-stop tours, resort…

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WOOL Covilhã Urban Art Festival, Lisbon Covilhã , Portugal

WOOL will have a regular event programme related to urban art. Each event will include the creation of a piece in the urban space. The public will be able to follow the process live. Apart from the intervention, the artists will also carry out parallel activities, such as workshops or…

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