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Still life in ancient and middle Ages

A still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, etc.). With origins in the Middle Ages and Ancient Greco-Roman art, still-life painting…

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Anchor plate

An anchor plate or wall washer is a large plate or washer connected to a tie rod or bolt. Anchor plates are used on exterior walls of masonry buildings, for structural reinforcement. Being visible, many anchor plates are made in a style that is decorative. One popular style is the…

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Museum architecture

Museum architecture has been of increasing importance over the centuries, especially more recently. A challenge for museum architecture is the differing purposes of the building. The museum collection must be preserved, but it also needs to be made accessible to the public. Climate control may be very important for the…

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Planetary management

Planetary management is intentional global-scale management of Earth’s biological, chemical and physical processes and cycles (water, carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus, and others). Planetary management also includes managing humanity’s influence on planetary-scale processes. Effective planetary management aims to prevent destabilisation of Earth’s climate, protect biodiversity and maintain or improve human well-being.…

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Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Girona counties, Catalonia, Spain

Sant Feliu de Guixols is a town in the district of Lower Emporda and headquter of the judicial district of San Felix in the province of Girona, Catalonia. Sant Feliu de Guíxols is an Empordà town located in the heart of the Costa Brava which, thanks to its temperate climate,…

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Guide Tour of Le Bon Marché, Paris, France

Le Bon Marché is a department store in Paris. Founded in 1838 and revamped almost completely by Aristide Boucicaut in 1852, it was one of the first modern department stores. Historically, it was the founder of Le Bon Marché who first came up with the concept of a department store,…

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Violence and passion of Ned Nedellec’s belles from 9eme Concept

Through his works Ned satiates fantasies, fantasies, caprices, escapades, eccentricities, stories, which he gives us in a spectacular way. In a romantic or trivial way, he likes all his models that he celebrates like Muses, Madonna or Madeleine, Mary or Maryline, mistress or slave … In front of these drawings,…

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Fumage

Fumage is a surrealist art technique popularized by Wolfgang Paalen in which impressions are made by the smoke of a candle or kerosene lamp on a piece of paper or canvas. Paalen´s first Fumage Dictated by a Candle was presented 1936 in the International Surrealist Exhibition in London. In the…

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Danish cuisine culture and Food Tour in Denmark

Danish cuisine refers to food, cooking, food culture and culinary arts in Denmark. Denmark is renowned for its new Nordic cuisine, Danish cuisine originated from the peasant population’s own local produce. In addition, cooking is influenced by agricultural, social and technical development, and was enhanced by cooking techniques developed in…

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Late modernism

In the visual arts, late modernism encompasses the overall production of most recent art made between the aftermath of World War II and the early years of the 21st century. The terminology often points to similarities between late modernism and post-modernism although there are differences. The predominant term for art…

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Homeland Security Advisory System

In the United States, the Homeland Security Advisory System was a color-coded terrorism threat advisory scale. The different levels triggered specific actions by federal agencies and state and local governments, and they affected the level of security at some airports and other public facilities. It was often called the “terror…

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Travel Guide of Lazise, Veneto, Italy

Lazise is an Italian town in the province of Verona in Veneto, located along the eastern shore of Lake Garda. This geographical location gives it a position of great landscape value, but there are also elements of great architectural value and of considerable historical importance. As well as these peculiarities,…

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Gothic architecture in the Czech Republic

Czech Gothic architecture refers to the architectural period primarily of the Late Middle Ages in the area of the present-day Czech Republic (former Crown of Bohemia, primarily consisting of the Kingdom of Bohemia and Margraviate of Moravia). The Gothic style first appeared in the Czech lands in the first half…

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Orange colour in culture

Orange is the colour between yellow and red on the spectrum of visible light. Human eyes perceive orange when observing light with a dominant wavelength between roughly 585 and 620 nanometres. In painting and traditional colour theory, it is a secondary colour of pigments, created by mixing yellow and red.…

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National Archaeological Museum of Ferrara, Italy

The National Archaeological Museum of Ferrara is housed in the Costabili palace, inaugurated in 1935. The structure displays various artifacts from the excavations of the Etruscan city of Spina, which flourished between the sixth and third centuries BC. It is remarkable for the funerary complex, consisting of more than 4000…

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Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun

Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (born Louise-Élisabeth Vigée on April 16, 1755 in Paris, and died in the same city on March 30, 1842, ) , also known as Madame Lebrun, was a prominent French painter, considered a great portraitist of his time. She could be compared to Quentin de…

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Jaume Ferrer II

Jaume Ferrer II (Lleida, 15th century), was an active Lleida painter during the second stage of the international gothic and possibly formed in the painting workshop that his father, Jaume Ferrer I, had to have in the city of Lleida. His most well-known work is the altarpiece of the Virgin…

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Kobe Fashion Museum, Kōbe-shi, Japan

Kobe Fashion Museum (神戸ファッション美術館) is the first museum in Japan to specialise in fashion. The Library located on the 3rd floors houses various materials of high value related to fashion, all of which are open to the public as well as to those students, creators and business people engaged in…

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Iran & Central Aisa 12-14 century, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

12th–14th centuries is the first Islamic golden age, mostly from Syria and Iraq. Influence from Byzantine visual vocabulary (blue and gold coloring, angelic and victorious motifs, symbology of drapery) combined with Mongoloid facial types in 12th-century book frontispieces. During their time, the center of culture, politics and art production shifted…

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Review of Hong Kong Toys & Games Fair in early years, China

The Hong Kong Toys & Games Fair organised by the HKTDC, as Asia’s largest, and the world’s second-largest, trade fair of its kind, the latest toys, games and a broad selection of smart toys, from around the world was showcased. The entire spectrum of the world of toys and games,…

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Deutsche Oper Berlin, Germany

The Deutsche Oper Berlin is the largest of the three opera houses in Berlin. The building Bismarckstraße 34-37 in Charlottenburg was opened in 1961 and was a replacement for the at the same place in World War II in 1943 destroyed German Opera. The Charlottenburger Haus is one of the…

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Northern Renaissance 1430 – 1580

The adoption in northern Europe, mainly Germany and the Netherlands, of the artistic ideals of the Italian Renaissance The prime mover was the German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) who travelled twice to Italy to discover the ‘secrets’ of the Italian masters, especially the mathematical principles of perspecitve and proportion Dürer’s…

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Portuguese Romanesque architecture

The Romanesque style of architecture was introduced in Portugal between the end of the 11th and the beginning of the 12th century. In general, Portuguese cathedrals have a heavy, fortress-like appearance, with crenellations and few decorative elements apart from portals and windows. Portuguese Romanesque cathedrals were later extensively modified, among…

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