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  • 21painting — /payn ting/, n. 1. a picture or design executed in paints. 2. the act, art, or work of a person who paints. 3. the works of art painted in a particular manner, place, or period: a book on Flemish painting. 4. an instance of covering a surface… …

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  • 22Edmund Blacket — Anglican PortalEdmund Thomas Blacket (25 August 1817 – 9 February 1883) was an Australian architect, best known for his designs for the University of Sydney, St. Andrew s Cathedral, Sydney and St. Saviour s Cathedral, Goulburn. Arriving in Sydney …

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  • 23Islamic arts — Visual, literary, and performing arts of the populations that adopted Islam from the 7th century. Islamic visual arts are decorative, colourful, and, in religious art, nonrepresentational; the characteristic Islamic decoration is the arabesque.… …

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  • 24Art, Antiques, and Collections — ▪ 2003 Introduction       In 2002 major exhibitions such as Documenta 11 reflected the diverse nature of contemporary art: artists from a variety of cultures received widespread recognition for work ranging from installation to video to painting …

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  • 25art and architecture, Egyptian — Introduction       the ancient architectural monuments, sculptures, paintings, and decorative crafts produced mainly during the dynastic periods of the first three millennia BC in the Nile valley regions of Egypt and Nubia. The course of art in… …

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  • 26Jack Kirby — Infobox Comics creator imagesize = caption = Kirby in 1982. birthname = Jacob Kurtzberg birthdate = birth date|1917|8|28|mf=y location = New York City. New York deathdate = death date and age|1994|02|6|1917|08|28 deathplace = Thousand Oaks,… …

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  • 27Miniature (illuminated manuscript) — Miniature of the Trojan Horse, from the Vergilius Romanus, a manuscript of Virgil s Aeneid, early 5th century. The word miniature, derived from the Latin minium, red lead, is a picture in an ancient or medieval illuminated manuscript; the simple… …

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  • 28rug and carpet — Any decorative textile normally made of a thick material and intended as a floor covering. Floor coverings made of plaited rushes date from the 5th or 4th millennium BC. Carpets were first made in central and western Asia as coverings for earthen …

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  • 29Western sculpture — ▪ art Introduction       three dimensional artistic forms produced in what is now Europe and later in non European areas dominated by European culture (such as North America) from the Metal Ages (Europe, history of) to the present.       Like… …

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  • 30Raphael — Infobox Artist bgcolour = #EEDD82 name = Raffaello Sanzio imagesize = 210px caption = Self portrait by Raphael, missing since World War II birthname = Raffaello Sanzio birthdate = birth date|mf=yes|1483|4|6|mf=y location = Urbino, Italy deathdate …

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