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- the viewer's eye into the center of the canvas. In his early works, particularly versions of village life in Brittany, showing dancers (c ...18 KB (2,685 words) - 14:13, 20 May 2023
- his career. Marciano was knocked down to the canvas only twice in his professional career. The first occurred in his first championship bout, against ...19 KB (3,097 words) - 21:32, 16 April 2023
- subject, extending outside the frame of the canvas. In "View of the International Exhibition", soldiers relax, seated and standing; ...18 KB (2,830 words) - 18:16, 12 February 2024
- for its breadth and unity, its vast canvas includes 580 characters, many historical, and others fictional. Its depiction of the battle scenes ...19 KB (2,878 words) - 19:54, 7 May 2024
- thumb|200px|Gypsy Fortune Teller. 1841. Oil on canvas. Winner of the 1841 Silver Medal at the Imperial Academy of Arts.]] In 1841, the epic poem ...20 KB (2,938 words) - 00:47, 21 April 2023
- Feszty and assistants' vast (over 8000 m²) canvas, painted to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of the Magyar conquest of Hungary, now displayed ...20 KB (3,024 words) - 05:22, 5 November 2022
- In 1899, White's son donated the oil-on-canvas painting to the U.S. Senate, where it has hung since. The slave was not named, however, until ...20 KB (3,146 words) - 04:50, 9 April 2024
- 200 px|Vincent Van Gogh, Potato Eaters (oil on canvas, Nuenen, April 1885)]] By the seventeenth century, the potato had become firmly established ...20 KB (3,010 words) - 05:53, 30 November 2022
- right|250px|Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. Oil on canvas by Osip Braz, 1898. From the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery.]] Anton Pavlovich Chekhov ...19 KB (2,819 words) - 06:50, 31 July 2023
- By incorporating watercolor techniques into canvas painting, American artists not only re-popularized the medium but continued a long tradition ...20 KB (2,883 words) - 23:18, 3 May 2023
- landscape of the people of India: a canvas for disease gene exploration."] Journal of Genetics 87(1) (2008): 3-20. Retrieved August 14, 2020. ...24 KB (3,241 words) - 17:33, 30 January 2024
- Tacitus has been and “paints on a far wider canvas,” suggesting that his “geographical, ethnological” and sometime “scientific digressions” ...21 KB (3,270 words) - 07:33, 25 July 2023
- the Spanish Civil War—Guernica. This large canvas embodies for many the inhumanity, brutality and hopelessness of war. Asked to explain its symbolism ...22 KB (3,461 words) - 10:56, 11 March 2023
- effects abstract expressionists had created on the canvas. Though many of his poems also speak to the ways in which he felt the emotional power of painting ...22 KB (3,437 words) - 05:07, 9 April 2024
- *Jeans—or other sturdy, close-fitting trousers made of canvas or denim, designed to protect the legs and prevent the trouser legs from snagging ...23 KB (3,523 words) - 06:14, 11 January 2024
- Jouett (1788-1827) after Ary Sheffer, oil on canvas. Courtesy of the U.S. National Portrait Gallery, gift of the John Hay Whitney Collection.]] ...23 KB (3,607 words) - 06:57, 15 December 2022
- Battle of Trafalgar by J. M. W. Turner (oil on canvas, 1822–1824) shows the last three letters of the famous signal, "England expects that every ...22 KB (3,598 words) - 15:08, 2 February 2024
- of 1569, by Jan Matejko, 1869, oil on canvas, 298×512[[centimetre|cm ... ]—The Fall of Poland," oil on canvas by Jan Matejko, 1866, 282×487cm ...62 KB (8,547 words) - 08:32, 24 November 2022
- short stories, Prus decided to employ a broader canvas. Between 1886 and 1895, he completed four major novels on great societal questions. Perennial ...24 KB (3,556 words) - 07:13, 17 November 2023
- drawing on paper, which was then enlarged onto canvas by an assistant; he then painted the head himself. In his last years these studio collaborations ...25 KB (3,984 words) - 16:23, 17 January 2024
- damaged. After that, it was wrapped in a sheet of canvas for further protection. Many sacred charms and amulets were placed in and around the mummy and ...24 KB (3,616 words) - 02:34, 11 March 2023
- 1665), French. The Plague of Ashdod, 1630. Oil on canvas, 148 x 198 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France, Giraudon/Bridgeman Art Library.]] ...25 KB (3,733 words) - 04:02, 18 August 2023
- to seize essential features and fix them on canvas with a few broad, sure strokes. "His men and women seem to breathe," it has been said; ...23 KB (3,595 words) - 10:50, 20 September 2023
- The artists use a combination of canvas background with glass, metals, etc. to depict and decorate various scenes from Hindu mythology. Tanjore ...28 KB (4,178 words) - 16:37, 13 July 2017
- century, following external influence, canvas was used to cover the framework. The yaranga was surrounded by sod or planking at the lower part ...30 KB (4,529 words) - 20:54, 19 January 2024
- About 55 of his paintings were turned into limited-edition canvas lithographs which he signed once they were sold. Each of the lithographs, whose ...26 KB (3,902 words) - 02:29, 8 December 2022
- Bossuet was always best when at work on a large canvas; besides, here no conscientious scruples intervened to prevent him giving much time and thought ...26 KB (4,115 words) - 12:30, 6 November 2021
- and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful ...26 KB (4,022 words) - 10:54, 11 March 2023
- off time and still survive. Painting with oil on canvas does not become popular until the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and was a hallmark of Renaissance ...29 KB (4,407 words) - 15:08, 30 December 2022
- shall all be transferred to our canvas in their perfect measure. Aspasia, however, is only preserved to us in miniature: our proportions must ...30 KB (4,572 words) - 04:50, 18 August 2023
- de Indias by the English in 1741, oil on canvas, eighteenth century.]] [[Image:Congreso de Cúcuta.jpg|thumb|220px|right|Francisco de Paula Santander ...27 KB (3,998 words) - 00:39, 29 November 2023
- Battle of Lepanto by Paolo Veronese. Oil on canvas]] The Left and Centre galleasses had been towed half a mile ahead of the Christian line, ...28 KB (4,326 words) - 10:04, 22 September 2023
- fan used in the Middle East in the 1500s. It had a canvas covered frame that was suspended from the ceiling. Servants, known as punkah wallahs, pulled ...28 KB (4,570 words) - 00:41, 25 March 2024
- based on the last portrait of Brant, an 1806 oil on canvas painting by Ezra Ames.]] ==Death== Joseph Brant died in his house at the head of Lake ...30 KB (4,676 words) - 07:18, 10 August 2022
- 1874, by Pere Borrell del Caso, oil on canvas, Banco de España, Madrid]] [[Image:Allisvanity.jpg|thumb|right|"All is Vanity" by C ...32 KB (4,837 words) - 16:27, 12 February 2024
- in 1921, Lissitzky stated, "We brought the canvas into circles… and while we turn, we raise ourselves into the space."]] ...38 KB (5,595 words) - 00:07, 13 February 2024
- consists of brightly colored enamel paintings on canvas, generally depicting people, animals, or daily life. After Tingatinga's death in 1972, other ...29 KB (4,092 words) - 04:27, 27 February 2023
- since the painting is quite small, the canvas measuring just 30 by 21 inches, which makes it difficult to see any detail at the viewing distance ...32 KB (4,849 words) - 15:32, 25 May 2023
- |caption= The Death of General Wolfe by Benjamin West. Oil on canvas, 1770. |date=September 13, 1759 |place=Quebec City |result=Decisive British ...33 KB (5,197 words) - 10:21, 22 September 2023
- reliefs in numerous caves, portable paintings on canvas, sculpture, ritual objects), displaying multiple influences from Indian and Hellenistic cultures ...37 KB (5,547 words) - 18:34, 22 November 2023
- novels began to shape themselves into a broad canvas depicting the turbulent unfolding of destinies amidst the visible finery and squalor of Paris, ...30 KB (4,901 words) - 13:28, 2 February 2024
- picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams." ==Discography== *Kashmiri Song (in English) ...32 KB (5,062 words) - 15:27, 13 April 2023
- The ceiling features a canvas by Louis Jean Jacques Durameau in which Apollo and the Muses are depicted. ==Social history== ===The politics of ...36 KB (5,934 words) - 06:18, 18 November 2022
- Christo's Collaborator on Environmental Canvas, Is Dead at 74] The New York Times, November 19, 2009. Retrieved June 24, 2020. ...37 KB (5,196 words) - 21:40, 10 December 2023
- now it is also done on cloth, hand-made paper and canvas. The paintings are two-dimensional and are painted with plant dies, ochre and lampblack. The ...32 KB (4,865 words) - 07:00, 5 September 2022
- |caption=Battle of Grunwald, by Jan Matejko, 1878. Oil on canvas. |date=July 15, 1410 |place=Grunwald (Grünewald) or Tannenberg (Stębark), Prussia ...42 KB (6,381 words) - 01:37, 26 September 2023
- Gap (George Caleb Bingham, oil on canvas, 1851–1852).]] Although inhabited by Native Americans in prehistoric times, when explorers and settlers ...39 KB (5,531 words) - 22:12, 3 March 2023
- and flexibility), covered with canvas or tarpaulin. Around the mid to late-nineteenth century, Romnichals started using wagons that incorporated ...40 KB (5,990 words) - 02:37, 16 November 2022
- than home plate are 15 in (38 cm) square, of canvas or a similar material, and not more than 5 in (13 cm) thick. The bases are usually securely fastened ...50 KB (8,173 words) - 15:07, 27 April 2023
- Painted thangkas are done on treated cotton canvas or silk with water soluble pigments, both mineral and organic, tempered with a herb and glue solution ...39 KB (5,852 words) - 23:25, 30 April 2023
- #039; of the piece as an 'aural blank canvas' to reflect the dynamic flux of ambient sounds surrounding each performance. ...40 KB (6,250 words) - 17:00, 5 April 2024
- Renoir, Bal du moulin de la Galette, 1876, oil on canvas, 131 × 175 cm, Musée d'Orsay]] [[File:France in XXI Century. Correspondance cinema ...38 KB (5,417 words) - 23:52, 28 April 2023
- flow noise was required. The first were made of canvas on a framework, then steel ones were used. Now domes are usually made of reinforced plastic ...46 KB (7,281 words) - 01:12, 4 February 2023
- #039;s The Birth of Venus (c. 1485-1486, oil on canvas, Uffizi, Florence)—a revived Venus Pudica for a new view of pagan Antiquity—is often said ...45 KB (6,635 words) - 21:31, 12 July 2023
- Withered Field (Grez), c.1891, oil on canvas, Kuroda Memorial Hall, Tokyo Image:Lakeside.jpg|Kuroda Seiki, Lakeside, 1897, oil on canvas, Kuroda ...78 KB (11,609 words) - 09:53, 1 April 2024
- Boabdil before Ferdinand and Isabella. Oil on canvas, 1882.]] Some noble genealogies show the close relations (although not very numerous) between ...48 KB (7,486 words) - 21:14, 23 July 2022
- the introduction of European trade, canvas tents with woodstoves came into fashion. Since this was merely a temporary location, and since the ...47 KB (7,545 words) - 03:50, 1 May 2023
- in rural churches or town halls, he pitched rented canvas tents. As during the years of his apprenticeship, Sunday did much of the physical work of putting ...47 KB (7,375 words) - 22:05, 3 February 2022
- rather than a two-dimensional canvas is so well understood that most people do not realize that they are making an aesthetic interpretation. ...53 KB (8,177 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- with the addition of a rubberized canvas screen to provide additional buoyancy. It was propelled by propellers driven by the main engine. This ...57 KB (9,115 words) - 04:01, 27 February 2023
- mantapa (Marriage Hall) on the ground floor has 26 canvas paintings hung on its walls, depicting the Dasara procession.Robert Bradnock, South India Handbook ...57 KB (8,382 words) - 23:21, 21 October 2023
- Emperor 41 C.E., by Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Oil on canvas, c. 1871.]] When Augustus died in 14 C.E., Claudius—then 23—appealed to his uncle ...58 KB (9,002 words) - 11:01, 19 December 2023
- The auto de fe frequently was taken to the canvas by painters: one of the better known examples is the painting by Francesco Rizzi held by the ...61 KB (9,267 words) - 12:36, 18 September 2023
- quot;) by Jules Joseph Lefebvre 1870. Oil on canvas ]] ===Classical philosophers=== The ancient Greek origins of the words "true" and ...66 KB (9,824 words) - 23:40, 15 January 2024
- the side of the Breen cabin. The families used canvas or oxhide to patch the faulty roofs. The cabins had no windows or doors, only large holes to ...73 KB (11,798 words) - 17:24, 30 January 2024
- in his eye; testosterone all but flies off the canvas."Sarah Lyall, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120104055337/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/movies/07lyal ...89 KB (13,120 words) - 22:57, 30 March 2023
- Churruca y Elorza|Churruca]]'s Death, oil on canvas about the Battle of Trafalgar by Eugenio Álvarez Dumont, Prado Museum]] The first major ...78 KB (11,731 words) - 19:08, 7 February 2023
- quot;The Return of the Cossacks" oil on canvas, 1894, 61 x 120 cm, painted by Józef Brandt.]] In the middle of the seventeenth century ...72 KB (10,102 words) - 01:29, 3 May 2023
- tank kept afloat using a waterproof canvas screen inflated with compressed air.Zuehlke, 42–43. These tanks were easily swamped, and on D-Day ...85 KB (12,450 words) - 21:54, 26 January 2022
- and Louise Abbéma. She exhibited a 2-m-tall canvas, The Young Girl and Death, at the 1878 Paris Salon. Her passion for sculpture was more serious ...103 KB (16,692 words) - 01:55, 22 March 2023
- Árpád Feszty and assistants' vast (1800m²) canvas, painted to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of the Magyar conquest of Hungary.]] ...107 KB (15,967 words) - 21:14, 9 February 2024
- #039;s army crossing the Alps in 1799, oil on canvas, Vasilij Ivanovic Surikov, painted 1899.]] Nearly 40 years were to pass before a comparably ...137 KB (20,217 words) - 18:16, 22 December 2022
