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Antonio Allegri da Correggio (August 1489 – March 5, 1534), usually known as just Correggio, was an Italian Renaissance painter, the foremost painter of the Parma school of the High Italian Renaissance, who was responsible for some of the most vigorous and sensuous works of the sixteenth century. In his use of dynamic composition, illusionistic perspective and dramatic foreshortening, Correggio prefigured the Baroque art of the seventeenth century and the Rococo art of the eighteenth century.

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The Daoist Eight Immortals crossing the sea

Daoism ("Taoism") is the English name for a cluster of Chinese religious and philosophical traditions that have developed over more than two thousand years in China and have influenced religio-cultural developments in Korea, Japan, and other East Asian countries. "Daoism" is used to translate the Chinese terms Daojiao ("teachings/religion of the Dao") and Daojia ("school of the Dao"), where the character Dao refers to a particular philosophical understanding of "the Way" (understood in the context of politics, internal cultivation, the natural world, and matter/energy (qi).

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White tea was formerly a luxury reserved for the emperor of China (source: White tea)

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