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  • or other substances. Jewelry is made out of almost every material known ... Whether used as currency, protection, or fashion, jewelry is one of ...
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  • The word oratory refers to the art of eloquent speech. An orator is ... quot; also refers to a semi-public place of worship constructed for the ...
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  • Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of ... Many of Goya's works are on display in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. ...
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  • ), was an Italian Renaissance painter, the foremost painter of the ... His main works focused on religious themes, with many paintings of ...
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  • who became a key figure in the development of American pictorialism. He became ... #039;s interest turned to the spiritual side of life, with investigations of ...
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  • poet, and playwright. He was a key figure of the Renaissance, best known ... leading armies, the wealthy city-states of Italy falling one after another ...
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  • The Baroque style began as somewhat of a continuation of the Renaissance ... The Council of Trent (1545-1563), in which the Roman Catholic Church ...
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  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art, founded in 1870 and opened in 1872 ... preservation standards. As with the case of other notable museums, the ...
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  • 18, 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily ... and dangerous. He burst upon the Rome art scene in 1600, and thereafter ...
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  • on colonial attitudes, encouraging a sense of cultural superiority that had ... Indian independence, since it was members of the Indian English-speaking ...
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  • as art. Every culture since the beginning of human existence has sculpted ... As intelligence develops the human ability to use the materials of ...
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  • The term Poor Man's Bible refers to various forms of Christian ... Until the invention of the Printing press in 1439, the average Christian ...
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  • painter who is often said to be the greatest of the Northern Baroque artists ... heritage. Rubens expressed the spirit of the Counter-Reformation, which ...
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  • October 4, 1669) is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers ... Biographical Dictionary. "His treatment of mankind is full of human sympathy ...
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  • [[Image:Emancipation of Slaves 1834 monument - Victoria Tower Gardens ... Slavery is the social and/or legal designation of specific persons ...
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  • and composer, the second surviving son of five sons from Johann Sebastian ... Bach attended the Thomasschule, at the age of ten, as a day student. J.S ...
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  • labor are collective terms for a variety of work relations in which people ... The institution of the corveé was and remains an accepted form of ...
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  • Archives refer to a collection of records, and also refers to the ... Archives are made up of records which have been created during the ...
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  • in England. He is most famous as a student of Peter Paul Rubens and for his ... By the age of 15 he was already a highly accomplished artist, as his ...
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  • Africa, speaking the Berber languages of the Afroasiatic family. Originally ... Despite the appearance of two significant Berber dynasties, the Almoravids ...
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