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  • Watercolor painting is a painting method. A watercolor is either the medium or the resulting artwork. Watercolor, also known in French as aquarelle ...
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  • [[Image:Euaion.jpg|thumb|right|A portrait from a vase of a Greek actor performing in Sophocles' lost play Andromeda.]] Sophocles (c. 496 ...
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  • the use of the ladder, which appears in many vase paintings with nuptial themes. New brides of the Athenian cult often called upon Aphrodite for ...
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  • Aegean civilization is a general term for the Bronze Age civilizations that developed between 3000-1200 B.C.E. in Greece and the basin of the ...
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  • 250px|A car kiln, a type of tunnel kiln, the vase is sitting to the right on the roll-out bottom of the kiln]] Electric kiln: Kilns operated by ...
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  • The Louvre Museum ( Musée du Louvre ) in Paris, France, is one of the oldest, largest, and most famous art galleries and museums in the world ...
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  • and Carthage. Folding beds, too, appear in the vase paintings. The Roman mattresses were stuffed with reeds, hay, wool or feathers; the last was ...
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  • of the palace is represented by the celebrated vase of the Alhambra, a splendid specimen of Moorish ceramic art, dating from 1320, and belonging ...
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  • Never place a bowl of fruit next to a vase of flowers. Always separate your vegetables from your fruits. It is commercially used in the horticulture ...
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  • dog or stag. Her darker side is revealed in some vase paintings, where she is shown as the death-bringing goddess whose arrows fell young maidens and ...
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  • between asexual polyps (the body as a vase shaped form), and sexual, free-swimming forms called medusae (singular medusa; the body in a bell ...
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  • telling his son that "the world is a beautiful vase filled with scorpions." Under a paternal eye, the education of young Timur was ...
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  • #039; is as precise an artifact as a Ming vase". Her skills as a pianist were described as "magic" and "inspirational." ...
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  • is now lost and known only from copies, vase painting, gems, literary descriptions, and coins.Neda Leipen. Athena Parthenos: a reconstruction ...
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  • In the proto-Etruscan cemetery of Golasecca, every tomb has a vase with a cross engraved on it. True crosses of more or less artistic design ...
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  • or his famous (Achilles) heel; in the later vase-paintings presenting Achilles' death, the arrow (or in many cases arrows) hit his body. ...
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  • as a tree has form, some as water poured into a vase. That most symmetrical forms have certain uses. That a vast number of subjects cannot be precisely ...
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  • shells, are kept in an intricately-decorated box or vase called the kurandi malaafath. About 24 women typically participate, in small groups of two to ...
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  • of age or sex. Nearby 105 fragments of a clay vase were discovered, scattered in a pattern that suggests it had been dropped by the person in the ...
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  • present that is still in existence, a rock crystal vase, currently on display at the Louvre. Her oldest son by Louis would eventually become King ...
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