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Veil of mystery lifting on Etruscans
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TARQUINIA, Italy - Fresh discoveries near this hilltop town and
elsewhere in western Italy are helping lift a veil of mystery from
the ancient Etruscans, the enigmatic people who taught the French how
to make wine, the Romans how to build roads and bridges and the rest
of Europe how to write and thereby become civilized.
For more than 2,000 years, so little was known about the elusive
people who made a rich civilization in Italy from about 1000 B.C. to
the 1st century B.C. - for much o...
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Weekend: The writing is now clearly on the wall; It's spent much of its life hidden from view, but finally the amazing wall painting in Coventry's Holy Trinity Church is being restored. Ross Reyburn went to see how the work is getting on.(Features)
The Birmingham Post (England)
; Byline: Ross Reyburn A rare medieval wall painting, that has spent most of its life hidden from view in the heart of Coventry, is finally resurfacing as a potential major Midlands tourist attraction. The figure of Christ, the mouth of Hell and dozens of impressively painted figures can now be seen
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Ancient Egyptian wall painting.(Brief article)
Arts & Activities
; Ancient Egyptian wall painting: Pashedu with the Sacred Eye of Horus (detail). Tomb of Pashedu, Deir el-Medina; Tomb of the Nobles, Luxor; 20th Dynasty (1314-1085 B.C
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A 15th-century wall painting of a woman in a low-cut gown has been uncovered at the Bishop's Palace in Wells. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
History Today
; A 15th-century wall painting of a woman in a low-cut gown has been uncovered at the Bishop's Palace in Wells. The painting, thought to date from the 1470s and described by conservators as `risque' for a bishop's palace, had been hidden from view by a 19th-century ceiling. More of the image is
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Fragments of a Roman wall painting -- thought to be one of the finest ever found in Britain. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
History Today
; Fragments of a Roman wall painting -- thought to be one of the finest ever found in Britain -- have been unearthed on a building site in the City of London. The 1,900-year-old work, depicting Bacchus, the Roman god of wine, and other mythological figures, was found 25ft below ground by
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Ervine defends Miami murder mural
Belfast Telegraph
; Loyalists last night responded to criticism of a mural commemorating two UVF men who died while attempting to blow up the Miami Showband 30 years ago.David Ervine from the Progressive Unionist Party defended the paramilitary group's launch of the wall painting the same night as a ceremony in Dublin
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Why Klee would have admired the world's oldest wall painting
The Independent - London
; Its precise red, black and white rectangles recall Modernist art by Mondrian or Klee, but this painting - recently discovered in the Syrian countryside - is actually the oldest wall painting known to man. "Through carbon dating, we established it is from around 9000BC," said Eric Coqueugniot, the
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Historians astonished by rare glimpse into city's past; PHOENIX INITIATIVE SITE CLEARANCE UNEARTHS 14TH CENTURY WARNING OF THE APOCALYPSE.(News)
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
; Byline: BARBARA GOULDEN THE Coventry dig has unearthed rare glimpses into the city's fascinating past and delighted historians. City archaeolgist Margaret Rylatt has even postponed her retirement and Channel 4's Time Team have made an unprecedented two programmes in the city. A computer generated
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City diggers unearth 14th century treasure.(News)
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
; A WALL painting which lay hidden beneath Coventry city centre for more than 600 years has been discovered. The picture of a mediaeval vision of the end of the world which dates back to the 14th century was unearthed during excavation work in the ruins of Coventry's lost Cathedral. The apocalypse
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Scots artist wins Beck's Futures
The Scotsman
; TOBY Paterson last night became the second Scottish artist in three years to win the Beck's Futures prize, when he collected a cheque for 24,000 pounds at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London. The prize has been described by the Face magazine as "a whole lot hipper" than its much-derided
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Illusions of grandeur
Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
; The expression "doing a lot with a little" certainly applies to the striking, three-dimensional illusions created by the wall painting technique referred to as trompe l'oeil (pronounced TROM- loy). Wall painting dates back to the beginning of man, but it wasn't until the Italian Renaissance that
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