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Apollo Belvedere
Apollo Belvedere. Marble statue (Vatican Mus.) of the Greek god Apollo, discovered towards the end of the 15th century and long regarded as one of the supreme masterpieces of world art and the absolute standard for male beauty (it is named after the Belvedere Court in the Vatican, in which it was... Read more |
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Statues
Statuary Background Sculpture is three-dimensional art, and statuary is affordable sculpture for everyone. Statuary encompasses the sublime to the ridiculous it is as familiar as red- and-green lawn gnomes and as exotic the Winged Victory,an ancient Greek sculpture... Read more |
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National Gallery
National Gallery London, one of the permanent national art collections of Great Britain, est. 1824. The nucleus of museum was the 38-picture collection of the late English banker John Julius Angerstein, which was purchased by the House of Commons; it was initially displayed at Angerstein's former... Read more |
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Elmhurst
Elmhurst city (1990 pop. 42,029), Du Page co., NE Ill., a suburb of Chicago; settled 1843, inc. 1910. A residential city, it also has three industrial parks. Elmhurst College is there, as is a museum of lapidary art that displays numerous minerals and gemstones.... Read more |
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Rosetta
Rosetta , former name of Rashid , city (1986 pop. 51,789), N Egypt, in the Nile River delta. The city once dominated the region's rice market; rice milling and fish processing are the main industries of modern Rashid. Founded in the 9th cent., the city was formerly an important port but declined... Read more |
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Belvedere Torso
Belvedere Torso. A marble fragment showing the torso and upper legs of a powerful male figure seated on a rock, now in the Vatican Museums and named after the Belvedere Court in the Vatican in which it was once displayed. It is signed by a Greek sculptor ‘Apollonius, son of Nestor,... Read more |
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Masayuki Nagare
Nagare, Masayuki (1923– ). Japanese abstract sculptor, active in the USA as well as in his own country. He was born in Nagasaki, the son of a distinguished statesman, and had a samurai upbringing; his interest in martial arts led him to study with a swordsmith, laying the foundations of the... Read more |
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computer graphics
computer graphics the transfer of pictorial data into and out of a computer . Using analog-to-digital conversion techniques, a variety of devices—such as curve tracers, digitizers, and light pens—connected to graphic computer terminals , computer-aided design programs, or optical... Read more |
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Looking East: 'Byzantium' at the met.(Art)
...The Glory of Byzantium." It covered...stretching from just after the resolution...following its fall to the Fourth...Orthodox religious art (in its many...early Christian art, from the third...of Byzantine arts and the ... |
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Domes of gold; "Byzantium".
...of Rome's fall. It was a Russian...exhibition entitled "Byzantium 330-1453...classical Greek, was self...language. Only after Byzantium...of Byzantine art foreshadowed...Metropolitan Museum of Art in New ... |
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Istanbul exhibit seeks to reveal city's soul
...statues of Greek and Roman gods...300 works of art from museums...exhibit "From Byzantium to Istanbul...If we say after the conquest, after the fall, all of a...C., when Greek settlers developed...Venice are ... |
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Istanbul exhibit seeks to reveal city's soul.
...statues of Greek and Roman gods...300 works of art from museums...exhibit "From Byzantium to Istanbul...If we say after the conquest, after the fall, all of a...C., when Greek settlers developed...Venice are ... |
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Faith and power: the Metropolitan Museum's triptych of Byzantine exhibitions...
...Glory of Byzantium', which focused...following the fall of the city...name of the Greek city subsumed...tribute to the Greek heritage of...and Byzantine Art, puts it 1557...in the years after the fall ... |