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limner
limner , the work of untrained, generally anonymous artists active in the English American colonies. Characteristic examples of their paintings show flat, awkward, often frontal figures in richly detailed costumes and landscape settings copied from European prints. The limner tradition extended well... Read more |
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Zurich
Zürich , canton (1993 pop. 1,158,100), 668 sq mi (1,730 sq km), N Switzerland. The most populous Swiss canton, Zürich is bounded in part by the Lake of Zürich in the south and Germany in the north. It is a fertile agricultural region with orchards, meadows, and forests. Among the... Read more |
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Hans Thoma
Hans Thoma , 1839-1924, German painter and lithographer. He was influenced by Courbet. His later, individual style, modeled on that of old German woodcuts, shows rich coloring and depth of imaginative feeling. In 1899 he became director of the Karlsruhe Gallery and professor of the academy. The... Read more |
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Master E. S
Master E. S. (sometimes called the Master of 1466 from the date on one of his engravings). German engraver working in the mid-15th century, named after the monogram on several of his surviving prints. He was the most prolific and influential of the early German engravers, working on profane and... Read more |
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Dives
Dives [Lat.,=rich], traditional name of the unnamed rich man of the parable in the Gospel of St. Luke.... Read more |
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Eggs
EGGS EGGS. Eggs have been known to, and enjoyed by, humans for many centuries. Jungle fowl were domesticated in India by 3200 b.c.e. Records from China and Egypt show that fowl were domesticated and laying eggs for human consumption around 1400 b.c.e., and there is archaeological evidence for egg... Read more |
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Gottfried Semper
Gottfried Semper , 1803-79, German architect. Semper was among the most influential architects of the 19th cent. In his book Der Stil in den technischen und tektonischen Künsten (2 vol., 1860-63), he argued for a functional approach to modern architecture based on the study of the industrial... Read more |
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Uri (Switzerland)
Uri , canton (1993 pop. 35,500), 415 sq mi (1,075 sq km), central Switzerland, one of the Four Forest Cantons . Altdorf is the capital. The most sparsely populated of the Swiss cantons, Uri is an Alpine region of glaciers and pastures, with forests and meadows in the Reuss River valley. Its... Read more |
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Lady Penelope Rich
Penelope Rich, Lady 1562-1607, the "Stella" of Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella (1591). Daughter of Walter Devereux, first earl of Essex, she married (1581) Lord Rich (later earl of Warwick); after a divorce she married (1605) the earl of Devonshire.... Read more |
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Word Play; A German-born artist makes art of language in a sensuous new show...
...performer." For German-born artist...other fine print. As the artist...glued to a frame. The making...her recent prints and paintings. Rich with allusions...medieval art and German and American...Knowledge," the ... |
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Realism and Invention in the Prints of Albrecht Durer.
...curators of the Durham show, offer us a fascinating...richness of scholarship on German art and its inherent...Not only do these vary print by prix, but the artist plays with a frame's inherent tension...Circle woodcut (65) shows an upper ... |
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Artists take a look at the rich language behind our poses
...examines the rich language of posture...video stills, show a red- dressed...every move. This show, then, is cynical...Klein Gallery show a world imagined...Caravan" shows a little wheeled...Klein, held in frames that used to ... |
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Art; The Frame of Reference; At the Hirshhorn, Struth's Watchful Photos
...people watching art. A show about layers of perception...Directions" exhibit of German artist Thomas Struth...matter of inches, and from rich color to black and white...the 15 huge Cibachrome prints on view in a small, spare...to the plastic of the ... |
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IN BRIEF
TV shows for preschoolers...in close-up to show texture, and sliced...stylistic art of German Expressionism to...technique in which every frame of film was colored...stenciling. The print is beautiful and the colors are rich ... |
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Art Institute show examines postwar German, Austrian art
...contemporary German art has thoroughly...collection of prints and drawings show, "Postwar...a couple of prints - not his best...centered in each frame, as if in a...Felix Droese's print "Man in the...strength of this ... |
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REFLECTIONS OF HER PLACES IN THE HEART
...from $3 up), picture frames and crown-shaped taper...love it and keep its rich history alive." The...catalog features animal-print suits and accessories...comforters in exotic prints. The store also sells...check out: the Polish-German ... |
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Jeannie Thib: Lacing Her Work With an Arabesque of Obsession
...drawings and prints that make up the heart of her show, "Interlace...irregularities. Thib shows us that these...artist's screen prints of historical...Printed in rich black ink against...he fills his frame with junked ... |
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A right royal treat
...But within the frame, of course...tomorrow. The show is remarkable...has three square frames, going left to...In the next frame the emptiness...of Bingen, the German medieval mystic...Unlike Japanese prints, Indian ... |
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Touch of drama; For the latest interior look, watch out for huge designs,...
...And smaller prints of delicately...eyelet heads to show off the fabric...over a wooden frame and hang them...blown up into prints and weaves in...grey and black. Prints are [pounds sterling...technology, the German house of ... |
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