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Cimabue
Cimabue The Italian painter Cimabue (active last quarter of 13th century) worked in an Italo-Byzantine style characterized by a vigor and vivacity that set it apart from the more conventional art of his times and anticipated the more natural style of the 14th century. Cimabue whose given... Read more |
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Jacopo Torriti
Torriti, Jacopo (active 1290s). Italian mosaicist and painter. Nothing is known of his life, but he signed mosaics commissioned by Pope Nicholas IV for the apses of two churches in Rome, S. Giovanni in Laterano (c.1291), and S. Maria Maggiore (c.1295), and he must have been one of the leading... Read more |
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Eric Newton
Newton, Eric (1893–1965). British writer on art and designer of mosaics. He was born at Marple Bridge, in Cheshire, and studied at Manchester University. From 1913 to 1933 (interrupted by army service in the First World War) he worked as a mosaic designer and craftsman with the firm of L.... Read more |
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apse the termination at the sanctuary end of a church, generally semicircular in plan but sometimes square or polygonal. The apse appeared early in Roman temples and basilicas; it was originally a semicircular recess with a half dome as ceiling and contained the monumental statue of the deity. The... Read more |
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mosaic
mosaic , art of arranging colored pieces of marble, glass, tile, wood, or other material to produce a surface ornament. Ancient Mosaics In Egypt and Mesopotamia, furniture, small architectural features, and jewelry were occasionally adorned with inset bits of enamel, glass, and colored stone. Early... Read more |
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Giovanni Lanfranco
Giovanni Lanfranco , 1582-1647, Italian painter. Lanfranco is considered one of the foremost artists of the High Baroque. He was trained by the Carracci and worked primarily in Rome and Naples, where he executed numerous decorative plans for churches and palaces. Lanfranco greatly extended the... Read more |
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Early Christian art and architecture
Early Christian art and architecture works of art exhibiting Christian themes and structures designed for Christian worship created relatively soon after the death of Jesus. Most date from the 4th to the 6th cent. AD See also Christian iconography under iconography . Earliest Works Little is... Read more |
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Mithraeum
Mithraeum. Building dedicated to the cult of Mithras, popular during the Roman Empire, often partly underground and planned on an axis between shelves or loculi on which followers reclined during the mysteries, and with an apse at one end. A good example was discovered in 1870 under the Church of... Read more |
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Russian art and architecture
Russian art and architecture the artistic and architectural production of the geographical area of Russia. Early Christian Works With the Christianization of Russia in the late 10th cent. the Russian church and its art became subject to Constantinople (see Byzantine art and architecture ). Major... Read more |
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cathedral
cathedral church in which a bishop presides. The designation is not dependent on the size or magnificence of a church edifice, but is entirely a matter of its assignment as the church in which the bishop shall officiate. Romanesque cathedrals (see Romanesque architecture and art ) were massive,... Read more |
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LEADING QUESTIONS.(BUSINESS)
...believe in disappointment. We work in a very busy, buzzy industry...Cooke's American Journeys: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War. And a book by a photographer called Andris Apse, Odyssey and Images. |
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Adnaus : Shooting star
...Zealand Geographic Photographer of the Year competition...leading editorial photographers Tui de Roy, Andris Apse & Arno Gasteiger...coast of Muriwai to life." Blackwood entered...in Fastline. The work of the category ... |