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| Witham Shield Witham_Shield | |
| Dürer's Rhinoceros Dürer's Rhinoceros is the name commonly given to a woodcut created by German painter and printmaker Albrecht Dürer in 1515. The image was based on a written description and brief sketch by an unknown artist of an Indian rhinoceros that had arrived in Lisbon earlier that year. Dürer's_Rhinoceros | |
| Douris (vase painter) Douris (Ancient Greek:Athenian red-figure vase painter who flourished from c. 500 to 460 BCE. Douris_(vase_painter) | |
| Geogre/Talk archive 16 User:Geogre/Talk_archive_16 | |
| Nocturnal (instrument) A nocturnal is an instrument used to determine the time based on the position of a certain star in the night sky. Sometimes called an "horologium nocturnum" (time instrument for night) or nocturlabe (in French and occasionally used by English writers), it is closely related to the sun dial. A nocturnal is typically a navigational instrument. Knowing the time is important in piloting for calculating tides and some nocturnals incorporate Nocturnal_(instrument) | |
| Salcombe Cannon Wreck Salcombe Cannon wrecksite is close to two other designated wrecksites in the Erme Estuary which the South West Maritime Archaeological Group (SWMAG) was licensed to investigate. In 1992 this group described the Salcombe Cannon site as"A cannon site with nothing else visible".In 1994, following seabed changes, other artifacts including gold were revealed and the SWMAG began recording the site. Salcombe_Cannon_Wreck | |
| Hellenistic art Hellenistic art is the art of the Hellenistic period and dating from 323 BCE to 146 BCE. A number of the best-known works of Greek sculpture belong to this period, Laocoön and his Sons, Venus de Milo, and the Winged Victory of Samothrace.The term Hellenistic is a modern invention; the Hellenistic World not only included a huge area covering the whole of the Aegean, rather than the Classical Greece focused on the Poleis of Athens and Sparta, but also a huge time range. Hellenistic_art | |
| Iran/Archive 5 Talk:Iran/Archive_5 | |
| Water Newton Treasure Water_Newton_Treasure | |
| Touch pieces Touch pieces are coins and medals that have attracted superstitious beliefs, such as those with 'holes' in them or those with particular designs. Such pieces were believed to cure disease, bring good luck, influence people's behaviour, carry out a specific practical action, et cetera.What most touch pieces have in common is that they have to be touched or in close physical contact for the power concerned to be obtained and/or transferred. Touch_pieces | |
| History of Milton Keynes Milton Keynes is a large 'new town' in South East England. This history of Milton Keynes details its development from the earliest human settlements, through the plans for a 'new city' for 250,000 people in south central England, its subsequent urban design and development, to the present day. History_of_Milton_Keynes | |
| Print room print room is either a room or industrial building where printing takes place, or a room in an art gallery, museum or archive, where a collection of old master and modern prints, usually together with drawings and watercolours, are held and viewed. The latter meaning is the subject of this article. A further meaning is a room decorated by pasting prints onto the wall in a quasi-collage style to form a sort of wallpaper, an 18th century fashion, of which several examples survive. Print_room | |
| Tuilik Tuilik is a traditional Greenland paddling jacket, used when paddling a kayak. It is a jacket and a spray shirt integrated into one piece of clothing, which is sealed at the face, at the wrists and around the cockpit coaming. In this way the paddler can do an eskimo roll without getting wet, and without getting any water into his kayak. Traditionally, a tuilik was made from seal-skin, although, outside of Greenland, the modern tuilik is made from neoprene or from waterproof, breathable fabric. Tuilik | |
| Israhel van Meckenem Israhel van Meckenem (also known as Israhel van Meckenem the Younger, c. 1445 – 1503) was a German printmaker and goldsmith. He was the most prolific engraver of the fifteenth century and an important figure in the early history of old master prints. He was active from 1465 until his death. Israhel_van_Meckenem | |
| Religion in England Religion in England refers to those religions that are practiced, either currently or in the past, in the nation of England. Currently, the largest religion in the country is Christianity, with the Church of England the official state church holding a special constitutional position. Religion_in_England | |
| Capitoline Venus Capitoline Venus is a type of statue of Venus, specifically one of several Venus Pudica (modest Venus) types (others include the Venus de' Medici type), of which several examples exist. The type ultimately derives from the Aphrodite of Cnidus. It is recognisable from the position of the armsThis original of this type (from which the following copies derive) is thought to be a lost third or second century BCE variation on Praxiteles' work from Asia Minor, which modifies the Praxitelean tradition by a carnal and voluptuous treatment of the subject and the goddess's modest gesture with both hands Capitoline_Venus | |
| Crouching Venus This article discusses the type itselfThe Crouching Venus is a Hellenistic model of Venus surprised at her bath. Venus crouches with her right knee close to the ground, turns her head to the right and, in most versions, reaches her right arm over to her left shoulder to cover her breasts. To judge by the number of copies that have been excavated on Roman sites in Italy and France, this variant on Venus seems to have been popular. Crouching_Venus | |
| Campo Iemini Venus Campo_Iemini_Venus | |
| Lely Venus Lely Venus is an instance of the Crouching Venus type of Hellenistic marble statue. It is of Antonine date. Gonzaga collection in Mantua, where it was inventoried in the Gonzaga collection in 1627 Whilst there it was seen by the artist Rubens, who stayed with the Gonzaga family whilst on the continent on diplomatic and art-collecting duties for Charles I of England. Lely_Venus | |
| History of the English penny (c. 600-1066) History_of_the_English_penny_(c._600-1066) |
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