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43 Cards in this Set
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Finial of a Spokesperson Staff |
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Nkisi Nkkondi |
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Flag for a new world power |
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Dispersion |
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Nkisi |
An object that a spirit inhabits |
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Diaspora |
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The Barunga Statement |
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The Wapepe Navigation chart |
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Moai Ancestor Figures |
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mans Love story |
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Dreamtime |
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X-ray Style |
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St Peters Basilica |
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St Teresa of Avila in Ecstasy-Bernini |
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Facade Church of San Carlo-Borromini? |
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Conversion of St Paul-Caravagio |
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Las Meninas-Velazquez |
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Impasto |
is a technique used in painting, where paint is laid on an area of the surface very thickly, usually thick enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible. Paint can also be mixed right on the canvas. |
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Tenebrism |
from the Italian, tenebroso (murky), also called dramatic illumination, is a style of painting using very pronounced chiaroscuro, where there are violent contrasts of light and dark, and where darkness becomes a dominating feature of the image. |
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Baldachin |
or baldaquin (from Italian: baldacchino), is a canopy of state over an altar or throne. |
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Porticoes |
a structure consisting of a roof supported by columns at regular intervals, typically attached as a porch to a building. |
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Balustrade |
a railing supported by balusters, especially an ornamental parapet on a balcony, bridge, or terrace. |
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Landscape with St John on patmos-Poussin |
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St pauls Cathedral |
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Vanitas |
is a category of symbolic works of art, especially those associated with the still-life paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries in Flanders and the Netherlands |
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Genre painting |
a style of painting depicting scenes from ordinary life, especially domestic situations. Genre painting is associated particularly with 17th-century Dutch and Flemish artists. |
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Minaret |
a tall slender tower, typically part of a mosque, with a balcony from which a muezzin calls Muslims to prayer. |
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Arabesques |
an ornamental design consisting of intertwined flowing lines, originally found in Arabic or Moorish decoration. |
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Pietra Dura |
called parchin kari in South Asia, is a term for the inlay technique of using cut and fitted, highly polished colored stones to create images. It is considered a decorative art. |
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Rongxi Studio-Ni Zan |
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Picnic at the lotus Pond |
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Literati Painting |
the ideal form of the Chinese scholar-painter who was more interested in personal erudition and expression than in literal representation or an immediately attractive surface beauty. |
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Confucianism |
also known as Ruism, is a system of philosophical and "ethical-sociopolitical teachings" sometimes described as a religion. |
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Daoism |
is a religious or philosophical tradition of Chinese origin that emphasizes living in harmony with the Tao (also romanized as Dao). The term Tao means "way", "path", or "principle", and can also be found in Chinese philosophies and religions other than Taoism. |
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The Swing-Frangonard |
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The marriage contract-Hogarth |
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Self Portrait with two Pupils-Guidard |
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Oath to Horatii-David |
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Third of May-Goya |
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Raft of the Medusa-Gericault |
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Cole Thomas |
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The Stone Breakers-Courbet |
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Luncheon on the grass- Manet |