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  2. Art Nouveau - Wikipedia

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    The most striking example was the house and studio built for the artist Albert Ciamberlani at 48, rue Defacqz / Defacqzstraat in Brussels, for which he created an exuberant façade covered with sgraffito murals with painted figures and ornament, recreating the decorative architecture of the Quattrocento, or 15th-century Italy. [30]

  3. List of Chinese symbols, designs, and art motifs - Wikipedia

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    A list of Chinese symbols, designs, and art motifs, including decorative ornaments, patterns, auspicious symbols, and iconography elements, used in Chinese visual arts, sorted in different theme categories.

  4. Islamic geometric patterns - Wikipedia

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    For example, the decoration of the 15th-century mosque in Yazd, Persia is based on a circle, divided into six by six circles drawn around it, all touching at its centre and each touching its two neighbours' centres to form a regular hexagon. On this basis is constructed a six-pointed star surrounded by six smaller irregular hexagons to form a ...

  5. Slide (musical ornament) - Wikipedia

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    Though Leopold Mozart did not use the term Schleifer in his Gründliche Violinschule (1756), his description and musical examples indicated that the slide could be used as an elaboration of and ascending or descending appoggiaturas: "It is frequently the custom to make the ascending appoggiatura from the third below, even if it should appear to ...

  6. Jewellery - Wikipedia

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    The nose and ear ornaments, chest plates, small containers and whistles are considered masterpieces of ancient Peruvian culture. [62] A notable example of Andean metallurgy is the Northern Andean cultures' work with platinum, which has a much higher melting point than other precious metals.

  7. Artifact (archaeology) - Wikipedia

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    Examples include seashells moved inland or rounded pebbles placed away from the water action that made them. Curmsun Disc - Obverse, Jomsborg, 980s, Burial site of king Harald Bluetooth. These distinctions are often blurred; a bone removed from an animal carcass is a biofact but a bone carved into a useful implement is an artifact.

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