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  2. Purple - Wikipedia

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    Purple is a color similar in appearance to violet light. In the RYB color model historically used in the arts, purple is a secondary color created by combining red and blue pigments. In the CMYK color model used in modern printing, purple is made by combining magenta pigment with either cyan pigment, black pigment, or both.

  3. Art of Europe - Wikipedia

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    Byzantine art overlaps with or merges with what we call Early Christian art until the iconoclasm period of 730-843 when the vast majority of artwork with figures was destroyed; so little remains that today any discovery sheds new understanding. After 843 until 1453 there is a clear Byzantine art tradition.

  4. Early Netherlandish painting - Wikipedia

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    Rogier van der Weyden, The Descent from the Cross, c. 1435, Museo del Prado, Madrid Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434, National Gallery, London. Early Netherlandish painting is the body of work by artists active in the Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands during the 15th- and 16th-century Northern Renaissance period, once known as the Flemish Primitives. [1]

  5. Military colours, standards and guidons - Wikipedia

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    The traditional colour of the Eastern Finland Signals Battalion, part of the Karelia Brigade, has the branch colours of signals corps: purple and gold. The device featuring a western capercaillie is a throwback to the earlier designation as Central Finland Signals Battalion. The main device, the three lightning bolts, is symbolic of communication.

  6. Ancient Carthage - Wikipedia

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    [209] [210] [211] The purple dye became one of the most highly valued commodities in the ancient Mediterranean, [212] being worth fifteen to twenty times its weight in gold. In Roman society, where adult males wore the toga as a national garment, the use of the toga praetexta , decorated with a stripe of Tyrian purple about two to three inches ...

  7. Walls of Constantinople - Wikipedia

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    According to the late Byzantine Patria of Constantinople, ancient Byzantium was enclosed by a small wall that began on the northern edge of the acropolis, extended west to the Tower of Eugenios, then went south and west towards the Strategion and the Baths of Achilles, continued south to the area known in Byzantine times as Chalkoprateia, and ...

  8. Symbolist painting - Wikipedia

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    Impressed by a visit to the St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, in his works he assiduously used gold backgrounds, one of the characteristics of his production together with the use of profuse vegetation. Influenced by Byzantine art and Pre-Raphaelitism, his style was ornamental, calmly paced, with an emphasis on blue and gold tones. [78]

  9. Justinian I - Wikipedia

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    Justinian I (/ dʒ ʌ ˈ s t ɪ n i ə n / just-IN-ee-ən; Latin: Iūstīniānus, Classical Latin pronunciation: [juːstiːniˈaːnʊs]; Greek: Ἰουστινιανός, translit. Ioustinianós, Byzantine Greek pronunciation: [i.ustini.aˈnos]; 482 – 14 November 565), [b] also known as Justinian the Great, [c] was the Eastern Roman emperor from 527 to 565.

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