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  2. Islamic ornament - Wikipedia

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    This "quality" is the feeling transmitted through ornament's visual messages. Owen Jones, in his book The Grammar of Ornament (1856), proposes theories on color, geometry, and abstraction. One of his guiding principles states that all ornament is based on a geometric construction. [48] Granada, Alhambra, Hall of the Two Sisters, muqarnas ceiling.

  3. Julebukking - Wikipedia

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    Christmas Yule Goat ornaments. Julbocken by John Bauer (1912). Julebukking (Gå julebukk) is a Christmas tradition of Scandinavian origin. [1]Between Christmas and New Year's Day, people wearing face masks and costumes (Julebukkers) would go door to door, where neighbors receiving them attempt to identify who is under the disguise.

  4. Linda Christian - Wikipedia

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    Linda Christian (born Blanca Rosa Henrietta Stella Welter Vorhauer; November 13, 1923 [1] [2] [3] – July 22, 2011 [4]) was a Mexican film actress who appeared in Mexican and Hollywood films. Her career reached its peak in the 1940s and 1950s.

  5. Apotropaic magic - Wikipedia

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    Similarly the grotesque faces carved into pumpkin lanterns (and their earlier counterparts, made from turnips, swedes or beets) at Halloween are meant to avert evil: this season was Samhain, the Celtic new year. As a "time between times", it was believed to be a period when souls of the dead and other dangerous spirits walked the earth.

  6. Quatrefoil - Wikipedia

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    It is found in art, architecture, heraldry and traditional Christian symbolism. [2] The word 'quatrefoil' means "four leaves", from the Latin quattuor , "four", plus folium , "leaf"; [ 3 ] the term refers specifically to a four-leafed clover , but applies in general to four-lobed shapes in various contexts.

  7. Owen Jones (architect) - Wikipedia

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    The final chapter, titled 'Leaves and Flowers from Nature' acknowledges the underlying principle that dictates the design of ornament around the world, which is the form found in nature: "in the best periods of art, all ornament was based upon an observation of the principles which regulate the arrangement of form in nature" and that "true art ...

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