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2. Ornament (art) - Wikipedia

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   Ornament (art) Rococo interior of the Wilhering Abbey ( Wilhering, Austria ), with a trompe-l'œil painted ceiling, surrounded by highly decorated stucco. In architecture and decorative art, ornament is decoration used to embellish parts of a building or object. Large figurative elements such as monumental sculpture and their equivalents in ...

3. A Demon of Our Own Design - Wikipedia

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   A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation (2007) is a book by veteran Wall Street risk manager Richard Bookstaber. [1] The book is noted for its foreshadowing of the financial crisis of 2007–08. Bookstaber had a "a front-row seat" [1] for such crises as the stock market crash of 1987 and the ...

4. Islamic ornament - Wikipedia

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   Islamic ornament is the use of decorative forms and patterns in Islamic art and Islamic architecture. Its elements can be broadly divided into the arabesque , using curving plant-based elements, geometric patterns with straight lines or regular curves, and calligraphy , consisting of religious texts with stylized appearance, used both ...

5. Costume design - Wikipedia

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   Costume design is the creation of clothing for the overall appearance of a character or performer. Costume may refer to the style of dress particular to a nation, a class, or a period. In many cases, it may contribute to the fullness of the artistic, visual world which is unique to a particular theatrical or cinematic production.

6. Lalique - Wikipedia

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   Lalique. Lalique is a French luxury glassmaker, founded by renowned glassmaker and jeweller René Lalique in 1888. [1] Lalique is best known for producing glass art, including perfume bottles, vases, and hood ornaments during the early twentieth century. Following the death of René, Lalique transitioned to producing lead glass (crystal) works ...

7. Scroll (art) - Wikipedia

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   The scroll in art is an element of ornament and graphic design featuring spirals and rolling incomplete circle motifs, some of which resemble the edge-on view of a book or document in scroll form, though many types are plant-scrolls, which loosely represent plant forms such as vines, with leaves or flowers attached.