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2. Fontana della Pigna - Wikipedia

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   There is another fountain known as Fontana della Pigna in Rimini, Italy, also of Ancient Roman origin but heavily restored.The pine cone sculpture crowning this fountain was only installed in 1807, replacing a 16th-century statue of St. Paul damaged by the Napoleonic army.

3. Conifer cone - Wikipedia

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   A mature female big-cone pine (Pinus coulteri) cone, the heaviest pine cone A young female or seed cone on a Norway spruce (Picea abies) Immature male or pollen cones of Swiss pine (Pinus cembra) A conifer cone or, in formal botanical usage, a strobilus , pl. : strobili , is a seed-bearing organ on gymnosperm plants, especially in conifers and ...

4. Shōrin-zu byōbu - Wikipedia

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   The work is a development of suibokuga (水墨画, ink-wash paintings) made with Chinese ink (墨, sumi), using dark and light shades on a silk or paper medium.It combines naturalistic Chinese ideas of ink painting by Muqi Fachang (Chinese: 牧溪法常; pinyin: Mu-ch'i Fa-ch'ang) with themes from the Japanese yamato-e (大和絵) landscape tradition, influenced by the "splashed ink" (溌墨 ...

5. Buta (ornament) - Wikipedia

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   The boteh (Persian: بته), is an almond or pine cone-shaped motif in ornament with a sharp-curved upper end. [1] Though of Persian origin, it is very common and called buta in India , Azerbaijan , Turkey and other countries of the Near East . [ 1 ]

6. Winged genie - Wikipedia

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   Winged genii co-existed with numerous other mythological hybrids in the Early Iron Age art of Assyria and Asia Minor. They influenced Archaic Greece during its " orientalizing period ", resulting in the hybrid creatures of Greek mythology such as the Chimera , the Griffin or Pegasus and, in the case of the "winged man", Talos .

7. Bucket and cone - Wikipedia

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   Bucket and cone refer to twin attributes that are frequently held in the hands of winged genies depicted in the art of Mesopotamia, and within the context of Ancient Mesopotamian religion. The iconography is particularly frequent in art from the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–605 BCE ) , and especially Assyrian palace reliefs from this period.