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  2. Tulip Hysteria Co-ordinating - Wikipedia

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    Marcel Duchamp, 1913. Tulip Hysteria Co-ordinating (also referred to as Tulip Hysteria Coordinating) is a fictitious work of art by Marcel Duchamp.. During early 1917, rumor spread that Duchamp was working on a Cubist painting titled Tulip Hysteria Co-ordinating, in preparation for the largest exhibition of modern art ever to take place in the United States; the "First Annual Exhibition" of ...

  3. Still life - Wikipedia

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    Juan Sánchez Cotán, Still Life with Game Fowl, Vegetables and Fruits (1602), Museo del Prado, Madrid. A still life (pl.: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or human-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, etc.).

  4. Tulip mania - Wikipedia

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    Tulip mania ( Dutch: tulpenmanie) was a period during the Dutch Golden Age when contract prices for some bulbs of the recently introduced and fashionable tulip reached extraordinarily high levels. The major acceleration started in 1634 and then dramatically collapsed in February 1637.

  5. Lists of Dutch inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The Netherlands and its people have made contributions to the arts, science, technology and engineering, economics and finance, cartography and geography, exploration and navigation, law and jurisprudence, thought and philosophy, medicine. and agriculture. The following list is composed of objects, (largely) unknown lands, breakthrough ...

  6. Fountain (Duchamp) - Wikipedia

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    The backdrop is The Warriors by Marsden Hartley. [ 1] Fountain is a readymade sculpture by Marcel Duchamp in 1917, consisting of a porcelain urinal signed "R. Mutt". In April 1917, an ordinary piece of plumbing chosen by Duchamp was submitted for the inaugural exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists, to be staged at the Grand Central ...

  7. Rachel Ruysch - Wikipedia

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    Painting. Spouse. Juriaen Pool. . . ( m. 1693; died in 1745) . Rachel Ruysch (3 June 1664 – 12 October 1750) [ 1] was a Dutch still-life painter from the Northern Netherlands. She specialized in flowers, inventing her own style and achieving international fame in her lifetime.

  8. Tulip Period - Wikipedia

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    History of theOttoman Empire. The Tulip Period, or Tulip Era ( Ottoman Turkish: لاله دورى, Turkish: Lâle Devri ), is a period in Ottoman history from the Treaty of Passarowitz on 21 July 1718 to the Patrona Halil Revolt on 28 September 1730. This was a relatively peaceful period, during which the Ottoman Empire began to orient itself ...

  9. Rococo painting - Wikipedia

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    Master Ataíde: Ascension of Jesus, 1827. Rococo painting represents the expression in painting of an aesthetic movement that flourished in Europe between the early and late 18th century, migrating to America and surviving in some regions until the mid-19th century. The painting of this movement is divided into two sharply differentiated camps.