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2. Study of a Young Woman - Wikipedia

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   Study of a Young Woman. Study of a Young Woman (also known as Portrait of a Young Woman or Girl with a Veil) [ 2 ][ 3 ] is a painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, completed between 1665 and 1667, and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The painting was painted around the same time as the better-known Girl with a Pearl ...

3. List of mythological objects - Wikipedia

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   Flaming pearl (also Wish-granting pearl), oriental dragons are shown with a flaming pearl under their chin or in their claws. The pearl is associated with spiritual energy, wisdom, prosperity, power, immortality, thunder, or the moon. (Chinese mythology) Gem of Kukulkan, the Mayan god brought fire, earth, air, and water to the world. Kukulkan ...

4. Girl with a Pearl Earring - Wikipedia

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   Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands. Girl with a Pearl Earring (Dutch: Meisje met de parel) [1][2] is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer, dated c. 1665. Going by various names over the centuries, it became known by its present title towards the end of the 20th century because of the earring worn by the girl portrayed ...

5. Weddings in ancient Rome - Wikipedia

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   The interpretation of the flammeum as red is supported by a later scholiast of Juvenal, who describes the veil as sanguine and resemblant of blood. However, Pliny the Elder, who stated that the color luteus was often used for bridal veils, compares this color to egg-yolk as luteum, implying that the color may have been orange-yellow shade.

6. Wedding dress of Grace Kelly - Wikipedia

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   The Juliet cap that she wore was bejeweled with seed pearls and orange blossoms. The veil, made of tulle, measured 90 yards. Her other wedding adornments included a small Bible and a bouquet of lilies of the valley. [5] [8] The material cost and manufacturing cost of the dress was indicated as US$7266.68, excluding the fee of the designer. [4]

7. Vestal Virgin Tuccia (Corradini sculpture) - Wikipedia

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   The Vestal Virgin Tuccia (Italian: La Vestale Tuccia) or Veiled Woman (Italian: La Velata) is a marble sculpture created in 1743 by Antonio Corradini, a Venetian Rococo sculptor known for his illusory depictions of female allegorical figures covered with veils that reveal the fine details of the forms beneath. [1][2] The work is housed in the ...