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  2. Festum Ovorum - Wikipedia

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    Egg Saturday, Egg Feast, or Festum Ovorum is the Saturday before Ash Wednesday. [ 1 ] At the University of Oxford , pasch eggs have been provided for students on that day.

  3. Pace Egg play - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally, eggs were wrapped in onion skins and boiled to make their shells look like mottled gold, or wrapped in flowers and leaves first in order to leave a pattern, a custom also practised in traditional Scandinavian culture. [9] Eggs could also be drawn on with a wax candle before staining, often with a person's name and date on the egg ...

  4. Egg decorating - Wikipedia

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    Ukrainian pysanka Easter egg sculptures resembling pisanica in front of the Zagreb Cathedral, Croatia. Egg decorating is the art or craft of decorating eggs.It has been a popular art form throughout history because of the attractive, smooth, oval shape of the egg, and the ancient associations with eggs as a religious and cultural symbol.

  5. Easter egg - Wikipedia

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    The egg is widely used as a symbol of the start of new life, just as new life emerges from an egg when the chick hatches out. [2] Painted eggs are used at the Iranian spring holidays, the Nowruz that marks the first day of spring or Equinox, and the beginning of the year in the Persian calendar.

  6. Pasch - Wikipedia

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    Pasch may refer to: Passover; Easter; Pasch (surname), German and Swedish surname; Pasch configuration; Pasch's axiom; Pasch's theorem; Pasch egg, easter eggs; Pasch ...

  7. Ancient Greek art - Wikipedia

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    Greek art, especially sculpture, continued to enjoy an enormous reputation, and studying and copying it was a large part of the training of artists, until the downfall of Academic art in the late 19th century. During this period, the actual known corpus of Greek art, and to a lesser extent architecture, has greatly expanded.

  8. Greek art - Wikipedia

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    One of the most important forms of Byzantine art was, and still is, the Cretan school as the leading school of Greek post-Byzantine painting after Crete fell to the Ottomans in 1669. Like the Cretan school, it combined Byzantine traditions with an increasing Western European artistic influence, and also saw the first signiand the National ...

  9. The Last Supper (Damaskinos) - Wikipedia

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    The work is egg tempera on wood with dimensions of 109 cm x 84 cm x 2.8 cm (42.9 in x 33.1 in x 1.1 in). It was created towards the end of the 16th century. Jesus is at the center of the painting. Above Jesus are four angels holding a cross. A Greek inscription reading the Last Supper (Ο ΔΕΙΠΝΟ Ο ΜΥΣΤΚΟ) is below the angels.