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2. Selma Burke - Wikipedia

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   Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, 1979. Selma Hortense Burke (December 31, 1900 – August 29, 1995) was an American sculptor and a member of the Harlem Renaissance movement. [1] Burke is best known for a bas relief portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt which may have been the model for his image on the obverse of the ...

3. Repoussoir - Wikipedia

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   Repoussoir. In two-dimensional works of art, such as painting, printmaking, photography or bas-relief, repoussoir (French: [ʁəpuswaʁ], pushing back) is an object along the right or left foreground that directs the viewer's eye into the composition by bracketing (framing) the edge. It became popular with Mannerist and Baroque artists, and is ...

4. Depiction of Hatshepsut's birth and coronation - Wikipedia

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   Bas-relief carvings in the ancient Egyptian temple of Deir el-Bahari depict events in the life of the pharaoh or monarch Hatshepsut of the Eighteenth Dynasty. They show the Egyptian gods, in particular Amun, presiding over her creation, and describe the ceremonies of her coronation. Their purpose was to confirm the legitimacy of her status as a ...

5. Bagratuni dynasty - Wikipedia

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   Bagratuni dynasty. Bas-relief of a leopard with a cross above it from the ruins of Ani, believed to be a symbol of the Bagratuni dynasty or of Ani. [1] The Bagratuni or Bagratid dynasty (Armenian: Բագրատունի, Armenian pronunciation: [bagɾatuni]) was an Armenian [3] royal dynasty which ruled the medieval Kingdom of Armenia from c. 885 ...

6. Wondering the History of Halloween? Here's How It All Began ...

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   The meaning of Halloween today is far removed from its darker origins in ancient Britain, Ireland and northern France—when people believed it was a night when the dead literally returned to the ...

7. The Origin Story of Halloween Is Deeper and Darker Than You ...

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   The OG Halloween predates Christianity, stretching all the way to an ancient Celtic celebration (and by ancient we mean about 2,000 years ago) known as Samhain (pronounced "sow-in") that took ...

8. Venus of Laussel - Wikipedia

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   The Venus of Laussel is an 18.11-inch-high (46.0-centimetre) limestone bas-relief of a nude woman. It is painted with red ochre and was carved into the limestone of a rock shelter (Abri de Laussel) in the commune of Marquay, in the Dordogne department of south-western France. The carving is associated with the Gravettian Upper Paleolithic ...

9. The Back Series - Wikipedia

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   The Back Series is a series of four bas-relief sculptures, by Henri Matisse. They are Matisse's largest and most monumental sculptures. The plaster originals are housed in the Musée Matisse in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France. They were modeled between 1909 and 1930. Back (I) appeared in the second PostImpressionist show in London and the Armory ...