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The History of the Mexicans as Told by Their Paintings (Spanish: Historia de los Mexicanos por sus pinturas) is a Spanish language, post-conquest codex written in the 1530s. This manuscript was likely composed by Father Andrés de Olmos, an early Franciscan friar. It is presumed to be based upon one or more indigenous pictorial codices.
It is called lluvia de orquideas or terciopelo in Spanish, krua on in Thai, and rong bao teng in Chinese. Native to Myanmar and Thailand , it can be found elsewhere in South Asia, including Laos , Vietnam , Malaysia ( Kedah ), China ( Yunnan ), Bangladesh, and India ( Assam , Manipur , Tamil Nadu , and West Bengal ).
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Mona Lisa was created by Leonardo da Vinci using oil paints during the Renaissance period in the 15th century.. Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments combined with a drying oil as the binder.
Los martes, orquídeas (On Tuesdays, Orchids) is a 1941 Argentine black and white comedy film of the Golden Age directed by Francisco Múgica and starring Mirtha Legrand, Enrique Serrano, Juan Carlos Thorry and Nuri Montsé.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French pronunciation: [wiljam adɔlf buɡ(ə)ʁo]; 30 November 1825 – 19 August 1905) was a French academic painter.In his realistic genre paintings, he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body. [1]
Well-known Dutch-American artist Willem de Kooning is known for saying "Flesh is the reason oil paint was invented". David Price is known as having used many of the best painting materials, and has experimented with most of the best brands, preferring Old Master materials and brands like Old Holland and Michael Harding, painting on traditional ...
A Phalaenopsis flower. Orchids are easily distinguished from other plants, as they share some very evident derived characteristics or synapomorphies.Among these are: bilateral symmetry of the flower (zygomorphism), many resupinate flowers, a nearly always highly modified petal (labellum), fused stamens and carpels, and extremely small seeds.