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The Beeswax Wreck is a shipwreck off the coast of the U.S. state of Oregon, discovered by Craig Andes near Cape Falcon in 2013 in Tillamook County. The ship, thought to be the Spanish Manila galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos that was wrecked in 1693, was carrying a large cargo of beeswax , lumps of which have been found scattered along Oregon's ...
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The Raft of the Medusa (French: Le Radeau de la Méduse [lə ʁado d(ə) la medyz]) – originally titled Scène de Naufrage (Shipwreck Scene) – is an oil painting of 1818–19 by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault (1791–1824). [1]
The word encaustic originates from Ancient Greek: ἐγκαυστικός, which means "burning in", from ἐν en, "in" and καίειν kaiein, "to burn", [3] and this element of heat is necessary for a painting to be called encaustic. Encaustice or Encaustike (ἐγκαυστική) was the art of painting by burning in the colours. [4]
Ship of Fools (painting) Shipping by a Breakwater (J. M. W. Turner) Ships in Harbour, Evening; The Shipwreck (Turner) Shipwreck on the Norwegian Coast; French frigate Sibylle (1791) The Sirens and Ulysses; The Slave Ship; Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth; Sommarnöje; The Stages of Life; Steamboats in the Port of Rouen; Storm at Sea ...
Wax-works, not intended as fine art, subsequently became popular attractions, consisting principally of images of historical or notorious personages, made up of waxen masks on lay figures in which sometimes mechanism is fitted to give motion to the figure. Such an exhibition of wax-works with mechanical motions was shown in Germany early in the ...
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Vansittart (1813 EIC ship) View of Venice: The Piazzetta Seen from the Riva degli Schiavoni; Vere (1781 ship) Vere (1811 ship) View from the Artist's Window; View of Delft; View of the Dam and Damrak at Amsterdam; View of the Dam and Damrak at Amsterdam (Boymans van Beuningen) View of the Dam and Damrak at Amsterdam (Frick Collection)