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  2. Embriachi workshop - Wikipedia

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    Casket with couples, traces of polychromy, certosina work and naked winged boys above "Wedding casket", with certosina work, and missing parts showing wooden framework, c. 1390–1410 The Embriachi workshop ( Italian : Bottega degli Embriachi ) was an important producer of objects in carved ivory and carved bone , set in a framework of inlaid wood.

  3. Cassone - Wikipedia

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    It would be given to the bride during the wedding, and it was the bride's parents' contribution to the wedding. There are in fact a variety of different terms used in contemporary records for chests, and the attempts by modern scholars to distinguish between them remain speculative, and all decorated chests are today usually called cassoni ...

  4. Western European marriage pattern - Wikipedia

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    To the west of the line, which extends approximately between Saint Petersburg, Russia, and Trieste, Italy, marriage rates and thus fertility were comparatively low, and a significant minority of women married late or remained single, and most families were nuclear; to the east of the line and in the Mediterranean and particular regions of ...

  5. Wedding customs by country - Wikipedia

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    The wedding-list practice started in the US and Canada in the 1920s when a bride and a groom did not live together and a bridal registry was a way of helping young couples to set up their home. [57] Registries are intended to aid guests in selecting gifts the newlyweds truly want, and the service is sufficiently profitable that most retailers ...

  6. List of Intangible Cultural Heritage elements in Italy

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    Truffle hunting and extraction in Italy, traditional knowledge and practice 2021 01395: Lipizzan horse breeding traditions + [g] 2022 01687: Transhumance, the seasonal droving of livestock + [h] 2023 01964: Transhumance is a type of pastoralism or nomadism, a seasonal movement of livestock between fixed summer and winter pastures.

  7. Renaissance in Urbino - Wikipedia

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    The first Renaissance endeavor in Urbino was the portal of the church of San Domenico, created in 1449 in a manner similar to a Roman triumphal arch by Maso di Bartolomeo, [8] called to the city through the intercession of Fra Carnevale, an Urbino painter sent perhaps by Federico himself to the workshop of Filippo Lippi, one of the three most famous Florentine painters of the time (along with ...

  8. History of early modern Italy - Wikipedia

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    That fall, the Roman Republic also collapsed and the French were by now virtually cleared from Italy. Political map of Italy in the years around 1810. After seizing power as consul in France, Napoleon launched a renewed invasion of Italy. Milan fell on June 2, 1800 and Austrian defeats there and in Germany ended the War of the Second Coalition.

  9. History of Ireland (400–795) - Wikipedia

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    The High Kings of Ireland continued pagan practices until the reign of Diarmait mac Cerbaill c. 558, traditionally the first Christian High King. The monastic movement, headed by abbots, took hold in the mid 6th century, and by 700 Ireland was at least nominally a Christian country, with the church fully part of Irish society.