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Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Books about gnomes" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 ...
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Bust of an old man with a fur cap and flowing beard, nearly full face, eyes direct: About 1631 B319: 6: Self portrait with cap pulled forward: About 1631 B343: 3: The artist's mother seated at a table, looking right: three-quarter length: About 1631 B101: 3: St. Jerome praying: arched print: 1632 B121: 3: The rat-poison peddler [The rat catcher ...
A subplot in the 2001 French movie Amélie revolves around a "travelling" garden gnome. A two-foot-tall (60 cm) garden gnome with a long, white beard, red conical hat and blue coat is the central figure in Travelocity's Roaming Gnome advertising campaign which was launched in January 2004. [17]
In 2008, the art historian Florian Illies made a comparison to J. M. W. Turner's Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (1844), "modernity's break-in into art history", and interpreted Gnome Watching Railway Train as Spitzweg's self-ironic comment to his reputation as someone who wanted to stop time.
Textile analysis of the Tarim Mummies has shown some similarities to the Iron Age civilizations of Europe dating from 800 BCE, including woven twill and tartan patterns strikingly similar to tartans from Northern Europe. One unusual find was a distinctively pointed hat:
The Van Dyke beard is named after Anthony van Dyck.. A Van Dyke (sometimes spelled Vandyke, [1] or Van Dyck [2]) is a style of facial hair named after the 17th-century Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641).
One of Rackham's illustrations to Das Rheingold, 1910, depicting Fasolt and Fafner seizing Freia. Arthur Rackham RWS (19 September 1867 – 6 September 1939) was an English book illustrator.