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[10]: 4:40 After the rights to the photograph were bought by Microsoft, it was renamed Bliss and was chosen as the default wallpaper of the Luna visual style, [2] [26] the default graphical user interface of Windows XP. [27] The image was used extensively by Microsoft for promoting Windows XP and their $200 million advertising campaign. [2] [28]
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Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son, sometimes known as The Stroll (French: La Promenade) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Claude Monet from 1875. The Impressionist work depicts his wife Camille Monet and their son Jean Monet in the period from 1871 to 1877 while they were living in Argenteuil, capturing a moment on a stroll on a windy summer's day.
For Duret's book, Renoir created a drawing of Lise with a Parasol, which Duret used as a frontispiece; it is the only image of a painting from the entire Impressionist movement in the book. [68] In the section on Renoir, Duret speaks glowingly about Lise with a Parasol to help Renoir win commissions from future patrons. "Renoir excels in ...
The earliest visual record is an "8th century image of Bishop John of Pavia, showing him followed by a servant carrying an umbrella." The earliest known written evidence of the parasol is also from the 8th century, when Pope Paul I (757-767) bestowed a jeweled parasol to Pepin the Short as part of a peace settlement. [35]
Ruth Parasol (born 1967), founder of PartyGaming, the parent company of online poker site PartyPoker.com; Parasol (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse; Parasol (satellite), a French-built Earth-observing research satellite; Parasol, a roof or covering of a structure designed to provide cover from wind, rain, or sun
Story of Seasons, known in Japan as Bokujō Monogatari [a] and formerly known as Harvest Moon, is an agricultural farming life simulation video game series created by Yasuhiro Wada and developed by Victor Interactive Software (acquired by Marvelous Entertainment in 2003, now Marvelous Inc.).