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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 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 ...
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Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia The Battle of the Kearsarge and the Alabama is an 1864 oil painting by Édouard Manet . The painting commemorates the Battle of Cherbourg of June 19, 1864, a naval engagement of the American Civil War between the Union cruiser USS Kearsarge and the Confederate raider CSS Alabama .
This decision to salvage and remove the shipwreck artifacts by Odyssey Marine Exploration, was further questioned and complicated by the location of the wreckage. "When a ship has been discovered, the country where the ship was registered can point to something called sovereign immunity (in addition to claims of ownership).
[8] [9] Upon completion of his apprenticeship, he devoted all his spare time to art, and eventually gave up the carpentry business, setting himself up as a drawing-master and miniature painter. His first historical painting to attract public notice was the Fight Between the Shannon and Chesapeake , which sold for 13 guineas (£13.65).