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  2. File:Stonehenge by Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1876 - Nelson ...

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    Place of creation: United States of America : Notes: This artwork is old enough so that it is in the public domain, and the museum permitted photography without restriction.

  3. Lucas de Heere - Wikipedia

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    The earliest-known realistic painting of Stonehenge (1573-1575) After the citizens of Ghent revolted against their ruler emperor Charles V, the city's privileges were abolished by the Carolinian Concession in 1540. As a result, the power of the guilds was broken and artistic activity came to a standstill.

  4. Stonehenge - Wikipedia

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    Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two miles (3 km) west of Amesbury.It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connecting horizontal lintel stones, held in place with mortise and tenon joints, a feature unique among ...

  5. Stonehenge replicas and derivatives - Wikipedia

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    A Stonehenge replica is located on the campus of the University of Texas of the Permian Basin in Odessa, Ector County, US. About twenty stone blocks, similar in size, shape, and appearance to the ancient Stonehenge, were unveiled in the summer of 2004. Foamhenge is a full-size, astronomically aligned Stonehenge made out of foam in Virginia, US. [4]

  6. Prehistoric art - Wikipedia

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    In the history of art, prehistoric art is all art produced in preliterate, prehistorical cultures beginning somewhere in very late geological history, and generally continuing until that culture either develops writing or other methods of record-keeping, or makes significant contact with another culture that has, and that makes some record of major historical events.

  7. 6,000-year-old wood carving could solve Stonehenge mystery

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    Archaeological investigations, carried out just 100 metres north of Stonehenge back in the 1960s suggest that a series of giant totem-pole-like timber obelisks had been erected there some 5,500 ...

  8. Has the ongoing mystery of Stonehenge been solved? Experts ...

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    This Wonder of the World isn’t done living up to its name. Roughly 5,000 years after making an initial appearance on a patch of English grassland, Stonehenge has plenty of secrets left to spill ...

  9. Divisive royal portraits and a $6.2-million banana: 2024’s ...

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    The Magna Carta, the “Mona Lisa” and Stonehenge were among the targets in 2024. But this was also a year of differing fortunes for the assailants. In the Netherlands, ...