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  2. UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] The third list is the Register of Good Safeguarding Practices. In 2013, four elements were inscribed on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, which helps States Parties mobilize international cooperation and assistance to ensure the transmission of this heritage with the participation of the concerned ...

  3. Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity

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    [1] [5] [7] Intangible heritage is seen as a repository of cultural diversity [3] and creative expression, as well as a driving force for living cultures. [5] Since it can be vulnerable to forces of globalization, social transformation, and intolerance, [6] UNESCO encourages communities to identify, document, protect, promote and revitalize ...

  4. 100 Great Paintings - Wikipedia

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    100 Great Paintings is a British television series broadcast in 1980 on BBC Two, devised by Edwin Mullins. [1] He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration, the language of colour, the hunt, and bathing, picking five paintings from each. [2]

  5. The Private Life of a Masterpiece - Wikipedia

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    The Private Life of a Masterpiece is a BBC arts documentary series which tells the stories behind great works of art; 29 episodes of the series were broadcast on BBC Two, commencing on 8 December 2001 and ending on 25 December 2010. It initially ran for five seasons from 8 December 2001 to 17 April 2006, for a total of 22 episodes; each episode ...

  6. Conservation and restoration of wooden artifacts - Wikipedia

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    Structural repair to wooden artifacts, as with the conservation of any artifact, should be as unobtrusive as possible. One method for mending separated pieces of wooden artifacts is the use of hot or liquid hide glue. [25] To reverse warping of wooden artifacts, conservators often treat artifacts using pressure.

  7. List of most expensive paintings - Wikipedia

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    $137.5 Woman III: Willem de Kooning: 1953 November 18, 2006: 2 David Geffen Steven A. Cohen Private sale via Larry Gagosian [39] $205.1 $165.0 Masterpiece: Roy Lichtenstein: 1962 January 2017: 12 Agnes Gund [40] [41] Steven A. Cohen [42] Private sale $204 $135 Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I: Gustav Klimt: 1907 June 18, 2006: 1 Maria Altmann ...

  8. History of wood carving - Wikipedia

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    Wood-carving examples of the first eleven centuries of CE are rare due to the fact that woods do decay easily in 1,000 years. The carved panels of the main doors of St Sabina on the Aventine Hill , Rome, are very interesting specimens of early Christian relief sculpture in wood, dating, as the dresses show, from the 5th century.

  9. List of stolen paintings - Wikipedia

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    $1 million at the time; estimated in 2003 to have appreciated to $5 million $50,000 Still Life: Vanitas by an anonymous artist in the style of Jan Davidsz van Heem: September 4, 1972: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada: Among paintings stolen from the museum by armed robbers in 1972: The Concert by Johannes Vermeer: March 18, 1990