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  2. The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist

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    The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist, sometimes called the Burlington House Cartoon, is a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. The drawing is in charcoal and black and white chalk, on eight sheets of paper that are glued together. Because of its large size and format the drawing is presumed to be a cartoon for a painting. [1]

  3. David Macaulay - Wikipedia

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    David Macaulay (born 2 December 1946) [1] is a British-born American illustrator and writer. His works include Cathedral (1973), The Way Things Work (1988), and its updated revisions The New Way Things Work (1998) and The Way Things Work Now (2016).

  4. Harlech Castle - Wikipedia

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    Harlech Castle, depicted by cartographer John Speed, in 1610. In 1400 a revolt broke out in North Wales against English rule, led by Owain Glyndŵr. [18] By 1403 only a handful of castles, including Harlech, still stood against the rebels, but the castle was under-equipped and under-staffed to withstand a siege, the garrison having just three shields, eight helmets, six lances, ten pairs of ...

  5. Tudor architecture - Wikipedia

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    Athelhampton House - built 1493–1550, early in the period Leeds Castle, reign of Henry VIII Hardwick Hall, Elizabethan prodigy house. The Tudor architectural style is the final development of medieval architecture in England and Wales, during the Tudor period (1485–1603) and even beyond, and also the tentative introduction of Renaissance architecture to Britain.

  6. Flammarion engraving - Wikipedia

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    Flammarion had been apprenticed at the age of twelve to an engraver in Paris and it is believed that many of the illustrations for his books were engraved from his own drawings, probably under his supervision. Therefore, it is plausible that Flammarion himself created the image, though the evidence for this remains inconclusive.

  7. Nottingham Castle - Wikipedia

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    Nottingham Castle is a Stuart Restoration-era ducal mansion in Nottingham, England, built on the site of a Norman castle built starting in 1068, and added to extensively through the medieval period, when it was an important royal fortress and occasional royal residence.

  8. Medieval architecture - Wikipedia

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    Medieval architecture was the art and science of designing and constructing buildings in the Middle Ages. The major styles of the period included pre-Romanesque , Romanesque , and Gothic . In the fifteenth century, architects began to favour classical forms again, in the Renaissance style , marking the end of the medieval period.

  9. List of fictional castles - Wikipedia

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    Candy Queen's Castle, from Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake; Castle Duckula, the home of Count Duckula; The Crystal Castle, from the TV series She-Ra: Princess of Power; Castle Grayskull, from the He-Man Masters of the Universe cartoon series; Castle Lemongrab, from Adventure Time; Castle Wyvern, in Gargoyles; Death's Castle, from Adventure Time