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Art depicting elephants, pictures etc. showing elephants Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Elephant art .
"Jumbo" has entered the English language as a synonym for "large". [k] Jumbo originally was the name of a huge elephant acquired by circus showman P. T. Barnum from the London Zoo in 1882. The name itself may have come from a West African [l] native word for "elephant". [54]
Da Tung and Xi'an Bao Bao ("Universal Peace and Baby Elephant" in English), is an outdoor 2002 bronze sculpture, located at the North Park Blocks in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. [1] The sculptor is unknown. [2] It is part of the City of Portland and Multnomah County Public Art Collection courtesy of the Regional Arts & Culture Council.
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The Elephants Artist Salvador Dalí Year 1948 Medium Oil on canvas Movement Surrealism Dimensions 49 cm × 60 cm (19 in × 24 in) Location Private collection The Elephants is a 1948 painting by the Catalan surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. Background The elephant is a recurring theme in the works of Dalí, first appearing in his 1944 work Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a ...
Spanish dialects spoken in Venezuela. Some of the regional varieties of the Spanish language are quite divergent from one another, especially in pronunciation and vocabulary, and less so in grammar. While all Spanish dialects adhere to approximately the same written standard, all spoken varieties differ from the written variety, to different ...
The word elephant is derived from the Latin word elephas (genitive elephantis) ' elephant ', which is the Latinised form of the ancient Greek ἐλέφας (elephas) (genitive ἐλέφαντος (elephantos, [1])) probably from a non-Indo-European language, likely Phoenician. [2]
Elephant and Obelisk is a statue of an elephant carrying an obelisk, designed by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. It was unveiled in 1667 in the Piazza della Minerva in Rome , adjacent to the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva , where it stands today.