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From 1836 to 1838, Lt. Col. Jose Maria Martinez was in charge of the presidio in Tucson. In 1838, he retired from the military and was given land in Tubac. Ten years later, an attack by the Apache forced the residents to abandon the town, with most moving to Tucson, but the Martinez family relocated to San Xavier, where he was granted land by ...
Poleteismo was an installation art project by Filipino artist and curator Mideo Cruz. Previously exhibited starting in 2002 at the Ateneo de Manila, the UP Vargas Museum, among other venues, without much controversy, its 2011 iteration, exhibited at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), became the subject of a public outcry from the Philippines' overwhelmingly Christian population.
The Nazca lines (/ ˈ n ɑː z k ə /, /-k ɑː / [1]) are a group of over 700 geoglyphs made in the soil of the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. [2] [3] They were created between 500 BC and 500 AD by people making depressions or shallow incisions in the desert floor, removing pebbles and leaving different-colored dirt exposed. [4]
The symbolist painters used mythological and dream imagery. The symbols used by symbolism are not the familiar emblems of mainstream iconography but intensely personal, private, obscure and ambiguous references. More a philosophy than an actual style of art, symbolism in painting influenced the contemporary Art Nouveau style and Les Nabis. [14]
Decorative Koranic motifs and symbols, mosque, olive and fig branches Traditional Koranic school and Kalam: DZD 500: Battle on elephants: Waterfall, ancient ruins, men on elephants DZD 500: Globe, Alcomsat-1: Satellite dishes, outline of Algeria DZD 1,000: A buffalo, paintings at Tassili n'Ajjer: Prehistoric Algerian landscape , painting from ...
In American football, the Philadelphia Eagles defeat the Kansas City Chiefs to win the Super Bowl.; Former president of Namibia Sam Nujoma (pictured) dies at the age of 95.; A series of boycotts against retail stores expands to several countries in Southeast Europe.
Antonio Piedade da Cruz was born on 22 August 1895 in the village of Velim in then Portuguese India and joined Bombay's Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art in 1916. Cruz studied under Gladstone Salomon, M. V. Dhurandhar and Agoskar, and graduated in 1920.
Saint John the Baptist in the Desert is an oil painting of c. 1516–1517 by Raphael and his assistants, including Giulio Romano. The composition is thought to be by Raphael himself, who may also have drafted some of the sections of the finished work. It is now in the Louvre in Paris. Originally on panel, it was transferred to a canvas support ...