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  2. Grinling Gibbons - Wikipedia

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    Grinling Gibbons (4 April 1648 – 3 August 1721) was an Anglo-Dutch sculptor and wood carver known for his work in England, including Windsor Castle, the Royal Hospital Chelsea and Hampton Court Palace, St Paul's Cathedral and other London churches, Petworth House and other country houses, Trinity College, Oxford and Trinity College, Cambridge.

  3. Rock Drawings in Valcamonica - Wikipedia

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    Emanuele Süss, Rock Carvings in the Valcamonica, 1954. Emmanuel Anati, Camonica Valley: A Depiction of Village in the Alps From Neolithic Times to the Birth of Christ as Revealed by Thousands of Newly found Rock Carvings, 1961. Emmanuel Anati, Evolution and style in Camunian rock art: An inquiry into the formation of European civilization, 1976.

  4. Fireplace mantel - Wikipedia

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    Fireplace and overmantel at Boston Manor House. Up to the twelfth century, fires were simply made in the middle of a home by a hypocaust, or with braziers, or by fires on the hearth with smoke vented out through the lantern in the roof. [1] As time went on, the placement of fireplaces moved to the wall, incorporating chimneys to vent the smoke ...

  5. Grotta dell'Addaura - Wikipedia

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    In one of the grottoes is found a vast and rich complex of carvings, dated between the late Epigravettian and the Mesolithic, depicting men and animals.Amid a large group of bovids, wild horses, and deer, there is represented a scene dominated by the presence of human figures: a group of characters, arranged in a circle, surrounding two central figures with their heads covered and their bodies ...

  6. Rock carvings at Alta - Wikipedia

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    In April 2014, the World Heritage Rock Art Centre - Alta museum launched the website altarockart.no, a digital archive containing pictures of the rock art of Alta. The archive contains several thousand pictures and tracings and will, in the future, probably contain other kinds of documenting material as well, such as 3D-scans and articles.

  7. Relief carving - Wikipedia

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    A low relief carving of a Viking ship Carving tools and a mallet. In wood carving relief carving is a type in which figures or patterns are carved in a flat panel of wood; the same term is also used for carving in stone, ivory carving and various other materials. The figures project only slightly from the background rather than standing freely.

  8. Category:Images of art - Wikipedia

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    File:Manuel Humbert - Man Seated - Google Art Project.jpg File:Marc Chagall - Donkey on the Roof (1911 - 1912) - Google Art Project.jpg File:Maria Cheval Tooke - A View of the Drawing Room, Cosham House - Google Art Project.jpg

  9. Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture - Wikipedia

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    The ensigns armorial, set in all shapes and surrounded by all the curious mantling to be devised, appeared everywhere in conjunction with the family motto and with the intertwined initials of husband and wife, over gateways, over doorways, on dead-wall, over the fireplace; and stairways were decorated with carved monsters sitting on the ...