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2. Faux painting - Wikipedia

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   Faux finishing has been used for millennia, from cave painting to the tombs of ancient Egypt, but what we generally think of as faux finishing in the decorative arts began with plaster and stucco finishes in Mesopotamia over 5,000 years ago. Faux painting became popular in classical times in the forms of faux marble, faux wood, and trompe-l ...

3. Tuscan red - Wikipedia

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   Displayed at right is the color Tuscan tan. The first recorded use of Tuscan tan as a color name in English was in 1926. [14] The normalized color coordinates for Tuscan tan are identical to café au lait and French beige, which were first recorded as color names in English in 1839 [15] and 1927, [16] respectively.

4. Italian Renaissance painting - Wikipedia

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   Italian Renaissance painting is the painting of the period beginning in the late 13th century and flourishing from the early 15th to late 16th centuries, occurring in the Italian Peninsula, which was at that time divided into many political states, some independent but others controlled by external powers.

5. Italianate architecture - Wikipedia

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   The Italian, specifically Tuscan, influence on architecture in Lebanon dates back to the Renaissance when Fakhreddine, the first Lebanese ruler who truly unified Mount Lebanon with its Mediterranean coast, executed an ambitious plan to develop his country. When the Ottomans exiled Fakhreddine to Tuscany in 1613, he entered an alliance with the ...

6. Gary Lord (artist) - Wikipedia

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   Gary Lord (born 1952) [1] is a Cincinnati, Ohio-based faux painting artist and teacher. He owns a decorative painting business, Gary Lord Wall Options and Associates Inc, and is the founder of Prismatic Painting Studio and ItsFauxEasy.com, a video-based faux painting teaching site.

7. Polychrome - Wikipedia

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   The paint was frequently limited to parts depicting clothing, hair, and so on, with the skin left in the natural color of the stone. But it could cover sculptures in their totality. The painting of Greek sculpture should not merely be seen as an enhancement of their sculpted form but has the characteristics of a distinct style of art.

8. Lucchese school - Wikipedia

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   'Madonna and Child', tempera and gold on wood panel by an anonymous painter of the Lucchese school, ca. 1200, El Paso Museum of Art The Lucchese school, also known as the school of Lucca and as the Pisan-Lucchese school, was a school of painting and sculpture that flourished in the 11th and 12th centuries in Pisa and Lucca in Tuscany with affinities to painters in Volterra.

9. Color wash - Wikipedia

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   Example of a color wash in multiple hues. A color wash is a popular technique in faux painting using paint thinned out with glaze to create a subtle wash of color over walls or other surfaces. [1] Color washing gives a surface a translucent, watercolor appearance. [2] It can be used to add texture or accentuate natural surfaces.