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«I will buy tusks of a mammoth …» |
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| At first nobody believes, that the figurine is cut out from a natural tusk of a mammoth. So happens that people about them do not know anything. "But after all mammoths have died out a little thousand years ago" - other visitor of an art exhibition will exclaim. To skeletons of dinosaurs i... |
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Gift for March, 8th |
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| On March, 8th in Russia the International Women's day is traditionally celebrated. For a long time already it is considered banal a standard gift in the form of a bouquet of roses and a bottle of perfume. Modern women are worthy more sensitive relation and really original gifts. What to present to t... |
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Landscape and the spectator |
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| What is the landscape (french. "paysage" - district)? Simply beautiful picture? |
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Carving art on a bone |
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| Art processing of a bone again gains in strength, causing huge interest at collectors and simply provided people |
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Art Basel 2008 |
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| The Art Newspaper tv crew visit Basel 39 and bring you some of the highlights of the 2008 fair. |
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Origin of finift |
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| Finift is the ancient synonym of the art of painting in glass, the term being used in ancient Greece, Byzantium and Russia to all types of enamels. It is a special glass composition multi-colored by metal oxides. At all times enamelling was used to ornament items of gold, silver and copper. Dated ... |
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Folk Wood Carving Arts |
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| A wood carver had no way but work in close touch with wood resources of the country to perfect the technique. From ordinary timbering, there have grown and developed more complicated kinds of wood processing such as carpentry, carving, and turning. |
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Filigree art of Indian jewelers |
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| Filigree silver items in the 16th-17th centuries were ordered mainly by such colonial sea powers as Portugal and Spain where the technique had been well-known. |
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Filigree art of Chinese jewelers |
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| Filigree art had been worked in China from antiquity and was widely spread on the Celestial territory till the end of Mongolian Yuan dynasty governing (1279 – 1368). |
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Filigree art |
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| But among other jewelery techniques one stays apart, when metal stuff is drawn into finer wire. One gram of metal is considered to be enough to get up to several hundreds meters of wire. The wire is further forge rolled (that is drawn through a board with varied apertures), twisted, flatted, cut and... |
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