Partially destroyed statues of giant gargoyles were scattered around the wrecked houses. |
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He also painted a tondo of the Pieta bearing Philip's coat of arms on the back, and he painted and gilded Sluter's statues. |
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The statues have always been appreciated for their rusticity, joie de vivre, and swagger, but little else. |
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He laments the passing of sacramentals such as a proliferation of statues and praying the rosary. |
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Above are four statues of the queen, set in elaborate canopied tabernacles. |
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The building had marvelously designed statues of gargoyles, angels and some other demon looking like creatures. |
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Even the statues of great scholars and freedom fighters that add lustre to the city's heritage will be covered with party flags and posters. |
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She swerved between buildings, statues, and anything that might make them lose her, but they stayed on her tail. |
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Large family sepulchers featuring urns, statues of angels, and obelisks, spread out as far as the eye can see. |
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There were many beautiful and strange statues of mermaids and dragons and other mystical creatures. |
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He emerged in the open space where the tall pyre still burnt for the Lord of Fire and the statues still gouted irregular jets of flame. |
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They also ensured their place in posterity, by placing statues of themselves within the temple precincts, as doyens of religion. |
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Enter Buddhism in the search box for a set of links to resources, including artefacts such as prayer wheels, a bell and Buddha statues. |
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Small statues, candles, and miniature crucifixes dominated most of the space, along with scapulars, rosaries, and encrypted prayers. |
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The two statues themselves are dated as early 6th century BC, which was the time of transition from Daedalic to early Archaiac art. |
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It seems that after school we always played out, all our games were on the streets, statues, tig, truth or dare. |
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Charles bridge is decorated by an alley of 30 statues and statuaries depicting saints on bridge piers. |
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Between them stood impressive statues of giants, the telamones, which functioned as load-bearing supports for the structure. |
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Do they exert any more influence than gaily coloured gold foot-high statues and silver records that can be displayed, proudly, upon a wall? |
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The building, rich with turrets, parapets, statues, and heavy baldachins, is greater than the sum of its parts. |
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Just as crimes are severely punished, statues of virtuous men, set in marketplaces, publicly honor good deeds. |
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If you look back in history, the Greek statues of beautiful women would be considered rather full-figured by today's standards. |
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Crucifixes and virgin statues bob and wave humorously at the camera as the children scurry along. |
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They advised the removal of older, wooden icons and statues to a nearby day chapel, and created a muted background of bronze and mauve colour. |
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As the three of them walked, they saw old statues and buildings, broken, dusty and crumbling. |
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The floors are covered in thick red pile, and everywhere is filled with Italianate marble statues. |
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Covered only from waist down by white sheets, they evoked a cross between Greek statues and hospital patients. |
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Non-living structures include equipment, statues, urns, fountains and pools of water. |
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Gold foil is used for decorative gilding coatings in, for example books, church furniture, steeples and statues. |
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I've never seen so many colonnades, entablatures, pediments, porticos, coffered ceilings and statues adorning so many structures. |
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The latest global rage is yarn-bombing, a wool-based graffiti in which knitting fanatics drape potholes, cars and statues in crazy cosies. |
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Of these, the most outstanding was the floridly entitled Palace of the Commander of the Arsenal, a squat stone tower embellished with statues. |
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Similarly, it is typical for bodhisattva statues and those of deva or lesser deities to be polychromed. |
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Since there are as many different Inuksuit as there are pebbles on the beach, it is possible to draw an infinite variety of statues. |
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At the other end of the park were Keith Edmier's two pint-sized commemorative bronze statues of men in uniform, mounted on granite plinths. |
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Gene readily responds without displaying any sign of disagreement or bewilderment that he will lead the snow statues committee. |
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Worn walls reformed themselves into a series of buttresses and rounded finials, bearded caryatids, zoomorphic statues. |
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Upon completion of the retreat, a number of sacred ceremonies were conducted, including consecration of the statues in the garden. |
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But Ghirlandaio does not depict busts or statues, his figures are shown as though alive within an illusionistic setting. |
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The more temporary Greeks left gymnasia, statues, temples and inscriptions as far east as Afghanistan. |
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Even statues of Annamayya and Ramanuja, leave alone those of Mahatma Gandhi and Ambedkar, are enveloped in yellow festoons. |
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He infamously demanded that a curtain be erected in a justice department building to cover two statues. |
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From 1945, the town became a model socialist town, complete with industrial zones, living quarters named Friendship III, and statues of Lenin. |
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West Mayo is full of Marian statues and my favourite is the one in Kilmeena which I've photoed more than once. |
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Interestingly, the report alleges that the fastigium was decorated with two groups of statues. |
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Some statues were erected on pedestals in sanctuaries exclusively meant for worship by the King and the priests. |
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The boys tried to follow their path but they darted behind statues and pedestals. |
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On the island of Malta, where great colossal statues of Goddesses still stand, is the underground hypogeum. |
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The citole is the medieval guitar, known only from pictures in manuscripts and statues on churches. |
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From the foggy midnight mist came quiet, swift horses, wielding conscienceless armored statues. |
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Van der Meulen will be our cicerone as we tour the Rondeau, starting with Buyster's statues. |
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Strung on pole above the statues, plants, and stone benches were Chinese lanterns about the size of basketballs. |
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He built a brick pagoda and kept 3,000 Buddha statues at Sokjjang-sa where he lived. |
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It was a wooden box covered with gold and it was decorated on top with two small statues of winged cherubs facing each other. |
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A York gardener was caught red-handed with a hoard of stolen statues, gnomes and ornaments, magistrates heard. |
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At one time there were over 3,000 statues at the site, and an inestimable hoard of gold and jewellery. |
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The monuments and statues throughout the country commemorate generals, judges and politicians, rather than socialists, strikers or suffragettes. |
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From then on, generations of disciples laboured with hand tools to hew giant temples, intricate statues and monasteries of up to three storeys. |
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The two statues in Bamiyan, 175 and 120 feet tall, are hewn from the side of a mountain. |
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Even the elaborate stone statues, basins, murals, tapestries, and miscellaneous decorations seemed to exhibit a celestial beauty. |
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But these are no ordinary bridges they are the most elaborate bridges you have ever seen with ornate statues and balustrades, turrets and towers. |
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Park benches, small statues, decorative flower beds and ornate lamp-posts dotted the park at discreet distances from each other. |
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He wished them to come to his gardens and study the beautiful Greek statues which ornamented them. |
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Renaissance scholars based their conception of classical art on statues, particularly Greek ones and Roman copies of Greek originals. |
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On the way, London's ancient, massive buildings, black statues and dirt surround me, oppress and burden me. |
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They then folded their hands together in front of their stomachs and stood there like statues. |
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Last month, the little white statues began turning up everywhere, like ghosts haunting the places where the kids had been. |
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It is hundreds of years old, one of the oldest statues still standing there. |
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One of the more recent stigmatics claimed not only to have Christ's wounds but also that religious statues wept in his presence. |
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She went on her way, her grass skirt swinging rhythmically, resembling one of those steatopygous statues in anthropological museums. |
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I caught glimpses of the atriums those passageways opened onto, often with gardens, maybe statues, washing hanging out to dry. |
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A wide range of wooden statues, ready-made garments, decorative greeting cards, handicrafts items and eateries were on display. |
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Stone carvings and marble statuettes from Uttar Pradesh are on display along with statues, hookahs and plates made of brass coated with enamel. |
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They may look like lifeless statues or figures made of plastic bricks, but they are still the class enemy. |
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However, it is very brittle and difficult to rework, and therefore not generally used to cast statues. |
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From photographs Colin then set to work creating the three five-metre high bronze statues. |
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Could it be a clue to how the Ancient Greeks produced those massive bronze statues? |
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One of the most stunning series of objects was a set of small bronze statues of horses. |
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The only outward sign that the house could belong to a rider are two bronze statues of horses by the fountain on the front lawn. |
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He is best known for public statues, including several in prominent positions in London. |
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Gilded statues and carvings adorn the walls and pilgrims come from far and wide. |
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The sculptor Antonio Canova used classical statues as the basis for his figures of modern men and women. |
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Practically every store now stocks figurines and statues of the cheerful young god. |
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James Boyle is correct about Edinburgh's lack of statues of great literary figures. |
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The white marble from which Michelangelo carved his statues came from these mountains. |
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The Petite Commande, a suite of statues of satyrs and hamadryads, embodied the rustic character of the place. |
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For example, Hawass said, on show along with the mummy of Ramses II would be models of his Nubian temples, statues, reliefs and a biography. |
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For spiritual nourishment there were halls of worship filled with statues of the Buddha. |
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A carpenter or carver of mortars and spoons might become a sculptor of statues. |
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Penicillin, in fact, saved so many lives in its early days that statues of Alexander Fleming were erected at many bullrings around Spain. |
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Not really tied in all too closely with modesty because these statues are contiguous with nude statues exploring the beauty of the human form. |
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Zeno built a tall wall with about 20 niches for statues of gods and goddesses behind the stage. |
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Large structures resembling churches with niches for life-like marble statues of the saints may be found in Metairie Cemetery. |
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He said Easter Island now has some trees and many of the statues have been brought to an upright position again. |
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He turned, smashing his fist into one of the statues that were near at hand, causing it to explode violently. |
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The pool itself is strewn with huge granite boulders that jut out of the water like ancient statues. |
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All this work goes on quietly, unheroically, with no awards, medals or statues of recognition. |
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They include prostrations, making offerings to statues of Buddhas or bodhisattvas, attending public teachings and ceremonies. |
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Maximilian was famous for his large nose, and it is prominent in all his pictures and statues. |
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People say that these statues are not human made but rather they were created by Mother Nature herself. |
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William could feel the statues pressing into his back, their sinewy shapes slithering against his skin. |
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Briefly, the moonlight was obscured by a cloud and an unreasonable fear gripped me as I realised I could not see the statues. |
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As for outdoor statues, they have the characteristic potential of becoming a monument to a country, a landmark. |
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The ancient monoliths, pyramids, stone circles and grand statues were not just art or architecture. |
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Moreover, the cities he founded did not display statues of emperors, nor of gods in the Greco-Roman pantheon. |
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The fiberglass statues were transformed by artists into whimsical creatures with punny names. |
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Yes, she has a black cat, a wand, a sword, altars with candies, and statues of gods, goddesses, and saints. |
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Gone were the bronze statues and late-modern abstractions of earlier years. |
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The rooms I like best are the ones that contain casts of all sorts of astonishing statues, monuments and sections of famous architecture. |
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The two statues are generally believed to date from the fifth century but some believe they may be of later origin. |
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The wat is extremely ornate and embellished with murals, statues, and glittering gold. |
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The masses of statues, in bronze, silver, gold, and marble, accustomed the Romans to this kind of visual display and to Hellenistic luxury. |
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Items on show yesterday ranged from furniture and oil paintings to African masks and statues. |
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All three statues use a layer of lacquer between the wood and the exterior coat of gold leaf or pigment. |
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They will not set up any idols, gods, goddesses or statues for worship nor shall they worship any human being. |
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In the mid-Fifth Century, during the Gupta period, statues of Buddhas were added to the stupa. |
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Some 1,000 statues of Buddhas, some dating back to the West Jin Dynasty, greet you in the two-hectare garden. |
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He never tired of watching well-trained bird dogs search for quail, coming to an abrupt halt and freezing like granite statues. |
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Studies and a large hall were trimmed with multicolored marble, and there were marble statues on massive quartzite bases in niches. |
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This is why many of us when we come to India, have difficulty with the way Hindus adore Gods in the forms of statues. |
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A souvenir seller enters with a trayful of statues of the gods and offers to tell them stories. |
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On Whitsunday all Kilton crowded behind us into the little chapel and saw the wooden statues wearing real mantles of bright wool for the day. |
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A stained glass window was smashed, along with plaster statues and the church organ, police said. |
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The marble was part of the dentil moulding that serves as a frame for the frieze of statues atop the court's main entrance. |
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Although never completed, it is one of the largest statues of its kind in the world. |
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He soon noticed there were four statues on one side of the rectangular room and four on the other. |
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Mines were being worked by strange creatures and humanoid statues with pickaxes for hands. |
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The medieval statues that line the world-famous Charles Bridge in Prague have seen a lot of history in the past 650 years. |
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Marble portrait statues, with body types modelled on Greek prototypes, are well represented. |
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Each house and shop set up altars in their doorways or windows with religious statues or holy pictures mixed with fresh flowers. |
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A shrine can be anything from a room, a small altar or simply pictures or statues of the deity. |
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A feature of these temples is the hundreds of statues of cross-legged tirthankaras or deified Jain teachers. |
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The statues are both xoana, and they say that they were set up by the women from the Thermodon. |
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It was complemented by two classic marble statues of Greek gods situated at each side of the entrance. |
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The Buddha is not a god but the place teems with statues and altars to him. |
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Through beautiful courtyards graced by classical statues and charming fountains that caught the glancing light from the full sun. |
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Sitting at your desk, making statues out of paperclips, it's easy to drift off into a fantasy land of ice cream and beaches. |
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Most sections began with the dancers striking a pose reminiscent of Rodin's muscular statues. |
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Containing 11 recent, life-size portrait statues of physically deformed individuals, the show had New York critics buzzing for weeks. |
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But what strikes most visitors is the dramatic altar and reredos, or carved altarpiece, with tall statues of saints backed by scarlet curtains. |
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Two turntables on each side of the stage spin faster and faster until a circle of statues begin a tribal dance. |
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He laid the foundations of a huge fortune working as a copyist and restorer of antique statues for the tourist market. |
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Take the gesture, as in these statues, of lifting the hem of a skirt, or pulling it sharply to one side. |
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These parliamentarians who are against me, just let them try and take my statues or my park. |
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There are shots of the garrison, the dry grass and flowers rustling in the wind, and the sharply defined, dilapidated stone walls and statues. |
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To create one of the large life-size animal statues, he needs about 100 kilograms of the fragrant plants. |
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The arcade nearest the land is pretty bad and has really scary life-sized clown statues doing circus tricks in the ceiling. |
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The steps are crowned with statues and, again, fountains, which make them a combination of sprouting water and cascading falls. |
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The narrative is filled with ghosts, vaults, giants, living statues, mysterious appearances, and violent emotions of terror, anguish, and love. |
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The temples are studded with gilded statues, intricate woodwork, paintings, and tapestries. |
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Most dramatic of all are the tall, enigmatically smiling kouros, which are archaic statues of godlike young men. |
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Just inside the museum's front gate, a tree-shaded path lined with stone statues of civil servants and generals leads to the mausoleum. |
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A deaccession of over 1,000 paintings, statues and other objects from the Dutch national art collection is getting a good deal of attention. |
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By far the most annoying of the bunch are that breed who have come to be known as living statues. |
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They all seemed to blend modern and ancient architecture, with ornaments ranging from statues of Chinese dragons to Gothic gargoyles. |
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Above this is a four-sided arched structure, and this is surmounted by a rotunda with Corinthian columns enclosing two statues. |
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But my favourite bit wasn't the statues, it was the arrow-straight footpath that stretched between them. |
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When her eyes adjusted, she gaped in awe to see tons of renaissance artworks and statues. |
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Women were shown with rounded torsos and broad hips and men were heavily muscled, showing the influence of antique statues. |
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Her dresser has dragon statues and figurines scattered on the top of it. |
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The floor is covered in a crush of Buddhas and statues of Hindu gods. |
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It began with Pharrell adorably lurking in the forest of giant Oscar statues while singing the first verse. |
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Apollinaire accused his best friend of bringing the stolen statues to the newspaper. |
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Ancient statues have been found of men and women with 10-inch waists! |
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No precautions have been taken to reinforce the ceilings, which could collapse onto the statues. |
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Inside the colonnade there were supposed to be statues of 30 famous Revolutionary War heroes. |
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The Renaissance-style building and its high-ceilinged rooms lined with alabaster statues of Greek gods made an unforgettable impression on the 13-year-old. |
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Scholars have suggested that the purpose of statues such as the Peplos Kore and other korai was to serve as votive offerings, perhaps in this case to the goddess Athena. |
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Each wall was aligned with alcoves that curved around statues. |
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Commoners slept alfresco, under statues of past Olympic champions. |
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As the importance of saints and their relics increased, reliquaries and image-bearing objects, such as small statues, began to be placed upon the altar. |
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And images of copies of statues gave photography's inventors an undeniable case for the usefulness of the medium as a means of reproducing the appearance of existing artworks. |
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On display will be small bronze sculptures, liturgical implements, artifacts in gold, glass cabinets, altar paintings, water containers known as aquamaniles and statues. |
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These furnishings included carpets, curtains, louvres, rococo chairs, plaster casts of antique statues and busts, paintings, Chinese vases and diverse plants. |
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The islanders carved and erected the stone statues, produced many other arts and crafts and developed Rongorongo, the only written language in Oceania. |
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The living statues, at least, pose a bit of a challenge to seagulls. |
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I opened the door and went rigid, like one of those living statues. |
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Ancient and intricate runes were carved all over it, and the statues of the Goddess Aurora lining the walls all seemed to be gazing at it in appreciation. |
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It was one spectacular show, I really enjoyed the opening tableaux and display, showcasing three thousand years of history, the highlights being the drums and the statues. |
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There he created the landscaped garden with temples, statues, grottoes, glades and a series of urns, columns, monoliths and headstones, many of them inscribed. |
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Instead of statues of generals, we put up monuments to ordinary soldiers, lists of names rather than men on horseback. |
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In 1995, thieves burrowed through the wall of a storeroom used to house artefacts at the Temple of Montu in Karnak, and looted some 55 scarabs and statues. |
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Wooden statues and princely crowns were taken off from the pediment, while the high tent-like top was transformed into an ordinary roof with two slopes. |
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Before sculpturing for ordinary people, he, like other sculptors, also carved statues for famous persons such as pioneer epidemiologist Su Delong and educator Yan Fuqing. |
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It had an assembly hall, or basilica, where the orders were issued, and there was a shrine to the imperial cult, where statues of the Emperor were kept. |
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Standing in the shadows of the colossal statues in front of the twin temples of Abu Simbel, one can only feel humble by human ingenuity, both past and present. |
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In order to avoid the risk and expense of casting in bronze a method was devised in the 18th century of making these large statues of beaten copper. |
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The shrine was once a beautiful golden palace but the years had worn away its natural beauty and now only some walls, statues and the underground tombs remained. |
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For fourteen years I chaired the Works of Art Committee and sought to add to our collection of historical statues, busts and portraits, and topographical works. |
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Prominent items include bell metal and wrought iron figurines, statues, lamps and other artifacts depicting the traditional gods, goddesses and animal figurines. |
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Our few preserved large bronze statues make a striking contrast to the many extant statuettes, whose complex movements and marked torsion make them strongly three-dimensional. |
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Also on display and sale will be Bhutanese handicrafts like prayer bells, traditional woven textiles, stupas and gold plated statues of the Buddha. |
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We have gratuitously destroyed so much of nature that the Taliban's smashing up of Buddhist statues, as comparative vandalism, will someday seem quite minuscule. |
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A similar daintiness animates the statues added around 1300-22 to Strasbourg Cathedral, the minster at Freiburg im Breisgau, and Cologne Cathedral. |
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Nothing, it seems, has escaped the bullets, including many religious statues peppered with holes like target figures in a fairground shooting gallery. |
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To this unpracticed eye, at least from the photos, the statues are at once sexually explicit and wretchedly unsexy. |
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Most statues of King have him marching or holding his hand up and orating. |
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Besides heavily ornate vestments, stoles, monstrance, pulpits, bells, paintings, representations of the Way of the Cross and statues of saints are among the major attractions. |
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The Nara statues on Park Avenue are meant to be as accessible as a pretty towel. |
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Several valuable collectables are missing, including statues of historical icons like Tutankhamun and Nefertiti. |
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Followers of the goddess Bast, the goddess of pleasure, created sanctuaries with bronze statues of cats and mummified hundreds of thousands of cats. |
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Ivory statues of mythical beasts with emerald eyes lined the way. |
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He also has a sauna, wine cellar and fireplace, not to mention specially commissioned religious statues. |
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But just to make sure, a second batch of the 24-carat gold over silver over nickel over copper statues is being made and will be flown to Los Angeles rather than by road. |
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Eventually the mission and the church were deserted, the building fell into decay, and presently tourists souvenired the surviving religious statues. |
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In the handcrafts ' category, stone carvings from Agra, semi-precious stone and stone statues, brass items from Moradabad and jute products from Kolkata, are moving fast. |
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In the name of liturgical reform, churches that looked like corporate auditoriums were built, chucking out statues, shrinking the Stations of the Cross. |
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These are occupied by casts of statues found in other parts of the town. |
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The small Greek figurines known as Tanagra statuettes were mass produced from moulds, and reproduce everyday life as well as copies of famous statues. |
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Indeed, they frequently serve as frames or cartouches for coats of arms, personal devices, or statues of patron saints venerated by religious institutions. |
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He returned to interests that had captured his attention when he was a teenager, had visited museums to gaze at statues, and had tried carving wood. |
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The statues and trees looked tiny from up high, as did the hedges that had been clipped into elaborate shapes by the skilled gardeners, into birds and animals. |
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Before Banks, commissions for sculptures in Britain produced busts, public statues, church monuments and decorative reliefs for overmantels and overdoors. |
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Simon and Christine stood still, overshadowed by the two large statues. |
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The Hera is described by Pausanias, but no secure copies of her survive, presumably because antiquity rated her inferior to the great chryselephantine statues of Phidias. |
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For generations, parishioners have donated many items such as our beautiful stained glass windows, silver chalices, ciboria, monstrance, statues and crucifix. |
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Over the next thousand years, by 1500, they'd developed quite an advanced civilisation, and most of us know it by the massive statues that line the coast. |
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The pedestals of statues are often defaced with posters pasted by political outfits and commercial bodies, particularly in a world where market forces rule the roost. |
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But the designs show two nude male statues on pedestals in the entrance hall below vast battle paintings and two more in the great domed central hall. |
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Though there was iconoclasm at the beginning, as zealots decapitated statues and the like in temples and shrines, this soon passed as sultans cracked down on it. |
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Wandering amongst the statues, the irony was not lost on me that I was spending my celebration of the victory of God over idolatry, surrounded by idols. |
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Resting place to 560,000 people, the eerily serene hills of Green-Wood are filled with detailed columbaria, self-referential statues, and ornate mausoleums. |
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The fallen leader's statues often go down with him, like the scapegoat cast out at the year's end, a focus for normally inexpressible feelings of violence. |
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He began by adding a light Baroque facade with pilasters and massive fluted columns at the main, upper tier, topped by a balustrade with vases and statues. |
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There were Corinthian pillars, Byzantine domes, Gothic towers, Arabic murals and, in the long approach in front, were statues sprinkled about of its garden lawns. |
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His craggy visage stares from countless heroic portraits and statues. |
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Michelangelo was happy to assist and designed an ambitious, free-standing structure around 34 feet wide and 50 feet high and including 40 life-sized marble statues. |
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Aesthetic functionalism reinforced a growing preference for useful memorials, such as public halls, hospitals and swimming pools, over grand but useless statues. |
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Pictures of huge Angel statues and former industrial buildings turned into art galleries lend themselves to good imagery for fashion-conscious think tanks it seems. |
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Towers, statues, pointed ceilings, balconies, gateways, and windows decorated the castle from the outside, creating a marvel for those outside to take in. |
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The buildings looked like crystal statues that glimmered in the light. |
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Such lists ordinarily rank statues and paintings in a canonical hierarchy, beginning with icons of the Buddha class, followed by bodhisattva, deva, and other lesser deities. |
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In their dissenting note both the members had stated that the committee did not have the power to go into the question of grant or refusal of minority statues to anyone. |
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The flowers were made into garlands that, according to folklore, were offered to statues on religious altars or in churches. |
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These are part of a large list of Burns memorials and statues around the world. |
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Some Presbyterian churches will also have ornate statues of Christ or Graven Scenes from the Last Supper located behind the Chancel. |
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The students' moais looked like representatives of a stately, regal culture.These statues are called moai and can weigh up to eighty tons each. |
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Natural rock formations made into statues or other sculpture in the round, most famously at the Great Sphinx of Giza, are also usually excluded. |
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The northern entrance in Horse Guards Avenue is flanked by two monumental statues, Earth and Water, by Charles Wheeler. |
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As there have been many stories of the ghostly reappearance of these statues, alleged sightings may be due to the confusion created thereby. |
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Peterskirche, publicly called for the removal of statues of saints and other icons. |
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There are innumerable statues, commemorations, books and archival collections. |
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The warm welcome, along with the Budda statues and Zen-like water features, soon lull you into a peaceful, meditative state. |
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Harmodios and Aristogeiton were honored as tyrannicides for having fought of tyranny, and their statues were erected in the agora. |
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He published several books on the topic and had plaques, monuments, and statues erected in honor of the Norse. |
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Roland statues were typical symbols of city autonomy or independence, often erected under Sigismund in his Electorate of Brandenburg. |
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The building cost 60,000 sesterces, with 30,000 more going toward silver cult statues of Caelestis. |
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The winners of the events were admired and immortalised in poems and statues. |
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Did this term refer only to the divine statues venerated by the Babylonian pagans, Buddhists, Hindus, Manichaeans, and Sogdians? |
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It has also been used for artistic purposes to create ornamental fountains and statues. |
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Its grounds have extensive gardens and statues, as well as a Norman church and an ice house. |
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In the past ten years, statues of both Sir Alf Ramsey and Sir Bobby Robson have been unveiled outside the stadium. |
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Rugby players to have been honoured with statues include Gareth Edwards in Cardiff and Danie Craven in Stellenbosch. |
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The most conspicuous places in cities are usually deputed for the erection of statues. |
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The appendices provide sample letters and list intermediaries, prompt payment regulations, and refund recoupment statues by state. |
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Thus, the father's loss is symptomatized in another language, a hieroglyphic of sorts, namely the statues that Ka carves repeatedly. |
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According to Pliny, the custom of setting up honorific statues on columns was a comparably ancient one. |
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A good place to start is Sanjusangendo, a vast wooden hall filled with 1,001 statues of Kannon, the goddess of mercy. |
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Bronze statues, like the large rearing horse with Himyaritic inscriptions on view, reflect Greco-Roman influence. |
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The main exhibits include statues of a sunlight bodhisattva, moonlight bodhisattva and the Fuku Kenjaku Kannon bodhisattva. |
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Greek epigrams contribute their share in Pliny's descriptions of pictures and statues. |
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This area was the source of anorthosite gneiss and the gabbro or diorite gneiss from which many royal statues were carved. |
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In 2000, the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, suggested replacing the statues with figures more familiar to the general public. |
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If any thing further employ his attention, it is perhaps a little virtuosoship. He inquires after fine pictures, fine statues, fine buildings. |
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Many of these examples can be seen in statues all over the country especially in public parks and spaces. |
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Multiple statues and monuments have been erected in his honor throughout Russia. |
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In some cases clergy and churches were attacked, with iconoclasm stripping the churches of statues and ornament. |
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Most of the statues that currently adorn the west front of the cathedral were installed in the 1860s when the South Porch was being renovated. |
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It features several bronze statues of bat heads, from the sworn-nosed bat to the horseshoe bat. |
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With the arrival of Roman culture in the 1st century, various forms of art utilising statues, busts, glasswork and mosaics were the norm. |
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Many limestone statues and building surfaces have suffered severe damage due to acid rain. |
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Their faeces are highly acidic causing damage to historic buildings and statues made of soft stone. |
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Everyone knows about the palatially decorated stations, with their marble, mosaics and life-sized statues. |
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There is also a military history museum that includes statues, and military hardware. |
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In 1570, it was documented as still containing nine statues of Roman emperors in architectural niches. |
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Tuff from Rano Raraku was used by the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island to make the vast majority of their famous moai statues. |
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Poppies also frequently adorned statues of Apollo, Asklepios, Pluto, Demeter, Aphrodite, Kybele and Isis, symbolizing nocturnal oblivion. |
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In addition to this practical purpose, plazas serve as principal green spaces and contain monuments, statues and water fountains. |
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The Rapa Nui people used it to make most of the moai statues in Easter Island. |
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The heart of the city is Waltham Common, which is home to the City Hall and various memorial statues. |
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A row of cottages, housing agricultural workers and a museum, and a row of seated statues commemorate the martyrs. |
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Generally iconostases, pictures or statues of saints are not kept in Marthoma churches. |
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Apart from the lodges on Euston Road and statues now on the forecourt, few relics of the old station survive. |
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The pinnacles were left bare until 1925, when replica statues were installed. |
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Architectural sculptor John Thomas contributed eight allegorical statues representing the cities served by the line. |
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However following vandalism at a statue in the Govan area of the city, the statues were taken down. |
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Only a small number of statues depicting Roman gods were found in Brittany, and most of the time they combine Celtic elements. |
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In 1682, Wren advised that the original statues of the King's Beasts on St George's Chapel, Windsor be removed. |
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The discovery of that many statues of the goddess funerary temple denotes the important role of the goddess during Amenhotep III's reign. |
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In Edinburgh also, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery has statues of Bruce and Wallace in niches flanking the main entrance. |
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Niches in amphitheatres such as the Colosseum were originally filled with statues, and no formal garden was complete without statuary. |
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Large statues of a meditating figure unite the human figure with the symbolism of temple and tower. |
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In one, dated eighteen years ago, he appeared, wearing only sandals and a cincture of vine leaves, between two classical garden statues. |
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The UK's Avanti Display will make a big splash with Hydromania transforming statues and landmarks into wondrous water features. |
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At Imperial public baths, a person of humble means could view wall paintings, mosaics, statues, and interior decoration often of high quality. |
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On the front of the building are statues of Prospero and Ariel, characters from William Shakespeare's play The Tempest, sculpted by Eric Gill. |
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These statues had an angular form and they were produced with colored stone. |
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Their influence saw a revival in the use of images and statues in churches. |
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Wooden statues of the spirits were erected on top of this sacrificial castle. |
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Gopuram of the Thillai Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, densely packed with rows of painted statues. |
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