still life
(Encyclopedia) still life, a pictorial representation of inanimate objects. The term derives from the 17th-century Dutch still-leven, meaning a motionless natural object or objects.
In East Asia still-life subj...
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Roman art
(Encyclopedia) Roman art, works of art produced in ancient Rome and its far-flung provinces.
The continued striving after three-dimensional illusionist effects revealed in the various phases of painting was dup...
Bonaparte
(Encyclopedia) Bonaparte bwōnäpärˈtā [key], family name of Napoleon I, emperor of the French.
Of the second generation of the family the most important was Louis Bonaparte's son, Louis Napoleon, who became e...
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