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  • Thumbnail for Vitruvian Man
    archetypal representation of the High Renaissance. The drawing represents Leonardo's conception of ideal body proportions, originally derived from Vitruvius...
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    perspective view shows a very impressive group of buildings crowned by a dome and tower of fine proportions. The details and plans are excellently drawn...
    9 KB (819 words) - 01:03, 20 April 2024
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    Loam (category Types of soil)
    40–40–20% concentration of sand–silt–clay, respectively. These proportions can vary to a degree, however, and result in different types of loam soils: sandy...
    6 KB (692 words) - 23:13, 10 May 2024
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    Ludovisi Gaul (category Collections of the National Roman Museum)
    therepertory of sculpture in Rome by Perrier and was codified by Audran as one of the sculptures of Antiquity that defined the canon of fine proportions of the...
    11 KB (1,570 words) - 12:14, 7 May 2024
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    their skin was light brown; that their faces were usually round and of fine proportions; that their noses were flat; that their eyes and hair were black;...
    29 KB (3,058 words) - 09:06, 23 March 2024
  • augment the fine proportions and add a rational sense of coherence to the buildings. In this way, the order, the function, and the volume of the space are...
    2 KB (290 words) - 17:35, 16 January 2022
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    Parthenon (redirect from Temple of Athena)
    Parthenon the "Hekatompedos", not due to its size but because of its beauty and fine proportions. The first instance in which Parthenon definitely refers to...
    93 KB (10,383 words) - 14:10, 15 May 2024
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    paint a portrait of Traveller: If I was an artist like you, I would draw a true picture of Traveller; representing his fine proportions, muscular figure...
    16 KB (1,939 words) - 06:14, 6 March 2024
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    Jeffrey Hudson (category Court of Charles I of England)
    behaviour, and appearance. Dwarves were not rare in the courts of Europe, but Hudson's fine proportions and tiny size made him uniquely famous. His size was repeatedly...
    13 KB (1,816 words) - 16:25, 15 May 2024
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    Particulates (redirect from Fine particles)
    diameter of 10 micrometers (μm) or less; fine particles, designated PM2.5, with a diameter of 2.5 μm or less; ultrafine particles, with a diameter of 100 nm...
    195 KB (19,131 words) - 20:10, 15 May 2024
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    of work and his canon of proportions. Lysippos's work is described by ancient sources as naturalistic with slender and often lengthened proportions,...
    12 KB (1,390 words) - 20:41, 6 May 2024
  • municipality by the Danish Town Planning Institute and the Architects' Association of Denmark. The ceremony takes place at the annual Danish Urban Planning Conference...
    3 KB (56 words) - 08:17, 31 January 2015
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    Central railway station, Sydney (category New South Wales places listed on the defunct Register of the National Estate)
    by one storey, and considerably in length of front, and an east wing added. A tower also of fine proportions has been included. The completed building...
    102 KB (11,607 words) - 20:49, 14 May 2024
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    to: ... Please construct from all precious substances Images of Buddha with fine proportions Well designed and sitting on lotuses ... – suggesting this...
    11 KB (1,340 words) - 19:25, 5 December 2023
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    Tillie Pierce (category People of Pennsylvania in the American Civil War)
    off and an extension added. The Colonel was a very tall man and of fine proportions. He had been severely wounded in the right ankle and shoulder, the...
    27 KB (4,059 words) - 05:27, 20 July 2023
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    tapering holes of different sizes through which wire can be drawn to extrude it to increasingly fine proportions). The Bible provides a number of references...
    31 KB (3,898 words) - 12:21, 1 December 2023
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    arrangements and proportions have been perfected by both mathematical and empirical analysis. Also popular are the fancy cuts, which come in a variety of shapes...
    48 KB (6,751 words) - 10:31, 3 May 2024
  • Epic Proportions is a play by Larry Coen and David Crane. Set in the 1930s, it tells the story of brothers Benny and Phil, who go to the Arizona desert...
    7 KB (973 words) - 21:09, 28 December 2023
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    most copious form of imperial art. Portraits during the Augustan period utilize classical proportions, evolving later into a mixture of realism and idealism...
    248 KB (27,984 words) - 17:33, 15 May 2024
  • structure was pulled down, and the new building stood out in such fine proportions that the Hindus, the Mahomedans, and the Jews flocked to see it. — Jarric...
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