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| is a philosophy of architecture which promotes harmony between human habitation and the natural world through design approaches so sympathetic and well integrated with its site, that buildings, furnishings, and surroundings become part of a unified, interrelated composition. |
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| a projecting support of stone or brick built against a wall. |
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| relief sculpture is any work which projects from but which belongs to the wall, or other type of background surface, on which it is carved. |
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| " the hour flies" "times fly" |
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| an object serving as a warning or reminder of death, such as a skull. |
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| a painter, especially of portraits or miniatures. |
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| in a certain year of one's age. |
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| Hans Holbein the Younger was a German and Swiss artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style. He is best known as one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. |
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new and unusual or experimental ideas, especially in the arts, or the people
"ahead of its time" |
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| a 20th-century modernist not part of the medieval style; his residential designs were strongly influenced by the hearth as a central feature of the 17th-century hall. |
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| possible origin of term from the Italian or Portuguese word for an irregularly-shaped pearl |
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| is a structural element of a building that protrudes from the plane of a sloping roof surface |
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| a railing supported by balusters, especially an ornamental parapet on a balcony, bridge, or terrace. |
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| a small dome, especially a small dome on a drum on top of a larger dome, adorning a roof or ceiling. |
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| Such a band, either plain or molded, is usually formed of brick or stone. |
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| the triangular upper part of the front of a building in classical style, typically surmounting a portico of columns. |
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| a pattern of bricks in a wall in which each course consists of alternate headers and stretchers. |
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| A cabriole leg is one of (usually) four vertical supports of a piece of furniture shaped in two curves; |
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| with hands on the hips and elbows turned outward. |
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Rococo Style (1750-76)
Rocaille/Barroco |
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| this is the age of very conspicuous consumption in colonial America |
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late 1960s to present.
embraces historical references |
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| a large window consisting of a central arched section flanked by two narrow rectangular sections. |
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is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls.
ancient greek used this a lot |
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