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... produced an unexpectedly healthy climate for painting in the later Edo period . The term Nanga ( " Southern painting " ) was used to denote all foreign styles filtering through the licensed port of Nagasaki . Dutch prints , oil ...
... produced an unexpectedly healthy climate for painting in the later Edo period . The term Nanga ( " Southern painting " ) was used to denote all foreign styles filtering through the licensed port of Nagasaki . Dutch prints , oil ...
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... produced ceremo- nial objects and portraits , the most famous of which is the gold mask from the treasury of King Kofi Kakari ( Wallace Collection , London ) . Small weights cast in brass were also produced in order to weigh gold dust ...
... produced ceremo- nial objects and portraits , the most famous of which is the gold mask from the treasury of King Kofi Kakari ( Wallace Collection , London ) . Small weights cast in brass were also produced in order to weigh gold dust ...
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... produced there , in which Byzantine elements played an important part . The Italian illumination of the period is best known by the so - called gigantic Bibles , pro- duced in Rome and Umbria , and the Exulted Rolls , a peculiar- ity of ...
... produced there , in which Byzantine elements played an important part . The Italian illumination of the period is best known by the so - called gigantic Bibles , pro- duced in Rome and Umbria , and the Exulted Rolls , a peculiar- ity of ...
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