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... century , Venetian composers such as Giovanni Gabrieli wrote motets for multiple choirs and contrasting instruments . In the 17th and 18th centuries , the musical style var- ied from instrumentally accompanied motets for solo voice to ...
... century , Venetian composers such as Giovanni Gabrieli wrote motets for multiple choirs and contrasting instruments . In the 17th and 18th centuries , the musical style var- ied from instrumentally accompanied motets for solo voice to ...
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... century . " Miracle of St. George over the Dragon , " icon by an anonymous artist of the Novgorod school , egg tempera on panel , beginning of the 15th century ; in the Tretyakov Art Gallery , Moscow , I.A. Ostroukhov Collection Novosti ...
... century . " Miracle of St. George over the Dragon , " icon by an anonymous artist of the Novgorod school , egg tempera on panel , beginning of the 15th century ; in the Tretyakov Art Gallery , Moscow , I.A. Ostroukhov Collection Novosti ...
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... century AD , Dioscorides , whose De Materia Medica was the leading text on phar- macology for centuries , described ... century AD , but Japan probably did not begin cultivating it until the 15th century . Opium smoking , a custom of the ...
... century AD , Dioscorides , whose De Materia Medica was the leading text on phar- macology for centuries , described ... century AD , but Japan probably did not begin cultivating it until the 15th century . Opium smoking , a custom of the ...
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