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stria - a stripe or stripes of contrasting color; "chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands"; "the black and yellow banding of bees and wasps"
banding, striation, band
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A Guide for Travelers to Vienna, Austria
Vienna, Austria is a rich confection of architecture representing many periods and styles, ranging from elaborate baroque monuments to twentieth century innovations.
Must-See Buildings In Vienna: ...

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Votivkirche, Vienna, 1856-79
Rathaus, Vienna, 1872-83
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Rococo came to full flower, however, in Bavaria and Austria. The Austrian Benedictine Abbey (1748-1754) at Ottobeuren by Johann Michael Fischer is only one of a brilliant series of spectacular churches, monasteries, ...

A style of furniture produced in Austria and Germany during the first half of the 19th century. Inspired by French Empire and German painted peasant work.

Biedermeier Style, a furniture and interior design style popular in Germany and Austria between 1815 and 1860.

Example 1: The New Building in Vienna, Austria miradorA Mirador, from the Spanish mirar=to look, is room or tower, usually on the edge of a garden, from which there is a good view ( a mirador is similar to a Belvedere).

Photo: Dormer - Melk Abbey, Melk, Austria
Photo: Church pew - St. Stephen's RC Cathedral (Stephendom),Vienna, Austria
Photo: Baroque façade of the Jesuit Church of Saints Peter & Paul, Cracow, Poland ...

It was fashionable between 1890 and 1910, and particularly strong in France, Belgium, Germany, and Austria. In Britain, Charles Rennie Mackintosh was an important exponent: in Spain, Antonio Gaudi was the leading figure.

Baroque - a European style of architecture and decoration which developed in the 17th century in Italy from late Renaissance and Mannerist forms, and culminated in the churches, monasteries, and palaces of southern Germany and Austria in the ...

Tuulse, A., Castles of the Western World, Austria, 1958.
Warner, P., Sieges of the Middle Ages, London, 1968.
Weissmüller, A.A., Castles From the Heart of Spain, London, 1967.

glass: in France - at Le Mans, Chartres, Chalons-sur-Marne, Angers and Poitiers cathedrals, the abbey church of St Denis and at St Remi, Reims: in England - at York minster (fragments): in Germany - at Augsburg and Strassburg cathedrals: in Austria - ...

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