pendant or pendent
pendentive - A concave, triangular piece of masonry (a triangle section of a hemisphere), four of which provide the transition from a square area to the circular base of a covering dome.
pendant: A hanging architectural member formed by ribs. Not to be confused with pendentive. Pendants ofthe appear in conjunction with fan vaults.
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The pendants Diana and Acteon and Diana and Callisto (both on loan to the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh) were formerly in the collection of Philippe Egalito, Duc d'Orleans.
Commissioned as a pendant to Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore and shown at the Royal Academy in 1835, this canvas creates a total counterpoint in mood and meaning.
Pendant
1 projecting or suspended boss in Gothic architecture. 2 decoration at the end of a Gable roof. 3 one of a pair of works.
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pendant (Fr. "hanging, dependent") One of a pair of related art works, or related elements within an art work. Pietà Lat.
Yet, in addition to these portraits and the numerous pendant pairs of portraits during these early Amsterdam years, Rembrandt also clearly yearned for recognition, after the model of Rubens, as a painter of both mythologies and biblical stories.
USC - Etruscan Lion Plaque Pendant
Before the rise of Rome as a power in the Mediterranean region, the Etruscans dominated ancient Etruria... Bartleby.com: Etruscan art
The art of the inhabitants of ancient Etruria, which, by the 8th cent. B.C.
Nous crûmes d'abord, pendant deux ans, que le romantisme, en manière d'écriture, ne s'appliquait qu'au théâtre, et qu'il se distinguait du classique parce qu'il se passait des unités [...] Mais on nous apprend tout à coup [...
As Cubism stands on the shoulders of Cézanne, Warhol's art is dependant on Duchamp's 'readymades. He was really a Dadaist in spirit - an 'agent provocateur'.
The technologies of mass communication have made us a little less literate then generations preceding us, and a lot more dependant on visual and auditory messages.
See Jules Renouvier, Histoire de l'art pendant la Révolution (Paris, 1863), vol. 1, p. 30.
Art Nouveau Enameled and Jeweled Pendant
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In this piece, Giacometti has suspended a head from a crossbar in a rectangular cage, thus implying that the pendant form could be prodded to swing, with the incredible nose extending further beyond the confines of its prison.
According to the author, he originally planned the The Magic Mountain as a novella; a humorous, ironic, satirical (and satyric) pendant to Death in Venice, which he had completed in 1912.
1822 - pendant to a Moonrise by the Sea - seems arrested in dance. With distant oaks as its corps de ballet, the central tree's solo is reflected by the trapezoidal pool below.
Sir John and Lady Donne are shown wearing Yorkist collars of gilt roses and suns from which hangs the Lion of March pendant of King Edward IV.
An extremely long neck chain, which falls below the waistline and terminates with a tassel or pendant. Popular in the early 20th century, notably the Edwardian and Art Deco eras. continue
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Craftsmen today have some technical advantages over those of past times with welding equipment and power tools, efficient gas or oil burners and flexible rubbers for moulding. However, today's technique is still heavily dependant upon many hours of ...
Artists working in this genre believed that the 20th century was dependant on technology and the machine. Therefore, they chose to depict these subjects in a glorifying manner.
Whether Seurat intended the Bathers and this painting to be considered as pendants (a pair) is still debated; certainly he contrasts the natural world with the unpleasant artificiality of bourgeois life, as these artists saw it.
The first introduction of Dada artwork to the Parisian public was at the Salon des Ind?pendants in 1921. Jean Crotti exhibited works associated with Dada including a work entitled, "Explicatif" bearing the word Tabu.
Moreover, amino acid decay rates also are dependant upon micro-organisms and environmental conditions, which means that results from different regions are not directly comparable (Thackeray 1983: 22).
 See also: Painting, Roman, Portrait, Classic, Composition
  
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