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  2. Femme aux Bras Croisés - Wikipedia

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    Femme aux Bras Croisés (English: Woman with Folded Arms), is an oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso, which he created between 1901 and 1902 during his Blue Period.The subject of the painting is unknown, but she is considered to be an inmate of the Saint-Lazare hospital-prison in Paris.

  3. List of gestures - Wikipedia

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    The crossed fingers represent this kanji resembling an "X". [14] A clenched fist. Chinese number gestures are a method of using one hand to signify the natural numbers one through ten. Clenched fist is used as a gesture of defiance or solidarity. Facing the signer, it threatens physical violence (i.e., "a thumping").

  4. Contrapposto - Wikipedia

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    A marble copy of Polykleitos' Doryphoros, an early example of classical contrapposto. S-curve (art) Contrapposto (Italian pronunciation: [kontrapˈposto]) is an Italian term that means "counterpoise".

  5. Funerary urn from Biała - Wikipedia

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    Partially preserved or unfinished female figure, intended to be analogous to drawing 5, probably on horse; Man on horse; Woman mounting a horse with her dress and breasts clearly marked; A cross with comb-tipped ends that exactly matches the shape of the horsemen's hands, or four hands crossed; each hand has five "fingers" On the foot there are:

  6. Brigid's cross - Wikipedia

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    Brigid's cross is named for Brigid of Kildare, the only female patron saint of Ireland, who was born c. 450 in Leinster.Unlike her contemporary, Saint Patrick, Brigid left no historical record, and most information about her life and work derives from a hagiography written by the monk Cogitosus some 200 years after her birth. [13]

  7. Crosses in heraldry - Wikipedia

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    In a cross moline, the ends of the arms are bifurcated, split and curved back, also called a cross ancré or anchory. As a mark of cadency in English and Canadian heraldry, it marks an eighth son. [citation needed] Found in the coats of arms of Molyneux and of the House of Broglie. Cross fourchy (fourchée)

  8. Women in heraldry - Wikipedia

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    Canada adds a unique series of brisures for use by female children who inherit arms. As in other heraldic systems, these cadency marks are not always used; [ 19 ] in any case, when the heir succeeds (in Canada, the first child, whether male or female, according to strict primogeniture ), the mark of cadency is removed and the heir uses the ...

  9. Arm folding - Wikipedia

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    Arms crossed right over left (phenotype R) The manner in which a person folds their arms is a dynamic morphological demonstration of two alternative phenotypes . Once adopted, manner of arms folding across the chest does not change throughout the lifetime and persons easily give up the unusual folding position, most commonly at the first attempt.