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The Little Pheasant Castle (Fasanenschlösschen) was built between 1770 and 1776. The grounds were extended to include a building for the storage of bird nest‘s, the large Well of Venus, living quarters for Count Camillo Marcolini and a maritime setting on the Great Lake complete with a miniature harbour with jetty and lighthouse.
Bird's eye view of Nymphenburg Palace and Park, miniature by Maximilian de Geer, around 1730. The 1662 birth of Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria of the Wittelsbach family was the occasion to consider the construction of a palatial residence and garden for the young mother, Electoress Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, in between the villages of Neuhausen and Obermenzing.
This is a list of list of Royal Doulton figurines in ascending order by HN number. HN is named after Harry Nixon (1886–1955), head of the Royal Doulton painting department who joined Doulton in 1900. [ 1 ]
The Boxer Vase shows a helmeted figure with the off arm pulled back for counterbalance, martial-arts style. Bull-Leaping Fresco, Taureador Fresco: Knossos: Minoan: MM IIIB: Heraklion: Composite scene of acrobatics over a galloping bull. The best of a series of similar scenes, the Taureador Frescos. Cat and Pheasant: Hagia Triada: Minoan: LM I ...
Maison de la reine and the Tour de Marlborough (left) in the hameau at the Petit Trianon park of Versailles. The Hameau de la Reine (French pronunciation: [amo də la ʁɛn], The Queen's Hamlet) is a rustic retreat in the park of the Château de Versailles built for Marie Antoinette in 1783 near the Petit Trianon in Yvelines, France.
The Persian miniature was the dominant influence on other Islamic miniature traditions, principally the Ottoman miniature in Turkey, and the Mughal miniature in the Indian sub-continent. Persian art under Islam had never completely forbidden the human figure, and in the miniature tradition the depiction of figures, often in large numbers, is ...