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  2. Painted photography backdrops - Wikipedia

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    Newark, New Jersey, 1912. From roughly 1860 to 1920 [1] [2] painted photography backdrops were a standard feature of early photography studios. Generally of rustic or quasi-classical design, but sometimes presenting a bourgeoisie trompe-l'œil, [3] they eventually fell out of fashion with the advent of the Brownie and Kodak cameras which brought photography to the masses with concurrent ...

  3. Halo (religious iconography) - Wikipedia

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    Where gold is used as a background in miniatures, mosaics and panel paintings, the halo is often formed by inscribing lines in the gold leaf, and may be decorated in patterns within the outer radius, and thus becomes much less prominent. The gold leaf inside the halo may also be burnished in a circular manner, so as to produce the effect of ...

  4. Backdrop - Wikipedia

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    Backdrop or Bankdrops may refer to: Backdrop (theater) , painted scenery hung at the back of a stage Backdrop (wrestling) , various types of throws in amateur and professional wrestling

  5. History of BBC television idents - Wikipedia

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    The idents are based on a circle motif, with content much more diverse than the previous: swimming hippos, motorbike stunt riders, children playing "ring a roses", lit windows, surfers, football players, the moon, kites, and a red arc circling the logo. [6] The first of the new idents shown was 'Kites', appearing at 9:58 BST on 7 October.

  6. Bliss (photograph) - Wikipedia

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    The photograph depicts a lush green rolling hill with cirrus clouds during a daytime sky, with mountains far in the background. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was taken by Charles O'Rear , a former National Geographic photographer and resident of St. Helena , California, in the Napa Valley region north of San Francisco, while on his way to visit his girlfriend ...

  7. Top Trump, Biden, and Harris Advisers Spill the Tea on 2024

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    President-elect Donald Trump; Vice President Kamala Harris Credit - Chris Unger—Zuffa LLC/Getty Images; Al Drago—Bloomberg/Getty Images. This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s ...

  8. Victorian decorative arts - Wikipedia

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    "The Platonic Eros of Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde: Love's Reflected Image in the 1890s". English Literature in Transition. 45 (1): 26– 29. ISSN 1559-2715. van der Plaat, Deborah (2015). "Visualising the Critical: Artistic Convention and Eclecticism in Oscar Wilde's Writings on the Decorative Arts". Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies.

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