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The name golf is not an acronym for "Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden". [268] [269] It may have come from the Dutch word kolf or kolve, meaning "club", [269] or from the Scottish word goulf or gowf meaning "to strike or cuff". [268] Baseball was not invented by Abner Doubleday, nor did it originate in Cooperstown, New York.
Composite art depicts a figure composed in whole or part of different creatures, including human beings, animals, birds, reptiles, insects, or dinosaurs such as Brontosaurus. [3] The origin of the style is unknown and debated by scholars. [4] Composite art has a history in two prominent traditions – Hindu and Mughal.
Letras y figuras (Spanish, "letters and figures") is a genre of painting pioneered by José Honorato Lozano during the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines. The art form is distinguished by the depiction of letters of the alphabet using a genre of painting that contoured shapes of human figures, animals, plants, and other objects called ...
Chinese porcelain blanc de Chine figure of Guanyin, Ming dynasty. A figurine (a diminutive form of the word figure) or statuette is a small, three-dimensional sculpture that represents a human, deity or animal, or, in practice, a pair or small group of them.
The Golden Apple of Discord at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, Jacob Jordaens, 1633, 181 cm × 288 cm (71 in × 113 in), oil on canvas. A figure painting is a work of fine art in any of the painting media with the primary subject being the human figure, whether clothed or nude.
A putto (Italian:; plural putti) [1] is a figure in a work of art depicted as a chubby male child, usually naked and very often winged. Originally limited to profane passions in symbolism, [ 2 ] the putto came to represent a sort of baby angel in religious art, often called a cherub (plural cherubim), though in traditional Christian theology a ...
In other cultures, especially Hinduism and Buddhism, many personification figures still retain their religious significance, which is why they are not covered here. For example, Bharat Mata was devised as a Hindu goddess figure to act as a national personification by intellectuals in the Indian independence movement from the 1870s, but now has ...
Miniature art includes paintings, engravings and sculptures that are very small; it has a long history that dates back to prehistory. The portrait miniature is the most common form in recent centuries, and from ancient times, engraved gems , often used as impression seals , and cylinder seals in various materials were very important.