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  2. 1200s in art - Wikipedia

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    1200: Kaikei sculpts Mahamayuri in Kimpusen-ji, an Important Cultural Property of Japan. 1201: Kaikei sculpts Hachiman in Tōdai-ji, a National Treasure of Japan; 1203: Kaikei with Unkei sculpts Nio in Tōdai-ji, a National Treasure of Japan; 1205: The Legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus – stained glass done for Rouen Cathedral

  3. List of statues - Wikipedia

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    Statue Park, Szoborpark or Statue Park is a park in Budapest's XXII. district, with a gathering of monumental Soviet-era statues. Liberty Statue, The Szabadság Szobor or Liberty Statue (sometimes Freedom Statue) in Budapest, Hungary, was first erected in 1947 in remembrance of the Soviet liberation of Hungary from Nazi forces during World War II.

  4. 30 Surreal Details On Sculptures That Left People In Awe - AOL

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    Image credits: JamesLucasIT Sculpture as an art form dates back to 32,000 years B.C. Back then, of course, small animal and human figures carved in bone, ivory, or stone counted as sculptures.

  5. List of Stone Age art - Wikipedia

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    Tadrart Acacus (Libya) – rock art with engravings of humans and flora and fauna, which date from 12,000 BCE to 100 CE. Tassili n'Ajjer (Algeria) – over 15,000 pastoral and natural engravings; the earliest rock art is from around 12,000 years before present, with most dating to the 9th and 10th millennia BP or younger. Americas

  6. Shigir Idol - Wikipedia

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    The Shigir Sculpture, or Shigir Idol (Russian: Шигирский идол), is the oldest known wooden sculpture. [1] [2] It is estimated to have been carved c. 11,500 years ago, or during the early Holocene period, and is twice as old as Egypt's Great Pyramid. [3] The wood it was carved from is approximately 12,000 years old. [4]

  7. Pre-Columbian art - Wikipedia

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    The Pre-classic period was dominated by the highly developed Olmec civilization, which flourished around 1200–400 BCE. The Olmecs produced jade figurines, and created heavy-featured, colossal heads, up to 2 meters (6.6 ft) high, that still stand mysteriously in the landscape. The Mesoamerican tradition of building large ceremonial centres ...

  8. Zeitpyramide - Wikipedia

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    The town of Wemding dates back to the year 793 and celebrated its 1,200th anniversary in 1993. The Zeitpyramide was conceived by Manfred Laber (a local artist) in June 1993 to mark this 1,200-year period and to give people a sense of what the span of 1,200 years really means. [1] One block is scheduled to be placed every ten years, taking 1,190 ...

  9. Sculpture of Zimbabwe - Wikipedia

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    Central Zimbabwe contains the "Great Dyke" – a source of serpentine rocks of many types including a hard variety locally called springstone.An early precolonial culture of Shona peoples settled the high plateau around 900 AD and “Great Zimbabwe”, which dates from about 1250–1450 AD, was a stone-walled town showing evidence in its archaeology of skilled stone working.