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  2. File:1882, Toulouse-Lautrec, The Marble Polisher.jpg - Wikipedia

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    Among his fellow pupils were Émile Bernard and Vincent van Gogh. With its emphasis on careful study of the human anatomy and its use of a famous ancient sculpture as a model, Scythian Slave in the Uffizi Museum in Florence, The Marble Polisher is indicative of the academic training Cormon provided.

  3. 1939 New York World's Fair pavilions and attractions - Wikipedia

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    The World's Fair officially opened on April 30, 1939, [5] and its first season ended on October 31, 1939. [6] The fair reopened for a second and final season on May 11, 1940, [7] closing on October 27, 1940. [8] Demolition of the buildings began immediately after the fair ended, [9] [10] but seven structures were preserved as part of the park. [11]

  4. Marble sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Lorenzo Bartolini, (Italian, 1777–1850), La Table aux Amours (The Demidoff Table), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Marble sculpture. Marble has been the preferred material for stone monumental sculpture since ancient times, with several advantages over its more common geological "parent" limestone, in particular the ability to absorb light a small distance into the surface before ...

  5. Conservation-restoration of the Statue of Liberty - Wikipedia

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    The NPS vowed to support the historical documentation effort, and a photographer was hired to photograph the entirety of the restoration—before, during, and after. Owing to this decision, an archive of two hundred large format photographs—both black and white, and multicolor—were developed for NPS and the Historic American Engineering ...

  6. Stone sculpture - Wikipedia

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    The final stage of the carving process is polishing. Sandpaper can be used as a first step in the polishing process or sand cloth. Emery, a stone that is harder and rougher than the sculpture media, is also used in the finishing process. This abrading, or wearing away, brings out the colour of the stone, reveals patterns in the surface and adds ...

  7. Saint John's Fair, Poznań - Wikipedia

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    After the collapse of the trade in these articles, the fairs fell into decline, especially at the beginning of the 18th century. It was reopened in 1780 by the Good Order Commission. The 19th century caused that the fairs also gained a social function and became the time of meetings of the Wielkopolska landowners (they were called St John's Day ...

  8. Polishing - Wikipedia

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    Polishing is the process of creating a smooth and shiny surface by rubbing it or by applying a chemical treatment, leaving a clean surface with a significant specular ...

  9. Human zoo - Wikipedia

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    A group of Igorot displayed during the St. Louis World's Fair, 1904 [1] [2] Natives of Tierra del Fuego, brought to the Paris World's Fair by the Maître in 1889. Human zoos, also known as ethnological expositions, were a colonial practice of publicly displaying people, usually in a so-called "natural" or "primitive" state. [3]