A typical feature of Rococo is the ornament that gave it its name the rocaille, with a shape reminiscent of a seashell or earlobe.

Other parts were decorated in a purely decorative style with geometric patterns.

The decorative use of wire in southern Africa dates back hundreds of years.

Elizabeth's crown was made of platinum and was set with the Koh i Noor diamond.

Instead he applied it in pure form, almost as a decorative glaze.

In Chinese and Japanese art, the swastika is often found as part of a repeating pattern.

The nuclear weapon states have largely treated that aspect of the agreement as decorative and without force.

There was this whole fancy diplomatic system, this negotiation process about the future of Kosovo, and the Kosovars weren't part of it.

I have painted works that are unsellable for the lapachito and the decorative style way of thinking, and they were sold anyway.

Common in many kumi daiko groups is the use of the happi, a decorative, thin fabric coat, and traditional headbands called hachimaki.

Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration it is the Church's greatest ornament .

Anwar Al Eissa paints a metaphoric ornament soaked in blood, hanging in a freezer, as if depicting the dire freezing conditions many Syrians are going through this Christmas

These preferences may arise when an arbitrary female preference for some aspect of male morphology initially, perhaps, a result of genetic drift creates, in due course, selection for males with the appropriate ornament.

A pattern is an original object used to make copies, or a set of repeating objects in a decorative design and in other disciplines.

The quadratura style of the ceilings evoke Pietro Cortona's Sale dei Planeti at the Pitti, but Le Brun's decorative schema is more complex.

File Bull man protecting palmtree Louvre 14390 91.jpg_thumb_Bull man protecting a palmtree, Decorative brick panel from the outer wall of a temple to Inshushinak at Susa (12th century BC) Inshushinak was one of the major gods of the Elamites and the protector deity of Susa.

It's no wonder that a short time ago a famous supermarket made use of the sculpture of a black boy in chains, as though it was something natural, harmless and ornamental.

European classical music performance is evaluated by its fidelity to the text, with discretion over interpretation, ornamentation and accompaniment the classical performer's primary goal is to play a composition as it was written.

During the Edo period, wrestlers would wear a fringed decorative apron called a kesho mawashi during the bout, whereas today these are worn only during pre tournament rituals.

His daughters, on the other hand, proved an ornament to his court, as, They are all, you know, pretty and lively, and make society in a way that real princesses could not.

Below is the list of the ten bhūmis and their descriptions according to the Avataṃsaka Sūtra and The Jewel Ornament of Liberation, a treatise by Gampopa, an influential teacher of the Tibetan Kagyu school.

At tall, including decorative spires, the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, laid claim to replacing the Sears Tower as the tallest building in the world in 1998.

For example , parts of the staircases and the checkout area are still in their original state in the foyer of the western wing building the original decorative brick pattern still exists under the plaster .

Early planners took advantage of such opportunity by damming the creek to create a decorative lake to the south of the central business district with a dam a block and a half west of the later elaborate long Albert Street Bridge across the new lake.

The Eighth Council of Toledo (653) recorded its admiration of his character in these glowing terms The extraordinary doctor, the latest ornament of the Catholic Church, the most learned man of the latter ages, always to be named with reverence, Isidore .