File: Atauriques. jpg | Arabesque pattern at the Alhambra

Arabesque is the position of the body supported on one leg, with the other leg extended behind the body with the knee straight.

As used in Moorish and Arabic decorative art ( from which, almost exclusively, it was known in the Middle Ages ), representations of living creatures were excluded ; but in the arabesques of Raphael, founded on the ancient Græco-Roman work of this kind, and in those of Renaissance decoration, human and animal figures, both natural and grotesque, as well as vases, armour, and objects of art, are freely introduced ; to this the term is now usually applied, the other being distinguished as Moorish Arabesque, or Moresque.

File: SignBernardMelun. png | Arabesque pen flourishes on a signature

Arabesque ( European art ) | Arabesque-like diapering on the Field ( heraldry ) | field of the shield of the Anglican Diocese of Worcester | See of Worcester: Argent, ten Roundel | torteaux four three two and one

Arabic calligraphy is associated with geometric Islamic art ( the Arabesque ) on the walls and ceilings of mosques as well as on the page.

In April 1914 he spent part of his Easter vacation with Delius, at Grez, and worked with the composer on the scores of An Arabesque and Fennimore and Gerda, in the latter case providing an English version of the libretto.

* Syria on Arabesque FM

He also returned to his focus on short stories rather than longer works of prose ; Poe's next published book after this, his only completed novel, was the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840.

Once a residential neighbourhood thoroughfare flanked by lavishly ornate mansions with Arabesque and European themes of the city's coffee barons and industry entrepreneurs such as the Matarazzo family, the avenue has undergone a massive verticalization from the 1950s on.

On film, the best-known of the many productions he appeared in were The 39 Steps ( 1959, as Kennedy ), Ben-Hur ( 1959, uncredited but playing Marius ), Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1962, as John Williams ), Arabesque ( 1966 ) and Battle of Britain ( 1969, as Flight Sergeant Arthur ).

Even while demolition work was in progress, scenes for the film Arabesque which starred Sophia Loren and Gregory Peck were being shot on it.

He has recorded on a number of labels, including RCA, Vox, Fidelio, Arabesque, Vanguard and Biddulph.

Xauen Music produced a concert featuring Algerian singer Souad Massi in her debut U. S. tour, and Hicham started his weekly “ Arabesque ” radio on WHPK.

File: Moresque ornament, Peter Flötner. jpg | Arabesque or moresque ornament print, by Peter Flötner ( d. 1546 )

File: Schultheiss. png | Arabesque or moresque borders in a print by Peter Flötner

File: DE 23 246127X 006. gif | Arabesque / moresque printers ornament, German, 17th century

File: Ebersmunster Abbatiale10. JPG | Arabesque plasterwork in Ebersmunster, Alsace,? 1740s

File: Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas 025. jpg | Fin d ' Arabesque, with ballerina Rosita Mauri, 1877, Musée d ’ Orsay.

Arabesque ( Islamic art ) | Arabesque inlays at the Mughal Empire | Mughal Agra Fort

Part of a 15th century ceramic panel from Samarkand with Arabesque ( Islamic art ) | arabesque background

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Apse mosaic, San Clemente, c. 1200, showing a common form of Byzantine Arabesque ( European art ) | arabesque motif of scrolled acanthus ( ornament ) | acanthus tendrils

Image: Jenni Vahamaa 2008 Junior Worlds. jpg | Arabesque spiral ( Right forward outside edge )</ center >

* 1962 – Sandra, German singer ( Arabesque )

* Claude Debussy – Arabesque No. 1, L. 66 for piano

** Arabesque – Henry Mancini

* Franz Schubert – String Quartets in a D804 ( recorded twice: for RCA and Arabesque ), in c " Quartettsatz ", in d D810 " Death and the Maiden " ( recorded twice: for RCA and Arabesque ), in G D887, String Quintet in C D956 ( with Leonard Rose ), " Trout " Quintet D667 ( with Emanuel Ax and Julius Levine )

Arnaud also wrote non-series espionage novels under the pseudonyms of " Saint-Gilles " and " Georges Murey " for Ferenczi ( 1958 – 60 ) and L ' Arabesque ( 1957 – 65 ), and another fifty-odd novels under his own name for Fleuve Noir's Espionnage ( 1961 – 86 ).

The contemporary novel Livets Arabesk ( 1921 – " The Arabesque of Life ") is a revolutionary futuristic fantasy in expressionist form.

His mother was from Egypt, and her love of the music of Reyad Elsonbaty was passed to her son, who grew up loving Arabesque music.

Ezra is written to fit a schematic pattern in which the God of Israel inspires a king of Persia to commission a leader from the Jewish community to carry out a mission ; three successive leaders carry out three such missions, the first rebuilding the Temple, the second purifying the Jewish community, and the third sealing of the holy city itself behind a wall.

The background was changed from one colour behind the logo and another behind the Dennis strip to one single colour or a pattern, such as red and black stripes.

The usual pattern for building a railway terminus was to conceal the metal structure behind an elaborate facade: Eiffel's design for Budapest used the metal structure as the centrepiece of the building, flanked on either side by conventional stone and brick-clad structures housing administrative offices.

When a crystal is mounted and exposed to an intense beam of X-rays, it scatters the X-rays into a pattern of spots or reflections that can be observed on a screen behind the crystal.

When the wind is turned on the liquid quickly evaporates leaving behind the clay in a pattern characteristic of the air flow.

This is due to viewing angle ( less than the critical angle of reflection of the black vinyl ) and the path of the light being reflected due to this being changed by the grooves, leaving a rainbow relief pattern behind.

The radiation pattern of the antenna is exactly the same as it would be if the ground plane were replaced by a mirror image of the antenna, located an equal distance behind the plane.

A pattern of four or more lures can be trolled at varying distances behind the boat.

A pattern of multiple baits or lures can be trolled at varying distances behind a boat.

Viewing the mirror from behind the knife edge shows a pattern on the mirror surface.

Cargo cult programming can also refer to the results of ( over -) applying a design pattern or coding style blindly without understanding the reasons behind that design principle in the first place.

In this sojourner belonging to a great family from the south, who came like a god, enriched the festival of the New Year with games and drama, possibly organized the collection of tribute on a southern pattern, and departed leaving behind him a legend of divine embodiment, one is tempted to recognize a far earlier appearance of that Lono of the Makahiki in whose name the Kumulipo chant was dedicated to Keawe's infant son and heir ".

The motif that hangs behind the High Priestess ’ s throne, veiling what ever mysteries she guards, is suggested in the pattern of The Empress ’ gown.

Although the motivation behind the factory method pattern is to allow subclasses to choose which type of object to create, there are other benefits to using factory methods, many of which do not depend on subclassing.

Another kind of start is a standing start, where there are tapes or imaginary lines across the track behind which the horses either stand stationary or trot in circles in pairs in a specific pattern to hit the starting line as a group.

Roman and later writers, taking the Athenian pattern as their example, have tended to assume either that their sexual relationship belonged to their adolescence, after which they left it behind, or that one of them was older, the lover ( erastes ) and the other was the beloved ( eromenos ).

In practice the wave pattern between the V-shaped wavefronts is usually mixed with the effects of propeller backwash and eddying behind the boat's ( usually square-ended ) stern.

Birds in central Asia ( caniceps group ) have a plain grey head behind the red face, lacking the black and white head pattern of European and western Asian birds.

It had a much finer mesh pattern, and now had the parking lamp lenses mounted vertically behind the outer sections.

* The pattern behind self-deception

A gravity wave cloud pattern — analogous to a ship wake — in the downwind zone behind the Île Amsterdam, in the far southern Indian Ocean.

Some commentators describe these pattern of capital flow as “ hot money ” that flows from one sector or country to the next and leaves behind a trail of destruction.

The fundamental idea behind all these notations is the matching principle, which assigns a meaning to a sequence of elements of the pattern notation: