These groups were for long the most frequently painted ; works such as Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling are therefore history paintings, as are most very large paintings before the 19th century.

A more careful argument in favor of price ceilings would statistically characterize the number of tenants who can afford housing at various levels based on income and choose a ceiling that achieves a specific goal, such as housing 80 % of the working families in the area.

Forms of insulation are felt or plastic sheeting, sometimes with a reflective surface, installed directly below the tiles or other material ; synthetic foam batting laid above the ceiling and recycled paper products and other such materials that can be inserted or sprayed into roof cavities.

* Using bounce flash in which the flash head is aimed at a nearby pale colored surface such as a ceiling or wall or at a specialist photographic reflector.

He and his wife kept a detailed ledger of their works noting such items as “ sad face of woman unlit ”, “ electric light from ceiling ”, and “ thighs cooler ”.

Some titles impose a ceiling on the number simultaneous troops, which becomes a key gameplay consideration, a significant example being StarCraft, while other titles have no such unit cap.

One such innovation, the Extended Virtual Table, separates the virtual from the real by including beam-splitter mirrors attached to the ceiling at an adjustable angle.

Stalactites jutting from the cave's ceiling and stalagmites rising from the floor form intricate formations such as cave curtains, flow stones, cave pearls and scallops which took thousands of years to form.

Some say that this ghost walks upon the original floor levels which have been altered since her day, such that her ghost appears as legs and lower body projecting from the ceiling on one floor with head and upper body gliding along the floor above.

The building still features lighting systems quite advanced for their time, such as the parallel rows of incandescent bulbs that adorn the varnished wood ceiling paneling.

As such the sunflower at the centre would double as a Masonic Blazing Star, echoing the Garter Blazing stars at the centre of the Red Velvet Room ceiling and in the centre of the floor in the Upper Tribunal.

“ So often ,” he said, “ I have seen such gracious ladies disrupt political combinations .” He sighed and still stared at the ceiling seemingly lost in memory.

This also led to unusual legal arrangements such as the " flying freehold ", where the shared floor / ceiling is wholly owned by the underdwelling.

The majority of the systems-related controls ( such as electrical, fuel, hydraulics and pressurization ) for example, are usually located in the ceiling on an overhead panel.

Another dome, made of wood, is reported in contemporary sources to have covered a dining hall in the palace, and may have been fitted such that perfume might spray from the ceiling.

At least some Diamondtron CRT faceplates are spherical sectors ; reflections of such objects as ceiling light fixtures are reduced in size and do not change shape regardless of where they appear.

Three such stacks are typically mounted on the floor or hung from the ceiling of the valve hall of a long distance transmission facility.

He painted canvases for churches such as that of Verolanuova ( 1735 – 1740 ), for the Scuola dei Carmini ( 1740 – 1747 ), and the Chiesa degli Scalzi ( 1743 – 1744 ; now destroyed ) in Cannaregio, a ceiling for the Palazzi Archinto and Casati-Dugnani in Milan ( 1731 ), the Colleoni Chapel in Bergamo ( 1732 – 1733 ), a ceiling for the Gesuati ( Santa Maria del Rosario ) in Venice of St. Dominic Instituting the Rosary ( 1737 – 1739 ), Palazzo Clerici, Milan ( 1740 ), decorations for Villa Cordellini at Montecchio Maggiore ( 1743 – 1744 ) and for the ballroom of the Palazzo Labia, now a television studio in Venice, showing the Story of Cleopatra ( 1745 – 1750 ).

He went on to complete theatrical frescoes for churches ; the Triumph of Faith for the Chiesa della Pietà ; panel frescos for Ca ' Rezzonico ( which now also holds his ceiling fresco from the Palazzo Barbarigo ); and paintings for patrician villas in the Venetian countryside, such as Villa Valmarana in Vicenza and an elaborate panegyric ceiling for the now nearly-vacant Villa Pisani in Stra.

Many common building materials used before 1975 contain asbestos, such as some floor tiles, ceiling tiles, taping muds, pipe wrap, mastics and other insulation materials.

The first such theater, the Cooper Theater, built in Denver, featured a 146-degree louvered screen ( measuring 105 feet by 35 feet ), 814 seats, courtesy lounges on the sides of the theatre for relaxation during intermission ( including concessions and smoking facilities ), and a ceiling which routed air and heating through small vent slots in order to inhibit noise from the building's ventilation equipment.

Zahi Hawass displays a Ptolemaic statue discovered at Taposiris Magna on May 8, 2010Hawass spearheaded a movement to return many prominent unique and / or irregularly taken Ancient Egyptian artifacts, such as the Rosetta Stone, the bust of Nefertiti, the Dendera zodiac ceiling painting from the Dendera Temple, the bust of Ankhhaf ( the architect of the Khafra Pyramid ), the faces of Amenhotep III's tomb at the Louvre Museum, the Luxor Temple's obelisk at the Place de la Concorde and the statue of Hemiunu, nephew of the Pharaoh Khufu, builder of the largest pyramid, to Egypt from collections in various other countries.

You have only to compare such painting with the work of, say, Sesshu, to realize that someone is using words and brushes carelessly.

Most often, the term describes those who create within a context of the fine arts or ' high culture ', activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking, photography, and music — people who use imagination, talent, or skill to create works that may be judged to have an aesthetic value.

The peoples of the Tarim Basin in northern China are now known to be Caucasian and there were widespread attempts to keep western archeologists from testing samples such as deliberately replacing the mummies or decapitating them, even defacing ancient cave painting depictions of these people with large amounts of body hair and features such as red colored hair and blue eyes.

By making the mass number of soldiers blend within the landscape / painting, it shows that he believed that the usage and depiction of landscape was just as significant as a historical event, such as a war.

By 1000 BC ancient civilizations were using technologies that formed the basis of the various branches of chemistry such as ; extracting metal from their ores, making pottery and glazes, fermenting beer and wine, making pigments for cosmetics and painting, extracting chemicals from plants for medicine and perfume, making cheese, dying cloth, tanning leather, rendering fat into soap, making glass, and making alloys like bronze.

While the specific definition has changed over time, modern usage refers to a typically non-realistic or semi-realistic drawing or painting intended for satire, caricature, or humor, or to the artistic style of such works.

The term originated in the Middle Ages and first described a preparatory drawing for a piece of art, such as a painting, fresco, tapestry, or stained glass window.

One such lost piece, Pissarro's 1897 oil painting, " Rue St. Honoré, Apres Midi, Effet de Pluie ," was discovered hanging at Madrid's government-owned museum, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza.

Munch was pleased with the " great commotion ", and wrote in a letter: " Never have I had such an amusing time — it's incredible that something as innocent as painting should have created such a stir.

Modern humans started burying their dead, using animal hides to make clothing, hunting with more sophisticated techniques ( such as using trapping pits or driving animals off cliffs ), and engaging in cave painting.

By arguing that films had auteurs, or authors, Truffaut sought to make films ( and their directors ) at least as important as the more widely-accepted art forms, such as literature, music, and painting.

The painting is structured with Brown's characteristic linear energy, and emphasis on apparently grotesque and banal details, such as the cabbages hanging from the ship's side.

Provisions of gang injunctions include things such as restricting the possession of marker pens, spray paint cans, or other sharp objects capable of defacing private or public property ; spray painting, or marking with marker pens, scratching, applying stickers or otherwise applying graffiti on any public or private property, including but not limited to the street, alley, residences, block walls and fences, vehicles and / or any other real or personal property.

Examples of this would be woodworking, photography, moviemaking, jewelry making, software projects such as Photoshopping and home music or video production, making bracelets, artistic projects ( such as drawing, painting, etc.

There was also painting on three dimensional works of art on figurines and statues, such as the original-painted colors covering the soldier and horse statues of the Terracotta Army.

An example of such would be Qian Xuan ( 1235 – 1305 AD ), who was an official of the Song Dynasty, but out of patriotism, refused to serve the Yuan court and dedicated himself to painting.

During the Ming Dynasty there were also different and rivaling schools of art associated with painting, such as the Wu School and the Zhe School.

It comes to the fore in Italian Renaissance painting, where a series of increasingly ambitious works were produced, many still religious, but several, especially in Florence, which did actually feature near-contemporary historical scenes such as the set of three huge canvases on The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello, the abortive Battle of Cascina by Michelangelo and the Battle of Anghiari by Leonardo da Vinci, neither of which were completed.

Writers such as Giorgio Vasari followed public opinion in judging the best painters above all on their production of large canvases of history painting, and artists continued for centuries to strive to make their reputation by producing such works, often neglecting genres to which their talents were better suited.

There was some objection to the term, as many writers preferred terms such as " poetic painting " ( poesia ), or wanted to make a distinction between the " true " istoria, covering history including biblical and religious scenes, and the fabula, covering pagan myth, allegory, and scenes from fiction, which could not be regarded as true.

In the Late Renaissance and Baroque the painting of actual history tended to degenerate into panoramic battle-scenes with the victorious monarch or general perched on a horse accompanied with his retinue, or formal scenes of ceremonies, although some artists managed to make a masterpiece from such unpromising material, as Velázquez did with his The Surrender of Breda.