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Its permanent collection features more than 800 works of art, primarily by artists from Africa, Asia and Latin America, including paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, and mixed media.
Its city walls were much imitated ( for example, see Caernarfon Castle ) and its urban infrastructure was moreover a marvel throughout the Middle Ages, keeping alive the art, skill and technical expertise of the Roman Empire.
Its people roamed the Mediterranean seas, skilled in trade and in art, and founded trading colonies.
Its decorative sculptures are considered some of the high points of Greek art.
Its members also belonged to other art movements and groups during the Weimar Republic era, such as architect Walter Gropius ( founder of Bauhaus ), and Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht ( agitprop theatre ).
Its usage as a feminist spelling of " women " ( with " womon " as the singular form ) first appeared in print in 1975 referring to the first Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, an annual art festival that admits only womyn-born womyn.
Its art gallery is highlighted by works of the Flemish, Italian and Spanish schools.
Its mission is to promote African-American cultural contributions of blues music and folk art.
Its first exhibits were copies of ancient statuary, thought indispensable for the education of art students.
Its collections encompass diverse cultural items such as Ashanti Empire sculptures, Buddhist art, Dutch Golden Age painting, works by Albrecht Dürer, Jean-Baptiste Greuze and Auguste Rodin, among others.
Its proximity to Lake Como and to the Alps has made Como a popular tourist destination and the city contains numerous works of art, churches, gardens, museums, theatres, parks and palaces: the Duomo ( seat of Diocese of Como ), the Basilica of Sant ' Abbondio, the Villa Olmo, the public gardens with the Tempio Voltiano, the Teatro Sociale, the Broletto ( the city ’ s medieval town hall ) and the 20th century Casa del Fascio.
Its main subjects are art, science and natural history, and it owns a number of works by Michelangelo and Rembrandt.
Its roots lay in the traditional Japanese martial arts, Chinese medicine and Buddhist meditation techniques, while its creator Hiroyuki Aoki was also influenced by modern Western art and Christianity.
Its cover art depicts a squadron of flying toasters, a design that the band later alleged was plagiarized for the famous " After Dark " computer screensaver design.
Its bronze doors, adorned with bas-reliefs, are notable example of Romanesque art which may belong to the beginning of the 13th century.
Its permanent collection is considered one of the best and most important contemporary art in Basque and Spanish.
Its original subtitle-A Fictitious Report on the Architecture of the Brain – does not just refer to the process-based methodology characteristics of conceptual practices and “ information art ” but also indicates the type of activities carried out by the Taller de Arquitectura.
Its collaborators included poets such as José Agustín Goytisolo, politicians like Salvador Clotas, artists like Daniel Argimon and Joan Ponç, actresses like Serena Vergano, and, lastly, architects such as Anna Bofill, Peter H. Hodgkinson, Ramón Collado, Xavier Bagué, and Manuel Nuñez Yanovsky. The film is a study of the relationship between art and madness and describes the horror of the human condition – a mere instant between nothingness and nothingness.
Its collection spans 5, 000 years of art, from ancient times to the present day, in virtually every medium, from the cultures of Europe, North America, Asia and North Africa.
Its hieroglyph was figuratively depicted in art as a woman wearing a palm shoot ( which was a representation of time ) over her head.
Its attractions include an art gallery, a philharmonic theater, an underwater aquarium and also a Science centre.
Its grounds feature a statue honoring area veterans of the Civil War and a gazebo, and is the site of " A Day in the Village ," a festival held in mid-June which features attractions like face painting, sand art, a DooDah parade, and various groups handing out free candy and religious tracts.
Its fare consists of unique art house films, and occasionally the theater hosts plays and concerts.
Its architecture was the most salient Carolingian art to a society that never saw an illuminated manuscript and rarely handled one of the new coins.
" Its historic and secluded downtown area, with streets lined by live oak trees, is home to several art galleries and shops.

Its and holdings
Its native civilization is decadent and the various city-states and desert tribes squabble as the canal system slowly falls apart and Earthmen arrive to carve out colonial holdings.
Its holdings include many local family histories, photos and other artifacts.
Its holdings include biographical documents, works, designs and diagrams as well as Greek sculptures or casts, along with other small artworks from antiquity.
Its name came from 213, when Cao Cao's feudal holdings were given the name Wei ; historians often add the prefix Cao ( 曹, from Cao Cao's family name ) to distinguish it from the other states in Chinese history also known as Wei, such as the earlier Wei state during the Warring States Period, and the later Northern Wei state.
Its British portraits collection is exceeded in size only by that of the National Portrait Gallery and its holdings relating to Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson and Captain James Cook, among many other individuals, are unrivalled.
Its holdings include more than 100, 000 works spanning the history of art from ancient times to the present.
( Its holdings totaled around 1, 025, 000 koku.
Its Canadian holdings, notably the National Post, several smaller papers, and a majority stake in the Southam newspaper chain, were sold to CanWest in 2000 in connection with Conrad Black renouncing his Canadian citizenship to gain a British peerage.
Its holdings are non-contiguous and do not include the Indiana Dunes State Park ( 1916 ), a separate, parcel of protected dune land on the lakefront near Porter, Indiana.
Its customers may, however, choose to become Co-operative Group members and hence indirectly acquire an ownership interest in the Bank, earning dividend on their account holdings and borrowing with the Bank.
Its permanent holdings contain an important collection of Old Masters and 19th-century and 20th-century artwork, as well as some of the nation's best collections of German Expressionism, folk and Haitian art, American decorative arts, and post-1960 American art.
Its diversified holdings included Champagne Taittinger, Société du Louvre and Concorde Hotels, whose flagship is the famed Hotel de Crillon on the Place de la Concorde in Paris, France as well as the Loire Valley wine producing firm of Bouvet-Ladubay, and a partnership in Domaine Carneros in California, until it was sold to Starwood Capital in 2005.
Its main holdings were the networks and assets of the Big Four national regional railway companies: Great Western Railway, London and North Eastern Railway, London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway.
Its holdings also include numerous illustrated works from as early as the 15th century, including Konrad Gessner's Historia animalium, Maria Sibylla Merian's Insects of Surinam, Edward Lear's Psittacidae or Parrots, and a double elephant folio of John James Audubon's The Birds of America.
Its holdings now include 28, 639 electronic periodicals in Chinese and other languages and more than 1 million electronic books.
Its holdings originate in the private collection of Charles ( 1858 – 1940 ) and Emma ( d. 1934 ) Frye.
Its collection, which includes Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Kara Walker, and Alexander Calder, contains historical samples of 1940s – 1970s late surrealism, pop art, minimalism, and conceptual art ; notable holdings 1980s postmodernism ; as well as contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, video, installation, and related media.
Its total holdings include about 1. 3 million pieces, as well as twenty-four historic buildings.
Its holdings comprise more than 100 languages with 17, 000 volumes in Persian, 15, 800 in Arabic, and 14, 500 in Spanish.
Its holdings incorporate the collections of four older libraries, namely the Ashmolean library, the Classics Lending Library, the Eastern Art Library, and the History of Art Library.
Its holdings are largely devoted to relics of the Silla kingdom, of which Gyeongju was the capital.
Its holdings include significant works of Austrian Secession art, German expressionism, 1920s abstraction, and material related to the Bauhaus.
Its vineyard holdings include Clos Vougeot, Echezeaux, Grands Echezeaux, and the monopole La Grande Rue.
Its holdings include R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, American Snuff Company ( formerly Conwood Company ), Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company and Niconovum AB.

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