The Minoan pottery was characterized by elaborate painted decoration with natural themes.

" Before the late nineteenth century, they rarely fashioned items with elaborate details or extra decoration, but only made things for their intended uses.

The interior makes much use of marble in the entrance hall and flanking staircases, although the galleries as originally designed were white with restrained classical detail and mouldings, very much in contrast to the elaborate decoration of the Victorian galleries, although much of this decoration was removed in the early 20th century.

This included two of the ten columns having their ceramic decoration replaced and the elaborate painted designs restored on the ceiling.

These types continued to develop, with increasing elaborate patterns of decoration, undulating rims, and flat bottoms so that they could stand on a surface.

The tughra or monogram of an Ottoman sultan was used extensively on official documents, with very elaborate decoration for important ones.

As decoration grew more elaborate, the quality of the basic glass decreased, and it " often has a brownish-yellow tinge, and is rarely free from bubbles ".

More common objects given elaborate decoration include massive low candlesticks and lamp-stands, lantern lights, bowls, dishes, basins, buckets ( these probably for the bath ), and ewers, as well as caskets, pen-cases and plaques.

The large brick dome of the Sarvestan Palace, also in Fars but later in date, shows more elaborate decoration and four windows between the corner squinches.

The subdeacon's specific vestment was the tunicle, in practice almost indistinguishable in form from the deacon's dalmatic ( the tunicle was sometimes somewhat longer than the dalmatic or had slightly less elaborate decoration, but this was often unnoticeable by the casual churchgoer ).

Many of these events include amusement rides, fireworks, cockfights, horse races, elaborate decoration of the church the event is centered on, folk and indigenous dancing, and more.

These carriages were on four wheels often and were pulled by two to four horses depending on how they were decorated ( elaborate decoration with gold lining made the carriage heavier ).

For the Bagobos, aesthetics is the meticulous carving of weapons ; the elaborate decoration of inlaid metal boxes with bells ; and the ornamentation of their abaca fiber dress with embroidery, shells, beads and metal discs.

It must be acknowledged that the edifice last mentioned is a wonderful instance of symmetry and elaborate decoration ; yet in extent, in loftiness, in impressive magnificence, and even in minute decoration, Elgin has been manifestly superior.

According to the Book of Exodus in the Bible, God was in heaven standing on a street paved with sapphires, “ And they saw the God of Israel ; and there was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness .” ( Exodus 24: 9-10 ) The elaborate and costly decoration of the cover is meant to glorify the Word of God.

The high quality and elaborate nature of the church's decoration, particularly its mouldings and tracery, indicate a move away from the deliberate austerity of the early Cistercian churches towards the grandeur appropriate to a secular cathedral.

Four vertically stacked registers of sculpted decoration were carved on each pillar, each separated by elaborate moldings.

The decoration of pottery becomes more and more elaborate and includes figured scenes which parallel the stories of Homeric Epic.

This was usually given the most elaborate decoration in an illuminated psalter, often taking a whole page for the initial letter or first two words.

It is the best preserved Moche mummy found to date and the elaborate tomb that housed her had unprecedented decoration.

The building he designed has a simple exterior and a complex interior, with a double shell octagonal dome resting on heavy piers, a two-story elevation, and elaborate revetment and decoration.

But apart from the extraordinary perfection of execution of this elaborate decoration, what gives to the Ardagh Chalice its outstanding position in Irish metalwork is the strictness of the relationship between the simple swelling lines of the cup and its base and the arrangement of the glittering studs, bands, and roundels that adorn its surface.

Late in the era, elaborate barding was used in parade armour.

By that period, the shiny armour plate was covered in dark paint and a canvas wrap covered their elaborate Napoleonic style helmets.

By the 17th century, with the growing use of firearms and the accompanying decline in the use of armour, many rapiers and dueling swords had developed elaborate basket hilts, which protect the palm of the wielder and rendered the gauntlet obsolete.

The style of armour that became popular during the second half of his reign featured elaborate fluting and metalworking, and became known as Maximilian armour.

He is wearing a crown of thorns and elaborate armour.

He is wearing a crown of thorns and elaborate armour.

From the earliest days of warfare, identification systems were visual and developed into extremely elaborate suits of armour with distinctive heraldic patterns.

In Luo Guanzhong's historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he received the nickname " Ma Chao the Splendid " due to his elaborate armour and grand skill as a warrior.

An atmospheric diving suit is a small one-man articulated submersible of anthropomorphic form which resembles a suit of armour, with elaborate pressure joints to allow articulation while maintaining an internal pressure of one atmosphere.

Plate armour for Henry II of France, made around 1555, with elaborate ornamental embossing.

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, son of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor | Maximilian I in a painting by Titian, wearing an elaborate Renaissance-era suit of armour.

Some dwarfs attempt to project greater machismo by carrying more and larger axes, and wearing heavier and more elaborate armour than standard.

Upon the return of general peace under the Tokugawa Shogunate in the Edo period, armour became more elaborate and ceremonial.

As weaponry and armour were not in such high demand at this time, sword smiths and armourers had time to create more elaborate and decorative pieces.

Two divers, one wearing the " Tritonia " ADS and the other standard diving dress, preparing to explore the wreck of the RMS Lusitania | RMS Lusitania, 1935. An atmospheric diving suit or ADS is a small one-man articulated submersible of anthropomorphic form which resembles a suit of armour, with elaborate pressure joints to allow articulation while maintaining an internal pressure of one atmosphere.

He is wearing a crown of thorns and elaborate armour.

A manuscript describes in detail the elaborate procession from the house ( long demolished ) to the kirk, which included his Master Stabler riding in full armour, and his Master Household with a black flag painted with a skull and tears.

However, during the late Warring States era and the dynasties succeeding it, cavalry armour gradually become heavier and more elaborate.

Giovanni Gabrieli was a pioneer and master of elaborate obbligato writing for the cornett, but his example was followed more in Germany than in Italy, where obbligato use of the instrumental after 1650 is rare.

In the privacy of royal commissions, he continued to elaborate schemes for constitutions that never saw the light ; but Germany, disillusioned, regarded him as an adherent of Metternich, an accomplice in the policy of the Carlsbad Decrees and the Troppau Protocol.

Especially in Germany, it was the classic wood for sculpture from the Middle Ages onwards, and is the material for the elaborate altarpieces of Veit Stoss, Tilman Riemenschneider, and many others.

For example, the iron and steel industry supported some rather elaborate tests in England, Germany and Europe all of which showed carbon monoxide in the blood of welders but none in the air.

Schwetzingen Castle began as a simple aristocratic fishing retreat ( much like Versailles which began as a hunting lodge ) and had an eventful architectural history, in several phases of construction, especially during the reigns of the Elector of the Palatinate Karl Philip ( 1716 – 1742 ) and Karl IV Theodor ( 1742 – 1799 ) who, as their answer to Versailles, embellished the castle gardens with some of the finest and most elaborate formal water parterres in Germany gardens.

In the 1920s, France established an elaborate system of border defenses ( the Maginot Line ) and alliances ( see Little Entente ) to offset resurgent German strength and in the 1930s, the massive losses of the war led many in France to choose the popular appeasement policy that supposed prevented war with Germany over Czechoslovakia, whose alliance with France proved worthless at the Munich Agreement of 1938.

The Resistance devises an elaborate ruse to reroute the train, temporarily renaming railway stations to make it appear to the German escort as if they are heading to Germany when they are actually going in a circle.

In the mid-18th century, in Leipzig, Germany, a coffee shop owner named Johann Georg Schröpfer began offering séances in a converted billiards room which became so popular that by the 1760s he had transformed himself into a full-time showman, using elaborate effects including projections of ghosts to create a convincing spirit experience.

Operating in Poland, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia through 1948, Berihah transferred approximately 250, 000 survivors into Austria, Germany, and Italy through elaborate smuggling networks.

While imprisoned at Stalag Luft III, in Germany, Brickhill was involved in an elaborate mass escape attempt.

He first described the Cretaceous and Jurassic strata of Germany in elaborate works entitled Die Versteinerungen des Norddeutschen Oolith-Gebirges ( 1836 – 39 ), Die Versteinerungen des Norddeutschen Kreidegebirges ( 1840 – 41 ) and Die Versteinerungen des Harzgebirges ( 1843 ).

Ernst Joachim Förster ( 8 April 1800 – 29 April 1885 ) was a German painter and an art critic, author of a number of elaborate and important works bearing on the history of art in Germany and Italy.