Externally and internally the building remains largely intact, though the signage on the external decorative pier now reads " B-L-O-U-Z-A ", rather than the original " H-O-Y-T-S " ( later it was " B-I-N-G-O ").

* Paper has largely replaced vellum and parchment in Islamic realm, encouraging the proliferation of increasingly elaborate and decorative cursive scripts.

An Augsburg horse armour in the German Historical Museum, Berlin, dating to between 1512 and 1515, is decorated with motifs from Hopfer's etchings and woodcuts, but this is no evidence that Hopfer himself worked on it, as his decorative prints were largely produced as patterns for other craftsmen in various media.

It was largely a reaction against the impoverished state of the decorative arts at the time and the conditions in which they were produced.

It is often used in decorative displays in shopping centers, offices, and other public locations largely because it is a very hardy plant that requires little care and is also attractively leafy.

In their later years, these painters also largely abandoned their earlier interests in decorative and applied arts.

However, like in Russia, " strongman politics " played a large role in internal decision-making in these states in the 20th century: Politburos under Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong were dysfunctional and largely decorative, allowing the top leaders to dictate party policy and the fate of the other leaders.

While largely decorative, some attributes of the waved blade were useful in combat.

The walls of one of the ground floor rooms in the north block has late-17th-century decorative painting now largely concealed behing early-18th-century panelling.

Spreading from Italian to the other European languages, the term was long used largely interchangeably with arabesque and moresque for types of decorative patterns using curving foliage elements.

Banteay Srei is built largely of red sandstone, a medium that lends itself to the elaborate decorative wall carvings which are still observable today.

This form of protection was gradually reduced to the breastplate and the helmet, both of which become largely decorative.

An epithet is especially recognizable when its function is largely decorative, such as if " cloud-gathering Zeus " is employed other than in reference to conjuring up a storm.

A blade of buffalo grass is traditionally placed in each bottle of Żubrówka, though this is largely decorative.

The success of this form of currency can largely be attributed to the high intrinsic value African people put upon decorative items.

The structural principles of Chinese architecture have remained largely unchanged, the main changes being only the decorative details.

Although these works largely conform to the formal conventions of the classical style, including a strict observance of form and, in the variations, the decorative filigree associated with the genre, they also show early signs of Beethoven's later tendency to more substantive treatment of thematic material.

By the 1920s, the West Midlands ’ decorative japanned ware industry had largely died out.

The promotion of the fine arts over the decorative in European thought can largely be traced to the Renaissance, when Italian theorists such as Vasari promoted artistic values, exemplified by the artists of the High Renaissance, that placed little value on the cost of materials or the amount of skilled work required to produce a work, but instead valued artistic imagination and the individual touch of the hand of a supremely gifted master such as Michelangelo, Raphael or Leonardo da Vinci, reviving to some extent the approach of antiquity.

The Gothic style arose largely from the introduction of large windows, often filled with stained glass and subdivided by decorative stone tracery.

In China there was a distinction between the amateur literati painting of the scholar-officials and the work produced by professional artists, working in largely different styles, or the decorative arts such as Chinese porcelain which were produced by unknown craftsmen working in large factories.

The architecture is largely Victorian with ornate roof ridges and eaves, attractive decorative brickwork and architectural features in stonemasonry.

These include fragmentary wall paintings showing flowers, animals and Biblical scenes, and a largely complete decorative scheme on the wooden ceiling.

Modern knowledge of Etruscan daily life is largely dependent on the numerous decorative details and finds from such tombs.

He lived in the most frugal style alike at home and in the field, and though his campaigns were undertaken largely to secure booty, he was content to enrich the state and his friends and to return as poor as he had set forth.

They are usually considered closest in form to British broadside ballads and in terms of style are largely indistinguishable, however, they demonstrate a particular concern with occupations, journalistic style and often lack the ribaldry of British broadside ballads.

Mostly popularist in a rococo style, the cartoons were completed early in his career, when he was largely unknown and actively seeking commissions.

However, in the last couple of years the British graffiti scene has been struck by self-titled ' art terrorist ' Banksy, who has revolutionized the style of UK graffiti ( bringing to the forefront stencils to aid the speed of painting ) as well as the content ; making his work largely satirical of the sociological state of cities, or the political climate of war, often using monkeys and rats as motifs.

Chase describes music from this period, “ Taking the guitar as his instrumental model, and drawing his inspiration largely from the peculiar traits of Andalusian folk music – but without using actual folk themes – Albéniz achieves a stylization of Spanish traditional idioms that while thoroughly artistic, gives a captivating impression of spontaneous improvisation ... Cordoba is the piece that best represents the style of Albéniz in this period, with its hauntingly beautiful melody, set against the acrid dissonances of the plucked accompaniment imitating the notes of the Moorish guslas.

The style Dame Heather McCartney could be used for the wife of a knight ; however, this style is largely archaic and is only used in the most formal of documents, or where the wife is a Dame in her own right ( such as Dame Norma Major, who gained her title six years before her husband Sir John Major was knighted ).

In a 2001 retrospective review of " Forever Changes ," Andrew Cowen of The Birmingham Post ( UK ) wrote, " This 1967 masterpiece ... is the nearest the Americans came to having their own ' Sgt Pepper ' and, in true American style, it was largely overlooked by the mainstream audience which, at the time, was hanging on every note played by The Beatles.

As in painting, early Italian Mannerist sculpture was very largely an attempt to find an original style that would top the achievement of the High Renaissance, which in sculpture essentially meant Michelangelo, and much of the struggle to achieve this was played out in commissions to fill other places in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, next to Michelangelo's David.

Their 2001 release Get Ready largely departed from their more electronic style and focused on the more guitar oriented music.

However, other terms, such as Gothic architecture, used to refer to a style typical of the High Middle Ages have largely lost the negative connotations they initially had, acquiring new meanings over time ( see Gothic architecture and Goth subculture ).

The church was largely renovated in 1506, 1603 and 1701, when the side on the Via Emilia was remade in Neoclassicist style.

Submission was initially a large factor in professional wrestling, but following the decline of the submission-oriented catch-as-catch-can style from mainstream professional wrestling, the submission largely faded.

Science fiction editors John Clute and Peter Nichols offer a largely favorable appraisal of King, noting his " pungent prose, sharp ear for dialogue, disarmingly laid-back, frank style, along with his passionately fierce denunciation of human stupidity and cruelty ( especially to children ) of which rank him among the more distinguished ' popular ' writers.

His songwriting shifted as well, moving away from the traditional piano-and-strings ballad sound of his 1970s output towards a number of styles largely ignored in pop music, including primal blues, cabaret stylings, rumbas, theatrical approaches in the style of Kurt Weill, tango music, early country music and European folk music as well as the Tin Pan Alley-era songs that influenced his early output.

The distinction is largely of editorial style ; both red top and compact tabloids span the width of the political spectrum from socialism to capitalist conservatism.

Watson developed IBM's distinctive management style and corporate culture, and turned the company into a highly-effective selling organization, based largely around punched card tabulating machines.

Film Noir, a film style that incorporated crime dramas with dark images, became largely prevalent during the decade.

Towards the end of the 18th century, Rococo started to fall out of fashion, and it was largely supplanted by the Neoclassic style.

This style of band is based upon an amalgamation of traditional styles from bands in the Big 10 and African American traditions, where the music selections are largely based on rhythm & blues and contemporary popular music.

At the beginning of the 21st century, Beiderbecke's music continues to reside mostly out of the mainstream and some of the facts of his life are still debated, but scholars largely agree — due in part to the influence of Sudhalter and Evans — that he was an important innovator in early jazz ; jazz cornetists, including Sudhalter ( before his death in 2008 ), and Tom Pletcher, closely emulate his style.

It is not known just why Newton changed his mind so radically about the final form of what had been a readable narrative in ' De motu corporum, Liber secundus ' of 1685, but he largely started afresh in a new, tighter, and less accessible mathematical style, eventually to produce Book 3 of the ' Principia ' as we know it.

The moats remained intact and formed an important feature of the Zocher plantsoen, an English style landscape park that remains largely intact today.

Early on, Jones was interested in devising a fresh format for the Python TV shows, and it was largely he who developed the stream-of-consciousness style which abandoned punchlines and encouraged the fluid movement of one sketch into another, allowing the troupe's conceptual humour the space to “ breathe ”.