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August 19, 2007 09:44 PM EDT -- The year 1709 marked the beginning of one of the most exciting scientific and commercial quests of the last 300 years, the quest that led Johann Friedrich Boettger to the discovery of white, hard-paste . . . more
July 30, 2007 07:23 AM EDT -- The first European hard-paste porcelain factory was founded in 1710 in Dresden by decree of Augustus II (1670-1733), King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, as a result of the successful porcelain experiments . . . more
Meissen Porcelain
by Paula M.
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August 19, 2007 09:09 PM EDT -- Meissen: Europe's first and most important hard-paste porcelain manufactory, situated some twelve miles from Dresden, Saxony, Germany, founded in 1710 and named the Royal Saxon Porcelain Manufacture . . . more
Crystal Palace
by Paula M.
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August 26, 2007 04:59 PM EDT -- WORLD-WIDE EXPOSITION. This handkerchief represents the Crystal Palace built in Hyde Park, by Sir Joseph Paxton, stops in it if carrying through the Great Exposition of 1851, destined to demonstrate . . . more
Diego Rivera (1886-1957)
by Paula M.
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September 17, 2007 11:04 AM EDT -- Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957), (full name Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez) was a Mexican . . . more
Franz Anton Bustelli
by Paula M.
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August 02, 2007 02:29 PM EDT -- Harlequin and Harlequina , ca. 1759 German; Nymphenburg Hard-paste porcelain; H. 8 in. (20.3 cm) The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, 1973 In the eighteenth . . . more
August 30, 2008 03:42 PM EDT -- Since 1930 to 1950, the big cities expanded in such way that the construction of the suburbs suffered one great increment. With the ways of communication, those zones were acquiring certain characteristics . . . more
Toronto
by Paula M.
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August 05, 2007 06:56 AM EDT -- Toronto is the largest city of Canada and the capital of the province. The city extends along northern bank from the Lake Ontario. It is the economic and cultural hearth of anglophone Canada. The inhabitants . . . more
Chinese Porcelain
by Paula M.
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September 11, 2007 08:31 AM EDT -- During the Tang dinasty (618-906), there was one period of splendor and bloom in the chinese ceramic. The main reason was the invention of the porcelain, that began its development from one very clear . . . more
Saxony
by Paula M.
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September 13, 2007 04:24 AM EDT --  In consequence of the attempts to imitate the Chinese porcelain, it appeared in  Europe, during the XVIIth century, a great amount of ceramic products, some so notable as the porcelain . . . more
August 31, 2008 09:37 AM EDT -- The tube of image of one TV set in black and white contains one “electronic cannon” that sends one fine faggot of electrons in direction to the web of the tube of image. This one is redressed, in . . . more
August 29, 2008 11:39 AM EDT -- The idealized vision of the classical art – that presented the man as one being with divine resemblance, and the gods with human manner - influenced in a sensitive way the artistic conception of the West. . . . more
August 29, 2008 11:34 AM EDT -- The learning process lasts all life-term long. The different impressions are registered in brain, though we remain conscientious only of a small part of them.  We were able to stimulate the memory . . . more
August 29, 2008 11:41 AM EDT -- The clay constitutes always the first material of the sculptor work. Since the marble figures of the Antiquity until the stone’s and bronze’s of olden times, the first thing that always were made by the . . . more
August 29, 2008 11:42 AM EDT -- Since the most antique sculptures of the Stone Age until nowadays, it verifies that the sculptor has always conceded the main importance to the expressive strength and to the function of the own pieces. . . . more
August 31, 2008 10:37 AM EDT -- I've just opened my own eStore 'francine' ( http://francine.zlio.com ) online with zlio.com, and I'd like to let you know about the service. It's loads of fun, and it takes less than . . . more
August 04, 2007 01:11 PM EDT -- The Gail Brooker Ceramic Research Library is the primary centre for research in the field of ceramics in Canada and has the most comprehensive ceramics-focused reference library in North America. The collection . . . more
August 04, 2007 01:23 PM EDT -- George R. Gardiner—successful Canadian financier, former chairman of the Toronto Stock Exchange (1962–64) and founder of Gardiner Group Capital, Canada's first discount brokerage firm—was . . . more
July 30, 2007 07:20 AM EDT -- Chilton, Meredith. Harlequin Unmasked. The Commedia dell'Arte and Porcelain Sculpture. Yale Univ. Press, 2001. Cloth. New Book in New Dustjacket. 368 pp., 300 color plates and 300 b/w illus.   . . . more
July 30, 2007 07:17 AM EDT --   Adams, Yvonne. Meissen Figures, 1730-1775. The Kaendler Period. Schiffer, 2001. Hard Cover. As New / As New. ISBN: 0764312405. 208 pp., 305 color and 220 b/w illus.   German Meissen porcelain . . . more
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