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81empyrean — n 1. highest heaven, seventh heaven. 2. visible heavens, firmament, vault of heaven, sky, ether, the blue, the wild blue yonder, the azure, Chiefly Literary. welkin …
82Illusionistic ceiling painting — The illustionistic perspective of Andrea Pozzo s trompe l oeil dome at Sant Ignazio (1685) creates an illusion of an actual architectural space on what is, in actuality, a slightly concave painted surface. Illusionistic ceiling painting, which… …
83Science and the Bible — The various books of the Hebrew and Christian Bible contain descriptions of the physical world in the Iron Age Levant which may or may not be considered scientific.AgricultureIn the Parable of the Mustard Seed (nasb|Matthew|13:31 32|Matthew 13:31 …
84art and architecture, Egyptian — Introduction the ancient architectural monuments, sculptures, paintings, and decorative crafts produced mainly during the dynastic periods of the first three millennia BC in the Nile valley regions of Egypt and Nubia. The course of art in… …
85sky — [n] Earth’s atmosphere azure, celestial sphere, empyrean, firmament, heavens, lid*, the blue*, upper atmosphere, vault, vault of heaven*, welkin, wild blue yonder*; concept 437 Ant. earth …
86Tiamat — In Babylonian mythology [And doubtless in Sumerian mythology as well, though all the surviving texts are later.] , Tiamat is the sea, personified as a goddess, [Jacobsen, Thorkild. The Battle between Marduk and Tiamat , Journal of the American… …
8772 (number) — ← 71 73 → 72 ← 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 …
88Onion dome — Onion domes of Cathedral of the Annunciation, Moscow Kremlin. An onion dome (Russian: луковичная глава, lúkovichnaya glava) is a dome whose shape resembles the onion, after which they are named. Such domes are often larger in diameter than the… …
89Assumption of the Virgin (Correggio) — Infobox Painting| title=Assumption of the Virgin artist=Antonio da Correggio year=1526 1530 type=Fresco height=1093 width=1195 museum=Cathedral of Parma NOTOC The Assumption of the Virgin (1526 1530) is a highly influential fresco by the Italian… …
90World Mill — The World Mill (also heavenly mill , cosmic mill and variants) is a mytheme suggested as recurring in Indo European and other mythologies. It involves the analogy of the cosmos or firmament and a rotating millstone.The mytheme was extensively… …
