The courtyard at the Suleymaniye is of exceptional grandeur with a colonnaded peristyle with columns of marble, granite and porphyry. ... The marble-paved courtyard surrounded by an arched colonnade is a standard feature of Ottoman imperial mosques, as are the red and white alternating voussoirs forming the arches. Some of the marble and granite columns used for the Suleymaniye were collected from the an old Byzantine structure near the Hagia Sophia and from other locations in Istanbul. The rectangular marble structure at the center of the courtyard is a drinking fountain, and not a fountain f...

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Apollo and Daphne 1622-1625 (Baroque) "Apollo and Daphne" is a life-size marble sculpture carved by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, in the Baroque period, a period of artistic style, exaggerating motion and easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, enthusiasm and grandeur in works of art. ... "Apollo and Daphne" is fully made of white marble. Among the commonly available stones, only marble has a slight surface translucency like human skin giving a realistic effect. ... Sandpaper is used in the polishing process and emery, a stone harder than marble is used in the finishing pro...

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In the beginning of the fifteenth chapter in the description of a cafe, the analogy of the War's battles can easily be recognized: "The marble-topped tables and the white wicker chairs were gone. ... The cafe' was like a battleship stripped for action» (Hemingway, 1954: 153) The author does not forget to mention that on the next day after the end of the Fiesta people in the cafe again sat in "wicker chairs at marble tables" (Hemingway, 1954: 227) He emphasizes upon it in order to show the similarity of how unimportant the previous events were, might be a café before and...

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Film is a form of art and a form of expression, and through Sergei Eisenstein's Strike and his use of the infamous montage, one can see that his films are no different from the artwork of many masters of paint or marble. ... In a sharp transition from countryside to European-styled mansion, the viewer's attention is redirected sharply to the huge contrast between the two environments and the colossal difference between the frantic filled first scene and the calm and composed atmosphere of the white-columned house built for the rich. ...

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The Periclean Building Program "There was one measure above all which at once gave the greatest pleasure to the Athenians, adorned their city and created amazement among the rest of mankind, and which is today the sole testimony that the tales of the ancient power and glory of Greece are no mer...

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Ionic solids formed from group 1 and 2 metals are white or colourless while those formed from transition metals are usually coloured The strong, electrostatic attractions between the oppositely charged ions in the three-dimensional lattice result in ionic solids being hard and difficult to cut. ...

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This style is deeply premeditated and agonizingly edited, each work meticulously pared down from a larger draft the same way a sculptor might spend a year carefully removing pieces of marble to reveal a beautiful sculpture beneath. ...

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