Jugendstil
art
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Art
- Architecture
- Remarkable buildings and follies
- Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) in Utrecht, The Netherlands and Antwerp, Belgium
- Caryatids
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- caryatid
karatid, kartid , a sculptured female figure serving as an ornamental support in
place of a column or pilaster. It was a frequently used motif in architecture,
furniture, and garden sculpture during the Renaissance, the 18th cent., and
notably, the classic revival of the 19th cent., when caryatids were popular as
mantelpiece supports. The motif appeared in Egyptian and Greek architecture; the
most celebrated example extant is the Porch of the Caryatids, forming part of
the Erechtheum. Here six beautifully sculptured figures, acting as columns,
support an entablature on their heads. Caryatids were used also in two small
treasuries (6th cent. B.C.) at Delphi. Male supporting figures are called
atlantes.
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- atlantes
atlantz [Latin plural of Atlas], sculptured male figures serving as supports of
entablatures, in place of a column or pier. The earliest (c.480-460 B.C.) and
most important example from antiquity is in the Greek temple of Zeus at
Agrigento, Sicily. The baroque architecture of the 17th cent. made considerable
use of atlantes, as did the classical revival in the early 19th cent. Female
supporting figures are called caryatids.
atlantes
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- Art Nouveau
- (subweb with Jugendstil buildings in the Netherlands
and Belgium)
- Utrecht (but the
majority of photographs on Utrecht are to be found in the main web)
- Kampen
- Apeldoorn
- Rotterdam
- Amersfoort
- Leyden
- Den Haag / The Hague
- Delft
- Antwerp (but
the majority of photographs on Antwerp are to be found on the main web)
- Philosophy
- Language and literature
- The Schoolmaster tells you off! De Schoolmeester
- Poems
- C.S. Lewis
- Henry David Thoreau
- Mistakes in a popular newspaper in The Netherlands,
de Volkskrant
- What do you mean, eastern hemisphere?
- Fish (for the aquarist)
- What is a fish, really?
- The Morelia Project: aquarists trying
to save species from extinction
- Looking for livebearers in Mexico
- Live bearing / viviparity
- the hog choker,
Trinectes maculatus, Achirus fasciatus or Achirus lineatus
: subspecies Trinectes maculatus fasciatus and Trinectes
maculatus maculatus.
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English
texts on livebearers
With a view to the approaching symposium on livebearers, abstracts of the
lectures in English will
be added successively, if and when the consents of the authors come in. They are
to be found in the right 'tree', following 'Tandkarpers' (which means tooth carps in
Dutch). If anyone feel he or she is harmed in their copyrights, please inform me and I will remove the offensive material. You
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