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  2. Ormolu - Wikipedia

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    A garniture of an ormolu clock and candelabra at the Palace of Versailles in France. Ormolu (/ ˈɔːrməˌluː /; from French or moulu 'ground/pounded gold') is the gilding technique of applying finely ground, high-carat gold – mercury amalgam to an object of bronze, and objects finished in this way. The mercury is driven off in a kiln ...

  3. Desiderio da Settignano - Wikipedia

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    According to Vasari, his last work was the painted wooden statue of St. Mary Magdalene, now in Santa Trinita, left unfinished and completed by Benedetto da Maiano after Desiderio's death. Desiderio da Settignano died in Florence in 1464. The most famous of his pupils was Simone Ferrucci. Giorgio Vasari includes a biography of Desiderio da ...

  4. Girandole - Wikipedia

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    A popular form of girandole earrings consists of 3 pendant drops hanging from a larger cluster, in the shape of a bow or other designs, like the branches of a candelabra. [18] Girandole has also been used to describe a clock in the United States where the timepiece sits on top of a trunk and a round base in the shape of a girandole mirror. [19 ...

  5. St Mark's Clock - Wikipedia

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    In 1752 Bartolomeo Ferracina started work on replacing the clock, having successfully tendered for the job in public competition. He installed a new movement, removed the planetary dials, installed a rotating moon ball to show the phase, and changed the numbering of the clock face from the old Italian style (I to XXIIII in Roman numerals) to the 12-hour style, using two sets of Arabic numerals ...

  6. St Mark's Clocktower - Wikipedia

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    St Mark's Clocktower. The Clock Tower in Venice is an early Renaissance building on the north side of the Piazza San Marco, at the entrance to the Merceria. It comprises a tower, which contains the clock, and lower buildings on each side. It adjoins the eastern end of the Procuratie Vecchie. Both the tower and the clock date from the last ...

  7. Blackamoor (decorative arts) - Wikipedia

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    Blackamoor (decorative arts) Pair of Italian figures in painted wood, 18th century. "Moor with Emerald Cluster" by Balthasar Permoser in the collection of the Grünes Gewölbe. Blackamoor is a type of figure and visual trope in European decorative art, typically found in works from the Early Modern period, depicting a man of sub-Saharan African ...

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