• Carving an Icon is the debut album by the Norwegian extreme / gothic metal band Viper Solfa. The album was released on February 20, 2015 under the German...
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    Wood carving is a form of woodworking by means of a cutting tool (knife) in one hand or a chisel by two hands or with one hand on a chisel and one hand...
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    An icon (from Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn) 'image, resemblance') is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, in the cultures of the Eastern Orthodox...
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  • Terje Refsnes. The debut album was titled Carving an Icon, and was released on February 20, 2015. According to an interview with Ronny Thorsen in July 2015...
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    one song for the gothic metal band Viper Solfa on their debut album Carving an Icon. Stene also ventured into theater work. She appeared in a play titled...
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    to an extent Vijayanagara Empire. Even earlier, steatite was used as the substrate for Indus-Harappan seals. After the intricate carvings of icons and...
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    Russian icons represent a form of religious art that developed in Eastern Orthodox Christianity after Kievan Rus' adopted the faith from the Eastern Roman...
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    textiles, metalwork, veneered furniture, polychrome and gilded carving, carved icons and wooden sculpture, picture frames, plaster and stone sculpture...
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    World Winds (2003) Does the Pain Excite You? (2007) (as Morfeus): Carving an Icon (2015) Ad Inferna. In Opus 7: Elevation (2014), song "InVisible" Ad...
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    Seam carving (or liquid rescaling) is an algorithm for content-aware image resizing, developed by Shai Avidan, of Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories...
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    relief on its north face, the largest bas-relief artwork in the world. The carving, completed in 1972, depicts three Confederate leaders, Jefferson Davis...
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    was adorned with gilded wood carvings and icons. The carvings of the iconostasis are pure craftsmanship. Some of the icons are more recent because the...
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    History and Memory of an American Icon. LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-6674-1. Retrieved January 11, 2024. "People & Events: The Carving of Stone Mountain"....
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  • including back-strap loom weaving and other, related forms of weaving. Carving – including woodcarving and folk non-clay sculpture. Folk performing arts...
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    of the footage had already been included in Zierra's 2001 documentary Carving Out Our Name, which played only once, at the Toronto International Film...
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    Byzantine art (redirect from Byzantine icon)
    was the icon, an image of Christ, the Virgin, or a saint, used as an object of veneration in Orthodox churches and private homes alike. Icons were more...
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    small carvings made from primarily stone but also shell, fossils, and other materials by the Zuni people. Within the Zuni community, these carvings serve...
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    series of steps that depict carvings of dwarfish ganas in different postures as if they hold the cave floor. The verandah, with an inner measurement of 70...
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  • written by Mark Millar, illustrated by Stuart Immonen and published by the Icon Comics imprint of Marvel Comics in 2016. Set in the Millarworld, the series...
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    widely represented in Roman-era stelae commemorating cavalry soldiers. A carving from Krupac, Serbia, depicts Apollo and Asclepius as Thracian horsemen...
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    Iconoclasm (redirect from Icon destruction)
    Greek: εἰκών, eikṓn, 'figure, icon' + κλάω, kláō, 'to break') is the social belief in the importance of the destruction of icons and other images or monuments...
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    Jonathan Pageau (born 30 June 1975) is a French-Canadian icon carver, YouTuber and public speaker on symbolism, religion and the Orthodox faith. He is...
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    is far from completion. The memorial master plan includes the mountain carving monument, a Native American Museum of North America, and a Native American...
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    Kholmogory bone carving (Russian: Холмогорская резная кость) is a traditional handicraft practiced in the villages of Kholmogorsky District, Arkhangelsk...
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    A sheela na gig is a figurative carving of a naked woman displaying an exaggerated vulva. These carvings, from the Middle Ages, are architectural grotesques...
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    as a drawing, painting, or photograph, or three-dimensional, such as a carving or sculpture. Images may be displayed through other media, including a...
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    of wood carvings, the iconic system of the image, is transfigured in an embrace of overwhelming sweetness", while others described it as an "idyll of...
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    established the icon of the goddess here. As per legend, the god Shiva and his wife Parvati - the presiding goddess of food Annapoorna, had an argument. Shiva...
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    Hill figure (redirect from Hill carving)
    Uffington White Horse, and the Long Man of Wilmington, as well as the "lost" carvings at Cambridge, Oxford and Plymouth Hoe. From the 18th century onwards, many...
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    Borglum was initially involved in the carving of Stone Mountain in Georgia. Borglum's nativist stances made him seem an ideologically sympathetic choice to...
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