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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Stucco"”.
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An Evaluation of Historic Cement Stucco Using Conditions Assessment Methodology and Digital Visualization Tools, Grand Teton National Park, USA
… finished with pink-painted cementitious stucco. The National Park Service (NPS) has passively preserved the structure since 1990 and it still maintains a high degree of integrity. The John Moulton Homestead is a popular tourist attraction for its accessibility and its unique paint color. …
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Painted and decorated floors on the Greek mainland and Crete in the Bronze age
… It is less widely known that a great many stucco floors were painted as well. This probably is because the information regarding these floors is scattered through the archaeological reports and seldom receives separate treatment. Only in an article by G. Rodenwaldt, "Mykenische Studien," in …
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Art, Ideology, and Politics at El Achiotal: A Late Preclassic Frontier Site in Northwestern Petén, Guatemala
… that was decorated with murals and modeled stucco in local styles but conceptually following regional trends. I argue that Structure 5C-01-sub 4 was a bundle house symbolizing kingship and the political economy. The integration of a symbolic vocabulary embedded with themes of kingship, …
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English Cottage Style Homes in America: Expressions of Architectural, Technological and Social Innovation
… in concrete, to mimic the naturally occurring stuccos used in the 13th and 14th centuries, English Cottage Style dwellings utilized the latest in concrete reinforcement technologies, making them affordable, fire resistant, and long-lasting. Popularized in American domestic magazines, …
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The Business of Sculpture in Venice, 1525-1625
… most commonly employed: marble, stone, bronze, stucco and clay in the form of terracotta. It assesses the practicalities of sourcing, supply, cost and transportation, and then considers the aesthetic and pragmatic reasons for material choices and what these choices would have signified to the …
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The Caliph’s Prey: Hunting in the Visual Cultures of the Umayyad Empire
… south of modernday Tehran). It is decorated with stucco reliefs depicting “postSasanian” hunting scenes that could have been desirable to Muslim and nonMuslim elites, both of whom were in a position to patronize craftsmen in the provinces of the Umayyad caliphate. These reliefs demonstrate how …
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Discovering Group Differences from Qualitative and Quantitative Attributes Using Contrast Set Mining with Discretization and Measures of Interestingness
… by two existing contrast set mining techniques, STUCCO and CIGAR. We also found that GENCCS is an effective technique for efficient generation of all valid correlated contrast sets, maximal correlated valid contrast sets, and correlated valid λ-contrast sets.
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The Sethi merchants' havelis in Peshawar, 1800-1910: form, identity and status
… extroverted in the 20th century, easily mixing stucco decorations, naqqashi and Shah-Jehani columns with stained glass, wrought iron balconies and gothic windows. The Sethis became eminent merchant-bankers by successfully building relationships with the British in India and Amir Abdur-Rahman in …