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{{*mp}}...that the '''[[chocolateFenari boxIsa artMosque]]''' (''([[:Image:FeneriIsaCamiiInIstanbul20070102 1.jpg|pictured)]]'' started) in the late[[Istanbul]] 19threpresents centuryone as box decorations, thoughof the termfirst 'chocolateexamples box'of isedifices nowwith useda pejoratively[[quincuncial]] toplan describein sentimental[[Byzantine picturesarchitecture]]?
{{*mp}}...that according to the controversial '''[[Hockney-Falco thesis]]''', the rise of [[realism (visual arts)|realism]] in [[Renaissance]] art, such as [[Jan Van Eyck]]'s ''[[Arnolfini Portrait]]'', was largely due to the use of [[curved mirror]]s and other [[optics|optical]] aids?
{{*mp}}...that the '''[[Barnum Museum]]''' in [[Bridgeport]], [[Connecticut]] has architectural influences ranging from [[Byzantine architecture|Byzantine]] to [[Romanesque architecture]]?
{{*mp}}...that the [[Poland1957 in film|Polish1957]] painter and critic[[film]] '''''[[JózefLa CzapskiAnam]]''''' wasin twice1996 sentwas toselected theas [[Sovietone Union]]of tothe findbest missingEgyptian Polishfilms officersin who had been executedhistory by the SovietsEgyptian Film association?
{{*mp}}...that [[KievDenmark|Danish]]'s painter '''[[MuseumCarl-Henning of Western and Oriental ArtPedersen]]''' houseswas theknown largestas collectionthe of foreign art in"[[Scandinavia]]n [[UkraineChagall]]"?
{{*mp}}...that '''[[Fyodor Schechtel]]''', the [[architect]] of [[Yaroslavsky Rail Terminal]] in [[Moscow]], [[Russia]], was expelled from his classes at [[Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture]] in [[1878]] for "bad attendance"?
{{*mp}}...that prominent Russian sculptor '''[[Fyodor Kamensky]]''' worked as a [[farmer]] in [[Florida]]?
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