Examples of Middle Ages in the following topics:
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- Calligraphic design was omnipresent in Islamic art in the Middle Ages, and is seen in all types of art including architecture and the decorative arts.
- As in Europe in the Middle Ages, religious exhortations such as Qur'anic verses may be also included in secular objects, especially coins, tiles, and metalwork.
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- The Medieval art of the early modern European world covers over 1000 years of art history in Europe, and at times extends into the Middle East and North Africa.
- The medieval period ended with the self-perceived Renaissance recovery of the skills and values of classical art; after this Renaissance shift the artistic legacy of the Middle Ages was disparaged for some centuries.
- Most illuminated manuscripts of the Early Middle Ages had lavish book-covers decked with precious metal, ivory, and jewels.
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- Italy in the late Middle Ages provided an important bridge between what had been the Medieval period, with a fashion for Byzantine and Gothic styles, and what would become the the Early Modern Period with its Renaissance style.
- In spite of the fact that it is now a fairly small town, during the Middle Ages it was a center of religious power and home to various iconic architectural pieces, including the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
- In the Middle Ages and into the seventeenth century it was known as the Republic of Venice, a strong power in Northern Italian politics and trade, as well as a maritime power.
- Identify the artistic and architectural importance of Pisa, Venice, and Milan during the Middle Ages.
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- Glassmaking was the most important Islamic luxury arts of the early Middle Ages.
- For most of the Middle Ages, Islamic luxury glass was the most sophisticated in Eurasia, exported to both Europe and China.
- "The Luck of Edenhall," a 13th-century Syrian beaker, in England since the Middle Ages.
- For most of the Middle Ages, Islamic glass was the most sophisticated in Eurasia, exported to both Europe and China.
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- In the Middle Ages, the Mediterranean Al-Andalus was a great center for culture and art, as well of philosophical and scientific thought.
- Al-Andalus was a great cultural center of the Middle Ages.
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- The Oseberg ship was discovered in a burial mound in Norway and is one of the finest artistic and archaeological finds from the Viking Age.
- This ship is widely celebrated as one of the finest artistic and archaeological finds to have survived the Viking Age .
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- Stone Age art illustrates early human creativity through small portable objects, cave paintings, and early sculpture and architecture.
- The Stone Age is the first of the three-age system of archaeology, which divides human technological prehistory into three periods: the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age.
- The Stone Age lasted roughly 3.4 million years, from 30,000 BCE to about 3,000 BCE, and ended with the advent of metalworking.
- The art of the Stone Age represents the first accomplishments in human creativity, preceding the invention of writing.
- By the Iron Age, civilizations with writing had arisen from Ancient Egypt to Ancient China.