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An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c., with their derivations (1883)

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hand ;the ox and the ass appear behind, and shepherdswith curved staves stand by adoring. Natural. In Music, a character marked hused to correct the power of a previous sharp orflat. A natural scale is a scale written withoutsharps or flats. Naturalisti, It. Artists who work on theprinciple of a… … Fig. 478. Naumachia, from a coin of Domitian. Naumachia (yaxii, a ship, and naxv, a battle). (1) A spectacle representing a sea-fight, a subjectfrequently represented on coins and sculptures. (2) A building erected for such shows. Napo-leon I. had a theatre at Milan filled with waterfor a…

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