From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #15674 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Friday, March 7 2025 Volume 14 : Number 15674 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Your chance to receive a FREE Ego Power Blower ["Ego Power Blower Custome] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2025 19:34:52 +0100 From: "Ego Power Blower Customer Support" Subject: Your chance to receive a FREE Ego Power Blower Your chance to receive a FREE Ego Power Blower http://encylopedia.ru.com/WSlU07JGzDsDS3TfkigRFgXwfhzvXiPhNICHUlVcV1HdNqU2OQ http://encylopedia.ru.com/xeFIBMRyhG6Wt_aCWz94punpi0vNHI0l73yTVl9kcsY6sL_oTQ an Tondo, also from Roman Egypt (about 200 AD), is one of the handful of non-funerary Graeco-Roman specimens to survive. Wood has always been the normal support for the Icons of Byzantine art and the later Orthodox traditions, the earliest of which (all in Saint Catherine's Monastery) date from the 5th or 6th centuries, and are the oldest panel paintings which seem to be of the highest contemporary quality. Encaustic and tempera are the two techniques used in antiquity. Encaustic largely ceased to be used after the early Byzantine icons. Although there seem from literary references to have been some panel paintings produced in Western Europe through the centuries between Late Antiquity and the Romanesque period, and Byzantine icons were imported, there are next to no survivals in an unaltered state. In the 12th century panel painting experienced a revival. Altarpieces seem to have begun to be used during the 11th century, with the possible exception of a few earlier examples. They became more common in the 13th century because of new liturgical practicesbthe priest and congregation were now on the same side of the altar, leaving the space behind the altar free for the display of a holy imageband thus altar decorations were in demand. The habit of placing decorated reliquaries of saints on or behind the altar, as well as the tradition of decorating the front of the altar with sculptures or textiles, preceded the first altarpieces. The earliest forms of panel painting were dossals (altar backs), altar fronts and crucifixes. All were painted with religious images, commonly the Christ or the Virgin, with the saints appropriate to the dedication of the church, and the local town or diocese, or to the donor. Donor portraits inclu ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #15674 ***********************************************