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  2. Doom painting - Wikipedia

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    St James's Church, South Leigh, Oxfordshire, 15th century. Detail from the 12th-century mural at the Church of St Peter and St Paul, Chaldon, in Surrey. A " Doom painting " or "Doom" is a traditional English term for a wall-painting of the Last Judgement in a medieval church. This is the moment in Christian eschatology when Christ judges souls ...

  3. Hadrian's Wall - Wikipedia

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    430. Hadrian's Wall ( Latin: Vallum Hadriani, also known as the Roman Wall, Picts' Wall, or Vallum Aelium in Latin) is a former defensive fortification of the Roman province of Britannia, begun in AD 122 in the reign of the Emperor Hadrian. [1] Running from Wallsend on the River Tyne in the east to Bowness-on-Solway in the west of what is now ...

  4. The Manchester Murals - Wikipedia

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    The Manchester Murals. The Manchester Murals are a series of twelve paintings by Ford Madox Brown in the Great Hall of Manchester Town Hall and are based on the history of Manchester. Following the success of Brown's painting Work he was commissioned to paint six murals for its Great Hall. Another six murals were to be completed by Frederic ...

  5. Seagram murals - Wikipedia

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    The Seagram Murals at the Tate Modern in London. The Seagram Murals are a series of large-scale paintings by abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko.. The murals, characterized by their dark and somber palette, represented Rothko’s commitment to expressing the basic human emotions of tragedy, ecstasy, and doom while also showing a shift to his darker state of mind.

  6. St Peter and St Paul's Church, Pickering - Wikipedia

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    The Church of St Peter and St Paul, Pickering is the parish church of the market town of Pickering in the county of North Yorkshire. The church sits on the top of a small hill in the centre of the town and its spire is visible across the Ryedale district. The church is part of the Church of England Diocese of York, and houses a collection of ...

  7. Wallace Collection - Wikipedia

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    The Wallace Collection is a museum which displays works of art collected in the 18th and 19th centuries by five generations of a British aristocratic family – the first four Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace, the illegitimate son of the 4th Marquess. In the 19th century, the Marquesses of Hertford were one of the wealthiest ...

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