THE MOST COMMONLY USED NATURAL COLORS./2 WOAD, INDIGO, MUREX, MADDER. Natural products from the respective territories were used as raw materials for the dyes. Red was the first color, and as we have seen it was obtained first from ochre, and then from madder, a plant common in the …

  CAPRICORN WOMAN E. MARCEGAGLIA JUPITER AND SATURN MAKE WAR “A STEEL LADY “ OF COINFINDUSTRIA As for the Capricorn woman she is among the strongest and most resistant of all the Zodiac – mentally and physically – if she belongs to the first decade she has been certainly influenced …

      And its gesture alone has the blitheness of flight! THE BUTTERFLIES GEORGE LEPAPE 1912

  LOMBARD ORNAMENTS MADE OF GOLD FOIL – DATED AFTER 675 – NATIONAL MUSEUM, BERN   The Lombard art of metalwork is witnessed by these ornamental depictions of gold foil found in a tomb discovered in Stabio: to the left an elegant flower motif; to the right a lively depiction …

    ORNAMENTI LONGOBARDI DI LAMINA DORATA – DATABILI DOPO IL 675 – MUSEO NAZIONALE, BERNA L’arte longobarda di lavorare i metalli è testimoniata da queste figurazioni ornamentali di lamina dorata trovate in una tomba scoperta a Stabio: a sinistra elegante motivo floreale; a destra vivace rappresentazione di un animale. …