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Marble sculpture — Marble statue redirects here. For the song by Gigolo Aunts, see Everybody Happy. Lorenzo Bartolini, (Italian, 1777–1850), La Table aux Amours (The Demidoff Table), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Marble sculpture Marble sculpture is… … Wikipedia
Cipollino marble — A cipollino marble column in the Basilica of Maxentius in Rome Cipollino marble was a variety of marble used by the ancient Greeks and Romans, whose Latin term for it was marmor carystium (meaning marble from Karystos ). It was quarried in… … Wikipedia
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Subsurface scattering — (or SSS) is a mechanism of light transport in which light penetrates the surface of a translucent object, is scattered by interacting with the material, and exits the surface at a different point. The light will generally penetrate the surface… … Wikipedia
marmoreal — marmoreally, adv. /mahr mawr ee euhl, mohr /, adj. of or like marble: skin of marmoreal smoothness. Also, marmorean. [1790 1800; < L marmore(us) made of marble (see MARBLE, EOUS) + AL1] * * * … Universalium
Slavenka Drakulić — is a noted Croatian writer and publicist who currently lives in Sweden.Slavenka Drakulić was born in Rijeka, Croatia, in 1949 (in what was then socialist Yugoslavia). She graduated in comparative literature and sociology from the University in… … Wikipedia
cutis marmorata — a transient form of livedo reticularis (q.v.) occurring as a normal response to cold. Called also marble skin … Medical dictionary
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