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Painted-snipe

The painted-snipe, †Rostratula minator was described in 1988 from deposits of the early Pliocene found in Langebaanweg, South Africa.


481st Tactical Fighter Squadron

While deployed to Vietnam, the 481st aircraft had green triangles painted on the tails which allowed the Forward Air Controllers to easily identify the F-100s they were controlling as being part of the 481st.

Agustín Leonardo

In 1620 he was a brother in the convent of that order at Puig near Valencia, where he painted for the sacristy four large canvases: Finding the Image of Our Lady at Puig, Siege and Surrender of Valencia to King James; and the Battle of the Puig in which St. George fought with Christians.

Antonio Filocamo

In the Chapel of Santa Venera, they painted the Preaching and Martyrdom of Saint Venera.

Ashby de la Zouch Castle

Surviving artworks from the former period include for an altarpiece, The Virgin and Child with Saints and Donors, or the Donne Triptych as painted by Hans Memling in circa 1478.

Auguste Veillon

After that he joined François Diday's studio in Geneva, where he primarily painted seascapes and mountain ranges of the Bernese Oberland.

Baldassarre Lanci

Long before the Restoration spectaculars of the 17th century Lanci was designing elaborate and complicated theatre sets, using pivoted scenery, with up to three different scenes painted on boards, thus allowing the mood of the production to be altered in an instant.

Blossoming Chestnut Branches

Blossoming Chestnut Branches was painted by Vincent van Gogh during the artist's Auvers-sur-Oise period in May 1890, the final year of his life.

Bonaventura Cerretti

In the summer of 1930 in Rome he was painted by his friend the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862-1947).

Bunny Lewis

Other film credits included work on A Change of Heart (1962), The Painted Smile (1962) and One Too Many (1950).

Castet-Arrouy

The chancel was painted with murals by the painter Paul Noël Lasseran in 1901.

Centaurea nigra

Important for Gatekeeper butterfly, Goldfinch, Honey bee, Large skipper, Lime-speck pug moth, Meadow Brown, Painted lady, Peacock, Red admiral, Small copper, Small skipper

Dragons of Desolation

DL4 Dragons of Desolation was written by Tracy Hickman and Michael Dobson with Harold Johnson and Bruce Nesmith, with a cover painted by Keith Parkinson and interior illustrations by Larry Elmore and Jeff Butler, and was published by TSR in 1984 as a thirty-two page booklet with an outer folder and a large map.

E-tran

e-tran currently operates older Gold Coast Transit (formerly South Coast Area Transit) CNG buses from Oxnard, CA, and Akron Metro Regional Transit Authority CNG buses from Akron, Ohio painted with the e-tran paint scheme.

Eleonora Aguiari

In 2004, for her final show at the Royal College of Art, she wrapped an equestrian statue of Lord Napier of Magdala, situated on Queen's Gate in West London, in bright red duct tape, giving the appearance of the statue being painted red.

Emilius R. Ciampa

He enjoyed both watercolor and oil painting, and painted profusely until just before his death, which came just one week short of his 100th birthday.

Estate houses in Scotland

These include the ceiling at Prestongrange, undertaken in 1581 for Mark Kerr, Commendator of Newbattle and the long gallery at Pinkie House, painted for Alexander Seaton, Earl of Dunfermline in 1621.

Frederick Whitehead

Although he predominantly painted landscapes, he also concentrated occasionally on religious architecture, such as St Mary’s, Warwick, and Gloucester Cathedral.

Free Derry Corner

When the British Home Secretary, Jim Callaghan, visited Derry in August 1969, the "Free Derry" wall was painted white and the "You are now entering Free Derry" sign was professionally re-painted in black lettering.

Georg Glockendon

The Erdapfel of Martin Behaim is the best known of his painted works, the majority of which remain unidentified.

Gill Coliseum

Inside, on the south wall of Gill Coliseum is a painted mural of many former Oregon State men's basketball players including Gary Payton, Brent Barry, AC Green, and Steve Johnson.

Giovanni Antonio Fumiani

Born in Venice in 1645, he trained in Bologna under Domenico degli Ambrogi, a specialist in quadratura, but by 1668 he was back in Venice, where he painted a Virgin and Saints in San Benedetto.

Giovanni Ghisolfi

He painted also in Palazzo Borromeo Arese at Cesano, Reatis' Palace in Lissone and in the fourth chapel of the Sacri Monti and covered the vaults of the Basilica of San Vittore in Varese.

Giovanni Paolo Cavagna

He painted a Coronation of the Virgin for San Giovanni Battista in Casnigo.

Giuseppe Sartori

He painted a few historical subjects: La galera d'Oufrè Giustinian announces to Venice the Victory at Lepanto.

Gudea cylinders

E-ninnu's clay plaster, harmoniously blended clay taken from the Edin canal, has been chosen by Lord Nin-jirsu with his holy heart, and was painted by Gudea with the splendors of heaven as if kohl were being poured all over it.

Harriet Mellon

She was widely celebrated for her beauty, and was painted by George Romney and Sir Thomas Lawrence.

Homewood, Illinois

In 1983, Richard Haas painted a mural on the backs of several buildings in the business district, matching their fronts to their backs.

Jan Kryštof Liška

In Doksany he painted St. Augustine, at the monastery in Munich Hradište he painted St. Anthony, St. Francis and the Three Kings and for the Plasy monastery he painted St. Magdalene fresco (1692).

John Hauser

Hauser painted hundreds of portraits of Native Americans, including Sitting Bull, Little Wound, Bald Face, Red Cloud, and countless others.

Joshua Kadison

It peaked at #19 on the U.S. Billboard charts, and Filipino actor/singer Jericho Rosales recorded and released a version of it on his own 2009 album Change. Painted Desert Serenade went platinum in the US and Germany, and went multi-platinum in Australia and New Zealand.

Mennen

At Harpers Ferry National Historical Park is a giant advertisement painted on the rock face of Maryland Heights.

Mihael Stroj

In this period, he painted not only a large number of portraits, but also works with religious content, including altar pictures for churches in Vugrovec and Nova Rača.

Mount Tabor, West Yorkshire

A post box in the hamlet is painted gold, to commemorate one of Hannah Cockroft's 2012 Summer Paralympics gold medals.

Nantucket Airlines

Nantucket Airlines, or ACK Air as it is commonly referred to (ACK is the 3 letter identifier for Nantucket's Airport) utilizes a fleet of 6 Cessna 402C Businessliners/Utililiners (the Cape Air/Nantucket Airlines fleet consists of 60 Cessna 402Cs with 5 painted in the ACK Air livery and the remaining 55 painted in the Cape Air livery).

Peter Benjamin Graham

Between 1947 and 1949, Peter Graham lived and painted at The Abbey Arts Centre in New Barnet London, along with artists, Leonard French, James Gleeson, Douglas Green, Stacha Halpern, Grahame King, Inge King and Robert Klippel.

Pieter Casteels III

He painted birds, flowers, and fruit; but his paintings have not much to recommend them, and were greatly inferior to those of an English contemporary artist, Luke Cradock.

Pietro Cussida

It was through Cussida's patronage that Van Baburan painted the Entombment, Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane and Christ on the Road to Calvary for the Chapel of the Pietà of the Church of San Pietro in Montorio.

Ricardo Lacsamana

His painted Pumpkin won best entry at the 1998 Annual Pumpkin Contest at the Westin Hotel & Resorts in San Francisco, California.

Richard Alexander Henderson

Henderson was painted in water-colour as The Man with the Donkey by Horace Moore-Jones.

Road debris

MotorStorm (2007) has mud that flies around and gets painted accurately onto the body of each vehicle in real-time.

Salah Taher

Overall, he painted 15000 paintings and held more than 80 art fairs for his work in Egypt, Venice, New York, San Francisco, Geneva, Beirut, Kuwait and Jeddah.

Sarcophagus of Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa

The brightly painted sarcophagus of the Etruscan aristocratic woman Seianti was discovered in 1886 at Poggio Cantarello near Chiusi in Tuscany and was subsequently sold, along with its contents (a skeleton and some grave belongings), to the British Museum.

SS Alba

Alfred Wallis painted several versions of Wreck of the Alba, one of which is held by Tate St Ives.

Starship Children's Health

Each of its five levels is painted a different colour, with a symbolic meaning: Aqua for the Pacific Ocean; Orange for land; Blue for sky; Yellow for sunshine; and Pink for health.

ThinCan

The tube came painted in one's choice of several transparent colors (black, dark blue, light blue, purple, red) for an authentic "Jetsons" feel.

Transylvania Panorama

It was painted by many painters under the direction of Jan Styka in the Lwów (Lviv) rotunda, located in Stryjski Park, the same place where the Racławice Panorama was painted.

Trefil

Trefil Quarries and Trefil Ddu are noted birding sites; this area is the last remaining site in Gwent where Ring Ouzel occurs regularly, and other species present include Raven, Wheatear, Stonechat, Whinchat, Snipe and Red Grouse.

Villa Borghese gardens

In the 1650s, Diego Velázquez painted several depictions of this Villa's garden casino festively illuminated at night.

Wallasey Memorial Unitarian Church

These include Bernard Sleigh who painted the panels on the ends of the choirstalls, communion table and pulpit, and Benjamin Creswick who carved the figures on the choirstalls.

Walter M. Brackett

He was one of the artists engaged by Secretary of War William W. Belknap in the early 1870s to execute portraits of the line of succession of the secretaries, and he painted the portraits of Timothy Pickering, Samuel Dexter, William Eustis, and Henry Dearborn, all prominent residents of his native state.


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