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Published: 09.09.2022.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: 9 units
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  • Presentations 'North American colonial art.', 1.
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Earliest art samples are gravestones with carvings and inscriptions. They were an aesthetic expression of spiritual concerns about afterlife in profoundly religious colonies. Common pattern is a skull with wings which symbolizes soul flight into heaven. In is an authentic American design not found in Europe, because European gravestones had skull with bones, but not wings.…

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