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Arts & crafts

Arts & crafts comprises a multitude of activities and hobbies that involve making things with one's hands, usually from scratch. They can be sub-divided into 'handicrafts'( or traditional crafts ) that are fashioned in an old style using long practised techniques, and the rest which are more modern inventions that have become recent trends or fads.

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The Madonna and Child with St John and Angels

Arts & crafts; Oil painting

The Madonna and Child with St John and Angels (c. 1495-1497) is a painting in tempera on wood by Michelangelo during his first period in Rome. The painting is unfinished and ...

The Entombment

Arts & crafts; Oil painting

The Entombment (c. 1500-1501) is an unfinished painting in oil on wood by Michelangelo that depicts the placing of the body of Jesus in the garden tomb. There is some disagreement ...

The Holy Family with the Infant St. John the Baptist

Arts & crafts; Oil painting

The Holy Family with the Infant St. John the Baptist (c. 1504) is also known as Doni Tondo, where Doni is the last name of Agnolo Doni who was a rich cloth merchant in Florence, ...