Provencal Art Crafts

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Article title : Aix-en-Provence
"industry. The manufacture of santons, traditional hand-crafted figurines, often associated with provencal Christmas creches. The manufacture of olive oil. The..."
Article title : County of Provence
"of the professions, crafts and businesses in the city, which drew up a code of justice and municipal regulations. Several Provençal cities directly negotiated..."
Article title : Merovingian art and architecture
"recalls that of St. George, Ezra', Syria). Very different from these Provençal baptistries, except for the quatrefoil one of Venasque, that of St. Jean..."
Article title : Quilt
"Albert Museum and in the Bargello in Florence. Provençal quilts, now often referred to as "boutis" (the Provençal word meaning "stuffing"), are wholecloth quilts..."
Article title : Tuscany
"type of poetry also began in Tuscany. Guittone d'Arezzo made art abandon chivalry and Provençal forms for national motives and Latin forms. He attempted political..."
Article title : Muslim settlement of Lucera
"Burgundian and Provençal soldiers and farmers as possible. A remnant of the descendants of these Provençal colonists, still speaking a Franco-Provençal dialect..."
Article title : Malta
"Italian influences as well as influences of English, Spanish, Maghrebin and Provençal cuisines. A number of regional variations can be noted as well as seasonal..."
Article title : Marseille
"Marseille (French: Marseille; Provençal Occitan: Marselha; see below) is a city in southern France, the prefecture of the department of Bouches-du-Rhône..."
Article title : Louis Sicard
"over his studio on his death. His sister, Thérèse Neveu, was a renowned Provencal santon-maker. Louis Marius Sicard was born on January 21, 1871, in Aubagne..."
Article title : Baphomet
"appeared around 1195 in the Provençal poems Senhors, per los nostres peccatz by the troubadour Gavaudan. Around 1250, a Provençal poem by Austorc d'Aorlhac..."

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