Términos

Candlestick designed for use on the Epiphany on January 6, intended to hold three candles. A common design includes a central spike to hold a wax candle with two flanking cups to hold tallow candles.

Una jarra griega con un cuerpo rechoncho, un cuello alto y estrecho, y el pico de un surtidor. El cuerpo a veces cuenta con una decoración de costilla. El nombre significa "verter". La mayoría de estos vasos se produjo en el sur de Italia.

Culture and styles of ancient Epirus, located in modern northwestern Greece and southern Albania.

Los pisos superiores de los edificios de escena en teatros griegos antiguos o romanos.

Úsese en referencia a la Iglesia Episcopal en América; en referencia a la Iglesia de Inglaterra, usar "anglicanismo".

Closed, flat-soled slippers worn by pontiffs only at pontifical solemn mass and related functions; they were of various colors, including liturgical colors, throughout the centuries. They are not sandals. They are worn with liturgical stockings. The privilege of wearing the slippers and stockings belongs only to bishops, abbots, and other prelates by special privilege from the pope. Use of the slippers has fallen out of common use since the Second Vatican Council.

Rama de la filosofía que estudia la naturaleza, origen, límites y validez del conocimiento humano.

Aquellos capacitados que estudian la naturaleza, origen, límites y validad del conocimiento humano.

Literary genre taking the form of letters, usually of a literary, formal, or public nature. Examples are the epistles in the Biblical New Testament.

Libro que contiene las epístolas para ser leídas en misa. Hacia el siglo XIII generalmente estaban incorporadas al misal.

Novels written by using the device of a series of letters, diary entries, newspaper clippings, or other documents.

Inscripciones en mausoleos en memoria de quienes se encuentran enterrados en la tumba o sepulcro.

Grandes velos decorados con el cuerpo de Cristo crucificado que son usados en los servicios de Viernes Santo en la Iglesia Ortodoxa Oriental.

Nuptial poems or songs in praise of the bride and bridegroom, and praying for their prosperity.

Poetry in honor of a married couple and marriage; by traditional convention, composed and delivered at a wedding celebration.

Eastern Orthodox ecclesiastical stoles, in which the two ends are sewn together and hang straight down in front to the knees or to the floor, with an opening remaining at the top through which the head is passed. The front may also be made of a solid piece of fabric rather than two separate pieces. The sticharion and epitrachelion are held together by the zone (girdle), a narrow belt of stuff with clasps. It differs from the Western church stole in that it hangs straight instead of being crossed over the chest.

Aztec vestments comprising articulated pieces of iridescent shell sewn in a pattern on a textile support. Derived from Nahuatl for "joined mother -of-pearl." Many examples are made from the Pacific mollusk Pinctada mazatlanica.

Período del Antiguo Egipto, desde el 2925 hasta el 2650 a. C. aproximadamente, que comprende las dinastías I y II. Algunas fuentes incluyen también la Dinastía III, que termina alrededor del 2575 a. C. Las obras de arte incluyen cerámica, murales, esculturas y relieves. Durante este período se formalizaron procedimientos artísticos que permitieron realizar la postura de la figura humana, la disposición de elementos pictóricos y, en la escultura, una rígida representación de la figura que conserva la calidad de la piedra y forma del bloque. La arquitectura se distingue por el desarrollo de superestructuras de tumbas.

Any of a class of three-membered cyclic ring ethers including ethylene oxide, propylene oxide, and butylene oxide. Epoxides have been used as a permanent wood preservative treatment based on the chemical modification of the wood components.

Hydrous magnesium sulfate mineral usually found as a crust, efflorescence, or tiny crystals on mine and cave walls. Neutralized and purified, epsomite is sold as epsom salts.