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A new vocabulary transformed an aesthetics of materials already present in the polychromy and rich spolia of the city's fabric with inlay, carving, molding, painting, and gilding of precious marbles, stucco, and wood in all'antica motifs present in new books illustrated and printed in Venice, such as the Hypnerotomachia Polifili (1499). We are delighted to pave the way for Kaspersky Labs' entry into the Canadian market," said Sanjeev Spolia, Manager, Business Development of Supra Canada. Opicius inverts the Augustinian concept of spolia Aegyptica, the accomplishments of classic al antiquity that might be carried forward amongst the Christians as tools for building Christianity; instead, like the others, Opicius uses Christianity -- here the occasion of the natalicium Christi--as an occasion for carrying forward the politically motivated antiquarianism by which he would praise Henry VII. |
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