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Featured Article: Fragments

Fragments (frammenti), like their name suggests, are small broken pieces of other artwork, and are a sub-set of material culture. When larger carvings were destroyed, the remains were often discarded. However, on occasion, remaining fragments were spared and often set into a wall. The fragment is not an intentional piece of artwork; no one makes fragments. Instead, they are the leftovers from grander objects that no ..→

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...there are 142 churches in Venice and the Lagoon?
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-== <span id="Featured_Article:_Fountains">Featured Article: [https://wiki.cityknowledge.org/index.php/Fountains Fountains]</span> ==
-''This page contains the overview of all fountains in Venice .'' ''<div class="dablink">For a typical fountain, see [https://wiki.cityknowledge.org/index.php/Fountain Fountain].</div>''
-Fountains are pieces of functional [https://wiki.cityknowledge.org/index.php/Material_Culture material culture] that provide Venetians with clean drinking water. Typically centrally located within one of the city's many ''campi'', these fountains symbolize the transition of art within the city with some being uniquely hand-crafted and others products of mass production. 222 is not the total number of all fountains in the Venetian Lagoon. There are more fountains out on other islands in the Lagoon that are not assessed yet. [https://wiki.cityknowledge.org/index.php/Fountains ..→]
-== <span id="Featured_Article:_Fountains">Featured Article: [https://wiki.cityknowledge.org/index.php/Fountains Fountains]</span> ==
-''This page contains the overview of all fountains in Venice .'' ''<div class="dablink">For a typical fountain, see [https://wiki.cityknowledge.org/index.php/Fountain Fountain].</div>''Fountains are pieces of functional [https://wiki.cityknowledge.org/index.php/Material_Culture material culture] that provide Venetians with clean drinking water. Typically centrally located within one of the city's many ''campi'', these fountains symbolize the transition of art within the city with some being uniquely hand-crafted and others products of mass production. 222 is not the total number of all fountains in the Venetian Lagoon. There are more fountains out on other islands in the Lagoon that are not assessed yet. [https://wiki.cityknowledge.org/index.php/Fountains ..→]
-== <span id="Featured_Article:_Relief">Featured Article: [https://wiki.cityknowledge.org/index.php/Relief Relief]</span> ==
-''This page contains information about a typical Venetian relief.''''<div class="dablink">For a list of reliefs, see [https://wiki.cityknowledge.org/index.php/Reliefs Reliefs].</div>''
-== <span id="Types">Types</span> ==
-<figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb">[https://wiki.cityknowledge.org/index.php/File:Figure4_relief.jpg ]<figcaption>A relief depicting the column and lion in the Piazza San Marco</figcaption></figure>
-Relief sculptures are categorized by the percentage of protrusion from the base structure that the sculpture features. The general distinction that is made, being somewhat subjective, is between high and low reliefs.
-=== <span id="Low_Relief">Low Relief</span> ===
-A low relief (''bas-relief'' or ''bassorilievi)'' is one in which the depth of the sculpture is quite shallow and remains in close proximity to [https://wiki.cityknowledge.org/index.php/Relief ..→]</div>
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+*...there are 142 [[Churches|churches]] in Venice and the Lagoon?&nbsp;<br>
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