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The Book of a Thousand PoemsThe Book of a Thousand Poems
The Book of a Thousand Poems Overviews A collection of poems by writers ranging from William Blake and Henry W. Longfellow to Emily Dickinson and Robert L. Stevenson, arranged by topics such as "The Seasons," "Nursery Rhymes," and "Lullabies and Cradle Songs." ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
It is a French translation of the Portuguese word "Barroco" meaning an irregular gem. Later the term came to be used to reveal confident music or art movements., "to underline the excesses of its emphasis, of its eccentric redundancy, its noisy plenty of details, as opposed to the clearer and sober rationality of the Renaissance."from Wikipedia A baroque pearl is a one with or without a central axis. Naturally put a Baroque Pearl has an irregular shape. While the Renaissance they were use to generate fanciful pieces of sculpture. Jewelers saw little beasts, mermaids, lions, sea monsters and other shapes in the asymmetrical forms of this gem. Ordinarily set in gold with other gemstones, they were worn as pendants. Larger ones were fashioned into small sculpture often used to generate humorous or grotesque objects.
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Today they are produced in general from the South Sea or Tahitian pearls. Because of the longer length of time that it takes to grow these, they have a greater opening to become asymmetrical. Although these are a collection of cultured saltwater pearls, the whole of time that they are cultured dramatically increases the depth of the nacre, and the likelihood of producing one. Most Tahitian harvests, furnish more than 40 percent baroque and semi-baroque. Freshwater pearls because of the way in which they are produced tend to furnish a high percentage of baroque pearls, although much less primary than the South Sea and Tahitian. For a while all that was produced in the freshwater collection were baroque pearls, some even were called "rice Krispies" because of their shape and were of very low value. The organize unusual shapes.
Some of the South Sea and Tahitian Baroque pearls can be quite beautiful due to the depth of thee nacre and the reflectiveness of the rings and shapes.
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