Sparse, restitute, seaport, Miniature boxwood

The Barnes Collection

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Seaport with Ulysses Restituting Chryseis to Her Father Chryses by Claude Lorrain

Barnes Foundation (Philadelphia), Collection Gallery, Room 15, South Wall

https://collection.barnesfoundation.org/objects/6371/

Between 1500 and 1530 wood artists in Flanders and the Netherlands created of of the most exquisite miniature religious wood carvings ever seen.

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British Museum

tabernacle – a portable shrine – is a boxwood microcarving. Curator Dora Thornton reveals the intricacies and mechanisms of this incredible piece of carving.

See it on display in a new gallery as part of the ‪#‎Waddesdon‬ Bequest http://ow.ly/TiY2I

Miniature boxwood

 黃楊木 tabernacle containing scenes from the Life and Passion of Christ. Flemish, about 1500-1530.

Paul Klee

Sparse foliage, 1934

The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse
surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and
introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had
saved.

steppe climate

(′step ′klī·mət)

(climatology) The type of climate in which precipitation though very slight, is sufficient for growth of short, sparse grass; typical of the steppe regions of south-central Eurasia. Also known as semiarid climate.
mudflow of semiarid type 半乾燥型泥流

restitute

 verb

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res·​ti·​tute | \ ˈre-stə-ˌtüt  , -ˌtyüt \

restituted; restituting

Definition of restitute

transitive verb

1: to restore to a former state or position

2: GIVE BACKespecially : REFUND

intransitive verb

: to undergo restitution

Examples of restitute in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the WebOf the several hundred works that escaped the mobs and were subsequently found by invading Allied forces, just 54 have been restituted to the descendants of their original Jewish owners.— Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, "Investigation to Look for Nazi-Looted Art Later Ransacked From Hitler’s Headquarters," 24 July 2019

sparse

adjective

UK 

 /spɑːs/ US 

 /spɑːrs/

small in numbers or amount, often spread over a large area

稀少的；稀疏的，零落的

a sparse population/audience稀少的人口／觀眾

sparse vegetation/woodland稀疏的植被／林地

a sparse beard稀稀疏疏的鬍子

Information coming out of the disaster area is sparse.來自災區的消息很少。

 sparse とは【意味】希薄な,まばらな... 【例文】a sparse beard...