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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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aerial perspective
Art history; Visual arts
A means of depicting deep space in painting or graphic arts by rendering objects at greater distances more indistinct, to suggest the interposition of an atmospheric haze.
madonna
Art history; Visual arts
Formerly an italian title for a married woman. Also, and usually preceded by a the, the madonna refers to the virgin mary, the mother of jesus christ.
lunette
Art history; Visual arts
A half or crescent moon shape; a semi-circular, crescent shaped window or surface.
loggia
Art history; Visual arts
A roofed gallery or arcade usually along one side of a building and open to the weather (on occasion a loggia is freestanding).
linear perspective
Art history; Visual arts
A pictorial convention designed to suggest spatial depth by placing objects drawn with diminishing size along and within converging sets of straight lines, all arranged to fix the ...
line
Art history; Visual arts
A mark that defines a shape, a contour, and, more generally, marks that make up the design of a picture. Lines are key to establishing structure and movement in a picture.
linear
Art history; Visual arts
An adjective describing lines that clearly indicate a shape or a form; this term may be contrasted with painterly. The contrast of the linear and the painterly (malerisch) was ...
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