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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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facture
Art history; Visual arts
An adopted french word for describing the manner in which a painting is made, especially concerning the quality of its surface, and hence of the handling of the paint.
façade
Art history; Visual arts
The principle front or ‘face’ of a building, usually considered a primary marker of the building’s architectural style.
expressionism
Art history; Visual arts
Generally, any art form concerned mainly with conveying an artist’s emotions. More specifically, the term has come to be used particularly of various movements in later-nineteenth ...
empiricism
Art history; Visual arts
The philosophical stance that all human concepts and knowledge are derived ultimately from sense experience.
engraving
Art history; Visual arts
A form of intaglio printmaking in which a plate (typically of metal) is manually cut unto using a graver to make grooves into which ink can then be trapped and transferred onto ...
enlightenment
Art history; Visual arts
This term generally designates a period in european intellectual history, also known as the “age of reason,” beginning in the seventeenth and peaking in the eighteenth century ...
evangelist
Art history; Visual arts
One of the four writers of the gospels of the christian bible: matthew, mark, luke, or john, sometimes represented in (particularly medieval and renaissance) artworks by their ...
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