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Art history

Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.

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tracery

Art history; Visual arts

Ornamental stone pattern work used in the upper parts of windows.

tradition

Art history; Visual arts

A set of recognized customs regarded as coherent that has guided social behavior for many generations and is still relevant to the present time.

transept

Art history; Visual arts

The transverse portions of a cross-shaped church. The transept usually separates the nave from the apse or the chancel.

trecento

Art history; Visual arts

An italian word meaning “three hundred”; the fourteenth century.

triforium

Art history; Visual arts

The middle storey of a church; it is often a walled passageway above the main arcade, or the aisle roof.

totem

Art history; Visual arts

An animate or inanimate object that serves as an emblem for a clan or a people; more generally, any venerated symbol.

tondo

Art history; Visual arts

tondo, is the Italian word for circular painting, thus painting in circular movements with hand.