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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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A.R.A.
Art history; Visual arts
Associate of the Royal Academy (or Royal Academy of Arts) (RA). When you see these initials at the end of an artist's signature, you know the signer is a member of Britain's Royal ...
arabesque
Art history; Visual arts
A complicated, intertwined, flowing design of stylized floral and plant motifs loosely based on Arabian decoration.
arc
Art history; Visual arts
A portion or section of a curved line; a single curve or arch. In strict mathematical terms, a segment of a circle. An example of this shape can be seen in the green background to ...
arcade
Art history; Visual arts
A series of arches on column, pier, or pillars. Also, a roofed passageway or gallery, especially with shops on one or both sides. Only in the last century has arcade also come to ...
archaic
Art history; Visual arts
This adjective is applied to the early stage in the development of an art style. It is at this stage that the characteristics of the fully developed style are found, although in ...
archetype
Art history; Visual arts
An original model like which others are formed; an avatar. Can also be an example that is an ideal form of its type; the perfect or typical specimen. Archetypes are recurring ...
architectonic
Art history; Visual arts
Architectural qualities, as observed in subjects which are not typically architectural ones. For instance, "architectonic" is used as the name of the second style of classical ...
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