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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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kore
Art history; Visual arts
Greekfor maiden and boy, referring to sculptures of the same. Kouros and kouroi also refer to archaic greek sculptures of nude male figures from around 600 bce. The statues are ...
idol
Art history; Visual arts
An image or object worshipped as the embodiment of special qualities, typically a deity or divinity; the worship of idols ("graven images") is forbidden in all the abrahamic ...
jambs
Art history; Visual arts
The vertical posts of a doorway or window frame; used as well of the walls that slant towards a doorway. In the portals of gothic cathedrals the jambs are sculptures. At chartres ...
istoria
Art history; Visual arts
In leon battista alberti’s treatise on painting, the term designates the entire impression made by a work of art, starting with its subject matter, but also incorporating the ...
intaglio
Art history; Visual arts
Any form of printmaking in which an image is incised into a plate, or matrix (typically of metal), and then filled with ink and transferred by pressing or rubbing the plate onto ...
impressionism
Art history; Visual arts
A movement in painting that flourished in the mid- to late-nineteenth century in france, characterized by its practitioners’ interest in recording the visual aspects of things ...
index
Art history; Visual arts
In semiotics, a sign whose meaning derives from the connection of one thing with another through a cause and effect relationship, such as footprints being the index of a certain ...
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