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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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portal
Art history; Visual arts
portal from Greek ''porta''=door, meaning the external door of entrance.
plane
Art history; Visual arts
That which adds breadth to a line; a level surface. Plane surface may be contrasted with depth. In sculpture, planes define the surfaces of solid elements, in contrast to empty ...
pigment
Art history; Visual arts
A substance, organic or synthetic, used in coloring, often in the form of fine powders mixed within some suspending medium or vehicle.
pier
Art history; Visual arts
A strong, solid support of a building that may be either round or square in cross section.
photograph
Art history; Visual arts
Literally “light-drawing,” the recording and reproducing of images on light sensitive material using one of various chemical processes. The first photographs date from the early ...
pictograph
Art history; Visual arts
A hieroglyph or pictorial representation of a word or idea. Pictography is the study of writing systems that use these symbols.
picture
Art history; Visual arts
A visual representation or image on a flat surface. A picture may, for example, be painted, drawn, photographed, collaged, or otherwise produced by some combination or ...
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