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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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calligraphy
Art history; Visual arts
From the greek for “beautiful writing,” this term refers to hand-drawn, stylized script, an art practiced in a variety of cultures across time.
allegory
Art history; Visual arts
A description or depiction of one subject under the guise of another, more complex and extended than a metaphor, often with material objects and events used to convey relations ...
basilica
Art history; Visual arts
Originally designating a roman public building with civic and judicial functions, this term and the associated architectural elements were later borrowed for large or ceremonially ...
cinquecento
Art history; Visual arts
From the italian for “five hundred,” designating the sixteenth century (i.e.“one-thousand five hundreds”).
edition
Art history; Visual arts
The full set of a run of prints of a given work (including, in this sense, of a particular version of a book).
baroque
Art history; Visual arts
This term that has come to designate a stylistic period corresponding roughly with the seventeenth century in (mainly catholic) europe (generally following on mannerism in the ...
composition
Art history; Visual arts
In visual art, the arrangement of the elements of a work, or, as leon battista alberti expresses it (in “book two” of on painting): “the rule in painting by which the parts fit ...
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