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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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apprentice
Art history; Visual arts
A person who is learning an art, a craft or occupation from one or more masters of that work. This was the prevailing means of entering many professions in Europe from the Middle ...
apprenticeship
Art history; Visual arts
A specified amount of time in which a person, called an apprentice, becomes bound by legal agreement to work for another, his master, in return for instruction in an art, a craft, ...
apsara
Art history; Visual arts
In India, a nymph of the sky or air. In Chinese Buddhism, a heavenly maiden.
acetone
Art history; Visual arts
A volatile solvent, commonly used with lacquers and in paint-removers; also known as dimethyl ketone and 2-propanone. It is soluble in water and alcohol. It is non-photochemically ...
acetylene
Art history; Visual arts
A colorless gas burned in combination with oxygen for oxyacetylene welding. Explosive, especially if used in welding with gauge pressures over 15 psig (30 psig absolute). It has a ...
achromatic
Art history; Visual arts
Color having no chroma — black, white and grays made by mixing black and white. All other colors employ chromatic pigments.
acid
Art history; Visual arts
Any of a large class of substances capable of reacting with and dissolving certain metals into salts, and of reacting with bases or alkalis to form salts. Acids can weaken ...
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