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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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amphitheater
Art history; Visual arts
A kind of theater "in the round," a round or oval structure having a central stage or arena surrounded by tiers of seats rising gradually outward from it.
amulet
Art history; Visual arts
A piece of jewelry worn, most often as a ring, as a bracelet, or as a pendant to a necklace, as a charm against evil or injury. By contrast, a talisman is a piece of jewelry ...
analogous colors
Art history; Visual arts
Any two or more colors that are next to each other on the color wheel and are closely related. For example, blue, blue-green, and green all have the color blue in common. Families ...
American Academy of Arts and Letters (AAAL)
Art history; Visual arts
The American Academy of Arts and Letters is an American organization that fosters and sustains interest in literature, music, and the fine arts by identifying and encouraging ...
American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
Art history; Visual arts
This is an 830,000-member union of public and professional employees, including public and private school teachers, paraprofessionals and school-related personnel, higher ...
angle
Art history; Visual arts
An angle is a figure formed by two lines or edges diverging from or crossing a common point (vertex) — an acute angle being less than 90°, a right angle being 90°, and an obtuse ...
angle of incidence
Art history; Visual arts
When light (incident light — that from a source of light) strikes an object's surface it forms an angle with an imaginary line known as the "normal," which is perpendicular to the ...
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