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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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Old Village of Jaca
Art history; General art history
History reputation revokes that Jaca was the first capital of the Kingdom of Aragon that is known as the old town, it was built in 16th century citadel that is currently known as ...
canon
Art history; General art history
In art, the body of unquestionably important artists (DWMs — dead white males) and works. Until recently the canon was seldom challenged, and changed at a sluggish pace. Now it's ...
canvas
Art history; General art history
Commonly used as a support a swatch of canvasfor oil or acrylic painting, canvas is a heavy woven fabric made of flax or cotton. Its surface is typically prepared for painting by ...
Cobra or COBRA
Art history; General art history
A twentieth century European art movement whose members included Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Corneille, Egill Jacobsen, Asger Jorn, Lucebert, and Karl H. Pederson, and was ...
collectible, collectable
Art history; General art history
An object of a type that is valued or sought after by collectors. This term is used less with high art than it is with crafts, memorabilia, and other objects that are becoming ...
bad-debt art
Art history; General art history
Art that is sold or donated because the owner is deeply in debt. When a work of art attains this status, its market value is typically much lower than it had been recently. This ...
caliper or calipers
Art history; General art history
An instrument photo of a caliperused to measure the thickness or diameter of an object. It consists of a pair of movable metal or wooden arms with curved, pointed ends, hinged ...
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