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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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antimony
Art history; Visual arts
A silvery white, brittle, yet soft metal, used in alloys to improve the working qualities of other metals, britannia, lead, and pewter, for example. Antimony sulfide was used as ...
antiquarianism
Art history; Visual arts
Originally, the admiration or study of the material culture of the past, especially of ancient societies, particularly those whose current descendants exhibit quite different ...
antique
Art history; Visual arts
Of ancient times, or an object made in a bygone era. Especially of the ages before the fall of the Western Roman Empire in CE 476. Also, ancient furniture and other artifacts. ...
antiquing
Art history; Visual arts
Artificially creating an appearance of age to the surface of an object. This has most often been done to furniture, walls, and decorations, but has been done to create new and to ...
antiquity
Art history; Visual arts
The quality of being very old, especially of the ages before the fall of the Western Roman Empire in CE 476. Also, the remains of ancient times, usually referred to in the plural ...
anvil
Art history; Visual arts
A heavy, steel-faced iron block on which to form metal by hammering or forging — wrought metal, or metal that is red-hot and malleable, then hammered into shape. Most anvils have ...
A.P.
Art history; Visual arts
Abbreviation for artist's proof. AP can also stand for "Approved Product," meaning non-toxic, when seen in the "AP seal" placed on manufactured art materials by the Art & Creative ...
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