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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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atlant, atlantid, or atlas
Art history; Visual arts
A muscular male nude, either carved or painted, acting as a column or pillar, carrying an architrave or other architectural element. This is the male counterpart of a caryatid. ...
atrium
Art history; Visual arts
In architecture, an inner courtyard, often colonnaded or given a glass ceiling, and often at the entrance of a public building.
attribute
Art history; Visual arts
An object often associated with a person, character, or office. Examples are the crown jewels of a king, the trident of Neptune, and the caduceus of a physician.
audience
Art history; Visual arts
Any viewer, reader, or listener, either alone or with others. This often refers to those people for whose gaze a work is intended, although at present the identity of those ...
automaton
Art history; Visual arts
Any thing that can move or act by itself — a mechanical thing which automatically performs certain actions in response to preset controls, such as a metronome, a toy with ...
avant-garde
Art history; Visual arts
French for vanguard. Artists and their work which stand in the forefront of a movement or of new ideas, often in opposition to established ideas and traditions; art that's ahead ...
avatar
Art history; Visual arts
In Hinduism, an incarnation of a god. "Avatar" can also refer to an archetype — to an embodiment, as of a quality or a concept. In cyberspace — online, in virtual reality, ...
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