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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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ball clay
Art history; Visual arts
In ceramics, an ingredient included in a many clay bodies because of its plasticity. Ball clay may be black or gray in color but fires almost white. It contracts considerably as ...
balloon framing
Art history; Visual arts
In architecture, a system of light timber-frame construction in which uprights or studs extend the full height of the frame and horizontal structural members are nailed to them.
ballpein hammer
Art history; Visual arts
A hammer which has one side of the head flattened for striking, and the other rounded for flattening rivets or forming a dome.
balustrade
Art history; Visual arts
A rail, usually about three feet high, supported by a series of posts (balusters), generally as along the outside edge of a stairway or gallery.
bamboo
Art history; Visual arts
Bamboo is a fibrous plant, and materials obtained from it. Bamboo grows into poles comprised of segments with hollow cores, gradually tapering to their upper tips. Leaves grow ...
banausic
Art history; Visual arts
Predominantly suggestive of functional and practical usage rather than decorative or ornamental. Or, common, ordinary, and undistinguished; dull and insipid.
base
Art history; Visual arts
A plinth or podium on which a sculpture is exhibited, or the portion of a sculpture on which its weight rests. The stepped base of a Greek temple is called a crepidoma. "Base" ...
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