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Art history

Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.

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basilica

Art history; Visual arts

In architecture, a type of public building erected in ancient Rome as a hall of justice and commerce. Basilicas had a rectangular plan with two or four rows of columns placed ...

basse taille or basse-taille

Art history; Visual arts

French for "cut low." In jewelry making, a process in which gold or silver is engraved, etched, stamped, chiseled, or carved with a design in low relief. Translucent colored ...

bas-relief

Art history; Visual arts

A French term meaning "low-raised work." This art, along with high relief, is known collectively as relief sculpture -- meant to be seen primarily from one direction -- as opposed ...

bat

Art history; Visual arts

A plaster slab on which wet clay is left to lose sufficient moisture to make it plastic. Also, a disk that can be attached to a potter's wheel so that a pot can be thrown upon it, ...

Bateau-lavoir, Groupe du

Art history; Visual arts

French for "the group of the floating wash house," derived from the name of a tenement house occupied by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973). This was a group of artists living in ...

bailee

Art history; Visual arts

One to whom the property of another — the bailor — is entrusted for a limited period. A museum that has assumed temporary custody of an object is a bailee.