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Visual arts
Of or pertaining to any artistic creation that we can look at, such as paintings, drawings, or video footage.
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renaissance
Art history; Visual arts
One of the most fraught and debated terms in art history, this generally refers to the revival of arts and letters inspired by classical roman and greek models in western europe from the fourteenth ...
relief
Art history; Visual arts
The real or apparent projection of three dimensional figures from a flat background. In sculpture, the term is used for figures raised physically above the background, protruding from it to varying ...
provenance
Art history; Visual arts
The record of ownership of a work of art, its origin, derivation and pedigree. It tells who owned a work; an attribution identifies the artist or artists who produced a work.
public
Art history; Visual arts
The community or people who receive art and are generally self-consciously concerned with its character over time and space. The public may be distinguished from an audience, who are those receiving ...
qibla
Art history; Visual arts
The direction of prayer towards the kaaba in mecca; sometimes in a mosque referred to as the qibla wall.
quattrocento
Art history; Visual arts
From the italian for “four hundred”; designating the fifteenth century (i.e. The “fourteen hundreds”). This italian term is commonly used by art historians writing in english about italian art, and ...
