Visual arts

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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calligraphy

Art history; Visual arts

From the greek for “beautiful writing,” this term refers to hand-drawn, stylized script, an art practiced in a variety of cultures across time.

allegory

Art history; Visual arts

A description or depiction of one subject under the guise of another, more complex and extended than a metaphor, often with material objects and events used to convey relations between abstract ...

Originally designating a roman public building with civic and judicial functions, this term and the associated architectural elements were later borrowed for large or ceremonially important catholic ...

cinquecento

Art history; Visual arts

From the italian for “five hundred,” designating the sixteenth century (i.e.“one-thousand five hundreds”).

edition

Art history; Visual arts

The full set of a run of prints of a given work (including, in this sense, of a particular version of a book).

baroque

Art history; Visual arts

This term that has come to designate a stylistic period corresponding roughly with the seventeenth century in (mainly catholic) europe (generally following on mannerism in the sixteenth century and ...

composition

Art history; Visual arts

In visual art, the arrangement of the elements of a work, or, as leon battista alberti expresses it (in “book two” of on painting): “the rule in painting by which the parts fit together. ”