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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Anglo-Saxon art

Art history; Visual arts

An art style of the fifth to eleventh centuries in England. It is characterized by interlaced motif.

angst

Art history; Visual arts

In German, an emotional state of anxiety without a specific cause. In existentialism, the term refers to general human anxiety at having free will, that is, of being responsible for one's actions.

ancien régime

Art history; Visual arts

French for the old order; the feudal, absolute monarchy in France before the French Revolution in 1789.

ancient

Art history; Visual arts

Loosely, very old, antiquated or old-fashioned. Often more specifically of the ages before the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE; especially of China, Egypt, Greece, Rome, etc.

ancipital

Art history; Visual arts

Two-edged. It may also mean two-headed. Among the symbols of several European nations are ancipital eagles.

Andachtsbild

Art history; Visual arts

German for devotional picture; votive art. A picture or sculpture with a type of imagery intended for private devotion, first developed in Northern Europe.

Having both male and female characteristics or qualities. The use of androgynous figures in mythology is widespread. In Greek mythology, for example, the minor god Hermaphroditus became both male and ...