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| Of or relating to a style of architecture and art originating in Italy in the early 17th century. |
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| A viewpoint of an object, building, or person from above most likely seen from of bird's perspective when flying. |
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| [Heavy] use of darks against lights when creating a three-dimentional form on a two-two-dimentional surface. |
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| The movement within the Roman Catholic Church that followed the Protestant Reformation of the 16th Century. |
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| In architecture, a vault, having a circular plan and usually in the form of a portion of a sphere, so constructed as to exert an equal thrust in all directions. |
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| In architecture, also known as a tambour, any of several cylindrical or nearly cylindrical stones laid one above the other to form a column or pier. |
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| The art of forming designs by cutting, corrosion by acids, a photographic process, etc., on the surface of a metal plate, block of wood, or the like, for or as for the purpose of taking off impressions or prints of the design so formed. |
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| The category of subject matter in which inanimate objects are represented, as in painting or photography. |
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| A style of painting, or other forms of art, depicting scenes from ordinary life, especially domestic situations. Genre painting is associated particularly with 17th Century Dutch and Flemish artists. |
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| The depiciton in art of landscapes--natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view--with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. |
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| A painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representaiton of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. |
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| Art that tells a story, either as a moment in an ongoing story or as a sequence of events unfolding over time. Some of the earliest evidence of human art suggests that people told stories with pictures. |
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| The major 16th Century European movement aimed initially at reforming the beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church. |
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| A repository or respectable for relics. |
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