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| A distorted image that must be viewed by some special means (such as a mirror) or at an angle to be recognized. |
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| A canopy on columns, frequently built over an altar. |
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| A blanket designation for the art of the period 1600 to 1750. |
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| Latin, "dark room." an ancestor of the modern camera in which a tiny pinhole, acting as a lens, projects an image on a screen, the wall of a room, or the ground-glass wall of a box; used by artists in the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries as an aid in drawing from nature. |
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| Young painters influenced by the St. Matthew paintings in the Contarelli Chapel |
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| In painting, a full-size preliminary drawing from which a painting is made. |
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| In religious paintings, the Virgin is sometimes shown seated in front of this brocaded cloth. |
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| A two-paneled painting or altarpiece; also, an ancient Roman, Early Christian, or Byzantine hinged writing tablet, often of ivory and carved on the external sides. |
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| A thin, transparent, or semitransparent layer put over a color to alter it slightly. |
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| A type of Rococo painting depicting the outdoor amusements of upper-class society. |
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| A cross consisting of an upright crossed in the middle by a horizontal piece of the same length. |
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| A monochrome painting done mainly in neutral grays to simulate sculpture. |
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| A picture showing natural scenery, without narrative content. |
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| An upright or vertical bar crossed near the top by a shorter horizontal bar. |
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| A style of later Renaissance art that emphasized "artifice," often involving contrived imagery not derived directly from nature. Such artworks showed a selfconscious stylization involving complexity, caprice, fantasy, and polish. Mannerist architecture tended to flout the classical rules of order, stability, and symmetry, sometimes to the point of parody. |
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| The material (for example, marble, bronze, clay, fresco) in which an artist works; also, in painting, the vehicle (usually liquid) that carries the pigment. |
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| Having or appearing to have only one color. |
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| Exceptionally great, as in quantity, quality, extent, or degree. |
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| Pigment mixed with oil. Oil paint dries more slowly than tempera, allowing the painter to lay down the color in superimposed translucent layers. |
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| In painting, a form where the boundaries between objects are irregular or not well-defined. |
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| A thin board with a thumb hole at one end on which an artist lays and mixes colors; any surface so used. Also, the colors or kinds of colors characteristically used by an artist. |
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| A drawing medium of dried paste made of ground pigments and a water-based binder that is manufactured in crayon form. |
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| A dry insoluble substance, usually pulverized, which when suspended in a liquid vehicle becomes a paint, ink, etc. |
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| An altarpiece made up of more than three sections. |
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| A ceiling design in which painted scenes are arranged in panels that resemble framed pictures transferred to the surface of a shallow, curved vault. |
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| A style, primarily of interior design, that appeared in France around 1700. Rococo interiors were extensively decorated and included elegant furniture, small sculpture, ornamental mirrors, easel paintings, tapestries, reliefs, and wall painting. |
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| Italian, "holy conversation"; a style of altarpiece painting popular after the middle of the 15th century, in which saints from different epochs are joined in a unified space and seem to be conversing either with each other or with the audience. |
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| A picture depicting an arrangement of objects. |
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| Painting in the "dark manner," using violent contrasts of light and dark, as in the work of Caravaggio. |
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| A three-paneled painting or altarpiece. |
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| A term describing paintings (particularly 17th-century Dutch still lifes) that include references to death. |
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| A wooden block on the surface of wich those parts not intended to print are cut away to a slight depth, leaving the design raised; also, the printed impression made with sucha block. |
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