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Blind Window | → | ____ Outlining elements of a window applied to a solid wall, to help create symmetry on
a facade, but without the actual window opening. |
Caduceus | → | ____
Staff possessing various powers, shaped like a wand with two wings at
the top and snakes intertwined around the shaft. |
Chateaux | → | ____
Country house or castle of a French aristocrat. Usually built on a
grand scale, luxurious homes intended for an elegant lifestyle. |
Chiaroscuro | → | ____
Italian word for relative contrast of dark and light in a painting.
Used to create spatial depth and volume through slight gradations in
intensity of light and shadow. |
Contrapposto | → | ____
A way of representing the human body so that its weight appears to be
borne on one leg. First appears in sculpture from ancient Greece,
to emphasize naturalism. |
Genre | → | ____
Type or category of artistic form, subject, technique, style, or medium. |
Genre Painting | → | ____
Term used to loosely categorize paintings depicting scenes of everyday
life. Includes (among others) domestic interiors, merry companies,
inn scenes and street scenes. |
Piazza | → | ____
Italian word for an open city square. |
Segmental Pediment | → | ____
A pegment formed when the upper cornice is a shallow arc. |
Sfumato | → | ____
In painting, the effect of haze in an image, resembling the color of the
atmosphere at dusk. Gives a smokey effect. |
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