Empiricism

The doctrine that all knowledge ultimately comes from experience, denying the notion of innate ideas or a priori knowledge about the world. It is opposed with rationalism.

anti-art

Art history; Visual arts

Works that seek to undermine prevailing standards for the form or content of anything considered “art,” first used to describe the practices and works of the dada movement that ...

daguerreotype

Art history; Visual arts

The earliest form of commercial photographic print, developed in the mid-nineteenth century in paris by louis j. M. Daguerre, which fixes a positive image on a copper plate coated ...

classical

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Most specifically, this term designates the 5th and 4th centuries bce in greece and the works produced then and there, though it has come to be used of greek and roman antiquity ...

critic

Art history; Visual arts

In relation to art, a person who describes and evaluates, or otherwise judges artworks according to some criteria; somewhat distinct from a connoisseur, who asserts a sensitivity ...

architrave

Art history; Visual arts

The lintel in classical architecture, or that which spans two columns at the top and forms the lowest part of the entablature.

codex

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codex, a manuscript consisting of multiple handwritten pages, thus a set of texts in handwriting,

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Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR)

A U.S. stockpile of petroleum that was created as a counter measure after the 1973 energy crisis in which an Arab led oil embargo halted oil exports ...