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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Lunette

Art history; Visual arts

A half or crescent moon shape; a semi-circular, crescent shaped window or surface.

Loggia

Art history; Visual arts

A roofed gallery or arcade usually along one side of a building and open to the weather (on occasion a loggia is freestanding).

A design made by setting coloured objects in mortar. It is one of the oldest forms of decoration. Early mosaics were typically made on floors, though in both the byzantine east and in western europe ...

Monument

Art history; Visual arts

A structure, a statue, or other physical marker intended to commemorate an event or a life, which may over time acquire its own status as historically significant.

Mezzotint

Art history; Visual arts

An intaglio printmaking method of engraving a copper or steel plate by scraping and pitting it with finely edged and pointed tools to produce graduated grey shades for the depiction of light and ...