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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Nave

Art history; Visual arts

Nave, is the central aisle of a church, in Greek is ''narthex''

Nature morte

Art history; Visual arts

Nature morte, is the French word for ''Dead nature'' for life style.

Since the mid-sixteenth century, the most usual medium for painting. Pigments are mixed with the slow-drying medium of oil and applied to a canvas or on a wooden panel treated with gesso, a mixture ...

Neo-classicism

Art history; Visual arts

An artistic movement dating roughly from the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century. It sought to revive the aesthetics of greek and roman antiquity, but differed from previous ...

Niche

Art history; Visual arts

A recess in a wall, sometimes for a statue.

Nostalgia

Art history; Visual arts

A longing for things no longer present, coined in the seventeenth century originally to mean homesick, from greek terms nostos, or homecoming and algos, or distress.

Naturalism

Art history; Visual arts

The factual representation of an object. Naturalism aims to reproduce an object accurately. In painting, this is distinct from the more specific term realism, an art historical movement which ...