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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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Copyright
Art history; Visual arts
The right to publish, produce, sell, and/or distribute an artwork (or to delegate these functions), granted either to an artist or (in the united states) her representatives for seventy years ...
Egg tempera
Art history; Visual arts
A technique in painting that uses water and egg yolk as the medium to carry the pigment, usually applied to a wood board prepared with a white ground.
Cathedral
Art history; Visual arts
The main church of a diocese containing the cathedra, or bishop's chair.
Axis
Art history; Visual arts
An imaginary straight line that runs through the middle of something, or about which things are arranged, typically according to material, geometric, or perceptual equilibrium.
Gouge
Art history; Visual arts
A chisel with a concavo-convex cross section used in wood carving, woodcut and linocut. The head is usually metallic and it comes in different shapes (curved, "v" shaped, etc.).
Printing press
Art history; Visual arts
A manual press used in the visual arts for printing the image of an engraved wood, linoleum or metal plate.
cenacolo
Art history; Visual arts
Italian word derived from latin coenaculum, or "a room where one ate," used to designate the room of the last supper between christ and his disciples, and hence paintings with that subject.
