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Citadel of an Ancient Greek city

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Acropolis

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Art that doesn’t attempt to describe appearance of visible forms

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Abstract

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An image that symbolizes a deeper meaning

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Allegory

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Table like structure where religious rites are performed

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Altar

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Method of rendering effect of spatial distance by subtle variations in color

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Atmospheric perspective

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Technique in which artists abandon usual intellectual control over their brush or pencil

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Automatic writing

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Any support

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Base

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Adjective used to describe forms that resemble shapes found in nature

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Biomorphic

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View from above

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Bird’s-eye view

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Frames attached to the surface of a wall without openings

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Blind window

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Printed image made from carved wooden block

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Block printing

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Established rules or standards

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Canon

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Overall arrangement or structure of a work of art

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Composition

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Study or evaluation of art based on formal, visual, and stylistic analysis

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Connoisseurship

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Includes all it’s subject matter, ideas in the work

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Content

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Interpretive approach in art history that focuses on cultural context of an art object, using literature, history, economics, and social development

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Contextualism

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Traditional way of representing forms

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Convention

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Technique primarily and drawing, in which a set of parallel lines is drawn across previous set

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Cross-hatching

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Wall in building that doesn’t support any of the weight of the structure

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Curtain wall

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Process of inscribing an image, design, or letters

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Engraving

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Central rite of Christian faith

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Eucharist

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Area that is closest to the picture plane

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Foreground

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Purely visual components: line, color, shape, texture, mass, spatial qualities, and composition

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Form

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Elevated style of painting popular in 18 century

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Grand manner

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Paintings based on historical, or biblical narratives

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History painting

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Horizontal line formed by the implied meeting point of earth and sky

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Horizon line

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Studying the subject matter and conventional symbols in art

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Iconography

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Process in art through which artists strive to make their forms and figures attain perfection

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Idealization

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Structure designed with a rectangular shape

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Longitudinal-plan building

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Are that takes up the middle distance of the image

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Middle-ground

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Depiction in which physical appearance of the rendered image in nature

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Naturalism

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Art that doesn’t try to reproduce the appearance of objects, or scenes in natural world

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Nonrepresentational

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Style of painting which emphasizes techniques and surface effects of brushwork

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Painterly

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Handheld support used by artists for the storage and mixing of paint

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Pallete

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Person who finances a work of art

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Patron

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Spatial plane corresponding with actual surface of a painting

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Picture plane

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Blue, red, and yellow

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Primary colors

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Lifelike description of appearance of objects, people and natural world

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Realism

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Art that attempts to depict an aspect of the external, natural world

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Representational

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Byzantine perspective theory

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Reverse perspective

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Ribs Denmark junctions of groin vault

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Rib vault

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Painting that has as it’s subject inanimate objects

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Still life

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Particular manner, form, or character of representation

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Style

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Manner of representation that conforms to an intellectual or artistic rather than to lifelike description

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Stylization

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Process that transforms media into art

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Technique

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Dominant color in an object, image, or pigment

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Tint

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Darkness or lightness of a color

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Value

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Print made from one or more carved wooden blocks

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Woodblock print

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