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Actual texture

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Texture that actually exists on an object

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Aerial perspective

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Perspective shows how objects appear from a distance; accounts
for airborne particles, smoke, and fog

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Aesthetics

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Field of study concerned with beauty and expression

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Anthropology

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One of art history’s sister disciplines

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Approximate symmetry

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Visual balance achieved through organizing unlike objects

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Arbitrary color

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Color chosen for emotional emphasis and aesthetic impact

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Art criticism

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Field of study that informs the public on art events via the press

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Atmospheric perspective

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Another term for aerial perspective

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Balance

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Element created with equally distributed weight

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Color Wheel

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Visually organized different hues; developed by Sir Isaac Newton

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Comparative study

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Method of studying multiple art pieces side by side

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Composition

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The organization of the elements of art in a piece

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Contextual analysis

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Analysis that looks outside of the piece of art to gather context of
the work

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Cool colors

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Blues, greens, and violets in Western culture

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Direct examination

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Viewership of a piece of art in person

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Fine art

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Painting, prints, drawing, sculpture, and architecture produced for
a limited audience

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Form

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Three dimensional figures

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Formal analysis

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Study of the visual qualities of a work of art

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Hue

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The name of the color

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Implied line

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lines that are not solid
but consist of a series of interrupted dots or lines that the
eye connects

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Intensity

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Brightness or purity of a color

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Line

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A path a point travels; the most basic art element

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Linear perspective

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Mathematical technique developed during the Renaissance; uses a
vanishing point

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Local color

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Color shown as if seen in normal daylight

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Motif

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A single element of a pattern

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Negative space

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Area around the figure in a piece

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Neutral

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Black and white; creates gray spectrum; are not considered hues

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Optical color

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Color shown as seen in special lighting

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Organic

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Irregular shapes and forms

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Pattern

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A repeated motif

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Perspective

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Element of art that creates the illusion of depth

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Positive space

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Objects, shapes, and forms composing the “figure” in a piece

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Primary colors

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Red, yellow, and blue; all colors come from these

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Proportion

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Relative size of objects in an artwork

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Relativity of color

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Theory that a color’s shade depends on surrounding colors

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Rhythm

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Artistic element created using movements and pattern

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Scale

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Size of an element relative to other parts of the work, or the entire
work

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Secondary colors

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Colors created from two primary colors; orange, green, and violet

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Shape

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Two dimensional figures

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Space

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The arrangement of shapes and forms

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Symmetrical balance

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Elements repeated exactly on both sides of a central axis

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Tertiary colors

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Colors formed from a primary and secondary color

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Texture

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The feel of an object’s surface

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Value

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Value describes a color’s lightness or darkness

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Vanishing point

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Common point where lines converge on a horizon

46
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Visual texture

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The appearance of texture on a piece

47
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Warm colors

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Reds, yellows, and oranges in Western culture

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Acrylic Paint

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Versatile paints made of synthetic materials

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Binders

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A component of paint; holds pigments together

50
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Buon (true) fresco

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Water and powdered pigments are permanently bound to a wet

plaster surface

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Charcoal

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A common drawing tool; applying different weight changes the

value of the color

52
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Encaustic

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Wax based paint; used on ancient Egyptian grave markers

53
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Engraving

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Lines carved into the surface of a plate

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Etching

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One form of intaglio printmaking; involves the incision of lines on
wax or varnish before inking etched areas and transferring the ink
to paper

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Fresco

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Paintings on walls and ceilings

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Fresco secco

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Paint applied to dry plaster, allowing the artist to make changes

57
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Glazes

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Semi-transparent or transparent layers created by thinned oil paints

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Gouache

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Opaque and water-based; dries slowly and produces vibrant colors

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Hatching

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A shading technique; lines are placed closely together

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Impasto

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Painting via heavy oil paint application or thick lumps

61
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Intaglio printmaking

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Type of printmaking consists of etching and engraving

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Lithography

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Printmaking via outlining an image on a plate using a waxy pencil
or crayon before applying ink and pressing an image onto paper

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Matrix

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The printing press on which an image is originally created

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Oil paint

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A paint that dries slowly and is easy to blend

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Pastels

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A tool that is easily blended and used to create colored media

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Pigments

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One of the components of paint; finely ground material

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Printmaking

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Art process that creates multiple originals through machines

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Relief printmaking

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Printmaking via cutting away negative space and inking the positive
space that stands in relief

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Screen-printing

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Another term for silk-screening; used by t-shirt designers

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Shading

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Creation of variants in values

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Silk-screening

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Transfer of an inked image to synthetic fabrics stretched on a frame

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Solvents

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A component of paint; changes the paint’s consistency

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Stippling

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Patterns of dots are used to create shade

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Tempera

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Quick-drying, water-based paint bound by egg; preceded oil paints

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Triptych

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Three-panelled artwork; examples include Beckmann’s Blind Man’s
Buff

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Watercolor

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Quick drying and transparent paint

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Assemblages

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All found objects combined by an artist

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Coil pottery

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Pottery created by stacked coils of clay

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Collage

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Art form combining objects that adhere to a shared surface

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Craft art

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Art with a traditionally utilitarian purpose; has a range of forms

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Fiber arts

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Art form created with woven and nonwoven materials

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Slab pottery

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Pottery created by cut pieces of rolled out clay with slip

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slip

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liquid clay

84
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Thrown

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A term used to describe pots created with a potter’s wheel

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Vault

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A tunnel of arches

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Three-dimensional art

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Art that has depth and takes up space

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Square-colonnaded

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Style of wings appearing in the Zeppelinfeld podium

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Sculpture

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A three dimensional art process; many forms

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Ribbed vaults

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A thin ribbed framework under vaulted areas

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Relief

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Sculptures that are connected to a background surface; may be
either high relief or low (bas) relief

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Post-and-Lintel

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A horizontal lintel tops two vertical posts

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Mold

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Means of creating copies of an original form for sculptures

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Modeling

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A sculptural method in which the artist adds material

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In the round

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Also known as freestanding; a form of sculpture where the piece
stands by itself

95
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Freestanding

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Sculptures that stand by themselves; also known as fully in the
round

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Flying buttresses

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External arches used to balance the weight of ceilings

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Environmental art

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Also known as Earthworks; Involves temporary, large-scale, on-site
construction; considered sculpture

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Dome

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extension of arch

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Concrete

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A mixture developed by the Romans for architectural projects

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Casts

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The copies of an original form

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Cast form

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A sculptural method in which plaster encases an original form to
create a mold that is later used to make copies

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Carving

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A sculptural method in which the artist removes material

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Arch

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Curved structure allowing high, open spaces in buildings

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