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| sculptures in the round representing a person or persons, an animal, or an event, normally full-length, as opposed to busts, and at least close to life-size, or larger |
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| the use of light and shadow in art |
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| a work produced by cutting away parts of a wooded block, which is then inked and printed |
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| process of incising lines on a copper plate, which is them printed to produce an impression |
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| in painting, extreme contrasts between dark and light |
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| A heightened form of chiaroscuro, it creates the look of figures emerging from the dark |
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| a painting of objects such as fruit, flowers, dishes, etc., arranged to form a pleasing composition |
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| A type or category of art. In the visual arts, the depiction of scenes from everyday life. |
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| also as group portrait. A painting of a group of people. |
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| act of thinking that something is true because it is very likely |
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| traditions used in writing epic poems |
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| unrhymed verse often used in English epic and dramatic poetry. Its meter is iambic pentameter (consisiting of five groups of two syllables each, the second syllable stressed more than the first) |
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| the condition of lacking visual perception |
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| music for a choir to perform, which involving several melodic lines or “voices,” which interweave into a single whole |
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| Sixteenth-century composition: four- or five-voiced sacred work, generally based on a Latin text |
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| a musical composition written for choir (sometimes with solo voices added), the text of which is in English |
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