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Baroque
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Balustrade
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A railing held up by small posts, or balusters, as on a staircase.
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Baroque
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A seventeenth-century style of European art characterized by
ornamentation, curved lines, irregularity of form, dramatic lighting
and color, and exaggerated gestures. |
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Greek Cross plan
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A cross-shaped plan, particularly of a church, in which the arms (nave and transept) are equal in length.
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Impasto
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Application of media such as oils and acrylics so that an actual texture is built up on a surface.
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Latin Cross plan
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A cross-shaped church plan in which the nave is longer than the transept.
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Mannerist art
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A post-Renaissance sixteenth-century style of art characterized by
artificial poses and gestures, harsh color, and distorted, elongated
figures. |
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Piazza
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An open public square or plaza.
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Plasticity
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A quality of a material that gives it the capacity of being molded or shaped.
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Poussiniste
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Descriptive of neoclassical artists who took Nicolas Poussin as their model. Contrast with Rubeniste.
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Reformation
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A social and religious movement of sixteenth-century Europe in which
various groups attempted to reform the Roman Catholic Church via the
establishment of rival religions—the Protestant sects. |
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Rococo style
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An eighteenth-century phase of the Baroque era that is characterized by
lighter colors, greater wit, playfulness, occasional eroticism, and yet
more ornate decoration. |
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Rubeniste
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Descriptive or Romantic artists who took Peter Paul Rubens as their model. Contrast with Poussiniste.
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Tenebrism
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A style of painting that uses very little modeling. The artist goes rapidly from highlighting to deep shadow.
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