Visual arts terminology

thumb|Dying Gaul, or The Capitoline Gaul, a Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic work of the late 3rd century BCE, [[Capitoline Museums, Rome]] thumb|upright=1|Assyrian sculpture|Assyrian [[lamassu gate guardian from Khorsabad, –721 BCE]] thumb|Michelangelo's Moses, (), [[San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome, for the tomb of Pope Julius II]] thumb|Netsuke of tigress with two cubs, mid-19th-century Japan, ivory with shell inlay thumb|The Angel of the North by [[Antony Gormley, 1998]] thumb|The Litlington White Horse, a monumental work of stone sculpture created by exposing the underlying chalk bedrock. Sc

thumb|right|Giovanni Baglione. Divine Love Conquering Earthly Love (1602–1603), showing dramatic compositional chiaroscuro.

thumb|upright=0.8|In painting, Leonardo da Vinci's [[Mona Lisa ( 1503–06) is considered an archetypal masterpiece, although it was not produced for admission to a guild or academy.]]

thumb|300px|right|Detail of the face of Mona Lisa showing the use of sfumato, particularly in the shading around the eyes. Sfumato ( , ; , i.e. 'blurred') is a painting technique for softening the transition between colours, mimicking an area beyond what the human eye is focusing on, or the out-of-focus plane. It is one of the canonical painting modes of the Renaissance. Leonardo da Vinci was the most prominent practitioner of sfumato, based on his research in optics and human vision, and his experimentation with the camera obscura. He introduced it and implemented it in many of his works, inc

thumb|1883 reconstruction of color scheme of the entablature on a [[Doric temple]]

metalworking technique

thumb|Openwork basket, English Bow porcelain, c. 1754–1755 right|thumb|alt=A gold bracelet with a pattern and writing created by making holes in the bracelet|Ancient Roman gold bracelet from the Hoxne Hoard. JULIANE is spelled out in [[opus interrasile openwork.]] thumb|Intricate jalis from the [[Sidi Saiyyed mosque in Ahmedabad, India. From the inside]]

Chinese decorated bronzes deposited as grave goods in the tombs of royalty and the nobility

thumb|upright=1.35|Diana and Actaeon (Titian)|Diana and Actaeon by [[Titian has a full provenance covering its passage through several owners and four countries since it was painted for Philip II of Spain in the 1550s.]]

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a useless structure that has been preserved, as part of a built environment, which has become a piece of art in itself

characteristic feature of a figure in the visual arts, often an object attached to or held by the figure portrayed

right|thumb|Fangyi dated to the 12th century BCE (Shang dynasty) A fangyi (; 'square bronze') is a type of Chinese ritual bronze container typical of the Shang and early to middle Zhou periods of Bronze Age China (circa 1800-900 BCE). It takes the shape of a square or rectangular casket with a cover that resembles a hip roof, surmounted by a knob of a similar hipped appearance. The lower edge is typically indented with a semi-circular notch.

type of art gallery

thumb|Attributed to Cristofano dell'Altissimo or [[Leonardo da Vinci - Portrait of a man, signed Pinxit Mea]]

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