the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he s…
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elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century
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the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he s…
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history.the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he s…
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history.elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history.characteristic of the present; "contemporary trends in design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine"
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history.an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history.an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized; an inner feeling wa…
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history.the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long…
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history.a school of late 19th century French painters who pictured appearances by strokes of unmixed colors to give the impression of reflecte…
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history.characteristic of the present; "contemporary trends in design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine"
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Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracen…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings; "architecture and eloquence…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.(architecture) a form of artistic expression (such as writing or painting or architecture)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.A low story above the main order or orders of a facade, in the classical styles; -- a term introduced in the 17th century. Hence:
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.A light box of pasteboard or thin wood, usually cylindrical, for holding ruffs (the bands of the 17th century), collars, caps, bonnets…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.A machine, invented in the 17th century, worked by a form of reaction wheel. The water flows into a vertical tube and gushes from aper…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.the predominant philosophical tradition in Great Britain since the 17th century
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.A king of Lydia who flourished in the 6th century b. c., and was renowned for his vast wealth; hence, a common appellation for a very…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.The realization of an inventive or decorative plan; esp., a work of decorative art considered as a new creation; conception or plan sh…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.A close-fitting garment for men, covering the body from the neck to the waist or a little below. It was worn in Western Europe from th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborat…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.Having wide extent; of much superficial extent; expanded; large; broad; wide; comprehensive; as, an extensive farm; an extensive lake;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.One of a fanatical sect which flourished in Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries, and maintained that flagellation was of equal virtu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.A large vessel for war and national purposes; -- common in the Middle Ages, and down to the 17th century.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.One of the followers of Francis Gomar or Gomarus, a Dutch disciple of Calvin in the 17th century, who strongly opposed the Arminians.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.A piece of plate armor covering the same parts and worn over the buff coat in the 17th century, and without other steel armor.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: elaborate, extensive, ornamentation, decorative, architecture.
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