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| Italian word for "light and dark." In painting, a method of modeling form primarily by the use of light and shade. |
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| A type of intaglio printmaking in which a sharp metal needle is used to carve into a copper plate. The burr created by drawing on the plate catches ink and is capable of making a small number of prints. |
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| A print made by drawing with a stylus on a copperplate covered with acid-resistant resin. The plate is then bathed in acid, which eats into the lines; the resin is then removed and the plate is inked to produce a print. |
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| A method of reducing or distorting the parts of a represented object to convey the impression of three dimensions as perceived by the human eye. |
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| The French word for "kind" or "sort." In art, a genre scene is a work of art, usually a painting, depicting a scene from everyday, ordinary life. |
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| From the Italian word meaning "to make into a paste"; it describes paint, usually oil paint, applied very thickly |
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| A printing technique in which the design is formed from ink-filled lines cut into a surface. Examples: engraving, etching, drypoint. |
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| In perspective construction, an imagined line that runs perpendicular to the picture plane and recedes to the vanishing point. |
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| A system for representing spatial relationships and three-dimensional objects on a flat surface. |
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| Use of a decrease in the intensity of color and value contrasts to depict objects as being farther away in a picture. |
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| A mathematical system based on orthogonals receding to vanishing points on the horizon lines. Transversals intersect the orthogonals at right angles at distances derived mathematically. |
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| Sketching outdoors, often using paints, in order to capture the immediate effects of light on landscape and other subjects. Much encouraged by Impressionists, these were taken back to the studio to help produce final works. |
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| Italian for "flattened out." Describes the low relief sculpture used by Donatello and his contemporaries. |
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| Italian word meaning "smoky." Used to describe very delicate gradations of light and shade in the modeling of figures. |
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| The intense contrast of light and dark in painting. |
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| Lines parallel to the picture plane (horizontally) that denote distances. They intersect orthogonals to make a grid that guides the arrangement of elements to suggest space. |
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| A print made by carving out a design on a wooden block cut along the grain, applying ink to the raised surfaces that remain, and printing from those. |
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| Painting onto wet plaster. |
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