English Vocabulary for Painting

brush drawing

Chinese painting Chinese painting

charcoal pencil charcoal pencil

pigment paint

painter painter

cave painting, rupestrian painting cave mural

oil painting painting, rupestrian painting cave mural

oil painting oil painting

painting in fresco mural

tempera painting gum painting

gouache gum watercolor

watercolour (watercolor) watercolour (US: watercolor)

pastel drawing Crayon drawing

wash Ink drawing

sanguine Red pencil drawing

miniature Fine drawing

engraving Printmaking

painting, drawing Drawing painting, drawing painting

drawing from nature life drawing

mechanical drawing mechanical drawing

tracing copying

chiaroscuro monochrome painting

design drawing

sketch sketch sketch

study study

triptych, triptich triptych

portrait portrait

self-portrait self-portrait

model model

caricature caricature

nude nude

triplicate nude nude painting

profile profile

foreshortened figure perspective

landscape landscape painting

seascape seascape painting

still life still life painting

tapestry tapestry

perspective perspective

colouring

shade

cubism

abstract

figurative

brush brush a paintbrush

stroke a stroke

finishing touch a final touch

easel an easel, a palette

palette a drawing board

palette knife a palette of colors

spatula a painting spatula

picture, painting

frame frame

chassis canvas

canvas canvas

studio studio

pinacotheca gallery, art gallery

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sculptor

carving

religious imagery iconography

statue human figure

figure statue

study rough

bronze bronze statue

terra-cotta clay

wrought iron

bust

bust

caryatid

retable, altarpiece

stele

high relief

high relief high relief

low relief, bas-relief shallow relief

mould (US: mold)

cast mould

casting moulding, casting

repoussage, repousse work embossed ornamentation

workshop

workshop

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architect

plan

town planning (US: city planning)

Doric Doric

Ionic Ionic

Corinthian Corinthian

Composite Composite

Tuscan order Tuscan order

Gothic

flamboyant Gothic Gothic flame Romanesque Romanesque

barroque Baroque

plateresque with intricate floral and foliate ornamentation

rococo Rococo

building Building

arch

vault

ogive order Tuscan order

ogive onion-shaped ornament; pointed vault

facade side

frontispiece triangular wall, pediment

column column

pilaster pilaster

pediment pediment mountain pediment, pediment

fronton mountain wall

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