HUM

• Codex


  The book form in which pages (or leaves) of material such as parchment, vellum, or paper, are gathered into bundles and bound together—initially by sewing, now usually by glueing— and then provided with a cover to protect the sheets. Its ancestor was the scroll, in which the sheets were joined into a long continuous roll that was opened out from one side, rolled up at the other, for viewing the contents
• Cultural value


  The perceived quality or merit of the work: what it is worth according to that culture's standards of artistic importance or excellence
• Earthenware


  Objects made from clay, such as vessels that are formed for specific uses and hardened either by drying in the air or by baking in high heat.
• Gold leaf


  22K gold pounded into extremely thin sheets, to be applied selectively to areas of 2-d or 3-d objects
• Handbuilt


  Clay objects that are shaped by hand, often by wrapping and smoothing coils of clay into the desired form. These are distinguished from wheel-thrown or mold-made goods
• Illumination


  Literally, given light, specifically through the use of gold or silver for letting of illustrative touches in a manuscript. The term is also sometime used to describe manuscripts that have images added to them, as opposed to simply including lettered text
• Manuscript


  Literally, hand-written presentation of script and/or images. The form was supplanted by books produced with a printing press, although the term is still used for a singular copy of a written work
• Mausolea


  A building designed to house one or more tombs, usually for an important person. These were most often centrally-planned, with a design that pivoted around the burial site. In Christian usage, these were sometimes attached to a larger, congregational structure, but sometimes stood alone. They might house more than one tomb
• Monetary value


  The worth of materials or objects, in terms of "market value." This might be determined by the value of the materials use or of the finished art object, considered differently from the cost of the materials
• What's the other term for Parchment?

  Sheepskin
• Polychrome


  Painted in several colors
• Porcelain


  Highly refined ceramic ware, initially produced in China, with select materials like petuntse and kaolin, to create semi-translucent material, with elegant shapes, and glass-like, intricately decorated surfaces, and high-temp fired for hardened finishes
• Potter's wheel, wheel-thrown


  Pottery made with the use of a potter's wheel, a device for turning the clay body on a rotating platform for a more uniform shape. These were first turned by hand, knee, or pedal motion, later electrified
• Putti


  Small winged baby angels, cherubs
• Spolia


  Bounty taken from and original context, as in the "spoils of war." Often, items of spolia were re-used in later works to imply the conquest (and superiority) of the new owner over the original
• Vellum


  Calfskin, prepared for use in luxury manuscripts, more highly prized than the rougher, less expensive parchment
• Abstract


  In art, the property of representing selected essential features of a particular subject instead of relying on objective appearance alone
• Andachtsbilder


  A German term to denote devotional images used to aid prayer
• Bodhisattva


  In Buddhism, an enlightened person who remains in the world in order to help others attain enlightenment
• Catalogue Raisonné


  A published collection of all the works of a given artist or art exhibition
• Composite view


  The construction of a human figure from both profile and frontal views, for example, as in ancient Egyptian art
• Contrapposto


  An asymmetrical arrangement of the human figure in which the line of the arms and shoulders contrasts with and balances the line of the hips and legs
• École des Beaux-Arts


  An influential art school in France
• Expressionism


  One of several art movements of the twentieth century that were concerned with conveying emotional and mental responses through art (German Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism, Neo-Expressionism)
• Gum Bichromate


  A photographic print process which uses gum Arabic and bichromate
• Hierarchical proportion


  The condition in which the size of figures is determined by social importance rather than observation
• Humanism


  The belief that people are naturally good and that problems can be solved using reason instead of religion
• Idealized


  An image that is represented as being ideal or perfected
• Linear perspective


  A geometric system for representing the illusion of receding space
• Naturalistic


  Of or pertaining to the appearance of nature, without idealization
• Non-objective


  Unrelated to or exclusive of perceptions of objective external reality
• Non-representational


  Artwork which intentionally avoids the strategy of representation, instead selecting only novel and original experience as subject matter
• Orthogonal lines


  In linear perspective, diagonal lines that recede into fictive space
• Photo-transformation


  A type of photography created by Lucas Samaras which uses fingers and a stylus to move and smear the dyes of a Polaroid print while still wet
• Portals


  In Gothic architecture, doorways, traditionally embellished with sculptural decoration
• Representation


  In art, the use of signs or images which stand in for or take the place of something else
• Stupas


  In Buddhist religious architecture, rounded mounds which contain religious relics, mark sacred places, or are used as sites of meditation
• Tetrarch


  In Roman political history, the term for one of four co-emperors of the Roman Empire installed by Diocletian in 293 CE
• Tympanum


  In Gothic Architecture, the semi-circular area above the Portal, traditionally embellished with sculptural decoration
• Vanishing point


  In linear perspective, the point on the horizon to which orthogonal lines converge