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  • Fibula: Ancient buckle or safety pin.

  • Filigree: Skill of jewelry shop that consists of welding to a metallic base threads and granules of gold or silver.

  • It flowers: Needle or sharp-pointed auction and specially of the towers. - of the arco. - height of the arch from the line of salmeres up to the key.

  • It forges: Skill that the metal consists of working and especially the iron exhibiting it to the fire in the forge and maleándolo with a hammer on the anvil.

  • Fresh air: Skill of wall painting that consists of applying pigments dissolved in water on the still fresh plastering of the wall.

  • Hood: Previous part of the Christian altar and I decorate of the same one.-Fundición:Procedimiento to obtain sculptures in metals especially bronze.

  • Gallery: Wide broker with wall in only one side. Place of exhibition of works.

  • Scale cromática:Serie of the colors. Series of tones of the same color.

  • Gárgola:Desagüe projecting of the roof normally sculpted in fantastic form.

  • Genre: Type of painting that represents topics and scenes of the daily thing.

  • Glíptica: Skill of the engraving and sculpture of stamp in stone, cameos and gems.

  • Ruff: Frame in the shape of S very typical in the Egyptian and Persian art.

  • Engraving: Skill that consists of printing a drawing on a hard matter. Also it is named this way the picture obtained by this procedure.

  • Garland: ornamental motive formed by sheets flowers and fruits joined by tapes and that form a quite continuous one normally hung by his ends and curved down.

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  • Icon: Generally it is a figurative image. In the east Church it is called this way to the images of saints painted on table in opposition to the mural.

  • Iconografía:Estudio of the images in the diverse cultural ambiences.

  • Iconostasis: Small separative support (in the Byzantine oriental Churches and western someone) between the part of the presbytery and those of the faithful on the one that they usually put themselves mágenes.

  • Enlightenment: Comment or graphic ornament of a text.

  • Isódomo: Work consisted of equal parts. It usually say of a type of tackle.

  • It overeats: Each of two vertical architectural elements that support the lintel of the vain one.

  • Lacería:Ornamentación geometric by means of lines that interweave alternatively forming starred and polygonal motives.

  • Lauda: Covering of a sarcofagus or tomb, generally engraved.

  • Linen: Cloth on which that of linen makes herself up especially, cotton, hemp.

  • Listel: Narrow and smooth strip that separates two frames. Space between two grooves of a shaft.

  • It lithographs: system that consists of drawing images with suitable substances to absorb shortenings on calcareous stone. This stone talks each other then with an acid that makes hydrophilous the parts not protected by the realized lines adhering the ink of printing - fat - only on the above mentioned parts leaving his trace in the material on which it is stamped.

  • Luminismo: Pictorial way that dedicates special interest to the light and his effects.

  • Buttress: Prop of massive work.

  • Masonry: Stone factory without working or with coarse working that one arranges in an irregular way.

  • Mandorla: Big space chocolate and nut-covered ice cream where the figure of the Pantocrátor stays at the painting and sculpture of the Middle age.

  • Marquetry: I am employed at thin wood.

  • Meander: Decoration generally in bands, by means of complicated sinuous lines.
  • Mosque: Prayer place for the Muslims. Generally it consists of a room lengthened with columns which final wall faced to the Mecca (in Al-Andalus) calls Cordova itself Kibla where a niche exists or mihrab. Other one on his parts is the maxura or space placed between the mihrab and the faithful generally surrounded or protected so that the caliph prays there. Before the mosque there is a courtyard or sahn with a source for the ablutions and close to the mihrab is the mimbar or pulpit. In the exterior is the minaret or minaret toasts from that the faithful were called to the prayer by the muezzin.

  • Cantilever: Element in projecting that serves to support something generally beams, arches.

  • Miniature, miniado: Skill that consists of doing on parchment or role motives of small size. The name comes from the painting of red lead much used in them.

  • Mocárabe: Prism or trunk of inverted pyramid of stucco or wood that hangs by the high parts of the Moslem buildings and that do to him to look like stalactites.

  • Modeling: Form of sculpture that consists of giving form to the soft matter with the hands or with instruments by means of pressure without need to remove part of the same matter as in the size.

  • Modillion: Projecting element, as small block that has leaned in his curved exterior part a series of rolls and they give him a staggered form.

  • Frame: Projecting structure of constant profile and decorative function that places in fronts furniture... to cheer the space up and to create ornamental reliefs.

  • Monocromía: Use of only one graduated color or in several tones.

  • Monotype: Printing of an image realized on iron of glass, metal, by means of the employment of oil painting or special inks, without carrying incisions out nor to use acids. The denomination is due to the fact that by means of this procedure model only one is obtained.

  • Mosaic: Decoration that forms juxtaposing on a fund of cement, small pieces paralelepípedas, called teselas.

  • Mural: Painting or relief realized in the wall.

  • Naïf:Nombre that there receives a series of painters of our time formed in a pictorial language foreign to the ambience of the academies and of the official schools. His compositions have spontaneity innocence...

  • Still life:Ver in inn.

  • Naturalism: Artistic tendency that tries to represent the nature as faithfully as possible.

  • Ship: In architecture each of the spaces that delimited by walls or aligned columns, spread along a building.

  • Nerve: Projecting and continuous element of the intradós of a vault, generally of the Gothic.


  • Óculo: Small window in the shape of 0.

  • Ogive: Voice that, generally is used like synonymous of pointed arch.

  • Oil: type of painting and skill of painting executed on linen or other supports mixing the colors with oils or vegetable resins.

  • Cane: Ornamental motive that imitates the form of the sheets of the palm.

  • Pantocrátor:Imagen of Christ sat in frontal position with the right hand in attitude of blessing and in the left hand the book of the gospels.

  • Parámento: Aspect or disposition of the elements of a wall.

  • Parteluz:elemento architectural vertical that divides the light of a vain one.

  • Cake: Pictorial skill overland (and also it is called this way the resultant work) obtained by means of color fillings in dust and matters lightly adhesive presented of pencil, that also it receives the name of cake and is applied straight on the support.

  • Camber: Height that an arch or vault exceeds to the semilight.

  • Pigment: Coloring matter of diverse origins that joined an adherent forms the painting.

  • Prop: Element of architectural support of polygonal plant generally of major hardiness than the column.

  • Pinnacle or needle: Architectural element of pyramidal or conical form with a very sharp apex. It usually place like terminal of a building.

  • It plants: Architectural drawing of a building represented in horizontal section.

  • Plastic arts, arts: It is said especially about the painting and the sculpture.

  • Permutation: Procedure of the concrete art that changes a series of fields of chromatic quantities by means of the phase displacement.

  • Policromía: Use of several colors.

  • Portada:En architecture, decorated door.

  • Pórtico:Lugar cutlery and columnado placed before a building and generally attached to him.

  • Depth of the visual field: Suggestion of space created on the surface of the picture for different means of formal or tonal relation.
  • Pulimentar: To smooth or to give polish to a thing in his surface.

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