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m the eye perpendicular to the perspective plane meets this plane. -- Accidental lights (Paint.), secondary lights; effects of light other than ordinary daylight, such as the rays of the sun darting through a cloud, or between the leaves of trees; the effect of moonlight, candlelight, or burning bodies. Fairholt.…

greement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting.

A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured.

The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.

An instrument of horn used for collecting painters' colors on the stone in the process of grinding.

A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally.

y, as in art. The stretched and vivid anatomism of their [i. e., the French] great figure painters. The London Spectator.

, to hoist the flukes to their resting place (called the bill-boards), and pass the shank painter. -- To weigh anchor, to heave or raise the anchor so as to sail away.

The common white lily (Lilium candidum). So called because it is usually introduced by painters in pictures of the Annunciation.

igures or pictures by means of two revolving disks, on one of which distorted figures are painted.

of ancient art; collectively, the antique, the remains of ancient art, as busts, statues, paintings, and vases. Misshapen monuments and maimed antiques. Byron.

A design or painting in thin transparent water colors; also, the mode of painting in such colors.

A painter in thin transparent water colors.

A style of ornamentation either painted, inlaid, or carved in low relief. It consists of a pattern in which plants, fruits, foliage, etc., as well as figures of men and animals, real or imaginary, are fantastically interlaced or put together.

e beautiful by imitation or design, or an occupation in which skill is so employed, as in painting and sculpture; one of the fine arts; as, he prefers art to literature.

The circle of rays, or halo of light, with which painters surround the figure and represent the glory of Christ, saints, and others held in special reverence.

the same genus; -- so called from the city of Avignon, in France. It is used by dyers and painters for coloring yellow. Called also French berry.

Finery of a kind to please a child. [Obs.] "Painted babery." Sir P. Sidney.

A woman of loose morals; a prostitute. A disreputable, daring, laughing, painted French baggage. Thackeray.

Carved and painted work in imitation of Japan ware.