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Any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on the person, as a brooch.

d by, molding or modeling; -- said of sculpture and the kindred arts, in distinction from painting and the graphic arts. Medallions . . . fraught with the plastic beauty and grace of the palmy days of Italian art. J. S. Harford. Plastic clay (Geol.), one of the beds of the Eocene period; -- so called because used in ma…

Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.

Pictures, collectively; painting. [Obs.] Chaucer.

t it is more broadly used to include cubism, the theory or practice of a movement in both painting and sculpture which lays stress upon volume as the important attribute of objects and attempts its expression by the use of geometrical figures or solids only; and futurism, a theory or practice which attempts to place t…

A term applied derisively to any literary or artistic work, and esp. a painting, done simply for money and the means of living. [Cant]

The art or process of coating the inside of glass vessels with engravings or paintings, so as to give them the appearance of painted ware.

The step, or raised secondary part, of an altar; a superaltar; hence, in Italian painting, a band or frieze of several pictures running along the front of a superaltar, or forming a border or frame at the foot of an altarpiece.

To lay the first color, coating, or preparation upon (a surface), as in painting; as, to prime a canvas, a wall.

Day), and the 25th of December (Christmas Day). -- Quarter face, in fine arts, portrait painting, etc., a face turned away so that but one quarter is visible. -- Quarter gallery (Naut.), a balcony on the quarter of a ship. See Gallery, 4. -- Quarter gunner (Naut.), a petty officer who assists the gunner. -- Quarte…

ere you find every word strongly stamped with nature; full of energy, meaning, character, painting, and poetry. Cleland.

Like Raphael's works; in Raphael's manner of painting.

The principles of painting introduced by Raphael, the Italian painter.

ubject into too many unconnected parts, and also to anything which is overstrained; as, a painting may want repose. Angle of repose (Physics), the inclination of a plane at which a body placed on the plane would remain at rest, or if in motion would roll or side down with uniform velocity; the angle at which the variou…

lity or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden.

bring back from a state of injury or decay, or from a changed condition; as, to restore a painting, statue, etc.

A partial reworking,as of a painting, a sculptor's clay model, or the like.

In ancient art, the painting of genre or still-life pictures.

States. -- Rice paper, a kind of thin, delicate paper, brought from China, - - used for painting upon, and for the manufacture of fancy articles. It is made by cutting the pith of a large herb (Fatsia papyrifera, related to the ginseng) into one roll or sheet, which is flattened out under pressure. Called also pith p…

A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross with Christ hanging on it.