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Technique Name: Photgraphy
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Brief Description: Photography

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Technique Name: Vasari
Periods: Renaissance - Early
Brief Description: The 'dry and hard manner' (Vasari) of the Early Renaissance. Leonardo da Vinci changed art in the Early Rennaisance

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Technique Name: Sculpture
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Brief Description: Sculpture

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Technique Name: Etching
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Brief Description: An intaglio printing process in which an etching needle is used to draw into a wax ground applied over a metal plate. The plate is then submerged in a series of acid baths, each biting into the metal surface only where unprotected by the ground. The ground is removed, ink is forced into the etched depressions, the unetched surfaces wiped, and an impression is printed. Also, both the design etched on a plate and an impression made from an etched plate. Too often confused with engraving.



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Technique Name: Fresco
Periods: Classicism Neo-Classicism
Brief Description: In painting, the term fresco (pl. frescoes) comes from the Italian phrase buon fresco, ("really fresh") a technical term in opposition to in secco ("on dry surface").

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Technique Name: Drawing - Contour
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Brief Description: Contour drawing is an extremely carefully observed outline drawing. In many ways it is the opposite of a gesture drawing. A gesture drawing is drawn quickly, but a contour drawing is very, very slowly.

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