Achrome
Without color.
Composition
Consonantia
A Latin term meaning agreement, harmony, or fitting relationship.
Aesthetic Canon
A recognized system of ideal proportions or formal rules used to guide the representation of the human body, architecture, or another class of forms.
Contrappasto
Contrapposto's weight-shift chain — hip, spine, shoulder, head — is the pose that has made standing figures look alive from the Doryphoros to Michelangelo's David.
Aesthetics
The branch of philosophy concerned with beauty, artistic experience, taste, form, and the interpretation of art.
Contrapposto
A standing pose in which the body's weight is carried primarily on one leg, causing the pelvis and shoulders to tilt in responsive opposition.
Affêt
The spelling appears to point to French affété: affected, mannered, or over-refined.
Allegory
A method of representation in which figures, attributes, actions, or objects embody an abstract idea, moral quality, institution, place, or event.
Antique Method
A traditional artistic approach rooted in the study of Greek and Roman sculpture and the proportional, anatomical, and compositional principles derived from it.