Also means
painting on canvas as a technique
Usage Note
Leinwandmalerei specifies painting executed on a canvas support, as opposed to panel or fresco. It became the dominant format in European easel painting from the 16th century onwards and remains so today.
Examples
"Die Leinwandmalerei ersetzte im Laufe der Zeit die Tafelmalerei."
Natural Translation
Canvas painting gradually replaced panel painting over time.
Literal Translation
The canvas-painting replaced in-the course-of the time the panel-painting.
Related Words
- Abguss cast, casting (plaster or metal replica of a sculpture)
- Abstraktion abstraction (non-representational art)
- Acrylfarbe acrylic paint
- Akanthus acanthus (decorative leaf motif)
- Akt nude
- Aktmalerei nude painting; figure painting
- Aktmodell life model; nude model (for drawing or painting)
- Aktzeichnung life drawing, figure drawing (of the nude)
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