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gesso gesso
gesso. Brilliant white preparation of powdered chalk mixed with glue, used during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance as a ground to prepare a panel or canvas for painting or gilding. The gesso was applied in several layers, with the proportion of chalk to glue progressively increasing. When... Read more
Panel analysis Panel analysis
Panel StudiesThe turnover tableQualifiersbibliographyThe potentials of panel analysis were first developed at Columbia University under the aegis of Paul F. Lazarsfeld. The first major panel study carried out under the techniques pioneered by Lazarsfeld was a study of voter decision making during... Read more
bunk bunk
bunk, a built-in wooden bed on board ship. In the main cabin of some sailing vessels engaged in trade during the 18th and 19th centuries the sides were lined with bunks fitted with sliding panels to provide privacy, since the captain, mates, and any lady passengers, or the captain's wife, were all... Read more
retable retable
retable , frame for decorative panels at the back of an altar in European churches. Retables, often sumptuously decorated in alabaster and gold, generally contained scenes from the Bible. An altarpiece made of fixed panels may also be termed a retable.... Read more
spalliera spalliera
spalliera. An Italian term originally used to describe a painting set into the wall panelling of a room in the Renaissance period and now by extension applied to any similar painted piece of furniture of the time, such as the headboard or footboard of a bed or the backboard of a cassone. No... Read more
Wilton diptych Wilton diptych
Wilton diptych. A small portable altarpiece of two hinged oak panels, painted and gilded on both sides, almost certainly intended for the private devotions of Richard II. Resplendent with exquisite tooling and expensive pigments, its artist is unknown and the date, author, and motive of commission... Read more
bole bole
bole (or bolus). A type of fine, soft, slightly greasy clay with several uses in art. It is found in various colours, including greyish blue, but most commonly it is red (coloured by the presence of iron oxide). Red bole is used, mixed with size, as a base for gilding; it provides a smooth surface... Read more
predella predella
predella , Italian term for a painted panel, usually small, belonging to a series of panels at the bottom of an altarpiece. The form was used mainly in Italy from the 13th to the 16th cent. Often added as a "footnote" to the main theme of an altarpiece, predella panels generally consist of... Read more
Aum Shinrikyo Aum Shinrikyo
Aum Supreme Truth (Aum) A cult (also know as Aum Shinrikyo and Aleph) established in 1987 by Shoko Asahara, the Aum aimed to take over Japan and then the world. Approved as a religious entity in 1989 under Japanese law, the group ran candidates in a Japanese parliamentary... Read more
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established in 1988 as a joint project of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The primary mission of the IPCC is to bring... Read more

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