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| A slogan meaning that the beauty of the fine arts is reason enough for pursuing them--that art does not have to serve purposes taken from politics, religion, economics, and so on. |
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| A simple narrative songs, or alternatively, a narrative poem suitable for singing. |
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| A period in the arts, visual and musical, from about 1600 to about 1750, marked by elaborate ornamentation and efforts to create dramatic effects. |
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| In art or literature, portrayal of an individual or things that exaggerates and distorts prominent characteristics so as to make them appear ridiculous. |
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| A twentieth-century Dutch artist known especially for his lithographs and woodcuts. His works usually depict visual riddles and geometric and architectural whimsies. |
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| A twentieth-century English born filmmaker who specialized in suspense. |
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| A lawyer and poet of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Key wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner". |
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| A reference to the popular music industry in the United States; the term is not used as much today as it was a generation or two ago. |
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| A twentieth-century American architect known for his highly orginal methods of uniting buildings with their surroundings. |
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| A twentieth-century American actor and filmmaker. |
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| A marble mausoleum in India, built by the seventeenth century by a king for his wife. The Taj Mahal usually appears on lists of the most beautiful buildings in the world. |
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