UNIT 3

1.1. Essential Vocabulary List

Nouns: Mannerism, Mannerists, Baroque, Rococo, Caravaggism, Academism;

decline, prevalence, exponent, (without) precedent, the general public.

 

Verbs: fade, result (in), lead (to), immerse, permeate, embark, reject, attain, evolve, give commissions, flourish, win the sympathy, so to speak.

 

Adjectives: foremost, illustrious, unprecedented, opposed (to), contrary (to), supreme, profound, chance, inevitable, the so called.

 

Adverb-adjective combinations: thoroughly national, almost exceptionally, superficially glitter.

 

Composition, arrangement: in the foreground (middle ground, background), in the distance, to the right, in the upper left-hand corner, against the background of sth., all over the picture, in full face, in profile, to serve as a model, to sit for smb., to place, to arrange, to distribute.