Usage Note
Tafelmalerei refers to paintings executed on rigid wooden panels (as opposed to wall paintings or canvas). It was the dominant form of easel painting before stretched canvas became standard. Feminine noun.
Examples
"Die spätgotische Tafelmalerei der Kölner Schule besticht durch leuchtende Farben."
Natural Translation
The late-Gothic panel painting of the Cologne school captivates with luminous colours.
Literal Translation
The late-Gothic panel-painting of the Cologne school captivates through luminous colours.
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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