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Ornamental or decorative art can usually be analysed into a number of different elements, which can be called motifs. These may often, as in textile art, be repeated many times in a pattern. Important examples in Western art include acanthus, egg and dart, [2] and various types of scrollwork.
The name golf is not an acronym for "Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden". [268] [269] It may have come from the Dutch word kolf or kolve, meaning "club", [269] or from the Scottish word goulf or gowf meaning "to strike or cuff". [268] Baseball was not invented by Abner Doubleday, nor did it originate in Cooperstown, New York.
Chinese porcelain blanc de Chine figure of Guanyin, Ming dynasty. A figurine (a diminutive form of the word figure) or statuette is a small, three-dimensional sculpture that represents a human, deity or animal, or, in practice, a pair or small group of them.
The Golden Apple of Discord at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, Jacob Jordaens, 1633, 181 cm × 288 cm (71 in × 113 in), oil on canvas. A figure painting is a work of fine art in any of the painting media with the primary subject being the human figure, whether clothed or nude.
Tropes (from Greek trepein, 'to turn') change the general meaning of words. An example of a trope is irony, which is the use of words to convey the opposite of their usual meaning ("For Brutus is an honorable man; / So are they all, all honorable men"). During the Renaissance, scholars meticulously enumerated and classified figures of speech.
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It is generally better to disambiguate by the artist's name than by medium, as there may be other paintings or sculptures of the same name by other artists. If the artist produced several works with the same, or very similar, titles, add the location of the work (usually a city rather than, e.g., a museum), unless it is in a private collection.
Paintings, sculptures and other works of visual art with a title rather than a name (for more detail, see WP:Manual of Style/Visual arts § Article titles) Periodicals (newspapers, journals, magazines) Plays (including published screenplays and teleplays) Long or epic poems: Paradise Lost by John Milton