Memory (n): The process of retaining and recalling one's accumulated knowledge and experiences.

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Antarctica (proper noun): The icy continent at the bottom of the world that surrounds the South Pole.

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Chronophage (n): The locust-like creature atop Cambridge's Corpus Clock, acting as its escapement mechanism.

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Centre (n): The middle of an object; a point that is equidistant from all the points on its circumference or surface.

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Craft (n): Skilled work; artisanship; the practice of the decorative arts.

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Variation (n): a change in circumstances or from a standard, often slight.

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Marble (n): A small, robust, solid glass sphere, usually with a coloured surface or centre, used as playing pieces in a large number of games.

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Caput Mortuum (n): An iron-oxide pigment which gives a dark purple coloration particularly popular for painting the robes of religious.

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Imprint (n): An outline or mark; a lasting effect.

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Still life (n): An artistic composition featuring an arrangement of objects, often everyday items, typically to provide practice in draftsmanship.

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Impasto (n): A technique used in painting that involves using paint thickly enough to render the brush strokes visible and also mixing it on the canvas.

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Aurora (n): Coloured lights in the night sky around the earth's polar reasons, usually green or reddish-pink, caused by charged particles from the sun colliding with the upper atmosphere.

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Mural (n): An artwork painted directly onto a wall, often on a large scale and displayed outside.

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Parallel (adj): Something that corresponds, reflects, is similar or is analogous to.

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Los (proper noun): An Apollo-like figure who appears in the work of William Blake, creating the sun in the book Jerusalem.

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Romanticism (n): An artistic, literary and intellectual movement that arose as a response to Enlightenment rationalism and that sought to stress the links between emotion and aestheticism.

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Murti (noun, Sanskrit): A representation used to embody the divine in Hindu and some Buddhist worship.

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Impressionism (n): A French art movement from the late 19th century characterised by an emphasis on outdoor painting, everyday subjects and colour theory.

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Giverny (proper noun): a village in northern France immortalised by the painter Claude Monet.

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Spectrum (n): The band of colours produced when white light is separated into its constituent wavelengths; a continuum.

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