Arte - Vocab English to Spanish
Spanish: AQA A Level, topic 9.2.2
Arte y arquitectura
Nouns
- la ermita - small church
- las vidrieras - stained glass windows
- las almenas del castillo - castle battlements
- el fuerte - the fort
- el techo - the ceiling
- la chimenea - chimney
- madera - wood, timber
- el tejado empajado - thatched roof
Nouns 2
- las escaleras de caracol - spiral staircase
- el pincel - paint brush
- el cuadro - picture
- el dibujo - drawing, pattern
- la rampa - the ramp
- la puerta de acceso - the access door
- el estilo arquitectónico - architectural style
- retrato - portrait
Nouns 3
- la calefacción - heating
- la fachada - façade
- la incrustación - the inlay
- la bóveda - vault
- el capitel - capital (column)
- el claustro - cloister
- el pilar - post, pillar
- el contrafuerte - buttress
Nouns 4
- la construcción - construction, building
- el sepulcro - tomb, grave
- el guerrero - warrior
- el vidrio templado - toughened glass
- la capilla - chapel
- la pintura al óleo - oil painting
- acuarelas - watercolour painting
- el recorrido - journey, route
Nouns 5
- la joya arquitectónica - architecture jewel
- la peregrinación - pilgrimage
- talla - carving, sculpture
- plata - silver
- exponente - model, a prime example
Verbs
- retratar - to paint the portrait of someone
- convertirse - to turn into something or to convert
- arrancar - to start
- constar de - to have
- cruzar el charco - to cross the Atlantic
- vivir a caballo de - to live between
- trasladarse a - to move to
- ensuciar - to make dirty
Other
- en relieve - in relief
- cuyo/a - whose
- no solo…sino - not only… but
- me inclino por - I am inclined to, I tend to think
Adjective
- palaciego - palatial
- cubierto/a de - covered in
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