Art Terms Glossary beginning with F
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- Faience
- Earthenware decorated with opaque colored glazes.
- Folio
- The leaf of a manuscript or codex; usually numbered only on the front side and referred to by its two faces, recto (front) and verso (back). In a manuscript it is customary to count leaves or folios and not pages. May also refer to a large-format book.
- Formata
- A bold formal Gothic bookhand, more elegant than textualis, also known as Gothic black letter.
- Frontispiece
- An illustrated leaf preceding the title page of a book.
