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Importance

Painting

In painting Masked specially designated people or animals to be incidental, invigorating elements of a landscape or architectural painting, which help to illustrate proportions and spatial depth. Especially popular was the accessories in baroque painting, in which there were specialists for supplementing images by decoration.

If an ideal landscape enlivened by inserted as accessories scenes from ancient mythology, one speaks of heroic landscape. Typical representatives were Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin.

For the term ' window dressing " as an accessory in an image in the law, see: accessories

Landscape Architecture

In the Garden Architecture Masked refers to a - as eye catcher - picturesquely set in the countryside small building; usually a part of exotic ( otaheitisch, Moorish or Chinese) designed Pavilion or an artificial ( Gothic or antique ) ruin - in the English garden design is called the Folly.

Architectural representation

In the architectural representation Masked called elements that are added to a pure representation of the architecture body. Usually it is the objects are people, trees and cars, which serve as a benchmark and enliven the scene. The single object, released from his environment, also called Masked object.