one who provides investment capital in economic ventures
lithography
a printmaking process created by drawing on a stone plate
negative space
the background or ground area seen in relation to the shape of the figure
proletariat
a collective term describing industrial workers who lack their own means of production and hence sell their labor to live
verismo
(Italian, "realism") a type of late-nineteenth-century opera that presents a realistic picture of life, instead of a story based in myth, legend, or ancient history
