Also see plan and representation . See Chinese art , tapestry , and textile . See Bodhisattva . Also see radial and tondo . The curriculum or guidelines an art educator is required to follow by a school district or state government.
Some school districts have their own curriculum or guidelines, while others follow state guidelines.
Mandorla is the Italian word for almond. When it surrounds the head only, it is called a halo or nimbus . It indicates divinity or holiness. Scholars believe that an anonymous artist working in what is now New Mexico at the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth century was responsible for a large body of similar work. They have named this unknown artist the Laguna Santero, after a large altar screen in the church at Laguna Pueblo, which they believe he painted.