The German Term for the art song is:
Lieder
Forte means loud, fortissimo means very loud.
Actual texture as opposed to visual texture is the materials used to create a work of art. Actual texture is physical it's hard, cold,smooth, etc. Impasto is an actual texture technique.
Renaissance. The cultural rebirth that occurred in Europe from roughly the fourteenth through the middle of the seventeenth centuries, based on the rediscovery of the literature of Greece and Rome. ... Renaissance means “rebirth” or “reawakening.”