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13 Cards in this Set
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Tenebroso |
The use of using dramatic lighting like a spot light. |
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Chiaroscuro |
The gradations of light and dark values in two dimensional imagery. |
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Poussiniste |
A person who supports drawing over color. |
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Counter Reformation |
The period of Catholic resurgence beginning with the council of Trent and ending at the close of the Thirty Years War. |
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Reformation |
The Protestant Reformation, often referred to simply as the Reformation, was a schism from the Roman Catholic Church initiated by Martin Luther, John Calvin, Huldrych Zwingli and other early Protestant Reformers in the 16th century Europe. |
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Genre |
A type of art that takes as its subject everyday life, rather than civic leaders, religious figures, or mythical heroes |
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Humanism |
A cultural and intellectual movement during the Renaissance, following the rediscovery of the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome |
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Pointillism |
A technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism. |
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Iconoclasm |
the action of attacking or assertively rejecting cherished beliefs and institutions or established values and practices. |
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Academic Art |
Art governed by rules, especially works sanctioned by an official institution, academy, or school. |
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Hudson River School |
a mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticism. |
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Orientalism |
a term that is used by art historians, literary and cultural studies scholars for the imitation or depiction of aspects in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and East Asian cultures (Eastern cultures) |
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Salon |
An official art exhibition in France, juried by members of the official French Academy. |
