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88 Cards in this Set
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pastoral
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depicts life of shepherds
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Jacopo Pesaro
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bishop and soldier painted by Titian
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Franciscan
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Roman Catholic monastic order following the rules of St. Francis
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donors
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those giving money to fund an artwork
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Venetian red
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bright red color standing out from typical neutral shades
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Venus of Urbino
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Titian's painting resembling a Giorgione, but not necessarily intended to represent the goddess herself
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maniera/mannered
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refers to the artist's style in the Mannerist period
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Capponi Chapel, Church of Santa Felicità
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holds some of Pontormo's best paintings, located in Florence, dedicated to Saint Felicity
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Venus, Cupid, Folly, Time; Hatred, Inconstancy
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figures in Allegory of Venus by Bronzino
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villa
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Roman country house built for upper class
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St. Peter's, Rome
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most prominent building in Vatican City; traditionally, burial site of St. Peter
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Bramante, Michelangelo
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favorite artists of Pope Julius II
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Greek cross
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representative of division of world, cardinal points, Christianity
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Mantua
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important Italian city
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Federigo Gonzaga
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ruled Mantua
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keystones
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topmost stone at the center of an arch, pressure holds arch together, last to be placed, decorated
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pediments
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triangular gable found over major architectural elements
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architraves
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bottom element of entablature, beneath frieze and cornice
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triglyphs
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rectangular blocks between metopes of doric frieze
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Council of Trent
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Roman Catholic group meeting 3 times a year in response to Protestant Reformation
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Counter-Reformation
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movement within Catholic Church to reform itself in response to the Protestant Reformation
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Goliath
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giant David killed with a stone and a slingshot
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Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, Cornaro Chapel
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the central marble group of a sculpture complex designed and competed by Bernini, in Rome
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illusionistic
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appearance of reality given through use of perspective and foreshortening
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naturalism/realism
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realism originally type of naturalism (records visible world) with political message
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Contarelli Chapel
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first chapel to left of apse in French national church in Italy
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tenebrism
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use of strong chiaroscuro and artificially illuminated areas to create dramatic contrast of light and dark
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chiaroscuro
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contrast of dark and light
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Conversion of Saint Paul, Cerasi Chapel
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within the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome, important paintings by Caravaggio
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Caravaggesque
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painting style of Caravaggio coming out of the Baroque tradition
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Style of Louis XIV; "Baroque classicism"
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late mannerist and early baroque tendencies
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coffers
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recessed decorative panels used to reduce weight of and to decorate ceilings or vaults
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idyllic
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simple, rustic, pastoral
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Charles Lebrun
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French painter and art theorist
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Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture
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hierarchical and strict education for artists
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elevation
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arrangement, details and proportions of any vertical side of face of a building
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rustication
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rough, unfinished effect deliberately given to the surface of stone
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Royal Academy of Architecture
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French society founded in 1671
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André Le Nôtre
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landscape architect and the gardener of King Louis XIV of France
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pilasters
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engaged columnar elements that are rectangular and decorative
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colonade
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row of columns or arches
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terrace
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an element where a raised flat paved or gravelled section overlooks a prospect
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Hall of Mirrors
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in palace of Versailles
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Apollo, sun god
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medicine, truth, light, archery
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Habsburg Empire
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in power during the inquisition
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King Philip IV
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ruler of France
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Infanta
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title given to a son or daughter of the reigning monarch who is not the heir-apparent to the throne
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Apelles, Alexander the Great
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renowned painter of ancient Greece that produced a portrait of Alexander the Great
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order of Santiago
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founded in Spain
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Murillo
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Spanish Baroque painter
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Immaculate Conception
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Roman Catholic dogma that asserts that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was preserved by God from the stain of original sin at the time of her own conception
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Flanders
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northern half of Belgium
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Anthony van Dyck
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Flemish artist who became the leading court painter in England
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Antwerp
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center of Belgium
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tryptych
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3 panels
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Church of St. Walburga
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church where Ruben's massive "Raising of the Cross" tryptych was displayed
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Charles I of England
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struggle for power with parliament of England
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Medici cylce
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21 portraits of Marie de'Medici's life by Peter Paul Rubens
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regent
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person selected to administer a state because the ruler is a minor or is not present or debilitated
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Jupiter, Juno
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Roman ruling god and goddess
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fête galante
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rich outdoor party in a paradisic setting
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Protestant
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Christians the seceded from the Catholic religion
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Haarlem
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city in the Netherlands, subject of painting by Jacob can Ruisdael
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tronie
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portrait in which the sitter is unknown, even to the patron
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Age of Reason/Age of Enlightenment
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advocates reason as the primary basis of authority
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Captain Frans Banning Cocq
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central figure of Rembrandt's "Nightwatch"
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French Revolution
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period of political and social upheaval--> monarchy falls apart
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civic guard/militia group
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protects a specific area
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Genevan philosopher of the Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution
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etching
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using strong acid to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio in the metal
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Delft
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city in South Holland
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Horatius
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Roman family who fight in David's painting
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vanitas
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reminder of the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death, encouraging a sombre world view
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hôtel
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urban, private house of a grand sort
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putti
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a pudgy baby, almost always male, often naked and having wings
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Curatius
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Alban family that fights in David's painting
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Charlotte Corday
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political enemy of Marat during the French Revolution, stabbed him in the back
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sublime
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the quality of transcendent greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical or artistic
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Federal Period
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associated with the early Republic, and the establishment of the national institutions of the United States.
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Palladio
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the most influential person in the history of Western architecture
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odalisque
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virgin female slave, who could rise in status to being a concubine or a wife
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Ingres
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French Neoclassical painter
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picturesque
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arose as a mediator between the opposed ideals of beauty and the sublime, showing the possibilities that existed in between these two rationally idealized states
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salon
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the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris
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Lord Byron
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leading British Romantic poet
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vignette
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action of painting is around the edges with a void in the middle
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Gothic Revival
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architectural movement in 19th century England
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J.M.W. Turner
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English Romantic landscape painter, watercolorist and printmaker, whose style can be said to have laid the foundation for Impressionism
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