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31 Cards in this Set
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Cartography
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map making
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Ptolemy
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ancient Greek mathematician
-gridlines, spacing, proportions |
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Difference bw space and place
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space=house, physical environment
place=home, identity that defines or helps construct the image of physical env. (memory and personal experience, connotation) |
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Style
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the pattern of FORMAL PHYSICAL ELEMENTS that are notice across many works. line, color, texture, which help categorize when similar
*distinguishes group and labeled (pattern, period, place, artist, sch) *symbolic function |
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Tenochtitlan
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city in ancient Aztec
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Bernardino de Sahagun
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French missionary to Aztec
-compiled Florentine Codex (literature about life of Aztecs) |
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codex
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manuscript (bound pages)
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oil painting
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paint in thin, glossy layers or thick texture
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altarpiece
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highly Christian, open/close panels
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diptych, triptych
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two, three-paneled
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predella
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panels that run across bottom of altarpiece
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gilded
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adding thin layer of gold
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retablo
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portable, flat, oil on wood, Catholic
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pendant
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jewelry in triptych?
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Deposition
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Rogier van der Weyden. 1435-38. Oil on wood panel.
Christ brought down from cross |
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International Style
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-Elongated figures
-Marginal realism, anecdotal -Interest in nature/plants as decoration -3D space |
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Manuscript Illumination
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-both religious and secular
-leafy framing, decorated first letter, inset picture |
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Book of Hours
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"January" Limbourgh Brothers (Paul, Herman, Jean). 1413-16. Ink on vellum.
lavish celebration, blue/gold |
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gopura
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towering gateway, has the womb chamber
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linga
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stone shape of phallus, power of Shiva in womb chamber
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hand and hanging scroll
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Chinese
intimate limited viewing |
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literati painting
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spirit of antiquity, unassuming brushstrokes, subtle (usually no) color, landscape, for other literati (not public)
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linear perspective
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parallel lines converge as go into distance, horizon line and vanishing point
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barrel-vault
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curved arches
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niche
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small inset for statue
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anunciation
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Mary learning she will give birth to Jesus Christ
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lamentation
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mourning Jesus when he is brought down from the cross
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aerial perspective
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contrast and hues diminish as move far away
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conservation(preservation)
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least amt of phys intervention to ensure stability and maintenance
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restoration
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return materials to known earlier status. remove/reassemble, but no new additions
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reconstruction
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returns fabric s close as possible to earlier with addition of new/old materials.
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