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St. Bridget of Sweden
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A mystic or saint and founder of the bridgettine order
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Woodcut
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relief printing artistic technique in printmaking in which an image is carved into the surface of a block of wood
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Reformation
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European Christian reform movement that established Protestantism as a constituent branch of contemporary Christianity
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Metamorphoses
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Latin narrative poem in fifteen books by the Roman poet Ovid describing the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework
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St. Teresa of Avila
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prominent Spanish mystic, Roman Catholic saint, Carmelite nun, and writer of the Counter Reformation
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Gian Pietro Bellori
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Italian painter and antiquarian but more famously, a prominent biographer of artists of the 17th century
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Quadro Riportato
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carried picture
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Quadratura
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"opening up" of walls through architectural illusion, the term is most-commonly associated with Italian ceiling painting.
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De Imitatione Statuarum
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On the Imitation of Statues
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Et in Arcadia Ego
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I too am in arcadia
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Etching
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process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio in the metal
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Drypoint
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Drypoint is a printmaking technique of the intaglio family, in which an image is incised into a plate (or "matrix") with a hard-pointed "needle" of sharp metal or diamond point.
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Impasto
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paint is laid on an area of the surface (or the entire canvas) very thickly, usually thickly enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible.
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Camera Obscura
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An optical device that projects an image of its surroundings on a screen
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Vanitas
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Kind of symbolic work of art especially associated with Northern European still life painting
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Rococo
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Late Baroque" is an 18th century style which developed as Baroque artists gave up their symmetry and became increasingly more ornate, florid, and playful.
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French Academy of Art
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Art-school where artists receive their predominant training, body that determined artistic states, hierarchy of different types of art, they said you have to respect history paintings the most (religious), then portrait, landscape, still life
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Poussinistes versus Rubenistes
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debate from peolple about two painters that have very different style, which one was better, debating virtues of color and design
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Fete Galante
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French term referring to some of the celebrated pursuits of the idle, rich aristocrats in the 18th century
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J. Kenseth
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"Bernini's Borghese Sculptures"
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Giovanni Pietro Bellori
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biography of Caravaggio
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J. Brown
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"On the Meaning of Las Meninas"
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Rubens
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"De imitationum statuarum"
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Camera Obscura was invented by
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Vermeer
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J. B. Neumann
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Church of the Vierzehnheiligen
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