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illumination
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A manuscript decorated or illustrated with paintings and drawings especially one ornamented with gold and silver an brilliant colors
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classical antiquity
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humanism
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St. Francis of Assisi
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1181/2-1226, the son of well to do merchant, abandoned a carefree life spent in the pursuit of pleasure for one of simplicity and poverty dedicated to the service of God. He was joined by others in his attempt to revive the humble life of the disciples of Christ, and eventually Pope Innocent III granted St. Francis and his followers recognition as an order of mendicant friars and approved the simple rules of the order which required chastity, poverty and obedience, but all, poverty. Thousands joined the new order and were sympathetically received
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patron
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A person or group who commissions art; sponsor
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naturalism/ naturalistic
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iconography
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The study of subject-matter in the visual arts. Iconographers investigate the ways in which a particular subject has been presented by various artists over time, noting recurring conventions signs, and symbols, both traditional and concealed, as well as matters of composition, setting, costume, and gesture
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fresco
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is a technique in which the artist paints on the plaster surface of a wall or ceiling while it is still damp.
A painting made on fresh, wet lime plaster with pigments suspended in water. The fresco technique is usually used for decorating walls and ceilings. The plaster absorbs the colors and, when it dries, makes a very durable painting that is literally part of the wall, not simply applied to its surface. |
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mural
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A large painting, in any medium, made for a particular wall, whether painted directly on its surface or painted on a canvas or panel affixed to it.
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tempera
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Pigments mixed, or tempered, with any of a number of water soluble media- including egg, glue and casein- which leave a mat surface when dry. A bright and very durable tempera, made with egg yolk, was widely used for panel painting by 14th and 15th century Italian artists, and it is generally egg tempera.
pigment mixed with egg yolks |
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relief
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perspective
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is a system for representing three-dimensional space on a two dimensional surface.
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vertical placement
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foreshortening
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A method of representing objects or parts of objects as if they were seen at an angle and receding into space instead of being seen in a strictly frontal or profile view.
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overlap
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modeling
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The creation of three-dimensional forms by working some soft material as clay. Modeling is often an additive process, it differs from the entirely subtractive process of carving in that material may be added as well as taken away.
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chiaroscuro
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The gradations of light and dark within a picture, especially one in which the forms are largely determined, not by sharp outlines, but by the meeting of lighter and darker areas.
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monumental
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An adjective frequently used in art criticism to describe any structure, painting, figure, etc., which is grand, massive, and apparently permanent like a monument, regardless of its actual size. The term is also used to describe any work that is merely large, even though it may be small in intrinsic scale.
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scale
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A measuring strip on a plan, elevation, etc., indicating the precise degree to which all parts have been reduced in size so that their true dimensions ca be quickly determined.
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hierarchical/ hieratic scale / hierarchy of scale
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When certain figures in a painting or relief are presented as larger in scale than others because of their importance in a social or religious hierarchy.
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Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Artists
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Cire perdue ( lost wax process)
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A method of reproducing a work of sculpture by pouring a hardening liquid into a mold bearing its impression.Bronze has traditionally been used for this purpose, and for almost five thousand years it has been cast by the cire perdue process. Because of the great weight and expense of bronze, solid casting is used for only small figures; larger figures are hollow cast. In making a solid casting by the lost-wax process, the figure is first modeled in wax, allowance being made for the fact that the finished work will be in metal instead of translucent wax.
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ponderation /contrapposto
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Contrappposto was developed by Greek sculptors and painters as a means of avoiding such stiffness and increasing the animation of their figures.
Attention being paid to ponderation ( the distribution of weight throughout the figure so that the weight bearing leg, or engaged leg, is distinguished from the raised leg, or free leg. Stiffness is avoided by the sculptor. |
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Pigment
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The powder which give paint its color, obtained from any of a great variety of clays, stones, animal and vegetable matter, synthetic dyes. To make paint, pigments are mixed with a vehicle or medium( glue, egg, oil), which allows the color to be easily spread and fixed to a surface.
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vellum
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Calfskin prepared for writing or painting upon, a superior type of parchment widely used for medieval manuscripts
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manuscript
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A handwritten book or document, either original or a copy.
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