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Tenebrism |
A style of painting of intense contrast of light and dark. A very intense chiaroscuro. Artemisia Gentileschi’s "Judith Slaying Holofernes" |
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Chiaroscuro |
Strong tonal contrast between light and dark. |
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Di sotto in su
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"Seen from below" or "from below, upwards" Ex: Andrea Mantegna's "Camera Picta Ceiling" |
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Complementary colors |
Pairs of colors that when combined cancel each other out. Johannes Vermeer's "Girl with the Pearl Earring" |
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Engraving |
A print made from an engraved plate, block, or other surface. Albrecth Durer's "Knight, Death and the Devil" |
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Burin |
A steel tool used for engraving in copper or wood.
Ex: Albrecth Durer's "Knight, Death and the Devil" |
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Etching |
To use acids or dyes to cut into an unprotected piece of metal in order to create detail. Ex: Albrecth Durer's "Knight, Death and the Devil" |
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Martin Luther |
A German theologist responsible for the Protestant Reformation. Ex: Lucas Cranach the Elder's "Portrait of Martin Luther" |
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The Reformation |
The beginning of the schism of the Roman Catholic Church, causing the Protestant Reformation Ex: Lucas Cranach the Elder's "Altarpiece at Wittenburg" |
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Sale of Indulgences |
A monetary contribution to the Roman Catholic Church to redeem oneself or pardon one's sin. Ex: Hans Holbein the Younger's Sales of Indulgences |
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Impasto |
The layering of paint in a very thick manner. Ex: Velázquez's "Juan de Pareja" |
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Quadro Riportato |
A painted frame that is painted on top of a fresco -- creating the illusion as if the work was framed. Ex: Reni, Aurora |
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Quandratura |
A ceiling painting with the illusion of it having depth. Ex: Pietro da Cortona's "Triumph of the Barberini" |
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The Hapsburgs |
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Marie de'Medici |
The Queen of France and second wife of Henry IV of France. Commissioned Ruben and helped him rise to fame. Ruben's "The Landing of Marie de Médicis at Marseilles" |
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Apotheosis |
The highest point in the development of something Ex: |
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Bombé |
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Baldachin |
A canopy of state typically placed over an altar or throne. Ex: Gian Lorenzo Bernini's "St. Peter's baldachin" |
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Barberinis |
A famous and powerful family that dominated the city of Rome and peaked with the election of Cardinal Maffeo Barberini to the papal throne Ex: Pietro da Cortona's "Triump of the Barberini" |
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Nicolas Poussin |
Famous French artist who favors clarity, logic, and order, and line over color. Ex: Nicolas Poussin's "Oath of the Horatii" |
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Capability Brown |
An English landscape artist |
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Chinoiserie |
The imitation or evocation of Chinese motifs and techniques in Western art, furniture, and architecture, especially in the 18th century. Ex: Dodin and Duplessis's "Sevres Potpourri" |
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Poussinistes vs. Rubenistes |
Poussinistes -- those who favors clarity, logic, and order, and line over color Rubenistes -- believe colour, not drawing, was superior as it was more true to nature. |
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Vanitas |
A still-life painting of a 17th-century Dutch genre containing symbols of death or change as a reminder of their inevitability. Ex: Georges de la Tour's "Magdalene with the Smoking Flame" |
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Camera obscura |
An image is projected through a small hole in that screen as a reversed and inverted image (left to right and upside down) on a surface opposite to the opening. |
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Charles le Brun |
A famous french artist who designed the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles. Ex: Jules Hardouin-Mansart & Charles Le Brun's "Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors)" |
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Jules Hardouin-Mansart |
Ex: Jules Hardouin-Mansart & Charles Le Brun's "Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors)" |