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40 Cards in this Set
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Using _____ paints artists in the Netherlands
produced a strongly ____ style, representing sacred figures as if they existed in the natural world. |
oil , naturalistic |
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____ or painted pages (i.e. Les Très Riches…) depicting human activities and the cycles of nature were an established tradition in medieval times.
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Calendars |
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A _______ painting has three fields and a ____ painting has two.
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Triptych, dipych |
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A tiny image of _____ the patron saint of child bearing appears in the bed canopy of the Arnolfini Portrait. |
St. Margaret |
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Many of the forms in Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, refer to the tools used in the medieval practice of _____. |
alchemical process |
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Jean Fouquet’s Madonna and Child is a portrait of _______, Charles VII’s mistress. |
Agnes Sorel |
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History has credited _______ with inventing moveable type printing but its roots lie in the ancient Near East and China. |
Johann Gutenberg |
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The cutting or incising of an image into a metal plate so that the ink is held below the surface is known as ______. |
intaglio |
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In his Praise of the City of Florence, ____ compared the city to the ancient capitals of Athens and Rome. |
Leonardo Bruni |
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______ won the Baptistery Competition to complete the second door of the baptistery. |
Lorenzo Ghiberti |
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After 60 plus years without a roof The Florence Cathedral Dome was created by ____________. |
Filippo Brunelleschi |
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In scientific perspective, _____ is a single point toward which any set of ____ or perpendicular lines will seem to converge. |
Vanishing Point, Orthogonals |
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_____argues that the mathematical ratios determining musical harmony must govern architecture, for they must have divine origin. |
Alberti |
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Domenico Veneziano painted one of the earliest examples of a new kind of alter panel called a _____________. |
Sacra conversazione |
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From 1434-1494 ____ dominated the city of Florence and actively used art to express their political and social status. |
De Medic |
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Sandro Boticelli painted the first central mythological goddess since antiquity when he painted the ____. |
Birth of Venus |
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________ maintained that the earlier generation provided the groundwork that enabled 16th Century artists to “surpass the age of the ancients”. |
Giorgio Vasari |
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Leonardo worked for the Duke of Milan primarily as a _____ engineer and secondarily as an artist. |
Military |
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The effect of light falling on 3 dimensional objects in light to dark modulation is called __________. |
Chiaroscuro |
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The painting effect of _____ creates a moist atmosphere and a hazy or smoky appearance. |
Sfumato |
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da Vinci’s three quarter view of the Mona Lisa emphasizes her ___ versus her clothing and jewelry. |
personality |
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Caradosso’s bronze medal is an historical documentation of Bramante’s design for St. Peter’s basilica which combines the Roman ______ with Constantine’s Basilica. |
Pantheon |
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A _____ is an ancient Greek prophetess. |
sybil |
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Raphael’s The School of Athens features the philosophers, _____ and ______ in the center of the composition. |
Plato, Aristotle |
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The two central philosopher’s books in the School of Athens are ____ and __________. |
Timeaus, Ethics |
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_____ means “irregular, contorted, grotesque”. (Portuguese=Irregular pearl). |
Barrocco |
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The ______ has been called a style of persuasion, as the Catholic Church used it to express the spirit of the ________. |
Baroque, Counter-Reformation |
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The use of a strong beam of light, as in the works of Caravaggio, to create high contrast and dramatic effect is called _____. |
Tenebrism |
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______ best known subjects are biblical heroines: Bathsheba and Judith. (She often showed herself in the lead role). |
Artemesia Gentilischi's |
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____ was the capital of the Italian baroque. |
Rome |
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____ was the home of the most important Spanish Baroque artists. |
Seville |
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The Club Footed Boy holds a sign that reads “_______”, indicating that only through good works may the ___ hope to attain salvation. |
Give me alms for the love of God, Rich |
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Holland (north) is present day ______ and Flanders (south) is present day ____ and part of France. |
Neverlands, Belgium |
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The official religion of Flanders was______ and the predominant religion of Holland was the ___ _____. |
catholicism, reformed church |
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By about 1650, the oft _____ still life painting was a lavish display of visual splendor. |
pronk |
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Common in Dutch still-life painting was the theme of shortness of life or ______. |
vanitas |
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Vermeer may have used a ______ that created an image by means of a hole for light on the inside of a dark box. |
camera obscura |
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In the 17th Century, France was led by an ______ ruler while England was governed by a king who shared power with the ______ in a Constitutional monarchy. |
absolute, parliament |
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The art of France and England was dominated by ___, derived from the ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. |
classicism |
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The Gardens of Versailles features King Louis XIV’s adopted symbol of ____, the sun god and his dominion over _______.
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apollo , nature |