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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

____ or painted pages (i.e. Les Très Riches…) depicting human activities and the cycles of nature were an established tradition in medieval times.

Calendars

A _______ painting has three fields and a ____ painting has two.

Triptych, dipych

A tiny image of _____ the patron saint of child bearing appears in the bed canopy of the Arnolfini Portrait.

St. Margaret

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

Jean Fouquet’s Madonna and Child is a portrait of _______, Charles VII’s mistress.

Agnes Sorel

History has credited _______ with inventing moveable type printing but its roots lie in the ancient Near East and China.

Johann Gutenberg

The cutting or incising of an image into a metal plate so that the ink is held below the surface is known as ______.

intaglio

In his Praise of the City of Florence, ____ compared the city to the ancient capitals of Athens and Rome.

Leonardo Bruni

______ won the Baptistery Competition to complete the second door of the baptistery.

Lorenzo Ghiberti

After 60 plus years without a roof The Florence Cathedral Dome was created by ____________.

Filippo Brunelleschi

In scientific perspective, _____ is a single point toward which any set of ____ or perpendicular lines will seem to converge.

Vanishing Point, Orthogonals

_____argues that the mathematical ratios determining musical harmony must govern architecture, for they must have divine origin.

Alberti

Domenico Veneziano painted one of the earliest examples of a new kind of alter panel called a _____________.

Sacra conversazione

From 1434-1494 ____ dominated the city of Florence and actively used art to express their political and social status.

De Medic

Sandro Boticelli painted the first central mythological goddess since antiquity when he painted the ____.

Birth of Venus

________ maintained that the earlier generation provided the groundwork that enabled 16th Century artists to “surpass the age of the ancients”.

Giorgio Vasari

Leonardo worked for the Duke of Milan primarily as a _____ engineer and secondarily as an artist.

Military

The effect of light falling on 3 dimensional objects in light to dark modulation is called __________.

Chiaroscuro

The painting effect of _____ creates a moist atmosphere and a hazy or smoky appearance.

Sfumato

da Vinci’s three quarter view of the Mona Lisa emphasizes her ___ versus her clothing and jewelry.

personality

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

A _____ is an ancient Greek prophetess.

sybil

Raphael’s The School of Athens features the philosophers, _____ and ______ in the center of the composition.

Plato, Aristotle

The two central philosopher’s books in the School of Athens are ____ and __________.

Timeaus, Ethics

_____ means “irregular, contorted, grotesque”. (Portuguese=Irregular pearl).

Barrocco

The ______ has been called a style of persuasion, as the Catholic Church used it to express the spirit of the ________.

Baroque, Counter-Reformation

The use of a strong beam of light, as in the works of Caravaggio, to create high contrast and dramatic effect is called _____.

Tenebrism

______ best known subjects are biblical heroines: Bathsheba and Judith. (She often showed herself in the lead role).

Artemesia Gentilischi's

____ was the capital of the Italian baroque.

Rome

____ was the home of the most important Spanish Baroque artists.

Seville

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

Holland (north) is present day ______ and Flanders (south) is present day ____ and part of France.

Neverlands, Belgium

The official religion of Flanders was______ and the predominant religion of Holland was the ___ _____.

catholicism, reformed church

By about 1650, the oft _____ still life painting was a lavish display of visual splendor.

pronk

Common in Dutch still-life painting was the theme of shortness of life or ______.

vanitas

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

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

The art of France and England was dominated by ___, derived from the ancient Greek and Roman civilizations.

classicism

The Gardens of Versailles features King Louis XIV’s adopted symbol of ____, the sun god and his dominion over _______.

apollo , nature