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Flying Butress

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Stone supports which fly from the upper exterior nave, over the clerestory and down to the ground, carrying the weight of the stone walls away so the stone walls can have windows

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Stained Glass

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Colored glass in which is usually color consistent in small pieces; they are assembled with lead. Often depicts saints, angels, christ, holy family, and other divine figures

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Gothic Sway

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Gothic sway or curve:

compositional elements found in Gothic Sculpture that mimics classical contrapposto but without accurate anatomical proportions

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Relic

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An object that is believed to have sacred properties. Relics include items associated with holy figures or bodies or body part. A container for a relic is a reliquary.

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Nave

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The central hallway of a basilica style building or church.

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Transept

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The part of a basilica type church that crosses the nave at a right angle creating a cruciform floor plant.

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Triforium

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In gothic churches the horizontal section of a nave wall that sometimes serves as a passageway and often has a blind fenestrated arcade

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Nave Arcade

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The lowest section a nave wall featuring an arcade supported by columns or piers

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Maniera Greca

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Italo Byzantine Style, which means "greek manner" Ducento or Trecento Italy which was influenced by the art of the medieval greeks or Byzantine peoples. It employs gold backgrounds, tend to deny space (is flat) and is often symbolic and abstract

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Altar Piece

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A panel painted or sculpted situated above and behind an altar

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Chiaroscuro

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The italian word meaning "light/dark", starts in the 1300s with artists as Cimbue, Duccio, and Giotto becomes a "window to another world" gives illusion of 3dimensionality. It includes explainable shadows, light sources and half tones .

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The Sienese School

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Painting school that flourished in Siena, Italy. Between 13th-15th Century, and for some time rivaled Florence. Conservative, inclined towards the decorative beauty and elegant grace of ate Gothic Art. Common focus on miraculous events, less attention to proportion, surrealist distortion of the time and place. (Duck, pupils: Simone Martini and Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti)

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Iconography

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The study of symbolic, often religious, persons, or events depicted in works of art.

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Humanism

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Set of ideas that placed emphasis on education in the liberal arts, expansion of knowledge, exploration of individual potential and a desire to excel, as a well as commitment to civic responsibility and moral duty.

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One Point Perspective/Linear Perspective

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In a composition having a single vanishing point. Used in conjunction with chiaroscuro to create illusion of depth and endow human figures. These is achieved by using orthogonal which are lines that converge to a single point.

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Orthogonals

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Imaginary, suggested, painted lines that can be traced from architectural features, tessellated floors, other compositional elements that converge to a single vanishing point.

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Foreshortening

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Is the visual device of making an object appear to recede dramatically into space. Artists us this sometimes to emphasize perspective or to enhance the reality of an illusionistic space.

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Chartres Cathedral

Gothic Art

Unknown artist

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Notre Dame

Gothic Art

Unknown Artist

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Saint Chappelle-interior view

Gothic Art

St. Louis-patron

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Virgin with the Dead Christ

Rottgen Pieta

Gothic Art

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Pulpit of the Pisa Babistery

Nicola Pisano

Gothic Art in Italy

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Madonna Enthroned with Angels and Prophets

Cimabue

Gothic Art in Italy

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Lamentation

Giotto

Gothic Art in Italy

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Giovanni and his Bride

Jan Van Eyck

Art of the North

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Deposition

Rogier Van der Weyden

Art of the North

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Ghent Altarpiece

Hubert and Jan Van Eyck

Art of the North

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Four Crowned Saints

Nanni di Banco

Early Italian Renaissance

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David

Donatello

Early Italian Renaissance

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Birth of Venus

Sandro Botticelli

Early Italian Renaissance

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Gates of Paradise

Lorenzo Ghiberti

Early Italian Renaissance

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Dome of Florence Cathedral

Fillippo Brunelleschi

Early Italian Renaissance