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33 Cards in this Set
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Which term refers to the technique of applying paint to wet plaster? |
Buon fresco |
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Durable method of painting murals because a chemical reaction bonds the pitment into the wall surface; it also requires the painter to be quite skillfull so the work can be completed before the plaster dries. |
Bruon Fresco |
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Abbot Suger's primary motivation for radically altering the design o the Church of St. Denis was to... |
Bring more light into the church |
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Old Saint Peter's is an example of? |
a longitudinal plan |
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During the Republican period of Rome, portraits were.. |
realistic and individualized |
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The Parthenon was constructed so that almost all the temple's lines are slightly curved because.. |
they counteract the optical illusion of structural distortions |
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The emotional expressiveness and dramatic rendering of the Nike (Victory) of Samothrace is characteristic of which period of Greek art? |
Hellenistic |
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Modeling |
In painting, the process of creating the illusion of three-dimensionality on a two dimensional surface by use of light and shade. In sculpture, the process of molding a three-dimensional form out of malleable substance. |
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Contrapposto |
Italian term meaning "set againts," used to describe the classical convention of representing human figures with opposing alternations of tension and relaxation on either side ot a central axis to imbue fugures with a sense of the potential for movement. |
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Necropolis |
A large cemetary or burial area; literally a "city of the dead." |
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Rosetta Stone |
The key to sloving Egyptian hieroglyphs. Discovered in Egypt. |
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Hieratic Scale |
Used to visually communicate power in Egyptian and other cultures. A pharaoh being depicted larger than he is. |
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Canon |
a rule, for example of proportion; Canon a fifth century BC treatise written by sculptor Polykleitos incorporating his formula for the perfectly proportioned statue
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Iconoclasm |
The banning and or destruction of images, especially icons and religious art. |
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Stele of Naram-Sin.2254–2218 BCE. Height 6'6”. Hieratic scale employed
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Figure of a Woman, Cycladic, Aegean Islands0 |
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Mosaic Mihrab, Islamic |
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Hagia Sophia,Constantinople (modern day Istanbul),532 AD
Once a church now a museum |
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Justinian and his attendants, Byzantine |
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Bayeux Embroidery,Romanesque
Depicts the Norman Conquest |
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Bull Lyre,Sumerian, Ancient Near East
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Rose Window Located at the Chartres Cathedral |
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The Lamentation Giotto, 14th Century |
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Woman of Willendorf |
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Porch of Maidens Located at Acropolis of Athens |
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Panthenon Was the largest Dome until the 1400's |
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Kritos Boy Constrappo Stance |
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Flying Buttresses |
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Polykleitos. SpearBearer (Doryphoros).Roman copy after the original bronze of c. 450–440 BCE
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DyingGallic Trumpeter. Roman copy after the original bronze of c. 220 BCE. Hellenistic style (Greek)
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What city was the center of book production in the Gothic period |
Paris |
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First style of writing invented by the Sumerians |
Cuneiform |
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Two primary building styles used in early Christian Churches |
Gothic and Sacred |
