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24 Cards in this Set
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Lorenzo the Magnificent
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-lorenze de'medici
-large amounts of money to artists to support work -associated with fall of renaissance |
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Girolamo Savonarola
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-Florentine friar
-refused Alexander VI holy league -exiled then hung |
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Pope Julius II
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-commissioned destruction and rebuilding of St. Peters
-Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Ceiling -the feared Pope |
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Raphael
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-great overall person
-known for the School of Athens inside the Vatican |
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Vitruvius
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De Architectura Libri Decem (ten books of architecture)
27BCE |
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Giorgio Vasari
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1550
-The Lives of the most eminent painters, sculptors, and architects |
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Ascanio Condivi
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1553
-La Vita di Michelagnolo Buonarroti |
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Cennino Cennini
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Il' Libro dell'arte
1400 |
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aisle
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part of church divided laterally by the nave by a row of pillars or columns
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apse
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semicircular vaulted recess at sanctuary end of church
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apprenticeship
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work for a certain amount of time in return for instruction of art[
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basilica
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christian church having Nave w/ semicircular apse, 2-4 aisles, a narthex, and clerestory
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contrapoposo
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position of figure where head+shoulders are turned opposite ways of hips+legs
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family chapel
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-attachment to the church in return for money
-private prayers, bury dead family, give honor to saints -Medici family in Santa Croce |
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Fresco
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painting on fresh, moist plaster w/ pigments dissolved in water
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fresco a secco
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pigments in water are tempered using egg yolk or egg to simulate fresh plaster
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gilding
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painting a surface with gold leaf
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giornata
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how much you can paint in a days work, important to painting on wet plaster
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intonaco
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final very thin layer of plaster that is painted on
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nave
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central approach to the high alter
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one-point linear perspective
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-bruneleschi
-vanishing point perspecting -early 1400s |
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relievo schiacciato
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flattened stone carving that allows for convincing recession through space
-began with donatello- slaying the dragon |
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sinopia
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underdrawing in earth red under a fresco
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tempera
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painting medium composed of egg, glue, casein, used for panel painting
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