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28 Cards in this Set
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atmospheric perspective
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method for showing depth using atmosphere; looks bluer and hazier further away
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Baroque
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period of western art from 1600 to 1750, complex, intricate, or irregular as well as increase in emotions
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Bernini
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sculptor, architect; integrated naturalism and classicism in Baroque period
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Barromini
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Baroque architecture; excessive detailing and facade designs
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Bosh
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enigmatic Dutch painter; depictions of sin and afterlife
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Botticelli
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Birth of Venus
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Caravaggio
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painted Contarelli Chapel
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chiarascuro
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italian term for light and dark
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contropposto
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term for position in sculpture
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Counter Reformation
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an attempt to fight back against the militancy of the protestant north
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etching
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using a metal plate to leave prints
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foreshortening
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showing depth; visual contraction of a long object
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fresco
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painting on damp plaster
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linear perspective
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method for showing depth using lines; parallel lines meet
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Mannerism
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transitional period between high renaissance and advent of Baroque; stylistic virtuosity and compexity
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metal engraving
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a multiple of an image is produced by scoring a metal plate with burin to create lines. then ink is rubbed and damp paper is pressed to it
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naturalism
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everyday perception; or as things exist naturally
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Renaissance
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begins in Italy in the 1400's; rebirth
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repoussoir figure
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one or more silhouetted figures situated in the immediate foreground, facing away from viewer, createing a sense of space in middle ground area
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scale diminution
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people and objects feel smaller in the distance
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symmetry
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balance, symmetrical plan
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tempera painting
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mixing of pigment with a a binder (egg yolk); led to oil paint
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tenebroso
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dynamic character of light and the artists theatrical use of high contrast chiaroscuro
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wood engraving
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areas not to be printed are carved out of a flat wood surface leaving the intended image raised to take ink
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Donatello
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David; first one
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Durer
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Christ Bearing the Cross/ self portrait
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Massacio
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Holy Trinity with the Virgin and St. John
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Giotto
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St. francis drives away the demons from arezzo
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