Renaissance In Italy Vocab

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humanism

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In the Renaissance, an emphasis on education and on expanding knowledge (esp of classical antiquity) the exploration of individual potential and a desire to excel, and a commintment to civic responsibility and moral duty

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fresco

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painting on line plaster, either dry (dry fresco or fresco secco) or wet (true or buon fresco). In the latter method, the pigments are mixed with water and become chemically bound to the freshly laid lime plaster

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atmospheric perspective

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atmospheric or aerial perspective creates the illusion of distance bu the greater dimimtion of color intesity, the shift in color toward an almost neutral blue, and the blurring of contours as the intended distance between the eye and the object increases

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linear perspective

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all parallel lines or surface edges converge on 1, 2, or 3 vanishing points located with reference to the eye level of the viewer (the horizion line of the picture) and associated objects are rendered smaller the further from the viewer they are intended to seem

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vanishing point

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point where lines converge in perspective

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orthogonal

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a line imagined to be behind and perpendicular to the picture plane; the orthogonals in a painting appear to recede toward a vanishing pt on the horizion

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tempura painting

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a technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk, glue, or casein

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oil painting

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a painting technique using oil based pigments that rose to prominence in Northern Europe in the 15th century and is now the standard medium for painting on canvas

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sprezzatura

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the rehersed spintaneity studied carelessness and well practiced naturalness that underlies persuive discourse

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chiaroscuro

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the treatment of and use of light and dark, esp the graditions of light that produce the effect of modeling

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sfumato

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Italian "smoky" A smokelike haziness that subtly softens outlines in painting; particularly applied to the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci and Correggio

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poesia

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a term describing poetic art, notably Venetian Renaissance painting, which empasises the lyrical and sensual