Term List Ch.7-9

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Alarpiece

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panel, painted or sculpted near an altar

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Baptistery

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building used for baptism

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Book of Hours

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prayers, excerpts, devotional text decorated scenes of the Virgin included a calender

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Burin

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pointed tool for engraving/incising

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Cathedral

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bishops church, throne is kept. City or town can only have one.

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Cartoon

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full size preliminary drawing from which painting is made

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Chiaroscuro

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use of light and dark, produce effect of modeling

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Cloister

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monastery courtyard, covered walks or ambulatories

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di sotto in su

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perspective in ceiling painting, "from below upwards"

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Disegno

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"drawing" and "design"

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italian word

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Donor portrait

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individuals who commisioned work, portraying their devotion, piety and wealth

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Engraving

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incising on hard material

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Etching

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engraving where design is incised in a layer of wax or varnish on a metal plate,then metal is eaten away by acid

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Fresco

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painting on lime plaster. wet-true, dry-fresco secco

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Genre

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category of art, painting depicting everyday life realistically

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Gesso

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plaster mixed with binder, for reliefs as a ground for painting

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Glaze

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coating applied to pottery to seal and decorate. oil painting-transparent or semitransparent alters color

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Gothic

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history,culture and art of medieval western europe 12th to 14th centuries

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derogatory term

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Grisaille

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monochrome painting, for modeling or imitate sculpture

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Hatching

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drawing and engraving, fine lines are cut or drawn close together shading effect

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Humanism

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Renaissance, education and expanding knowledge, individual potential, civic responsibility and desire to excel

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Idealization

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preconception of ideal form or type, esthetic distortion

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realism

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Illumination

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(illuminare)adorn to brighten, used for manuscripts

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miniature

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Landscape

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natural scenery, w/o narrative

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Loggia

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gallery w/ open arcade or colnnade on one or both sides

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gallery

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Maesta

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Virgin as Queen of Heaven enthroned amid choruses and angels

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Mannerism

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later Renaissance art emphasized "artifice", using the imagination not just nature

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self conscious style

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Memento mori

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reminder of human mortality, represented by a skull

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mortality

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Mendicants

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medival Europe, Franciscan and Dominican orders, renounced all worldly goods, devoted preachers, teachers and good deeders

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Naturalism

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art adhere close as possible to natural world, recurring in history

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Contrapposto

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depicting a weigh shift

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Perspective

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illusion of 3D world onto a 2D surface

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Linear perspective

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parallel lines converge into 1-3 points eye level to viewer, vanishing points objects further are smaller

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Atmospheric perspective

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illusion of distance by color toward neutral and blurred lines

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Personification

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abstract idea or quality represented in bodily form

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Pieta

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rep. of Virgin mourning over Christ's body

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Poesia

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"poetic" art, emphasize lyrical and sensual

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Polyptych

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hinged mulitipaneled altarpiece or painting

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Predella

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decorative base or an altarpiece, small painting/sculptures

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Pulpit

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raised platform used by priest for preaching

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Relief

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figures projecting from background in sculpture. high, low, sunken, intaglio

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Rustication

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rough unfinished masonary

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Saint

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person who suffered and died for their Christian faith/ merited reverence for devotion while alive

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Sarcophagus

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coffin made of stone

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Stanze

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italian for "rooms"

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Sfumato

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haziness that softens outlines in paintings, used by da Vinci

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Tempera

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painting, colors made from powdered pigmants mixed w/ water and a binder

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Trompe l'oeil

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illusionistic painting use of perspective create 3D

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Woodcut

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relief printmaking

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Movable type

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Gutenburg, print or text for books

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Oil paint

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artist could paint slower and work in layers

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Deposition

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moment Christ is removed from cross

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John the Evangelist

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@ Crusafication

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Stigmata

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5 wounds inflicted on Christ

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Continuous narrative

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depiction of several different episodes in one panel

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Tondos

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round shape

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Pulpit of Pisa Cathedral

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Pisano, 1259-60, Gothic

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Madonna Enthroned with Angels and Prophets

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Cimabue, 1280-90, tempera on wood Gothic

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Madonna Enthroned

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Giotto, 1310, tempera on wood Gothic

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Interior of the Arena Chapel

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Giotto, 1305-06, true fresco Gothic

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Lamentation(art)

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Giotto, 1305, fresco Gothic

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Peaceful City

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Lorenzetti, 1338-39, fresco Gothic

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Florence Cathedral

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Cambio, 1296, Gothic

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Well of Moses

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Sluter, 1395-1406

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Ghent Altarpiece closed/open

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Van Eyck, 1432, oil on wood 15th century

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Deposition(art)

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Weyden, 1435, oil on wood

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Giovanni Arnolfini and his Bride

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Van Eyck, 1434, oil on wood

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Garden of Earthly Delights

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Bosch, 1505-10, oil on wood

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October, from Les Tres Heures du Duc de Berry

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Limbourg Brothers, 1413-16

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Melun Diptych

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Jean Fouquet, 1450, oil on wood

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Saint Anthony Tormented by Demons

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Shoengauer, 1480-90, engraving

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Sacrifice of Isaac

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Brunelleschi, 1401-02, gilded bronze relief

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Sacrifice of Isaac

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Ghiberti, 1401-02 gilded bronze relief

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East Doors(Gates of Paradise)

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Ghiberti, 1425-50, gilded bronze relief

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Saint Mark

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Donatello, 1411-13

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Tribute Money

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Masaccio, 1427, fresco

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Holy Trinity

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Masaccio, 1428, fresco

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Dome of Florence

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Brunelleschi, 1420-36

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Facade of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi

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Bartolommeo, 1445, rusticated masonry

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Interior court of Palazzo

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Bartolommeo, 1445, round arched colonnade

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David

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Donatello, 1420-50 bronze

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Birth of Venus

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Botticelli, 1482,tempera on canvas

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Announciation

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Angelico, 1440-45, fresco

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Madonna and Child with Angels

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Lippi, 1455, tempera on wood

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Christ Delievering the Keys of the Kingdom to St. Peter

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Perugino, 1481-83, fresco

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Interior of the Camera degli Sposi

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Mantegna, 1474, fresco, diosotto in su

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Camera degli Sposi-ceiling

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Mantegna, 1474, fresco trompe l'oeil

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Dead Christ

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Mantegna, 1501, tempera on canvas

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Last Supper

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da Vinci, 1495-1498, fresco