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12 Cards in this Set
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Renaissance
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French - rebirth
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Mannuscript illumination
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Illustration or decoration of books and letters with pictures or designs
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Panel paintings
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A painting, usually in tempera but sometimes in oil, whose ground is a wooden panel
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International style
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A post World War I school of art and architecture that used modern materials and methods and expressed the view that form must follow function
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genre painting
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simple human representations; realistic figure painting that focuses on themes taken from everyday life
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Intarsia
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A style of decorative mosaic inlay
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quatrefoil
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In architecture, a design made up of four converging arcs that are similar in appearance to a flower with four petals
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S curve
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Developed in the classical style as a means of balancing the human form, consisting of the distribution of tensions so that tension and repose are passed back and forth from one side of the figure to the other, resulting in an S shape
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Contrapposto
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A positio in which a figure is obliquely balanced around a central vertical axis
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Orthogonals
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composed of right angles
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venus pudica
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A Venus with her hand held over her genitals for the sake of modesty
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mannerist art
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A 16th century, post renaissance style characterized by artificial poses and gestures, vivid - sometimes harsh - color, and distorted, elongated figures
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