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35 Cards in this Set
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genre
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a style or category of art
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genre scenes
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a painting that realistically depicts scenes from everyday life
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still life
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a picture depicting an arrangement of inanimate objects
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landscape
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a picture showing natural scenery without narrative content
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portrait
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of a person
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history painting
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of a historical scene or one from mythology
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naturalism
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the style of painted or scultptured representation based on close observation of the natural world that was at the core of the classical tradition
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easel painting
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painting on an elevated easel
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coatlicue
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aztec goodess of the earth
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quetzal
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a bird with long green feathers native of the mesoamerican region
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quetzalcóatl
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mesoamerican god who created life and fire
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huitzilopochtli
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aztec god of war
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tlaloc
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aztec god of rain and earth
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mictlantechtli
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mesoamerican god of death
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zócalo
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mexico city's central plaza
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coyolxauqui
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aztec moon goddess and evil sister of huitzilopochtli
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mihrab
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the prayer niche in the qibla wall in the direction of kabah-reserved for the ruler
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maqsura
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a screened area in front of the mihrab
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iwan
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vaulted rectangular recesses open at one end
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oqibla
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the direction in which muslims face during prayer, toward the kabah in mecca, central western arab peninsula now in saudi arbia
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Islam
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submission to the will of god, name of the religion and culture, muslim-person, islamic adjective
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koran
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the sacred book of islam
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mosque
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a place of worship
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fete gallant
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history genre and lanscape together often party scenes, lesiure scenes with erotic component
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seal
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ownership han dynasty
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clerical
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scribes, squarish
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cursive
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artistic, expressive
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regular
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modern, published materical
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daguerreotype
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a unqiue image pressed unto a copper plate
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calotype
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negative and postive image impressed unto paper
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en plein air
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painting out of doors
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pointillism
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tiny dots of color applied to the canvas
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de stijl
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promoted utopian ideals and developed a simplified geometric style
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anyaltic cubism
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artist anaylzed form from every possible vantage point to combine the various views into one pictorial image
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metaphysical painting
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shadow play illogical
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