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29 Cards in this Set
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Dome of Florence Cathedral |
Artist: Brunelleschi Date:1439-1445 Significance: Architecture and Art became a way for people of power to show leadership and wealth. |
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“Delivery of the Keys to St. Peter” |
Artist:Perugino Date:1481 Significance: Early example of perspective paintings |
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“Tribute Money” |
Artist: Masaccio Date: 1427 Significance: Uses environmental perspective to show distance |
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“Primavera” |
Artist: Botticelli Date: 1482 Significance: Shows symbolism using mythological themes. Great attention to detail. |
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"Annunciation” |
Artist: Fra Angelico Date: 1438-1445 Significance: Colors are dull to show modesty in the church and create a sense of godliness |
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“Mona Lisa” |
Artist: Leonardo DaVinci Date: 1503-1506 Significance: Painting seems to be looking directly at the viewer. Showed modesty because woman was rich and wore no jewelry. focuses on the woman instead of wealth. |
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“Virgin of the Rocks” |
Artist: Leonardo DaVinci Date: 1485 Significance: Use of lighting to show importance. Also uses environmental perspective to ad depth to the painting. |
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“Wedding Portrait” |
Artist: Raphael Date: 1506 Significance: Both figures are turned to face the viewer and both command a sense of respect and nobility. Female pose is similar to that of the Mona Lisa. |
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“School of Athens” |
Artist: Raphael Date: 1509 Significance: Famous philosophers are represented by famous artists insinuating that artists are also philosophers |
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“David” |
Artist: Michelangelo Date: 1504 Significance: Embodies the cit of Florence, because it represents the defeat of the Medici family and the rise of the republic |
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“Creation of Adam” |
Artist: Michealangelo Date: 1508-1512 Symbolism: Adam mirrors in his body position and movements to symbolize man was made in the image of man. Also the brain shaped cloud that God is in symbolizes the connection between religion and the mind |
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Self-Portrait |
Artist: Albrecht Durer Date: 1500 Symbolism: Durer models himself to look like Jesus Christ to symbolize that man was created in God's image. Eyes focus on something beyond the viewer and illuminated hand and head suggest there is a connection between the two. |
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“Money Changer and His Wife” |
Artist: Quintin Massys Date: 1514 Significance: Used the background to give a greater sense of depth to the painting. Showed that you must have moral values in business. |
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“Conversion of St. Paul” |
Artist: Caravaggio Date: 1601 Significance: Showed a lot of drama using lighting and dark colors. very realistic created in the Baroque period |
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“Las Meninas” |
Artist: Velazquez Date:1656 Significance: Shows a scene from the perspective of the king and queen of Spain. lose brush strokes create the image but it looks blurred when looked at closely |
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“Return of the Hunters/Hunters in the snow ” |
Artist: Breugel the Elder Date:1565 Significance: One of the first landscape painters, large use of perspective |
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“The Ambassadors” |
Artist: Hans Holbein Date:1533 Significance: References turmoil in England; top shelf shows Heavenly related items and bottom self showed earthly related items; Skull symbolizes that death is abstract |
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“Self-Portrait” |
Artist: Judith Leyster Date: 1635 Symbolism: Looks fun; loose brush strokes |
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“The Anatomy Lesson” |
Artist: Rembrandt Date:1632 Symbolism: Showed people doing things related to their profession. |
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“Woman Holding a Balance” |
Artist: Vermeer Date: 1664 Significance: Showed women in domestic settings ;big on the use of lighting; could represent the balance of heavenly and earthly things. |
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Baroque |
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Humanism
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Sfumato
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Italian term meaning "smokey," soft, and mellow; In painting it is the effect of haze in a image |
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Chiaroscuro
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An Italian word designating the contrast of dark and light in a painting, drawing, or print. |
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Tenebrism
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The use of strong chiaroscuro and artificially illuminated areas to create a dramatic contrast of light and dark in a painting. |
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Orthogonals
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Any line running back into the represented space of a picture perpendicular to the imagined picture plane. |
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Atmospheric Perspective
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A method of rendering the effect of spatial distance by subtle variations in color and clarity of representation. |
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Fresco
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A painting technique in which water based pigments are applied to a plaster surface. |
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Counter Reformation |
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