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39 Cards in this Set
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Ancestral Puebloans |
was a dominant culture of the American Southwest also known as Anasazi |
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atmospheric perspective |
atmospheric perspective refers to the effect the atmosphere has on the appearance of an object as it is viewed from a distance |
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Aztec |
group of people |
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baldacchino |
a canopy on columns, frequently built over an alter. |
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Baroque |
traditional blanket for european art, which describes art that features dramatic theatrically and elaborate ornamentation |
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Benin |
a country in West Africa, just west of Nigeria
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camera obscura |
(dark room) A device like the camera that projects an image on a screen, used by artists as an aid in drawing from nature |
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chiaroscuro |
In drawing or painting , the treatment and use of light and dark, especially the gradations of light that produce the effect modeling |
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Coatlicue |
is the Aztec goddess who gave birth to the moon, stars, and Huitzilopochtli, the god of the sun and war |
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colorito |
Italian for colored. A term used to describe the applications of paint. |
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Coyolxauhqui |
Coyolxauhqui was a daughter of Coatlicue. Moon Goddess |
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diptych |
A two-paneled painting or alter piece |
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disegno |
Italian for drawing or design. renaissance artist considered drawing to be a physical manifestation of internal intellectual idea or design |
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Donatello |
Italian sculptor , scientific perspective |
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engraving |
the process of incising a design in hard material, often metal plate |
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etching |
a kind of engraving in which the design is incised in a layer of wax or varnish on a metal plate |
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Forbidden City |
The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming dynasty to the end of the Qing dynasty—the years 1420 to 1912 |
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haboku |
In Japanese art, a loose and rapidly executed painting style in which the ink seems to have been applied by fingering or splashing it onto the paper |
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Isenheim Alterpiece |
The Isenheim Altarpiece is an altarpiece sculpted and painted by, respectively, the Germans Niclaus of Haguenau and Matthias Grünewald in 1512–151 |
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Linear perspective |
characteristic features of perspective are that objects are smaller as their distance from the observer increases; and that they are subject to foreshortening, meaning that an object's dimensions along the line of sight are shorter than its dimensions across the line of sight. |
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Machu Picchu |
Machu Picchu is an Incan citadel set high in the Andes Mountains in Peru, |
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Madonna of the Rocks |
he Virgin of the Rocks is the name used for two paintings by Leonardo da Vinci |
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Mannerism |
A style of later renaissance art emphasized "artifice" often involving contrived imagery not derived from directly from nature. |
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Morose Altarpiece |
Federico Barocci |
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Michelangelo |
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. |
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oil painting |
a painting technique using oil-based pigments that rose to prominence in northern europe |
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orthogonal |
A line imagined to be behind and perpendicular to the picture plane; in a painting appear to recede toward a vanishing point on the horizon |
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polyptych |
an altarpiece composed of more than three sections |
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Renaissance |
French for rebirth (artist revived classical style) |
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sfumato |
Italian "smokey" a smoke like haziness that subtly softens outlines in painting (learned de Vinci) |
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Taj Mahal |
The Taj Mahal is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the south bank of the Yamuna river in the Indian city of Agra. tomb of favorite wife |
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Tatami |
traditional woven straw mat used for floor covering in Japanese architecture |
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tempera painting |
a technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk, glue, or casein |
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Tempietto |
a small commemorative martyrium (tomb) built by Donato Bramante. |
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tenebroso |
Italian for shadowey |
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Tenochtitlán |
was an Aztec altepetl located on an island in Lake |
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tromp l'peil |
French for "fools the eyes" A form of illusionistic painting that aims to deceive viewers |
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vanishing point |
he point at which receding parallel lines viewed in perspective appear to converge. |
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vanitas |
latin for vanity. describing painting that includes references to death |
