ARHI 2300: Test 2 Terms
37 Cards in this Set
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Disegno Vs Colore
(Color vs. Line)
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emphasis onclear outline and design of a painting/emphasis on color to inhance texture/make a statement
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Courtesan
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A prosititute who often interacts wiht men of rank or wealth.
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Cassone
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A large italian chest of the middle ages and renaissance, usually highly ornamented and used as a marriage chest.
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maniera
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The Italian word for style. Can have both positive and negative meaning
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Printing Press and Printmaking
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1. Can exchange information quickly
2. Can learn of new developments/discoveries elsewhere
3. Can serve as supplemental income so artists are less reliant on patrons
4. A means of advertising and promoting their art
5. Offers a greater degree of artistic freedom.
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Woodcut
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An image is carved into the block of wood, with the printing parts remaining level with the surface while the non-printing parts are removed.
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Engraving
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The process of incising a design in a hard material, often a metal plate, usual copper and making a print from the plate.
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Genre Painting
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Depicted scenes from everyday life, both high and low.
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Lunette
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A semicircular area in a wall over a door niche or window.
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Domenico Ghirlandaio
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The leader of a large and efficient workshop. Among his many apprentices his most famous apprentice that came from his workshop, was Michelangelo Buonarroti. Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni(1488).
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Lorenzo de'Medici
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One of the greatest patrons of the renaissance. Michelangelo was accepted into the Medici household and studied art at the Medici Palace.
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Carrara marble
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used in Italian architecture, white/gray marble used in "David"
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Palazzo Vecchio
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Florence, Italy (1300) , most famous palazzo
Town hall of Florence. Served as an important public symbol. Symbolized the civic values of the new political order. Indicates changes going on in Italian culture.
Piazza built in front of these as public gathering places
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Disegno
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Italian, "drawing" and "design". Renaissance artists considered drawing to be the external physical manifestation of an internal intellectual idea of design.
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Sfumato
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A smoky haziness, to soften outlines and creat an atmospheric effect around the figure.
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Non-Linear Style
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Helps render a more naturalistic portrait with harmoniously blended forms.
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Refectory
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The dining hall of a christian monastery
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Oil paint
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Paint with an oil base
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Glazes
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In oil painting, a thin transparent, or semitransparent layer applied over a color to alter is slightly.
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Grisaille
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A monochrome painting done mainly in neutral grays to simulate sculpture.
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Flanders
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Northern Belgium
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Polyptych
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A work consisting of four or more painted or carved panels that are hinged together.
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Atmospheric Perspective
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Method of producing a sense of depth in a painting by imitating the effect of atmosphere that makes objects look paler, bluer, and hazier or less distinct in the far distance.
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Linear Perspective
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A type of perspective used by an artist in which the relative size, shape and position of objects are determined by drawn or imagined lines converging at a point on the horizon.
One Point Linear
Two Point Linear
Pyramidal Form
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orthogonal lines
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diagonal lines that are drawn to the vanishing point
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Vanishing point
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point in the work of art at which imaginary sigh lines appear to converge, suggesting depth
One Point perspective
Red = Horizon Line
Yellow = Vanishing Point
Green = Orthogonal Lines
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Humanism
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An emphasis on mankind. A celebration of God's greatest creation -- Man. Knowledge was a path to God and to improving one's life.
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Filippo Brunelleschi
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Renowned Architect. did the dome of the florence cathedral and rediscovered linear perspective
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Lorenzo Ghiberti
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North Doors (Life of Christs) Baptistery, Florence, 1403-1424, 28 reliefs in 7 rows
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Quatrefoil
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A shape or plan in which the parts assume the form of a cloverleaf. (North Doors)
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Medici Family
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family of Florence who became the first major patrons of the arts in Europe
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Cosimo de'Medici
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Florentine politician, banker, and statesman
had almost total control of local politics
encouraged industry
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Giorgio Vasari
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Writer of Lives of the Artists. Coined the term renaissance
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"Lives of the Artists"
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-1568 by Giorgio Vasari
-admirer of Italy's great artists and wrote biographies of them
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guild
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governing body of craft proffessions
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Lay confraternity
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religious organization of lay people (members of there church who were not clergy) sometimes organized by guild, who undertook charitable roles and duties like that of tending to the dying or condemned.
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Characteristics of Mannerism:
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1. Elegant, elongated, slightly destroyed figures -- less emphasis on naturalism.
2. Unusual colors and strange spatial elements.
3. Irrational subject matter
4. Celebrates the artificial and contrived nature of art.
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ARHI 2300: Exam 1