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Art History Test 2
Chapters 4, 5, and 6
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04/15/2011

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Term
Definition

The Last Judgment
by Giotto

 

Renaissance
Italian

Term
Definition

Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor)

by Velázquez


Baroque

Spanish

Term
Definition

The Rokeby Venus

by Velázquez


Baroque

Spanish

Term
Definition

Venus of Urbino

by Titian

 

Renaissance

Italian

Term
Definition

The Return of the Prodigal Son

by Rembrandt

 

Baroque

Dutch (Holland)

Term
Definition

Last Supper

by Leonardo da Vinci

 

Renaissance

Italian

Term
Definition

Sacrifice of Isaac

by Ghiberti

 

Renaissance

Italian

Term
Definition

Conversion of St. Paul

by Caravaggio

 

Baroque

Italian

Term
Definition

Self-Portrait 1500

by Dürer


Renaissance

Northern Europe

Term
Definition

Sacrifice of Isaac

by Brunelleschi

 

Renaissance

Italian

Term
Definition

Self-Portrait 1659

by Rembrandt

 

Baroque

Dutch (Holland)

Term
Definition

The Blinding of Samson

by Rembrandt

 

Baroque

Dutch (Holland)

Term
Definition

Descent from the Cross

by Rembrandt

 

Baroque

Dutch (Holland)

Term
Definition

The Raising of the Cross

by Rubens

 

Baroque

Flemish (Flanders)

Term
Definition

Pieta

by Michelangelo

 

Renaissance

Italian

Term
Definition

Madonna with the Long Neck

by Parmigianino

 

Mannerism

Italian

Term
Definition

David

by Michelangelo

 

Renaissance

Italian

 

First monumental, free-standing, male nude carved in marble since Antiquity.

Term
Definition

Holy Trinity with the Virgin and St. John

by Masaccio

 

Renaissance

Italian

 

First known painting to demonstrate true linear perspective.

Term
Definition

The Lion Hunt

by Rubens

 

Baroque

Flemish

Term
Definition

Interior with a Woman Reading a Letter

by Vermeer

 

Baroque

Dutch (Holland)

Term
Definition

The Last Judgment

by Michelangelo

 

Renaissance

Italian

Term
Definition

Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes

by Gentileschi

 

Baroque

Italian

Term
Definition

Isenheim Altarpiece

by Grunewald

 

Renaissance

Northern European

Term
Definition

St. Francis Drives Away the Demons from Arezzo

by Giotto

 

Renaissance

Italian

Term
Definition

Lamentation

by Giotto

 

Renaissance

Italian

Term
Definition

Gates of Paradise

by Ghiberti

 

Renaissance

Italian

Term
Definition

St. George

by Donatello

 

Renaissance

Italian

Term
Definition

David

by Donatello

 

Renaissance

Italian

Term
Definition

Crucifixion

by Giotto

 

Renaissance

Italian

Term
Definition

Creation of Adam

by Michelangelo

 

Renaissance

Italian

Term
Definition

Merode Altarpiece

by Campin

 

Renaissance

Northern European

Term
Definition

The Tempietto

by Bramante

 

Renaissance

Italian

Term
Definition

Venus and Mars

by Botticelli

 

Renaissance

Italian

Term
Definition

Garden of Earthly Delights

by Bosch

 

Renaissance

Northern European

Term
Definition

Birth of Venus

by Botticelli

 

Renaissance

Italian

Term
Definition

David

by Bernini

 

Baroque

Italian

Term
Definition

Ecstasy of St. Teresa

by Bernini

 

Baroque

Italian

Term
Definition

Baptism of Christ in the Jordan

by Perugino

 

Renaissance

Italian

Term
Definition

Annunciation

by Van Eyck

 

Renaissance

Northern Europe

Term
Definition

Descent from the Cross

by Rubens

 

Baroque

Flemish (Flanders)

Term
Definition

Portrait of the Artist's Son, Titus

by Rembrandt

 

Baroque

Dutch (Holland)

Term
Definition

Story of Jacob and Esau

by Ghiberti

 

Renaissance

Italian

Term
Definition

The Rondanini Pieta

by Michelangelo

 

Renaissance

Italian

Term
Definition

School of Athens

by Raphael

 

Renaissance

Italian

Term
Definition

Delivery of the Keys

by Perugino

 

Renaissance

Italian

Term
Definition

Mona Lisa

by Leonardo da Vinci

 

Renaissance

Italian

Term
Definition

Judith and Holofernes

by Caravaggio

 

Baroque

Italian

Term
Definition

Arnolfini Marriage

by Van Eyck

 

Renaissance

Northern European

Term
Definition

Virgin of the Rocks

by Leonardo da Vinci

 

Renaissance

Italian

Term
Definition

Woman Holding a Balance

by Vermeer

 

Baroque

Dutch (Holland)

Term
Mannerism
Definition

1520 - 1600

 

Born in Rome from the counter-reformation.

Art became the starting point of observation rather than nature.

Term
Baroque
Definition

1600 - 1700

 

Characterized by crowded, imbalanced compositions; high contrasted lighting; and violent subject matter.

Term
Renaissance
Definition

1400 - 1520

 

Born in Florence, Italy. Also in Netherlands and Germany.

Biblical subject matter with the look of Classical Antiquity.

Calm, order, stability, and organization.

Term
fresco
Definition
Painting on damp plaster.
Term
chiaroscuro
Definition
"light and dark"
Form defined through shading.
Term
sfumato
Definition

"smoky"

Leonardo's subtle way of using chiaroscuro.

Term
Palazzo Vecchio
Definition
The city hall in Florence.
Term
triptych
Definition
An altarpiece divided into three parts.
Term
oil painting
Definition

Is advantageous to artists because it dries slowly.

First used in the Renaissance.

Term
atmospheric perspective
Definition
Distant objects appear hazier and bluer.
Term
scale diminution
Definition
Reduction of scale as you go further back into the background.
Term
foreshortening
Definition
A visual contraction of a long object pointed towards the viewer.
Term
linear perspective
Definition

A method showing depth using lines.

Parallel receding lines appear to meet at a vanishing point in the distance.

Term
tenebroso
Definition
Extreme chiaroscuro; high contrast.
Term
Rococo
Definition

1700 - 1750

 

Starts in Paris.

Frivolous, upper-class style.

Term
Definition

Third of May, 1808

by Goya

 

Romanticism

Spanish

Term
Definition

Snowstorm: Steamboat off a Harbor's Mouth

by Turner

 

Romanticism

British

Term
Definition

Snow Storm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps

by Turner

 

Romanticism

British

Term
Definition

Haywain

by Constable

 

Romanticism

British

Term
Definition

Oath of the Horatii

by David

 

Neoclassicism

French

Term
Definition

Death of Marat

by David

 

Neoclassicism

French

Term
Definition

The Swing

by Fragonard

 

Rococo

French

Term
Definition

Raft of the Medusa

by Gericault

 

Romanticism

French

Term
Definition

Great Deeds! Against the Dead!

by Goya

 

Romanticism

Spanish

Term
Definition

La Grande Odalisque (Harem Girl)

by Ingres

 

Romanticism

French

Term
Definition

Embarkation from Cythera

by Watteau

 

Rococo

French

Term
Definition

Hampstead Heath

by Constable

 

Romanticism

British

Term
Definition

Lovers in a Park

by Boucher

 

Rococo

French

Term
fêtes galantes
Definition

"elegant party"

The luxurious mindset of the upper-class French during the Rococo period.

Term
Neoclassicism
Definition

1750 - 1800

 

Movement against Rococo.

Influenced by the excavation of Pompeii and the political climate of France at the time.

Crisp lines compared to Rococo.

Term
Romanticism
Definition

1800 - 1850

 

Nature vs man.

Exoticism.