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Undergraduate 1
09/30/2012

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Term
tempera
Definition
fast drying, water based painting medium made with egg yolk. often used in fresco painting and panel painting
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sarcaphagus
Definition
a stone coffin
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proportion
Definition
the relation of one part to another and parts of the whole with respect to size, height, width.
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pulpit
Definition
in church and elevated stand, often, richly decorated where the preacher addresses the congregation
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pediment
Definition
a triangular feature placed as decortion over doors and windows
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secular art
Definition
no religious value
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pilaster (engaged column)
Definition
a flattened rectangular version of a column sometimes load- bearing, but often purely decorative
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sanctuary
Definition
the most holy part of the place of worship. it contains the alter
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portal
Definition
the door way of the church and the architectuarl compotistion surrounding it.
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plane
Definition
flat surface
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column
Definition
vertical cylindrical part of a column that supports the entablature
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sfumato
Definition
the definition of form by delicate graduations of light and shadow
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rotunda
Definition
circular building usually covered by a dome
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patron
Definition
the person or group that commission a work of art from an artist
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polychrome
Definition
consisting of several colors
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villa
Definition
in the renissance a large country house
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satyr
Definition
an ancient woodland deity with legs, tail, and horns of a goat or horse and the head and torso of a human.
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palette
Definition
the range of colors used by an artist
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relief
Definition
a mode of sculpture in which an image is developed outward or inward from a basic plane
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linear perspective
Definition
creates an illusion of depth in a 2-d image throughout the use of straight lines converging towards a vanishing point in the distance
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oil paint
Definition
slow drying and flexible paint formed by mixing pigments with a medium oil
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mosaic
Definition
use of small piece of glass stone or tile to create an image on a flat surface
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monastery
Definition
religious establishment housing a community of people living in accordance with religious vows
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medium
Definition
the material with which an artist works
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illuminated manuscript
Definition
handwritten book produced in the middle ages or renaissance. has painted illustarions
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memento mori
Definition
an image often a skull to remind the living of the inevitablilty of death
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latin cross
Definition
a cross in which the vertical arms is longer than the horizontal arm
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lantern
Definition
structure crowning a dome or tower often used to admit light to the interior
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icon
Definition
sacred image representing christ virgin mary or other holy persons
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fresco (cycle)
Definition
technique of painting on the plaster surface of a wall or ceiling while it is still damp so that the pigments become fused with the plaster
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figurative
Definition
representing the likeness of a recoginze human (or animal) figure
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facade
Definition
the front or "face" of a building
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entablature
Definition
the portion of a classical architechtural order above the capitol of a column
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dome
Definition
vaulted roof or ceiling on a circular base
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contrapposto
Definition
the stance of the human body in which one leg bears the weight the other leg is relaxed. creates asymmetry in the hip shoulder axis
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composition
Definition
the arrangement of formal elements ina work of art
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colonnade
Definition
series of columns set at regular intervals, usually supporting arches or an entabature
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coffer
Definition
recessed geometrical panel in a ceiling
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cathedral
Definition
the principal church
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capitol
Definition
the decorated top of a coumn prouding a transition from the shaft to the entablature
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camplanile
Definition
italian for bell tower, usually free standing but built near a church
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Book of Hours
Definition
prayer book intended for lay use containing the devotions or acts of worship for the hours of the Roman Catholic Church
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baptistry
Definition
a building usually round or polygonal used for christian baptismal services
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barrel vault
Definition
a semicylindrical vault with parallel abutment and an identical cross section throughout covering an oblong space
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balance
Definition
equilibrium in the combination or arrangement of elements
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arch
Definition
a curved piece of architecture that is used to span an opening
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arcade
Definition
a gallery formed by a series of arches with supporting coulms or peirs wither free standing of attached to the wall
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abstract
Definition
having a generalized or essential form with only a symbolic resembalance to natural objects
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lunette
Definition
Something crescent-shaped
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humanism
Definition
Humanism is the movement of the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries when all branches of learning, literary, scientific and intellectual, were based on the culture and literature of classical Greco-Roman antiquity.
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palazzo
Definition

A palatial building, esp. in Italy.


Term

Nicola Pisano

Pulpit

Pisa Baptistry

1259-1260

Marble

Definition
[image]
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Cimabue

Madonna Enthroned

1280-1290

Tempura on Wood

Definition
[image]
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Giotto

The Arena Chapel (The Annunciation)

Fresco Cycle

Padua

1305

Definition
[image]
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Giotto

The Arena Chapel (The Kiss of Judas)

Fresco Cycle

Padua

1305

Definition
[image]
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Giotto

Stigmatization of Saint Francis

Freso

1317

Definition
[image]
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Simone Martini

Annunciation

1333

Definition
[image]
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Bernardo Rosselinino

Tomb of Leonardo Bruni

1444

Definition
[image]
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Lorenzo Ghiberti

Bronze Doors of Florence Baptistry

1452

Definition
[image]
Term

Filippo Brunelleschi

The Dome of Florence Cathedral

1410-1436

Definition
[image]
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Filippo Brunelleschi

Hospital of the Innocents (The Founding Hospital)

1419

Definition
[image]
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Leon Battista Alberti

 

Author

Architect

Definition
Term

Masaccio

The Holy Trinitry

Fresco

1425

Definition
[image]
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Masaccio

Expulsion From Eden

Fresco

1425

Definition
[image]
Term

Donatello

The Bronze David

1430-1440

Definition
[image]
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Fra Angelico

Annunciation

1440

Definition
[image]
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Piero della Fraancesca

Dream of Constanine

1450

Definition
[image]
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Sandro Botticelli

Birth of Venus

1480

 

Definition
[image]
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Robert Campin

Merode Altarpiece

1430

Definition
[image]
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Jan Van Eyke

The Arnolfini Portarait (The Wedding Portrati)

1434

Definition
[image]
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Leonardo da Vinci

Vitruvian Man

1490

Definition
[image]
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Donato Bramante

The Tempietto

1502-1503

Rome

Definition
[image]
Term

Leonardo da Vinci

Last Supper

Fresco

1498

Definition
[image]
Term

da Vinci

Mona Lisa

Oil on Wood

1505

Definition
[image]
Term

Michelangelo

Pieta

1498-1500

Marble

Definition
[image]
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Michelangelo

David

Marble

1504

 

Definition
[image]
Term

Michelangelo

Sistine Chapel Ceiling

1512

Fresco

Definition
[image]
Term

Raphael

School of Athens

1509-11

Fresco

Definition
[image]
Term

Titian

Assumption of the Virgin

1518

Definition
[image]
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Andrea Palladio

Villa Rotunda

Vicenza Italy

1567-69

Definition
[image]
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byzantine tradition
Definition
  • eastern roman empire
  • enlongated figures
  • simplified facial features, expressionless
  • lack of depile
  • lack of accurate perspective
  • sense of mystery
  • dramatic use of natural light,contrast with dark spaces
  • rounded aches, richly decorated, gold
  • rich tradition
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classical traditon
Definition
  • naturalistic and realistic
  • defined facila features
  • athletic bodies
  • realistic poses
  • idealized beauty: curly hair, muscles, beautiful handsome features
  • drapery
  • white marble or other stone
  • temples, rounded arches, classic columns
  • before christian times
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why do we study art history?
Definition

teaches us about our own creative expression and those of our past.

 

its a window into human thought and emotion

Term
why do we create art?
Definition

artistic and creative impulse

a natural desire to impose order on disorder and to create form from formless

response to ones environment

political commentary

desire for expression

means of communication

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how can you create illusion in art?
Definition

with images and words

 

artists and gods: both seen as creators can sometimes cause angel

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why is art valued?
Definition

materialistic

intrinisc: value in itself

religious

nationalistc 

psychological value:emotional

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how did art begin?
Definition

reflections and shadows embody the spirt: draw a line around relected image or shadow

 

image magic: harm to image = harm to person can embody of snatch soul

 

archetecture: reponse by idetification more functional

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why do we collect art?
Definition

valued as booty

enhanced power

intristic value

to show off

for decoration

 

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how is archaeology relatd to art?
Definition
stylistic analysis of works of art help archaelogists date layers of cultures and it of great importance to cultural and economic historians in determining patterns of trade.
Term
how do we approach art?
Definition
  • formalism: view art idependanty of context and function
  • iconography: content over form
  • psychoanalysis:
  • deconstruction: no ultimate meaning
  • marxism: economic factors
  • semiology: signs
  • feminism
  • biography
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how do we talk about art?
Definition

compostition

texture

shape

plane

light and color

balance

line

Term
gothic traditions
Definition
  • delicate figures, selnder
  • lots of gold, delicate decoration
  • carved painted patterns
  • pointed arches
  • #3
  • stone decoration
  • virticalit: directed towards jesus
  • france, middle ages, christain art
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birth place of the renasissance
Definition

florence around 1400s

age of humanism

fusion of classical and christain ideas

circles and square

human proportions beautiful and perfect

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