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Art History
Undergraduate 1
06/05/2013

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Term
Chiaroscuro
Definition
Chiaro= light
Oscuro= dark
Italian word describing the contrast of light and dark in a painting/drawing or print. It depticts spatial depth with the creation of shadows
Term
Sfumato
Definition
"smoky"
gives an effect of a soft and mellow haze in a painting
Term
Ignudi
Definition
Heroic figures of nude young men
Term
Cartoon
Definition
A full-scale drawing used to transfer
or guide a design onto a surface to be painted, carved, or woven.
Term
Pope Julius II
Definition
Pontificate 1503-1513
Born Giuliano della Rovere
[1443-1513; Pope 1503-1513]
Life of an aristocrat
Entered church after brother took family Duke title
Warrior Pope- put troops to war
Couldn't leave court life behind
Term
Realism
Definition
looking at an object and painting exactly what you see
opposite of idealism
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Idealism
Definition
painting the ideal/perfect form of an object, scene, person based on social values. e.g. Botticelli's Birth of Venus c.1484-86
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Naturalism
Definition
Like realism, takes an interest in depicting the observable world accurately, with a focus on the natural world/ form.
Term
Poesie
Definition
painted poems
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Pastoral
Definition
paintings and works that depicted scenes of country life/ the countryside
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Mannerism
Definition
from the Italian maniera "meaning
style"; an anti-Classical movement in which artificiality, grace, and elegance took priority over the ordered
balance and lifelike references
Term
Self- Portrait
Definition
Practice of artists painting their own image
Term
Martin Luther
Definition
Sought to reform the church. started the Protestant Reformation in 1517 with his "95 theses". Condemned the selling of indulgences, and and the excessive veneration of saints and their relics; emphasized
individual faith and regarded the Bible as the ultimate religious
authority
Term
Indulgency
Definition
Rococo Art; taking part excessively in the luxuries of life
Term
Broadsheets
Definition
newspaper done with woodblock printing with the use oif pictures and texts, so the iliterate could understand their meaning; very popular for the Prot Reform
Term
Iconoclasm
Definition
the smashing of religious images
Term
Protestant Reformation
Definition
led by Martin Luther in 1517, it was a call for he reform of the catholic church from, what is was seemed at the time, it's frivolous and condemning ways
Term
Counter Reformation
Definition
known as a period of spiritual renewal, it was the response to the Protestant reformation, with the revival of the Catholic Church. Led by Members of the Jesuits, who began to use art as a method of propaganda
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Landscape
Definition
paintings with no overt religious content, although it could be seen as a reflection of God's works on Earth.
Term
Chateau
Definition
A French country house
or residential castle
Term
Anamorphic Perspective
Definition
which images are stretched horizontally
with the use of a trapezoidal grid so that they must be viewed from the side to appear correctly proportioned.
Term
Genre painting
Definition
paintings depicting scenes of everyday life
Term
Still-life
Definition
type of painting that has as its subject
inanimate objects
Term
Baldacchino
Definition
a large decorative canopy for the pope; mix between architecture and sculpture. e.g. Urban XIII's [blank] in St. Peter's Basilica by Bernini
Term
Tenebrism
Definition
use of strong chiaroscuro, where forms emerge from a dark background into a strong light that often falls from a single source outside the painting
Term
Connoisseurship
Definition
study of style to assess quality and determine authorship
Term
Group portraiture
Definition
documenting the membership of social/ corporate organizations; a
Dutch specialty
Term
Drypoint
Definition
artist uses a sharp needle to scratch shallow lines in a metal plate
Term
Impasto
Definition
thick applications of paint that
give a painting a palpable surface texture
Term
Vanitas
Definition
an image all the objects symbolize the transience of life
Term
Sun King
Definition
An absolute monarch whose reign was the longest in
European history, became known as le Roi Soleil and was sometimes glorified in art through identification with the Classical sun god, Apollo.
Term
Rococo
Definition
describes the refined and fanciful style that became fashionable
Term
Salons
Definition
rooms that held intimate, fashionable, and intellectual gatherings
Term
Memento mori
Definition
reminder of mortality
Term
Fete galante
Definition
painting depicting well-dressed people at leisure in a park or country
setting
Term
Terra-cotta
Definition
clay
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