a kind of painting that realistically depicts scenes from everyday life.

Ex: DIEGO VELÁZQUEZ, Water Carrier of Seville

Painting in the “shadowy manner,” using violent contrasts of light and dark, as in the work of Caravaggio. The term derives from tenebroso.

Ex: CARAVAGGIO, Conversion of Saint Paul

A picture depicting an arrangement of inanimate objects.

Ex: PIETER CLAESZ, Vanitas Still Life

Portrait of a group of professional people

Ex: REMBRANDT, The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq

Latin, “dark room.” An ancestor of the modern camera in which a tiny pinhole, acting as a lens, projects an image on a screen, the wall of a room, or the ground-glass wall of a box; used by artists in the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries as an aid in drawing from nature.

Ex: DIEGO VELÁZQUEZ, Water Carrier of Seville

scientific materialism

“Reality is nothing but matter in motion”

French,“amorous festival.”A type of Rococo painting depicting the outdoor amusements of French upper-class society.

Ex: ANTOINE WATTEAU, Return from Cythera

using the Romantic approach to painting to comment on the ills of society

Ex:  FRANCISCO GOYA, The Third of May 

"The Sublime"

Awe-Inspiring beauty/grandness

Ex: THOMAS COLE, The Clove