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General Art History Terms (Renaissance-Romanticism)
General terms and facts for exam 2 for UAB's ARH101 Fall 2011
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
10/26/2011

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Renaissance
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Rebirth, an awakening from the Middle Ages, and a period of immense advances in art & architecture
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What are the dates for the Early Renaissance?
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1300-1490
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What are the dates for the High Renaissance?
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1480-1550
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When did the Venetian Renaissance takes place?
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1530-1600
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When did the Northern Renaissance take place?
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1400-1550
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Where did the the Northern Renaissance take place?
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France, Flanders, Netherlands, and Germany
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Humanism
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Philosophical movement that valued the Classical cultures of ancient Greece and Rome and supported intellectual and scientific inquiries
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What was Humanism's main emphases?
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Importance of education and knowledge and a deeper reliance of human reason
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Who were the main sculptures in the Early Italian Renaissance?
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Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, Donatello, Verrocchio
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Who was the famous architect from the Early Italian Renaissance?
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Brunelleschi
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Grazia
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Ideal beauty, grace and harmony
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Tondo
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A round painting
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Trompe l'oeil
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Illusionist painting that aims to deceive viewers into believing the painting is real rather than painter representations
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Figure Triangle
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Placement of figures in a painting that form a triangle used by Leonardo da Vinci in the Renaissance
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Sfumato
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blurring of lines, used to make figures more realistic by da Vinci
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