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Renaissance- Modern
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
03/25/2009

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Battle of San Romano
Definition
Paolo Uccello
1455
tempera on wood
Term
David (Donatello)
Definition
Donatello
late 1420s-late 1450's
bronze
Term
Birth of Venus
Definition
Sandro Botticelli
1482
tempera on canvas
Term
Annunciation
Definition
Fra Angelico
1440-1445
fresco
Term
Madonna and Child with Angels
Definition
Fra Fillipo Lippi
1455
tempera on wood
Term
Christ Delivering the Keys of the Kingdom to Saint Peter
Definition
Perugino
1481-1483
fresco
Term
Mona Lisa
Definition
Leonardo da Vinci
1503-1505
oil on wood
Term
David (Michalangeo Buonarroti)
Definition
Buonarroti
1501-4
marble
Term
ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Definition
Michalangelo 1508-1512
fresco
Term
Madonna in the Meadow
Definition
Raphael
1505-1506
oil on panel
Term
Pastoral Symphony
Definition
Giogione da Castelfranco
1508
oil on canvas
Term
Venus of Urbino
Definition
Titian
1538
oil on canvas
Term
Madonna with the Long Neck
Definition
Parmigianino
1535
oil on wood
Term
Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time (The Exposure of Luxury)
Definition
Bronzino
1546
oil on wood
Term
Saint Peter's (view from the Northwest)
Definition
Michelangelo Buonarroti
1546-1564
dome completed by Giacomo della Porta 1590
Term
Isenheim Altarpiece (Closed)
Cruxifiction (center panel)
Definition
from the chapel of the Hospital of Saint Anthony
1510-1515
oil on panel
Term
Four Apostles
Definition
Albrecht Durer
1526
oil on panel
Term
The Fall of Men (Adam and Eve)
Definition
Albrecht Durer
1504
engraving
Term
The French Ambassadors
Definition
Hans Holbein the Younger
1533
oil and tempera on panel
Term
The Money Charger and His Wife
Definition
Quinten Massys
1514
oil on panel
Term
Meat Still Life
Definition
Pieter Aertsen
1551
oil on panel
Term
Hunters in the Snow
Definition
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
1565
oil on panel
Term
Netherlandish Proverbs
Definition
Pieter Brugel the Elder
1559
oil on panel
Term
The Burial of Count Orgaz
Definition
El Greco
1586
oil on canvas
Term
façade of saint Peter’s
Definition
Carlo Maderno
1606-1612
Term
David (Bernini)
Definition
Gianlorenzo Bernini
1623
marble
Term
Ecstacy of Saint Teresa
Definition
Gianlorenzo Bernini
1645-1652
marble
Term
Conversion of Saint Paul
Definition
Carravagio
1601
Oil on canvas
Term
Entombment
Definition
Carravagio
1603
oil on canvas
Term
Judith Slaying Holofernes
Definition
Artemisia Gentileschi
1614-1620
oil on canvas
Term
Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor)
Definition
Diego Velázquez
1656
oil on canvas
Term
Elevation of the Cross
Definition
Peter Paul Rubens
1610
oil on panel
Term
The Women Regents of the Old Men's Home at Haarlem
Definition
Frans Hals
1664
oil on canvas
Term
Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp
Definition
Rembrandt van Rijin
1632
oil on canvas
Term
The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq
Definition
Rembrandt van Rijn
1642
oil on canvas
Term
The Letter
Definition
Jan Vermeer
1666
oil on canvas
Term
Allegory of the Art of Painting
Definition
Jan Vermeer
1670-1675
oil on canvas
Term
Et in Arcadia Ego
Definition
Nicholas Poussin
1655
oil on canvas
Term
Hall of Mirrors
Definition
Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Charles Le Brun
1680
Term
New Saint Paul's Cathedral
Definition
Sir Christopher Wren
1675-1710
Term
contrapposto
Definition
the disposition of the human figure in which one part is turned in opposition to another part creating a conterpositioning of the body about its central axis.
Term
loggia
Definition
a gallery with an open arcade or a colonnade on one or both sides
Term
sfumato
Definition
a smokelike haziness that subtly softens outlines in painting; particurally applied to the painting of Leonardo and Correggio
Term
colore
Definition
color
Term
disegno
Definition
Italian "drawing" and "design". Renaissance artists considered drawing to bet the external physical manifestation of an internal intellectual idea of design.
Term
reformation
Definition
an attempt by Martin Luther to reform the Roman Catholic Church
Term
Iconoclasm
Definition
The destruction of images.
Term
Anamorphic Image
Definition
A distorted image that must be viewed by some special means (such as a mirror) or at an angle to be recognized
Term
Mannerism
Definition
Style emphasizing "atrifice", often involving contrived imagery not derived directly from nature. Complexity, caprice, fantasy, polish.
Term
Tenebrism
Definition
Painting in the "dark manner", using violent contrasts of light and dark, as in the work of Caravaggio
Term
Baroque
Definition
a blanket designation for the art of the period 1600-1750
Term
Camera Obscura
Definition
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 as an aid to draw nature.
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