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Unit 1
Terms
25
Art History
Undergraduate 1
04/04/2010

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Flanders
Definition
Netherlands and Belgium
Center of Late GOthic Movement
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Polyptych
Definition
Multi-part piece
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Triptych
Definition
3-part peice
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Diptych
Definition
2-part piece
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Annunciation
Definition
Archangel Gabriel tells mary that she will bear the son og God
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Disguised Symbolism
Definition
Everyday objects that have a higher meaning
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Donor
Definition
included in image, gives money, owns the art
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Illuminated manuscript
Definition
Handritten book with illustrations
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Atmospheric Perspective
Definition
illusion of distance by the lessening of a local color to a neutral blue and blurring of contours as distance between eye and object increases
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Grisaille
Definition
To paint to look like statue
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Johan Gutenberg
Definition
Developed printmaking in Western Europe
made printing press
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Woodcut
Definition
design is cut into a wood block so that the raised ridges will print
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Engraving
Definition
grooves are cut intoa metal plate
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Fresco
Definition
process of layers:
rough layer of plaster, drawing, smooth plaster layer, while plaster is wet pigments are applied
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Buon Fresco
Definition
Good fresco, with wet plaster
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fresco Secco
Definition
Pigment painted on dry plaster
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Proto-Renaissance
Definition
movement in art that acted as the precursor to the renaissancel though its artwork consisted of mostly Gothic elemnets, some Renaissance elements start to emerge
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Duomo
Definition
House fo God, name for cathedral church
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Nativity
Definition
religious event in which jesus was born to Virgin Mary and Joseph in a stable
the incorporation of a lot of animals signifies the stable
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Humanism
Definition
"man is the measure of all things"
about the individual
man is the focus
empahsized the worth of an individual, rational abilities and human potential for good
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Contrapposto
Definition
"set against"
developed by ancient Greeks
represent movement of Renaissance
Asymmetrical placement of limbs around a central axis
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Medici
Definition
biggest art patrons of Early Renaissance Cosimo and Lorenzo the Magnificent were the amin gusy
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One-point linear perspective
Definition
Discovered by Brunelleschi
used to create accurate renderings of ancinet building in Rome
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Trompe l'oeil
Definition
"To fool the eye"
into thinking that you're looking at something that's not there.
Make things mroe realistic and as if your part of the painting
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Sacra conversazione
Definition
Holy conversation, outside, mother and child in center
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