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| High Renaissance Characteristics |
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Rational space
Linear Perspective
Natural, Harmonious color
Figures based on nature or Classicism Figures
Solid, Triangular or Pyramidal compositions
Balance, Serene Composition
Readable and logical
Normative postures
Reports Natural Appearance |
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| Mannerist Characteristics |
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Disjunctive, ambiguous space
Often utterly impossible perspective
High Key, Bilious, unnatural colors
based on Michelangelo, et al,
Figure 8, Off center, Crowned Composition
Instability, Restless, unsettled Composition
Ambiguous and artificially Fanciful
Stagy, Bizarre, Distorted poses
Preference for elegance and polish caprice and complexity |
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| Italian for "smoke", it refers to misty haziness in a painting that softens contour lines, creating lineless areas of tone. |
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| "poetic" art; usually found in Venetian Renaissance paintings that function as poetry and stress sensuality and lyricism |
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| A perceicable trace of earlier painting beneath subsequent layers of paint on a canvas |
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| Italian for a serpentine or spiraling pose |
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| a stick used by a painter to steady the hand while painting. |
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| from the spanish word platero, Silversmith. Spanish architectural style derived from gothic, italian renaissance and islamic examples characterized by intricate, delicate, detailed carving |
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| one of a sect of visionaries, who professing to imitate the state of adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies. Bosch possibly practiced as an Adamite |
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Matthias Grünewald
Isenheim Altarpiece(closed)
16th C. Northern Europe |
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Albrecht Dürer
Self-Portrait
16th C. Northern Europe |
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Albrecht Dürer
The Fall Of Man (Adam and Eve)
16th C. Northern Europe |
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Lucas Cranach the Elder
Law and Gospel
16th C. Northern Europe |
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Albrecht Altdorfer
Battle of Issus
16th C. Northern Europe |
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