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treating a building as one massive block of stone with spaces carved inside
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(holy conversation) scene depicting Madonna with Child, accompanied by others such as St. Sebastian, St. John, St. Francis, and many times the piece's patrons
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thin layers of diluted paint used to create sculptural effects in paintings
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pagan god of antiquity known for disguising himself when seducing women (so Hera wouldn't find out)
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Beginning in the 1510's, the era in which the Catholic Church's authority was challenged
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The Church's retaliation to the Reformation—an attempt to make people come back to the Church
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the interruption of one pediment by another imposing pediment on a building's facade
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the elongated and unnaturally twisted human form favored in Mannerist art
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a concept encompassing pride and ambition; used to describe the legend of Icarus
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artwork made by incising positive space into a plate of metal, which is then inked and run through a press to create a print
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artwork made by chiseling negative space into a block of wood, which is then inked and pressed the print matrix
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the image-bearing surface in printing
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the sharp cutting instrument used to incise engravings
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a set of multiple prints
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an important humanist writer in northern Europe during the Reformation
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an architectural construction in which a pier or support extrudes from a wall
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a pointed architectural structure, most commonly as a type of roof
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having roughened surfaces and sunken joints
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large house; literally: castle, mansion, countryhome
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sharply contrasting light and darks; a sort of amplified chiaroscuro, as evident in the works of Caravaggio and his contemporaries
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similar to an engraving, but the process allows for more delicate marks
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the tool used to carve an etching
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the method of etching in which the image is scratched directly onto the plate
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