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ARt Hist 102 test 1-vocab
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
09/19/2010

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pointed arches
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an arch with a pointed apex; characteristic of Gothic architecture
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rounded arches
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an arch formed in a continuous curve; characteristic of Roman architecture
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Classical art
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(meaning Greek and Roman) the style, traditions, and qualities of ancient times, especially the art and sculpture of ancient Greece and Rome
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chiaroscuro
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a monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color (Italian for light-dark)
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contrapposto
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Italian term used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs. This gives the figure a more dynamic, or alternatively relaxed appearance.
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fresco
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a mural done with watercolors on wet plaster
a durable method of painting on a wall by using watercolors on wet plaster
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atmospheric perspective
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Aerial perspective or atmospheric perspective refers to the effect the atmosphere has on the appearance of an object as it is viewed from a distance. ...
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oil paint
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Oil paint is a type of slow-drying paint that consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil, commonly linseed oil. ...
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patron
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the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows to another. In the history of art, arts patronage refers to the support that kings or popes have provided to musicians, painters, and sculptors. ...
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polyptych
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generally refers to a painting (usually panel painting) which is divided into multiple sections, or panels. ...
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grisaille
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In painting, a method of working which employs only varying values of gray to create form. Often a preliminary step in a fully colored painting
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The Medici Family
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rich banking family, patrons of many arts
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guilds
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A guild is an association of craftsmen in a particular trade
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linear perspective (sometimes called scientific perspective)
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he appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
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The Duke of Milan
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always trying to invade Florence and Da Vinci worked for him for a bit...
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double-shelled dome
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to halfs of a dome brought together to make a whole.. "egg challenge" works by gravity pulling down wards.. supporting each other..
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Vitruvius' Treatise on Architecture
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Giorgio Vasari
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Vasari: Italian painter and art historian (1511-1574)
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trompe l’oeil
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is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimension... TO TRICK THE EYE..
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Figures in Botticelli’s La Primavera (from right to left: Zephyr, Chloris, Flora, Spring, Cupid, The Three Graces, Mercury)
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Neo-Platonism
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A philosophy which was developed during the Renaissance which married Platonic philosophy with Christian thinking. It was especially discussed in the court of the Medici in Florence... OLD MYTH NOW JUST CHRISTIAN..
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sfumato
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In painting, the application of subtle layers of translucent paint so that there is no visible transition between colors, tones and often objects
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Sigmund Freud
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Freud: Austrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis (1856-1939) studyed a davinci painting.. :? found a voulture and something about his mother too..
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Laocoon
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the priest of Apollo who warned the Trojans to beware of Greeks bearing gifts when they wanted to accept the Trojan Horse; a god who favored the Greeks (Poseidon or Athena) sent snakes who coiled around Laocoon and his two twin sons killing them
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ignudi
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small male figures smashed into the small awkward spaces left by the architecture.
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Pope Julius II
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commissions The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512
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Martin Luther
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Reformation.. broke away from the Catholic church..
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Aristotle and Plato
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philosophers of ancient greece.. said to look like Da Vinci in the painting...
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