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Greek-High Rennaissance
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Undergraduate 1
11/01/2014

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[image]The “New York Kouros
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600 BC

 

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[image]The “Peplos Kore,”
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 530 BC.

 

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[image]Achilles and Ajax playing dice
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540 BC

Exekias

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[image]Three Revelers
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510 BC   

Euthymides

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[image] The Parthenon
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447-438 BC

Iktinos and Kallikrates 

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Contrapposto
Definition

"weight shift" cause the weight of the body tends to be thrown to one 

foot creating tension on one side and relaxation on the other

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Naturalism
Definition

the style of painted or sculpted representation based on close 

observation of the natural world that was the core of the classical tradition

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Black-figure pottery
Definition

the silhouetting of dark figures against a light background of 

natural,reddish clay, with linear details incised through the silhouettes

 
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Red-figure pottery
Definition

the silhouetting of red figures against a black background with 

painted linear details

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Relief sculpture
Definition
figures projecting from a background of which they are part of
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[image]Temple of Portunus
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75 BC

 

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[image]Second Style wall-painting from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor
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50-40 BC

 

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[image]Detail of Third Style wall-painting from the Villa of Agrippa Postumus
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 10 BC
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[image]Portrait of Augustus as a general
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10 AD
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[image]Female personification (probably the Earth-goddess Tellus)
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13-9 BC.
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[image]Decursio relief
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 161 AD
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[image]Portraits of the four Tetrarchs
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 305 AD. 
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[image]The Pantheon
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118-125 AD
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Concrete
Definition

a building material invented by the Romans and consisting of various 

proportions of lime mortar, volcanic sand, water, and small stones

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barrel vault
Definition
semicylindrical in cross section is in effect a deep arch or an uninterrupted series of arches one behind the other over an oblong space 
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groin vault
Definition

formed at the point at which two barrel vaults intersect at right angles

 

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linear perspective
Definition

all parallel lines converge on one two or three vanishing points located 

with the reference to eye level of the viewer and associated objects are rendered smaller the farther from he viewer they are intended to seem.

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[image]Colossal head of Emperor Constantine
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 315 AD
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[image]Apse mosaic of Justinian and Archbishop Maximian
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547 
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[image]the church of Hagia Sophia
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532-537 

Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus

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[image]The Barberini Ivory, showing ‘Justinian as world conqueror
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 550 
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[image]Icon showing the Virgin and Child between Saints Theodore and George
Definition
 600
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[image]Cross-inscribed carpet page, from the Lindisfarne Gospels,
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700 AD
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[image]Purse cover, from the Sutton Hoo ship burial in Suffolk, England
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 625
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[image]Equestrian portrait of Charlemagne
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Ninth century
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[image]
Definition
 800 AD.
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icon
Definition

a portrait or image; especially in Byzantine churches a panel with a painting of sacred personages that are objects of veneration

 
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illuminated manuscript
Definition

a luxurious hand made book with painted illustrations and 

decorations

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basilica
Definition
in Christian architect an church; in Roman architecture a public building for legal and other civic proceedings
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apse
Definition
a recess, usually semicircular in the wall of a building, commonly found at the east end of a church
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[image]Saint Sernin, Toulouse
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 1070-1120 
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[image]Ambulatory and radiating chapels, Saint-Denis
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 1140-45
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[image]Royal Portal, west façade, Chartres Cathedral,
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1145-55
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[image][image]Chartres Cathedral,
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1134 and 1194
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[image]Notre Dame de la Belle Verrière, Chartres Cathedral,
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1170 and 13th c. 
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[image][image]Sainte-Chapelle, Paris,
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1243-1248 
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[image]God as architect, Moralized Bible,
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1220-1230
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[image]Head reliquary of Saint Alexander from Stavelot Abbey
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1145
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[image], Three King’s Shrine reliquary,
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Nicholas of Verdun,
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Reliquary
Definition
a container for holy relics
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Intercession
Definition
the action of saying a prayer on behalf of another person
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Heavenly Jerusalem
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ribbed vaults
Definition

a vault in which the diagonal and transverse ribs compose a structural 

skeleton that partially supports the masonry web between them 

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flying buttress
Definition

 inclined member carried on arch or a series of arches and a solid buttress 

to which it transmits lateral thrusts

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[image]Great Stupa at Sanchi,
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third century BCE to first century BCE.
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[image]Interior of chaitya hall
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50 CE 

 
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[image]Bodhisattva Padmapani, detail of wall painting in Cave 1
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second half of fifth century
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[image]Shakyamuni Buddha, from Hebei Province,
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 338 

 
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[image]Vairocana Buddha, disciples, and bodhisattvas, Fengxian Temple, Longmen Caves,
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676.
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[image]Paradise of Amitabha
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 172
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[image]Foguang Si Pagoda
Definition
1056
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[image]Sixth Chan Patriarch Chopping Bamboo
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early 13th century

Liang Kai,

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[image] Ariel view of Borobudur,
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800 
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[image]Sacrifice of Isaac
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1401

Lorenzo Ghiberti

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[image]David,
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Donatello

1440-1460

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[image]The Tribute Money
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1424-27

Masaccio

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[image]Last Supper
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1495-98

Leonardo da Vinci

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[image]Mona Lisa
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1503-05

Leonardo da Vinci

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[image] Philosophy (School of Athens)
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1509-1511

Raphael

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[image]David
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1501-1504
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[image]Sistine Chapel ceiling
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1508-12

Michelangelo

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Fresco
Definition
painting on wet lime plaster
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atmospheric perspective
Definition

creates the illusion of distance by the greater diminution 

of color intensity

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linear perspective
Definition

all lines converge on one or two or three vanishing points with 

reference to the eye level of the viewer

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Vanishing point
Definition
point where all lines converge on an image
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Chiaroscuro
Definition

the treatment and use of light and dark especially the gradations of light 

that produce the effect of modeling 

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[image] Last Judgment,
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1536-1541

Michelangelo Buonarroti

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[image]Pietà
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1547-1555

Michelangelo Buonarroti

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[image]Madonna with the Long Neck
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1534-1540

Parmigianino

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[image]Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time
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1546

Bronzino

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[image]Portrait of the Artist’s Sisters and Brother
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 1555

Sofonisba Anguissola

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[image]Portrait of a Noblewoman
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1580 

Fontana

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[image]Madonna of the Pesaro Family
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1519-1526

Titian

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[image] Venus of Urbino
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1536-1538

Titian 

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[image] Christ in the House of Levi
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1573

Paolo Veronese

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Reformation
Definition
was the schism within Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther, John Calvin, and other early Protestant Reformers to go agaist the injustices of the catholic church 
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Counter-Reformation
Definition
the period of Catholic reviva
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Maniera
Definition
Italian for style or manner
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Canon
Definition
a correct rule of proportion
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sacra conversazione
Definition

“holy conversation” a style of altarpiece painting popular after the middle 

of the 15th century in which saints from different epochs are joined in a unified space and seem to be conversing with one another or the audience 

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colore vs. disegno
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pastoral
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fresco-
Definition
painting on lime plaster either dry or wet
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