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Arth 106 Test 1 Terms
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Art History
Undergraduate 4
02/13/2013

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Stylized
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The alteration of the representational elements according to some taste
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Naturalistic
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According to nature
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Realism
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The depiction of people and things from the ordinary, everyday world. (What is good, beautiful, or interesting).
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Realistic
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Illusionistic
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Secular
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Worldly, not based on religion
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Anagogical Method
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The love of beautiful things is permitted because those things draw our attention upwards, to the author of all beauty, God. Introduced by Abbot Suger during the Gothic Era in France.
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Society Portrait
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A portrait of a member of a person's family meant to promote a flattering image of that person and their family to members of their society
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Humanism
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The Renaissance cultural movement that turned away from the Medieval world view and towards classical art, philosophy, and science
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Patronage System
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The patron makes the decision about the art
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Momento Mori
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A reminder of death, the most common of which is a skull
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Genre
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Scene of everyday life
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Martin Luther
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In 1517, he nailed his 95 theses to the church door in Wittenberg, which inaugurates the reformation. He was excommunicated in 1521. Church stops being a patron of the arts.
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Empathy
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Feeling how another person is feeling
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Fresco
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Paint into wet plaster
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Black Death
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1348-1350. The Bubonic Plague estimated to have killed 30 to 60% of Europeans.
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Christian Humanism
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An attempt to reconcile Christianity with humanism
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Girolamo Savonarola
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FIre and brimstone priest who briefly ruled Florence at the end of the 1400s. He was arrested and burned at the stake eventually. Botticelli fell under his influence.
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Basilican Plan
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Focus is down the aisle.
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