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| Everything is in one place, and the plane is parallel to the picture plane. Characteristic feature of Italian Renaissance art. |
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| Truth comes from examining the world. Experience. |
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| The beautiful boys who decorate the Sistine ceiling. They are there largely because Michelangelo was gay, and that was his idea of beauty. |
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| A female classical prophet thought to have prophesied the coming of Christ. As seen on the Sistine chapel as a counter to male Christian prophets. |
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| An effect to create a moody response like poetry creates. |
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| The idealized life of classical shepherds and goat herders who were thought to have lived in harmony with nature. Popular among city people as an escape from city life. |
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| The tradition of the erotic nude which began in Venice during the Venetian Renaissance and spread in popularity all over Europe. |
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| The Counter-Reformation pope. Tried to stop the spread of Protestantism and reconfirm the faithful. "Last Judgment" was commissioned by him. |
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| The alteration of the representational and/or formal elements of art to convey something about the subject. |
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| A Jesuit 4-week course leading to the purification of the soul that emphasizes experiencing the articles of faith through imagination. Made to feel real. Using empiricism to fight empiricism. |
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| Those who were inspired by and followed the example of Caravaggio. Naturalism. |
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| Founded in 1648 by Louis XIV to control the education and the exhibition of art. Became the model for all of the national academies that sprang up all over the west. Took power away from the guild system. |
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| Symbol of the brevity of life. For example, a candle. |
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| A scene of aristocrats enjoying themselves outdoors. Part of the Rococo style. |
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| The decorative sea curve from which the term Rococo derives. The curve characterizes Rococo ornament. |
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| Ornament that is applied as decoration to architectural surface. Has a purely decorative function. Rococo. |
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| The first art critic who argued for a return to art that would "inspire virtue and purify manners." Part of the anti-rococo movement. |
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