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HOA 105 Exam 3
The Fourteenth Century, Italian Renaissance and Northern Renaissance
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
11/27/2012

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sfumato
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a smoke-like haziness that subtly softens outlines in painting; particularly applied to the painting of Leonardo and Corregio
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ignudi figure
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the phrase coined by Michelangelo to describe the twenty seated male nudes he incorporated into the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes
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memento mori
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reminder of death
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fresco
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painting on wet plaster with watercolor so it sinks into the wall
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grisaille
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the use of exclusively gray tones in painting or drawing
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oil on wood panel
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technique of painting on panel; oil paint is a paste made with ground pigment and a drying oil; perfected by van Eyck
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polyptych
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an altarpiece or other work of art made up of more than three sections; i.e.: Ghent Altarpiece
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tryptic
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made up of three panels in an altarpiece
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still life
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a painting or drawing of an arrangement of objects, typically including fruit and flowers and objects contrasting with these in texture, such as bowls and glassware
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linear perspective
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formula for projecting an illusion of the 3-D world onto a 2-D surface; uses parallel lines which seem to converge on one, two or three points located with reference to the eye level of the viewer
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Leon Battista Alberti
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invented the system of linear perspective; things get saller as they get farther away
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orthogonal
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a line imagined to be behind and perpindicular to the picture plane; appear to recede toward a vanishing point on the horizon
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horizon line
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the imaginary or actual line at eye level used as a construction upon which to place vanishing points
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vanishing point
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point at which receding parallel lines viewed in perspective appear to converge
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atmospheric perspective
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first employed by Masaccio; creates the illusion of distance by the greater diminution of color intensity, the shift in color toward an almost neutral blue and the blurring of contours as the intended distance between eye and object increases
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Alberti
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invented the system of perspective; Santa Maria Novella; 15th century italian renaissance
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botticelli
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made the Birth of Venus painting and La Primavera painting; neoplatonic; completely secular paintings that use Plato's philosophies ; 15th century italian renaissance
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Brancacci
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name of a chapel made by Masaccio; 15th century italian renaissance
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Brunelleschi
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designed the dome for the Florence Chapel; competed with Ghiberti for Florence Baptistry and lost; 15th century italian renaissance
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Castagno
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Last Supper painting; 15th century italian renaissance
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Donatello
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made David statue; first life sized nude since antiquity; 15th century italian renaissance
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Ghirlandaio
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Portrait of Giovanna Tournabuoli; women viewed as a piece of property during this time; 15th century italianrenaissance
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Gozzoli
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made the procession of the Magi for the Medici family; 15th century italian renaissance
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Masaccio
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created idea of atmospheric perspective; continued legacy of Giotto using emotion and chiaroscuro; Trinity painting in Santa Maria Novlla and Brancacci Chapel; 15th century italian renaissance
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Medici
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Florentine bankers who commissioned lots of art; 15th centruy italian renaissance
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Michelozzo
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made the Medici Palace; 15th century itialian renaissance
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Pazzi
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bankers that commisssioned a chapel to be built by Brunelleschi
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Piero della Francesca
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represented the Duke realistically; beginning of realistic depiction in art; 15th century italian renaissance
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Pollaiuolo
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made the Hercules and Antaeus statue that represents the human body with muscles and tendons realistically; 15th century italian renaissance
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Savanarola
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influenced Botticelli to destroy his paintings
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Verrocchio
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made Portrait of Lorenzo d'Medici sculpture; 15th century italian renaissance
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Boccaccio
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wrote The Decameron that describes the horror of the Black Death
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Duccio
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made a Madonna Enthroned but in the old traditional style
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Duke of Berry
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had a Book of Hours made for him by the Limbourg Brothers
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Francis of Assisi
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preached humility, empathy, equality for all living creatures; inspiried Giotto
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Giotto
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used natural and emotional style; influenced by St. Francis; made a Madonna Enthroned in the new style
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Limbourg Brothers
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worked as book illuminators for Duke of Berry
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Ambrogio Lorenzetti
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made the Nursing Madonna painting; 14th century
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Pucelle
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made a Book of Hours using grisaille for private devotion
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Scrovegni
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commissioned a private chapel to be made by Giotto
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Sluter
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made the Well of Moses; Moses has horns on his head and wet drapery; 14th century
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Traini
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fresco painting of the plague; reminder of death; memento mori; 14th century
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Arnolfini
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Italian merchant who paid van Eyck to make a portrait of him and his wife's wedding; 15th century northern renaissance
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Deposition
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painting by van der Weyden showing sorrow and detailed emotion; 15th century northern renaissance
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van Eyck
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perfected the medium oil on wood panel; made the Ghent Altarpiece; 15th century northern renaissance
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van der Goes
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made the Portinari Altarpiece; depicts the Nativity scene and is a still life; 15th century northern renaissance
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Virgin of Humility
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Mary depicted as humble because she is sitting in the Merode Altarpiece
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Bramante
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made the Tempietto in New St. Peters and started reconsutrcting it but MIchaelangelo took over when he died; 16th centruy italian renaissance
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Giorgione
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made Pastoral Concert; 16th centruy italian renaissance
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ignudi
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20 seated male nudes incorportated into Sistine Chapel by Michaelangelo
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da Vinci
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Renaissance man; made Mona Lisa and the Last Supper paintings
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Michelangelo
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adept in all media; Pieta, David, Sistine Chapel, New St. peters; 16th century italian renaissance
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Pope Julius II
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commissioned the paintings inside the Sistine Chapel done by Michelangelo
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Raphael
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painted Papal apartments in Vatican and Portrait of Maddalena Strozzi Doni; 16th century italian renaissance
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sfumato
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smoky haziness that subtly outlines in paintings; used by da Vinci in the Mona Lisa
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Titian
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discovered the medium of oil on canvas
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