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Midterm III - 2 of 3
Art of the High Renaissance and reformation
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Art History
Undergraduate 4
11/06/2011

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Chiaroscuro
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Italian word designating the contrast of dark and light in a painting, drawing or print.
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sfumato
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In painting, the effect of haze in an image. Resembling dusk. Gives smokey effect
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Protestant Reformation
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a major 16th century European movement aimed initially at reforming the beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church
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Martin Luther
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was a German priest, professor of theology and iconic figure of the Protestant Reformation.
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Counter-Reformation
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denotes the period of Catholic revival beginning with the Council of Trent (1545–1563) and ending at the close of the Thirty Years' War, 1648 as a response to the Protestant Reformation.
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tenebrism
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The use of strong chiarascuro and artificially illuminated areas to create a dramatic contrast of light and dark in a painting
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filippo brunelleschi
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one of the foremost architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance. He is perhaps most famous for inventing linear perspective and designing the dome of the Florence Cathedral
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Atmospheric Perspective
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a method of rendering the effect of spatial distance by subtlevariations in color and clarity of representation
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orthogonals
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any line running back into represented space of a picture perpendicular to the imagined picture plane
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vanishing point
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in a perspective system, the point on the horizon line at which orthogonals meet.
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