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Art History
Undergraduate 2
10/20/2011

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Allegory
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A visual, symbolic, representation in paintings
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Avant-Garde
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Pushing beyond the boundaries of what's considered the norm and status quo.
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Exemplum Virtutis
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Ex: Aggripina with the ashes of Germanicus
Artwork who's themes are moral lessons or examples of virtue that should be emulated
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Genre Painting
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Painting that focuses on the common people and downplaying things rather than drawing attention to it in portraiture and grand allegories
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Grande Machine
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A mix between Neoclassicism and Romanticism, what the french art academy taught
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Impasto
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A technique of painting where paint is laid on very thickly. Provides texture.
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Prix de Rome
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Scholarship for arts students. The prize was a five year stay in Rome
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Salon
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The official art exibition of the French academie, done bi-annually
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Edmund Burke
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Came up with the idea of the sublime
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The Sublime
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The quality of greatness, using referring to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement, or imitation
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Nazarenes
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Group of German romantic painters who aimed to revived the spirituality in Christian art
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