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| Last Supper, Leonardo Da Vinci |
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| Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci |
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| Madonna of the Meadows, Raphael |
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| Philosophy (School of Athens), Raphael |
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| Descent from the Cross, Pontormo |
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| Madonna with the Long Neck, Parmigianino |
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| Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time (The Exposure of Luxury), Bronzino |
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| Feast of the Gods, Bellini |
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| Pastoral Symphony, Titian |
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| Fall of Man (Adam and Eve), Albrecht Durer |
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| The French Ambassadors, Hans Holbein the Younger |
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| Money Changer and His Wife, Quinten Massys |
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| Meat Still Life, Pieter Aertsen |
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| In the Renaissance, an emphasis on education and expanding knowledge (especially of classical antiquity); the exploration of individual potential and the desire to excel, and a commitment to civic responsibility and moral duty. |
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| A platonic idea which suggests that looking at and contemplating beautiful objects, sacred images, and architecture leads one's soul to a closer union with the Divine. |
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| A Florentine banking family: humanist thinkers and great patrons of the arts. |
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Italian for "light / dark"
Virgin of the Rocks
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Italian for "drawing" and "design."
Virgin and Child with St. Anne |
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Italian for "smoky" or "hazy" buildup of layers of glazes on layers of oil paint.
Mona Lisa |
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| One-point "scientific" perspective |
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Refers to compositions which have a single vanishing point and are "constructed" with orthogonal (see below) which converge upon that point.
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The lines (imaginary, suggested, and painted or indicated) which can be traced from architectural features, tessellated floors, and other compositional elements converging upon a single vanishing point.
Last Supper |
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The use of perspective to represent in art the apparent visual contraction of an object that extends back in space at an angle to the perpendicular plane of sight.
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In the High Renaissance, it was a composition in painting or sculpture which was based upon the pyramid. It endowed the work with a sense of calmness and stability, which appealed to the viewer's sense of logic, while also contributing towards developing its space or perspective.
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Italian for "fresh" Applying a thin later of fresh plaster on an existing plaster surface. Then immediate colour.
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a full size drawing made for purpose of transferring a design to a painting. reveals ideas.
Virgin and Child with St. Anne |
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"serpentine figure" new intrepretation of the relaxed stance or contrapposto.
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the notion of the sublime (something awe-inspiring) shadowed by the awesome and fearful.
Michaelangelos stuff |
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evokes the ideas of both pity and piety.
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literally means "stand against" the distribution fo the weights and balances of the body with the hips and shoulders
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| style that emphasizes artifice and imagery not derived directly from nature. hyper idealization, distorted figures, staged, awkward movement, exaggerated poses, erratic lines, sour colour palettes. Subject and theme: provacative nudes, mythological, catholic mysticism |
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| in 1527 attack of Rome by Spain and France where 45,000 fled or were killed. Only Sistine Chapel susvived. |
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a symbolic representation or story where the meaning is not immediately clear.
Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time |
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refers to compositional arrangement that lacks "believeable space" such as one point perspecitive.
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depictions of an idyilic place of rural peace and simplicity.
Feast of the Gods |
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italian term for large, decorated chests usually made for a bride to store her trousseau.
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| colour or painted. describes application of paint from venitian renaissance art. whereas disegno is careful design based on drawing |
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small scale depiction of a scene using figurines sometimes made of clay and viewed through a window or from one side.
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the study of the symbolic meaning of objects, persons or events depicted in works of art
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when an abstract idea or object is given human form
Pastoral Symphony |
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none religious subject matter
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(veiling) a flaze with a colour lighter than the underlayer)
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etchings, engravings, wood cutting
Fall of Man |
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painting realistically depicting scenes of everyday life
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| began in 1517 under leadership of Martin Luther. Tried to reform Catholic, but resulted in break away from centralized church and establish new christianity, Protestantism. |
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a reminder of human mortality, skull (usually)
The French Ambassadors |
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a distorted image that must be viewed by special means (mirror) to be seen
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