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Woman Holding A Balance Johannes Vermeer 1664 oil on canvas |
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The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp Rembrandt van Rijn 1632 Oil on canvas |
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Las Meninas Diego Velazquez 1656 Oil on canvas |
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Self Portrait as the Allegory of Painting Artemisia Gentileschi 1630 Oil on canvas |
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Bacchus Leonardo Da Vinci 1515 Oil on walnut transferred to oil on canvas |
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The Elevation of the Cross Peter Paul Reubens 1611 Oil on canvas |
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Garden of Earthly Delights Hieronymus Bosch 1504 Oil on wood |
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Burial of the Count Orgaz El Greco 1588 Oil on canvas |
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Melancolia I Albrecht Durer 1514 Engraving |
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Small Cowper Madonna Raphael 1505 Oil on wood |
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Still Life with A Watch Pieter Claesz 1636 Oil on panel |
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David Michelangelo 1504 Marble |
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The Creation of Adam Michelangelo 1511 Fresco |
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Venus of Urbino Titian 1538 Oil on canvas |
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An Allegory with Venus and Cupid Bronzino 1550 Oil on wood |
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Feast in the House of Levi Paolo Veronese 1573 Oil on canvas |
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Danube Landscape Albrecht Altdorfer 1525 Oil on panel |
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St. Luke Drawing a Portrait of the Virgin Mary Rogier Van der Weyden 1440 Oil on wood |
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The Last Supper Tintoretto 1594 Oil |
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| Italian term meaning "smoky," soft, and mellow. It is the effect of haze in a painting. |
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| A series of events in which Church of England broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th century |
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| A period of Catholic revival in 1560 until the close of the Thirty Years' War in 1648. |
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| Culmination of the art of the Italian Renaissance between 1450 and 1527 centered in Rome. |
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| A term for the contrast between light and dark, usually in a bold manner. |
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| Drawing created by Da Vinci in 1492 that contains the Canon of Proportions. |
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| A depiction of the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus in her arms, most often in the form of sculpture. |
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A sculpting technique literally meaning that the work is unfinished. (Pioneered by Donatello and used by Michelangelo) |
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| A technique in painting where the paint is laid thickly enough that the strokes are visible. Impasto provides texture that pops out of the painting once dry. |
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| Each of the four lengths of the cross are equal. |
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| A cross with the descending arm the longest. It is the most common Christian cross representing the crucifixion of Jesus. |
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| (Painted poems) Pastoral themes inspired by contemporary literary revival of poetry. |
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| A period of arts emphasizing harmonious ideals lasting during the later years of the Italian High Renaissance from 1520 until 1600. |
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| Not being allowed to depict an icon within a culture of a culture's own religious icons or symbols, usually for religious or political reasons. |
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The theory that the human body was filled with four basic substances which are in balance when a person is healthy. (Hippocrates onward) Black & Yellow Bile, Blood, and Phlegm |
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| Representation of a word or language with the Roman alphabet where the original word uses a different language system. |
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| Western cultural epoch commencing roughly at the turn of the 17th century in Rome. |
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| Pictoral representations that represent scenes from everyday life. |
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| A canopy of state over an altar or throne. It went from a cloth to a permanent architectural form. |
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| A stone found in deposits in Trivoli, Italy near Rome. |
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| Transferred Painting (Quadri Riportati) |
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Gave the effect of a framed, easel painting transferred to the ceiling. |
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| An Italian word meaning "murky." It is a style of painting using violent contrasts between light and dark. |
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| Sotto in Su (Seen from below or down to up) |
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| A trompe l'oeil painting technique used on ceilings to provide perspective. |
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| Quadratura (Gridding or squaring) |
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A variety of trompe l'oeil to describe simulated architecture. |
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| Figure of a pudgy human baby almost always male and having wings. |
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| Latin for "dark chamber." Optical device used in drawing that lead to the invention of photography. |
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| Printmaking technique of the intaglio family in which an image is incised into a plate. |
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| Symbolic still life painting style from Northern Europe. |
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| A highly influential book written by Cesare Ripa. The book was used by artists to give substance to qualities such as virtue, courage, wisdom, and others. |
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