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Survey of Art History 2
Exam 2 (Term Definitions)
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
03/28/2016

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Baroque
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Of or relating to a style of architecture and art originating in Italy in the early 17th century.
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Bird's Eye View
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A viewpoint of an object, building, or person from above most likely seen from of bird's perspective when flying.
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Chiaroscuro
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[Heavy] use of darks against lights when creating a three-dimentional form on a two-two-dimentional surface.
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Counter Reformation
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The movement within the Roman Catholic Church that followed the Protestant Reformation of the 16th Century.
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Dome
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In architecture, a vault, having a circular plan and usually in the form of a portion of a sphere, so constructed as to exert an equal thrust in all directions.
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Drum
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In architecture, also known as a tambour, any of several cylindrical or nearly cylindrical stones laid one above the other to form a column or pier.
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Engraving
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The art of forming designs by cutting, corrosion by acids, a photographic process, etc., on the surface of a metal plate, block of wood, or the like, for or as for the purpose of taking off impressions or prints of the design so formed.
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Still-Life
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The category of subject matter in which inanimate objects are represented, as in painting or photography.
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Genre
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A style of painting, or other forms of art, depicting scenes from ordinary life, especially domestic situations. Genre painting is associated particularly with 17th Century Dutch and Flemish artists.
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Landscape
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The depiciton in art of landscapes--natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view--with its elements arranged into a coherent composition.
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Portrait
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A painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representaiton of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person.
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Narrative
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Art that tells a story, either as a moment in an ongoing story or as a sequence of events unfolding over time. Some of the earliest evidence of human art suggests that people told stories with pictures.
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Protestant Reformation
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The major 16th Century European movement aimed initially at reforming the beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Reliquary
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A repository or respectable for relics.
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