Term
|
Definition
Italian for Smokey and Hazy.
it integrates the figures with the landscape. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
the Italian for “light / dark”.
gives the illusion of three-dimensionality with consistent light sources,
explainable spaces, a development of perspective, and ultimately, suggesting atmospheric
effects. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
*Martin Luther’s* attempted reform of Catholicism
resulted in a movement to break away from the Centralized Catholic church and establish a new
branch of Christianity, known as Protestantism. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| German religious reformer whom established Protestantism. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
A reminder of ones mortality.
Latin for "Be mindful of death" |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
the exploration of individual potential and a desire to excel,
and a commitment to civic responsibility and moral duty. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
he 1527 attack of Rome by Spain and France where an estimated 45,000 men,
women and children either fled the city or were killed by the army of Charles V. Roman
churches, shrines and other historic monuments were looted or destroyed. Only the Sistine
Chapel was spared. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Platonic idea which suggested that looking at and contemplating beautiful
objects, sacred images, and architecture, leads one’s soul into closer union with the Divine. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Florentine banking family. Humanist thinkers and great patrons of the arts. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Both a priest and humanist scholar, Erasmus advocated reform of the
Church but rejected Martin Luther’s call to break with it. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
the study of the symbolic meaning of objects, persons or events depicted in
works of art. |
|
|
Term
| one-point “scientific” perspective |
|
Definition
efers to compositions which have a single vanishing
point and are “constructed” with orthagonals which converge upon that point.
Compositions with one-point perspective create the
illusion of depth and perspective and endow human figures in this space with substance. It
reflects the Renaissance artists’ new awareness of man’s place in the world reflected in the
increased interest in and expression of logic, scientific observation, mathematics, etc. |
|
|
Term
| Catholic Counter Reformation |
|
Definition
The goal was to inspire
devotion and piety in the population. Art and architecture were major tools in the Counter
Reformation campaign to bring people back to the Catholic Church.
propaganda. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| evokes the ideas of both pity and piety. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| use of dramatically contrasting dark-light effects in painting or film. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Italian for “fresh.” It refers to the medium and process of applying a thin layer of fresh
plaster on an existing plaster surface and then immediately applying color pigments (tempera)
which, upon drying, become a permanent part of the wall surface. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
depictions of idyllic place of rural peace and simplicity. Derived from Arcadia, an
ancient district in Southern Greece. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
color or painted. A term used to describe the application of paint,
characteristic of Venetian Renaissance art. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
a painting realistically depicting scenes of everyday life.
A slice of life. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
a full-size drawing made for the purpose of transferring a design to a painting or
tapestry or other large work. They often reveal the artist’s ideas as they evolve. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Baroque artists influenced by Caravaggio’s dramatic tenebrism technique.
A style. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
a distorted image that must be viewed by some special means, such as a
mirror, to be recognized. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Descent from the Cross, by Pontormo, 1525-28. Mannerism |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Raphael (School of Athens), fresco in the Vatican High Renaissance |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Raphael "Baldasare Castiglione" High Renaissance
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Pieter Bruegel "Hunters in the Snow" Northern Renaissance |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Caravaggio "Conversion of Saint Paul" Italian Baroque
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Caravaggio "Calling of Saint Matthew" Italian Baroque |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Michelangelo "David" High Renaissance
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Michelangelo "Pieta" High Renaissance
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Albrecht Durer "Fall of Man" (adam and eve) Northern Renaissance |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Grunewald "The Isenheim Altarpiece" Northern Renaissance |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Giorgione "Pastoral Symphony" Venetian Renaissance |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Holbein "The French Ambassadors" Northern Renaissance |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Leonardo da Vinci "The last supper" High Renaissance
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Raphael "Galatea" High Renaissance
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Michelangelo "The Sistine Chapel" High Renaissance
|
|
|
