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| - an archaic greek statue of a young man or boy |
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| - an archaic greek statue of a woman |
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- Italian for 'Set against' or 'counter-poised'.
The pose gives the freedom to the representation of the human body by counterposing parts of the body around a central vertical axis |
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| - greek for "measure", "rule" and "law" |
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| - a style in which artists concern themselves with capturing the external details of an object or figure in finely executed, meticulous detail. Creates the impression of an unidealised, unselective accuracy. |
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| - a process whereby artists assimilate images and ideas from other tradition or cultures and give them new meanings |
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| - images formed by small coloured stone or glass pieces (tesserae), affixed to a hard, stable surface |
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| - image representing sacred figures of events in Byzantine church |
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| - painting medium using pigments mixed with hot wax |
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| - how an artist organises forms in an artwork, either by placing shapes on a flat surface or by arranging forms in space |
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| - the quality of surface as revealed by light |
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| - a method of presenting an illusion of the three dimensional world of two-dimensional surface |
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| - 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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| - Aristotle's concept of conspicuous expenditure, the 'spending of large sums with good taste' (Nichomachean Ethics) |
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| - cultural renewal, with reference to ancient and more recent Tuscan cultural achievements |
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| 'Latinate vernacular Expression" |
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| - an art historian (Charles Dempsey) coined this expression through the mixture of latin and vernaturer (local 'dialect') forms found in Florentine art and Literature during the time of Lorenzo de' Medici |
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| - models for virtuoso, ethical, exemplary behaviour |
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| - type of print made by carving a design into a wooden block |
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| - intaglio print making process of inscribing an image onto a metal or wooden surface |
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| - an engraving, the sharp implement used to carve design into the surface of a plate |
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| - metal plate is inscribed with painted instrument |
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| - incised in a layer of wax onto metal plate - parts of plate left exposed are "etched" by acid |
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| - a picture shading outdoor scenery with narrative content playing. minor or no part |
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| - a picture showing arrangements of inanimate objects |
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| - pictures showing scenes of subjects drawn from contemporary or ordinary life |
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| - theme of still life painting that emphasises the transience of life, inevitability of death |
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| - gradual decrease In intensity of colour and in tonal contrast as objects recede further away from the picture plane |
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| - contrasts between light and dark. creates spatial depth and volumetric forms through tonal graduations |
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| - Italian for 'smoky'. word describing very delicate gradations of light and shape in modelling, absence of hard, clear contours |
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| - constructed environments capturing idealised antiquity and the idyllic life |
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