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| Art/Architecture that follows the style and canon of Greece and Rome - Style characterized by pointed arches, high ceilings etc . . . |
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| Book of Hours - Manuscript Illumination |
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| a private prayer book - Decoration of handwritten documents, scrolls or books with drawings and paintings |
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| Monochrome drawing/painting in which values of black, gray, and white are used - a philosophy emphasizing the the worth of the individual |
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| Contrapposto - Orthognals |
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| Composition created by greeks;parts of the body are placed asymetrically in opposition around an axis - An imagined line in a painting that runs perpindicular to the picture plane and recedes to a picture plane |
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| "Light and dark"; method of modeling form primarily by the use of light and dark - "Eye"; circular opening at the top of a dome |
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| Foreshortening - Neoplatonicism |
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| a method of distorting an object on the image plane to make it seems as if in 3D space - |
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| Sfumato - Stanza Della Segnatura |
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| "Smokey"; used to descirbe very delicate gradiations of light and shade in the modeling of figures - the pope's private library |
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| Mannerism - Council of Trent/The Inquisiton |
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| favours compositional tension and instability rather than the balance and clarity of earlier Renaissance painting - Talked about what was considered heresy during the reformation |
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