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Middle Ages- Rococo
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Undergraduate 1
10/20/2010

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Lamentation

Giotto

Arena Chapel, Padua, Italy

Early Italian Renaissance

1305

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Sacrifice of Isaac 

Filippo Brunelleschi

Early Italian Renaissance

1401- 1402

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Sacrifice of Isaac

Lorenzo Ghiberti

Early Italian Renaissance

1401- 1402

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The Holy Trinity

Masaccio

Early Italian Renaissance

1424- 1427

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David

Donatello

Early Italian Renaissance

1420- 1460 

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Birth of Venus

Sandro Botticelli

Early Italian Renaissance

1484- 1486

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The Last Supper 

Leonardo Da Vinci 

High Italian Renaissance

1495- 1498

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The Mona Lisa

Leonardo Da Vinci

High Italian Renaissance

1503- 1505

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David

Michelangelo Buonarroti

High Italian Renaissance

1501- 1504

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The Creation of Adam

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome, Italy

High Italian Renaissance

1511- 1512

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Pastoral Symphony

Giorgione 

High Italian Renaissance

1508

 

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Venus d'Urbino

Titan

High Italian Renaissance

1538

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Mérode Altarpiece 

Robert Campin

Early Norther Renaissance

1425- 1428

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Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride

Jan van Eyke

Early Northern Renaissance

1432

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Garden of Earthly Delights

Hieronymus Bosch

Early Northern Renaissance

1505- 1510

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Isenheim Altarpiece

Matthias Grünewald

Early Northern Renaissance

1510- 1515

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The Four Apostles

Albrecht Durer

Northern Renaissance

1526

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The French Ambassadors 

Han Holbein the Younger

Northern Renaissance

1533

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Butcher's Stall

Pieter Aertsen

Northern Renaissance

1551

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The Entombment of Christ

Jacopo da Prontormo

Mannerism

1525- 1528

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Last Supper

Tintoretto

Mannerism

1594

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David

Bernini

Italian Baroque

1623

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The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa

Bernini

Italian Baroque

Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, Italy

1645- 1652

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The Conversion of Saint Paul

Caravaggio

Italian Baroque

1601

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Saint Serapion 

Francisco de Zurburan

Spanish Baroque

1628

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Las Meninas

Velazquez

Spanish Baroque

1656

 

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Elevation of the Cross

Peter Paul Rubens

Flemish Baroque

1610

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Arrival of Marie de 'Medici at Mersailles

Peter Paul Rubens

Flemish Baroque

1622- 1625

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Night Watch 

Rembrandt van Rijn

Dutch Baroque

1642

 

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Allegory of the Art Painting

Vermeer

Dutch Baroque

1670-1675

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Louis XIV

Haycinthe Rigaud

French Baroque

1701

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Return of Cythera

Antoine Watteau

Rococo

1717-1719

Term
poesia
Definition
describes "poetic" art, particularly that of the Venetian renaissance, which emphasizes the lyric and sensual
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triptych
Definition
3 paneled painting or alterpiece
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transubstantiation
Definition
the transformation of bread and wine to body and blood (catholic belief)
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woodcut
Definition
A wooden block on the surface of which those parts not intended to print are cut away to a slight depth, leaving the design raised, or the printed impression made with such a block
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engraving
Definition
the process of incising a design in a hard material, usually copper plate,
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hatching
Definition
a series of closely spaced drawn or engraved parallel lines, cross hatching involves lines at right angles
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Protestant Reformation
Definition
rise of protestant churches, led by lutherans
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Catholic Reformation
Definition
alteration of the Catholic church in response to Protestant reformation
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still life
Definition
painting of inanimate objects
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anamorphic image
Definition
a distorted image that must be viewed by some special means (ie a mirror) to be recognized
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alterpiece
Definition
A panel or group of panels that are painted or sculpted to be displayed above and behind an alter
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Humanism
Definition
an emphasis on education and on expanding knowledge and the exploration of individual potential
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quatrefoil
Definition
a shape or plan where the parts form a clover leaf
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campanile
Definition
a bell tower of a church that is usually, but not always, freestanding
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memento mori
Definition
Latin "reminder of death"
in painting, a reminder of human mortality, usually shown by a skull
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refectory
Definition
the dining hall of a christian monastery
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ogival section
Definition
pointed (like gothic) section
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rustication
Definition
to give a rustic appearence by roughening the edges an beveling stone blocks to emphasis the joints-- often found in stone courses at ground level in the Renaissance
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Neoplatonism
Definition
modern term for a school of religious and mystical philosophy that took shape in the 3rd century AD
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chiaroscuro
Definition
contrast between light and dark, Caravaggio was a master
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sfumato
Definition
Italian "smoky" -- a smoke like haziness that subtly softens outlines in a painting
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baldacchino
Definition
a canopy on columns, often over an alter
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tenebrism
Definition
painting in the "shadowy manner", using violent contrasts of light and dark (again, Caravaggio)
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pentimento
Definition
an alteration in a painting, evidenced by traces of previous work, showing that the artist has changed his mind as to the composition during the process of painting
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camera obscura
Definition
Latin "dark room "
precursor to modern camera, used projected images (made my pinhole in a box with light shone through) as an aid in drawing or painting
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vanitas painting
Definition
paintings that celebrate material wealth but include reminders of death
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