15th Century: Italy II Vocabulary Flashcards
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Filippo Brunelleschi
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One of the foremost architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance
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Leon Battista Alberti
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Italian architect, humanist, antiquarian, mathematician, and art theorist of the Early Renaissance
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Linear Perspective
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Mathematical system for creating the illusion of space and distance on a flat surface
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Orthogonals
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In linear perspective, the diagonal lines that can be drawn along receding parallel lines to the vanishing point
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Sacra Conversazione
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Refers to a depiction of the Madonna with the infant Jesus with the saints
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Vanishing Point
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The point where all lines meet in linear perspective
