Art History "Early Renaissance" Flashcards
Foreshortening
A method of drawing or painting an object or person that is not parallel to the picture plane
Tondo
A round-shapes painting
Comminssion
Order for the paintings and various artworks to be made
Patron
A wealthy and/or influential supporter of an artist or writer
Relief
A sculptural surface which is not freestanding, but projects from a background
Contrapposto
Technique of sculpting a human figure in a pose that shows the weight of the body on balance
The shoulders and hips counterbalance each other
Foreground
Part of the picture plane that appears closest to the viewer
Usually at the bottom of a picture
Middle ground
An area in a picture between the foreground and the background
Background
Part of the picture plane that appears farthest from the viewer
Allegory/Allegorical
Symbolic of truths or generalization about the human nature
Still-Life
A group of inanimate objects arranged to be painted or drawn; also, a painting or drawing of such an arrangement
View Finder
A piece of paper or poster board with an area cut from the middle
Cupola
A rounded convex roof on a circular base
A dome of small size
Baptistery
An area in which the Sacrament of Baptism is administered, either within an area of a church or as a separate building
Fresco
A method of painting in which pigments suspended in water are applied to a thin layer of wet plaster so that the plaster absorbs the color and the painting becomes part of the wall
Free-Standing
Refers to sculpture that can be viewed from all sides/angles; also called in-the-round
Linear Perspective
A system of drawing or painting to give the illusion of depth on a flat surface
All parallel lines receding into the distance are drawn to one or more imaginary vanishing points on the horizon in such a work
Aerial Perspective
A method of creating the illusion of distance by representing objects further away with less clarity of contour and in diminished color
Also called “atmospheric perspective”
Portrait
The image of a person’s face, made of any sculptural material or any two-dimensional medium
Landscape
A work of art that shows the features of the natural environment
Filippo Brunelleschi
Designed the “crown jewel” of the Florentine landscape, the CUPOLA
Cupola
140 feet in diameter
300 feet above the floor
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Designed the doors for the north side of the baptistry of Florence
Gates of Paradise
The doors that Ghiberti designed for the baptistry are called this
They use relief
