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Art History "Early Renaissance" Flashcards

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Foreshortening

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A method of drawing or painting an object or person that is not parallel to the picture plane

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Tondo

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A round-shapes painting

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Comminssion

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Order for the paintings and various artworks to be made

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Patron

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A wealthy and/or influential supporter of an artist or writer

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Relief

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A sculptural surface which is not freestanding, but projects from a background

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Contrapposto

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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

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Foreground

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Part of the picture plane that appears closest to the viewer
Usually at the bottom of a picture

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Middle ground

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An area in a picture between the foreground and the background

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Background

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Part of the picture plane that appears farthest from the viewer

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Allegory/Allegorical

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Symbolic of truths or generalization about the human nature

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Still-Life

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A group of inanimate objects arranged to be painted or drawn; also, a painting or drawing of such an arrangement

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View Finder

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A piece of paper or poster board with an area cut from the middle

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Cupola

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A rounded convex roof on a circular base

A dome of small size

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Baptistery

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An area in which the Sacrament of Baptism is administered, either within an area of a church or as a separate building

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Fresco

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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

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Free-Standing

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Refers to sculpture that can be viewed from all sides/angles; also called in-the-round

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Linear Perspective

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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

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Aerial Perspective

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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”

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Portrait

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The image of a person’s face, made of any sculptural material or any two-dimensional medium

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Landscape

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A work of art that shows the features of the natural environment

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Filippo Brunelleschi

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Designed the “crown jewel” of the Florentine landscape, the CUPOLA

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Cupola

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140 feet in diameter

300 feet above the floor

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Lorenzo Ghiberti

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Designed the doors for the north side of the baptistry of Florence

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Gates of Paradise

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The doors that Ghiberti designed for the baptistry are called this
They use relief

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Donatello

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Greatest sculptor of his time

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Medici

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Donatello was closely intertwined with this family

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What did “David” symbolize

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The victory of the small and self-sufficient over the brute force of much larger opponents
God’s victory over evil and sin

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What is significant about David

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First life-size free-standing nude since ancient times

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Masaccio

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Used light as never before seen in a painting

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Tribute Money

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done by Masaccio

three-part yet one painting (tells three parts of one whole story)

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Fra Angelico

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Florentine master of LANDSCPAE painting

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Guido di Piero

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Fra Angelico’s real name

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Fra Angelico

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painted the “Adoration of the Magi” which is a fresco painting and “The Annunciation”

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Paolo Uccello

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Made a linear diagram of a 72-sided polyhedron-(solid form made of planes faces)

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The Battle of San Romano

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Shown in the museums
Ufizzi
Louvre
National

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Peiro Della Francesca

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Spent several years around 1439 in Florence studying the works of Massaccio, Fra Angelico, and Brunelleschi

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Form from Massaccio
Light from Fra Angelico
Scientific Perspective from Brunelleschi

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This is what Della Francesca learned from the three artists

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Legend of the True Cross

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Peiro painted this and it uses depth and precision

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Sandro Botticelli

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A master of delicate lines

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Venus

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Goddess of love

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Spring

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This symbolizes Christ, Baptism, and John the Baptist in “The Birth of Venus”

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Andrea Mantegna

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Master in FORM and ANATOMY

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Dead Christ

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Uses extreme foreshortening

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Giovanni Bellini

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Developed a richness of color and depth of value with OIL PAINTING unequaled in Italy at the time

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