Art History Exam 6

Question 1

Annunciation

Answer 1

angel visits mary

Question 2

Visitation

Answer 2

mary visits elizabeth

Question 3

presentation

Answer 3

jesus is taken to the temple as a baby

Question 4

flight from egypt

Answer 4

mary and joseph leave egypt

Question 5

Grisaille

Answer 5

black and white painting, sculptural often

Question 6

Polyptych

Answer 6

many panels in an art piece (mroe than 3)

Question 7

diptych

Answer 7

two panels

Question 8

triptych

Answer 8

three panels

Question 9

What did oil painting prompt?

Answer 9

Realism in paintings bc of layering

Question 10

Why are tempera and oil paint different?

Answer 10

Tempera dries quick, hard ot mix and layer, oil allows glazes and to build of colors and make paintings more realistic

Question 11

Why are engravings more detailed than carvings?

Answer 11

Detail is added with a burin, harder to add details in a carving

Question 12

How do they color wood prints?

Answer 12

By hand after the lines are laid down

Question 13

stigmata

Answer 13

jesus crucifixtion wounds

Question 14

apron scenes

Answer 14

little scenes around the figure

Question 15

Humanism

Answer 15

realistic depictions of human form that emphasizes human potential

Question 16

Fresco

Answer 16

pigment is painted onto wet plaster plaster

Question 17

Altarpiece

Answer 17

art close to the altar to act as a focal point for worship

Question 18

Vignettes

Answer 18

decorative illustration that captures the movement on the scene, characters are the focus

Question 19

Classicizing

Answer 19

revival of ancient styles of greece and rome

Question 20

Campanile

Answer 20

bell tower by church

Question 21

Battlements

Answer 21

defensive parapet on buildings that kinda looks like a crown on a tower

Question 22

Franciscan monks

Answer 22

monks that focus on service, preaching and poverty

Question 23

Tempera painting

Answer 23

painting made from eggs, dries quickly

Question 24

Seraphim

Answer 24

funky angels, many eyes and wings

Question 25

Pulpits

Answer 25

a raised platform or stand were sermon was given from

Question 26

Chiaroscuro

Answer 26

use of light and shadow to add dimension

Question 27

Siena

Answer 27

art style in Siena Italy: decorative style, rich colors, focus of miraculous events

Question 28

Foreshortening

Answer 28

illusion of depth/space, attempts perspective but not right/linear

Question 29

Book of Hours

Answer 29

prayer book, mary is the Hours of the Virgin in it, more personal study

Question 30

City states

Answer 30

a sovereign city, often with its surrounding territory, that operates as an independent political entity

Question 31

“The Nine” of Siena

Answer 31

chosen gov officials from elite merchants of the city to rule the area, cycled through quickly

Question 32

Allegory

Answer 32

figures that stand in for ideas

Question 33

St. Francis of Assisi

Answer 33

good saint, talked about gospel should go to the animals too (he loved em), kinda showed christian love for all things, has jesus-scars

Question 34

Oil painting

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paint that dries slow and can be built up in layers

Question 35

Glazes

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thin washes of pigment, mainly w oil paint

Question 36

Impasto

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thick layer of paint where you can see brushstrokes

Question 37

International Gothic Style

Answer 37

transition between gothic and renaissance art

Question 38

Carthusian Monks

Answer 38

solitary monks that meditate and pray

Question 39

Atmospheric perspective

Answer 39

uses bluer, desaturated colors to add depth in art

Question 40

Still life

Answer 40

art of inanimate objects

Question 41

Perspective

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linear perspective places objects further or closer in space to imitate depth

Question 42

Woodcuts

Answer 42

carvings in wood that is transferred onto paper

Question 43

Block books

Answer 43

short illustrated books made with wood cuts/prints

Question 44

Hatching

Answer 44

close or far apart parallel lines are used to create tone

Question 45

relief prints

Answer 45

a surface is carved and ink is applied to the raised surfaces

Question 46

Intaglio

Answer 46

lines cut into a metal plate, ink pushed into the cut lines

Question 47

Engraving

Answer 47

type of intaglio where a burin is used to cut lines into metal

Question 48

Burin

Answer 48

cutting tool used for engraving metal

Question 49

Ground

Answer 49

prepared surface underneath a painting (base color/layer)

Question 50

Etching

Answer 50

intaglio process where an image is created w acid

Question 51

Continuous narrative

Answer 51

same people appear several times in the same scene to tell a story

Question 52

Iconography

Answer 52

study of the content of images

Question 53

Who ushered in the renaissance?

Answer 53

Cimabue and Giotto

Question 54

Nicola Pisano

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blended classical, romanesque and early gothic together, transitioned romanesque to gothic

Question 55

Giovanni Pisano

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Sculpture and architecture, Started renaissance in sculpture

Question 56

Duccio

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trained Simone, taught sienese artists

Question 57

Limbourg Brothers

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did art together, ages 16-19, miniature painters w manuscripts

Question 58

Jan van Eyck

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wanted to be known, showed off with his self portrait, naturalism and realism

Question 59

Hugo van der Goes

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served as dean of the painter’s guild in ghent, Worked in monastery as a lay brother for 7 years, flemish painter, saturated colors, emotional expression

Question 60

Hieronymus Bosch

Answer 60

From modern day holland, Medieval surrealism, Images meant to teach moral and spiritual truth, Rendering of fantastical, got high on moldy bread

Question 61

Bartolome Bermejo

Answer 61

Spanish interpretation of flemish style, Possibly trained in bruges, oil painting

Question 62

Georgio

Answer 62

wrote about Giotto and Cimabue, renaissance art is good and medieval is bad (brutish)