Art History Vocab

Question 1

Fresco Technique

Answer 1

a form of mural painting in which earth pigments are painted directly on fresh, wet, lime plaster

Question 2

Illusionistic

Answer 2

Tending to create an illusion

Question 3

fanciful

Answer 3

highly ornamental or imaginative in design

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Herringbone Perspective

Answer 4

All lines converge on a vertical axis
Romans knew of linear but didn’t think it sufficiently poetic

Question 5

evocative

Answer 5

bringing strong images, memories, or feelings to mind

Question 6

Intuitive Perspective

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how an artist depicted depth in an artwork prior to the mathematical perspective developed during the Renaissance

Question 7

Xenia

Answer 7

Greek concept of hospitality

Question 8

Augustus

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Peace, Prosperity and Population

Question 9

shortening, modeling, and perspective

Question 10

votive offering

Answer 10

a gift to the gods

Question 11

physiognomy

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facial features/ expressions of a person

Question 12

Sacral Idyllic Scene

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Romans glorified, sanitized scenes of nature

Question 13

Aristotle quote

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“That art is best, that which most closely imitates nature”

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veristic

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Extremely or strictly naturalistic

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Realism

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RES/RERUM = Latin for thing, object

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Naturalism

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NATURA = Latin for natural world

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Form

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the way the shape or physical configuration occupies space - the way things are painted
everything that is visible w/o meaning

Question 18

Tools of Allusion

Answer 18

-modeling (variations of light and shade)
-foreshortening- items diminish as they recede in space
-perspective
-natural