Baroque Vocab Flashcards
Genre
paintings in which scenes of everyday life form the subject matter
Naturalistic
imitating nature
Glazes
to cover (a painted surface or parts of it) with a thin layer of transparent color in order to modify the tone
Impasto
laying on paint thickly
Pizazza
an open square or public place in a city or town,
Obelisk
a tapering, four-sided shaft of stone
Pilasters
a shallow rectangular feature projecting from a wall, having a capital and base and usually imitating the form of a column
Entablature
the entire construction of a classical temple or the like between the columns and the eaves, usually composed of an architrave, a frieze, and a cornice.
Baldachin
a permanent ornamental canopy, as above a freestanding altar or throne
Composite columns
A classical order dating from late Roman times, formed by superimposing Ionic volutes on a Corinthian capital
Putti
naked, chubby angel babies
Reliquaries
receptacle for relics
Porticoes
a structure consisting of a roof supported by columns or piers
Cartouche
oval or oblong figure
Balustrade
railing with supported balusters
Travertine
form of limestone deposited by springs
Cornice
overhanging section of entablature
Trompe l’oeil
realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions
Allegory
symbolical narrative
Quadro riportato
“carried picture”. describes gold-framed easel paintings or framed paintings that are seen in a normal perspective and painted into a fresco.
Tenebrism
style of painting characterized by large areas of dark color, usually relieved with a shaft of light
Caravaggisti
stylistic followers of Caravaggio.
Retablos
Latin American devotional painting
Matte
having dull or lusterless surface
Camera obscura
an enclosed space with a small hole in one side through which light enters to form an inverted image of the outside world on a screen placed opposite the hole
