Baroque Vocab

Question 1

Genre

Answer 1

paintings in which scenes of everyday life form the subject matter

Question 2

Naturalistic

Answer 2

imitating nature

Question 3

Glazes

Answer 3

to cover (a painted surface or parts of it) with a thin layer of transparent color in order to modify the tone

Question 4

Impasto

Answer 4

laying on paint thickly

Question 5

Pizazza

Answer 5

an open square or public place in a city or town,

Question 6

Obelisk

Answer 6

a tapering, four-sided shaft of stone

Question 7

Pilasters

Answer 7

a shallow rectangular feature projecting from a wall, having a capital and base and usually imitating the form of a column

Question 8

Entablature

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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.

Question 9

Baldachin

Answer 9

a permanent ornamental canopy, as above a freestanding altar or throne

Question 10

Composite columns

Answer 10

A classical order dating from late Roman times, formed by superimposing Ionic volutes on a Corinthian capital

Question 11

Putti

Answer 11

naked, chubby angel babies

Question 12

Reliquaries

Answer 12

receptacle for relics

Question 13

Porticoes

Answer 13

a structure consisting of a roof supported by columns or piers

Question 14

Cartouche

Answer 14

oval or oblong figure

Question 15

Balustrade

Answer 15

railing with supported balusters

Question 16

Travertine

Answer 16

form of limestone deposited by springs

Question 17

Cornice

Answer 17

overhanging section of entablature

Question 18

Trompe l’oeil

Answer 18

realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions

Question 19

Allegory

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symbolical narrative

Question 20

Quadro riportato

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“carried picture”. describes gold-framed easel paintings or framed paintings that are seen in a normal perspective and painted into a fresco.

Question 21

Tenebrism

Answer 21

style of painting characterized by large areas of dark color, usually relieved with a shaft of light

Question 22

Caravaggisti

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stylistic followers of Caravaggio.

Question 23

Retablos

Answer 23

Latin American devotional painting

Question 24

Matte

Answer 24

having dull or lusterless surface

Question 25

Camera obscura

Answer 25

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