Chapter 1 vocab

Question 1

Fresco

Answer 1

Painting in wet plaster

Question 2

Tetrarchy

Answer 2

rule by 4 people

Question 3

Catacombs

Answer 3

Underground tunnels where the earliest Christian dead are buried

Question 4

Loculi

Answer 4

“shelves” where the dead are placed. Basically stacked coffins.

Question 5

The Renaissance

Answer 5

“rebirth” of anatomical accuracy, linear perspective, shading, and atmospherics

Question 6

Chiaroscuro

Answer 6

light/dark or shading

Question 7

Linear perspective

Answer 7

things get smalled the further away they are

Question 8

Contrapposto

Answer 8

“weight shift” to make sculptures look natural

Question 9

Annunciation

Answer 9

Mary being told by Gabriel that shes pregnant

Question 10

Head cluster

Answer 10

Midieval technique to draw crowds. (looks like heads blooming out of one)

Question 11

Tondo

Answer 11

Circular painting

Question 12

Tempera

Answer 12

powdered pigment with a binder (egg yolk)

Question 13

Atmospheric perspective

Answer 13

Huge object (mountains) get hazier as they recede into the background

Question 14

Sfumato

Answer 14

“smoky haziness” or soft gradients/transitions

Question 15

Pieta

Answer 15

“pity”, Mary holding dead Christ in her arms