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Apse

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A recess, usually semicircular, in the wall of a building, commonly found at the east end of a church.

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Aisles

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The portion of a basilica flanking the nave and separated from it by a row of columns or piers

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Arcade

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A series of arches supported by piers or columns.

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Bibliophile

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Lover of books

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Chartreuse / Charterhouse

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A Carthusian monastery

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Crossing

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The space in a cruciform church formed by the intersection of the nave and the transept.

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contropposto

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The disposition of the human figure in which one

part is turned in opposition to another part.

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donor portrait

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—A portrait of the individual(s) who commissioned

(donated) a religious

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donor portrait

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A portrait of the individual(s) who commissioned

(donated) a religious work (for example, an altarpiece) as evidence of devotion

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diptych

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A two-paneled painting or altarpiece; also, an ancient Roman, Early Christian, or Byzantine hinged writing tablet, often of ivory and carved on the external side

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book of hours

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A Christian religious book for private devotion con-

taining prayers to be read at specified times of the day

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engraving

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—The process of incising a design in hard material, often a metal plate (usually copper); also, the print or impression made from such a plate

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fresco

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Painting on lime plaster, either dry (dry fresco, or fresco

secco) or wet

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dome

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A hemispherical vault; theoretically, an arch rotated on its vertical axis. In Mycenaean architecture, domes are beehive-shaped.

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façade

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Usually, the front of a building; also, the other sides when they are emphasized architecturally

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grisaille

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A monochrome painting done mainly in neutral grays to simulate sculpture

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genre

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A style or category of art; also, a kind of painting that realistically depicts scenes from everyday life

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guilds

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An association of merchants, craftspersons, or scholars in medieval and Renaissance Europe

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Humanism

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an emphasis on education and on
expanding knowledge (especially of classical antiquity), the explo- ration of individual potential and a desire to excel, and a commit- ment to civic responsibility and moral duty.
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Illuminated manuscript

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A luxurious handmade book with painted

illustrations and decorations

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iconography

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he term refers both to the content, or subject, of an artwork and to the study of content in art.

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International Gothic

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This style appealed to the aristocracy because of its brilliant color, lavish costumes, intricate ornamentation, and themes involving splendid processions of knights and ladies.

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oil painting

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A painting technique using oil-based pigments that

rose to prominence in northern Europe in the 15th century and is now the standard medium for painting on canvas.

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nave

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The central area of an ancient Roman basilica or of a church, demarcated from aisles by piers or columns

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loggia

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A gallery with an open arcade or a colonnade on one or both sides

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mausoleum

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A monumental tomb. The name derives

from the mid-fourth-century bce tomb of Mausolos at Halikarnassos, one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world.

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parchment

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Lambskin prepared as a surface for painting or

writing

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tromp l’oeil

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French, “fools the eye.” A form of illusionistic painting
that aims to deceive viewers into believing that they are seeing real objects rather than a representation of those objects

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tempera painting

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A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk, glue, or casein; also, the medium itself

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transcept

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The part of a church with an axis that crosses the nave at a right angle.

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spandel

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The roughly triangular space enclosed by the curves of adjacent arches and a horizontal member connecting their vertexes; also, the space enclosed by the curve of an arch and an enclosing right angle.

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silverpoint

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A stylus made of silver, used in drawing in the 14th and 15th centuries because of the fine line it produced and the sharp point it maintained.

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naturalism

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The style of painted or sculpted representation based on close observation of the natural world that
was at the core of the classical tradition

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realism

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A movement that emerged in mid-19th-century France. Realist artists represented the subject matter of everyday life in a relatively naturalistic mode.

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retable

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An architectural screen or wall above and behind an altar, usually containing painting, sculpture, or other decorations.

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triptych

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A three-paneled painting, ivory plaque, or altarpiece. Also, a small, portable shrine with hinged wings used for private devotion

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vellum

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Calfskin prepared as a surface for writing or painting

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woodcut

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A wood block on the surface of which those parts not intended to print are cut away to a slight depth, leaving the design raised; also, the printed impression made with such a block.

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portico

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A roofed colonnade; also an entrance porc

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polyptych

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An altarpiece composed of more than three sections

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quatrefoil

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A shape or plan in which the parts assume the form of a cloverleaf

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Well of Moses

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Claus Sluter
early 1400s
Capital of Dijon, France
Limestone
symbol of fountain of life
Duke of Burgundy
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Trés Riches Heures du Duc de Berry

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Limbourg Brothers
15th century
Chantilly, France
pigment
book of prayers
Duke of Berry
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Master of Flémalle, Merode Altarpiece

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Master of Flémalle (workshop of Robert Campin?)
15th century
Netherlands
oil paint
private and domestic use
for domestic use
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Ghent Altarpiece

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Hubert and Jan van Eyck
15th century
Ghent, Belgium
oil paint
private and domestic use
Jodocus Vijd
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Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife

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Jan van Eyck
15th century
Italy
oil paint
spotless mirror=Mary's purity / dog=loyalty
portrait for Giovanni
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Deposition

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Rogier van der Weyden
15th century
Madrid
oil paint
emotional impact of mourners
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Sacrifice of Isaac and Gates of Paradise

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Lorenzo Ghiberti, 
15th century
Florence
Bronze
competition
Arte di Calimala
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David

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Donatello
15th century
Florence
Bronze
Medici
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Trinity

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Masaccio
15th century
Florence
Fresco
altarpiece
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Annunciation

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Fra Angelico
15th century
Italy
Fresco
devotion
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Birth of Venus

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Botticelli
15th century
Florence
Fresco

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Ospedale degli Innocenti

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Brunelleschi

building with arches

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Church of Sant’ Andrea

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Alberti

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