Early Christian To Italian Renaissance

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Continuous narration

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The representation of events which occurred at different times in a single painting so the same characters appear more than once

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Chiaroscuro

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A technique for modelling forms in painting by which the lightened parts seem to slowly emerge from surrounding dark areas

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Foreshortening

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A method of drawing or painting an object or person that is not parallel to the picture plane so that it seems to recede in space giving the illusion of three dimensions

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Sfumato

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A slight blurring of the edges of figures and objects in a painting creating a hazy feeling and aerial perspective

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Campanile

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Bell tower attached to church or free standing

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Clerestory

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The upper section of a wall (windowed or open) or the upper story of the nave of a church

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Flying buttress

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A supporting structure consisting of a tower buttress and a flying arch which spans the side aisles and supports the upper wall of the nave in a gothic church

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Mandorla

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An almond shaped outline enclosing the full figure of a Devine person, usually Christ

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Tympanum

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A carved or decorated space over the door and under the arch of Romanesque or gothic church facade

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Arcade

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A series of arches and their supports. When placed against a wall and used mainly as decoration it is a blind arcade

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Diptych

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Pair of wood or ivory or metal panels unusually hinged together with painting or carving on the inside surfaces usually placed over an alter

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Icon

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Religious image or likeness in Eastern Orthodox. Panel of saint or Christ

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Illumination

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Coloured illustrations often containing gold and silver that decorated manuscripts in medieval Europe

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Pier

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Massive masonry pillar that supports an arch vault or roof. Also used under pen dative to support dome

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Rotunda

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Round building or interior hall topped by a dome

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Dome of the cathedral of Florence

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Fillipo Brunelleschi

Early renaissance

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David bronze

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Donatello

early renaissance

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Birth of Venus

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Sandro Botticelli

Early renaissance

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Mona Lisa

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Leonardo

High renaissance

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David

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Michelangelo

High renaissance

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Dome of St. Peter

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Michelangelo

High renaissance

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School of Athens

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Raphael Sanzio

High renaissance

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Venus with a mirror

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Titian

Northern Italian painting

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The burial of count orgaz

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El Greco

Mannerism

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Villa Capra/rotunda

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Andrea Palladio Mannerism

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Norte dame la grande

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Romanesque

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Mission of the apostles

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Romanesque

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Bayeux tapestry

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Romanesque

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Cathedral of Reims

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Gothic

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Salisbury cathedral

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Gothic

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Moses with two prophets

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Claus Sluter Gothic

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Lamentation

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Giotto Gothic

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Catacombs:

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*underground tunnels, burial places, chapels, & meeting rooms

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Mosaic

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Bits of brightly coloured tesserae in plaster

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Minarets

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Tall slender towers to call people for prayer

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arabesque

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*elaborate geometric and abstract patterns “in the Arab style”

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illumination:

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*coloured illustrations, often with gold & silver

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Vellum

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Parchment made from calfskin

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-miniature;

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small picture executed with great detail on manuscript

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San vitale basilica

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Byzantine