Exam 1 Western Art Flashcards
Humanism
Self Confidence, Continued admiration for classical art.
Naturalism
a style and theory of representation based on the accurate depiction of detail.
Antiquity
refers to the distant past, meaning the period between about 4,500 BCE (the beginnings of Western civilization) and about 450 CE (the beginning of the Middle Ages).
Fresco
a painting done rapidly in watercolor on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling, so that the colors penetrate the plaster and become fixed as it dries.
Oil Paint
a paste made with ground pigment and a drying oil such as linseed oil, used chiefly by artists.
one point perspective (Linear perspective)
a type of perspective used by artists in which the relative size, shape, and position of objects are determined by drawn or imagined lines converging at a point on the horizon.
chiaroscuro
the treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting.
• an effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something: the chiaroscuro of cobbled streets.
Tenebrism
a style of painting developed by Caravaggio and other 17th-century Spanish and Italian artists, characterized by predominantly dark tones and shadows with dramatically contrasting effects of light.
Foreshortening
portray or show (an object or view) as closer than it is or as having less depth or distance, as an effect of perspective or the angle of vision: seen from the road, the mountain is greatly foreshortened.
• prematurely or dramatically shorten or reduce (something) in time or scale: (as adj.
sfumato
the technique of allowing tones and colors to shade gradually into one another, producing softened outlines or hazy forms.
protestant reformation
The Protestant Reformation was the 16th-century religious, political, intellectual and cultural upheaval that splintered Catholic Europe, setting in place the structures and beliefs that would define the continent in the modern era.
Inconoclasm
Iconoclasm is the destruction of religious icons and other images or monuments for religious or political motives. In time, the word, usually in the adjectival form, has also come to refer to aggressive statements or actions against any well-established status quo.
Counter-Reformation
the reform of the Church of Rome in the 16th and 17th centuries that was stimulated by the Protestant Reformation.
Genre Scene
Genre art is the pictorial representation in any of various media of scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, and street scenes.
Florence
1 a city in western central Italy, the capital of Tuscany, on the Arno River; pop. 365,659 (2008). Florence was a leading center of the Italian Renaissance, especially under the rule of the Medici family during the 15th century. Italian name Firenze.
