Exam 2 Flashcards
verism
-truthfulness in art
PORTRAIT HEAD OF AN ELDER
-ROMAN
-emphasized the true features of a person, even if unflattering
(especially signs of age since elders were revered)
-wisdom and age
Pompeii (How was it destroyed/ Why was it preserved
-ROMAN
-Destroyed by the eruption of mount Vesuvius
-Preserved to provide a window onto the history of both art history and archaeology.
Key features of House plan of Vettii Brothers
-Atrium (Entrance)
-impluvium (Collect rain water)
-Garden inside (Privacy)
-Frescos on Walls (Trends in domestic decoration) (Forward-looking interior decoration)
-Mosaics on floor
Ways the Pantheon Dome was supported
- Use of concrete
- Strong walls to support the base of the dome
- coffers (relieve some of the weight) (Squares)
- oculus (relieves weight at the weakest point, the center) (Circular Openings)
Nave
Central part of church
Apse
large semicircular recess in church
Transept
(in a cross-shaped church) either of the two parts forming the arms of the cross shape
Manuscript
hand made book
Interlacing
intertwining knots of
ribbons or serpents; a popular
decorative pattern in the early
medieval art of England, Ireland,
and Scotland
Illuminated
When gold is applied to the page of a manuscript
St John’s Bible
a modern Bible created
with medieval materials
and techniques
Materials of manuscripts:
-Parchment= animal skin scraped very thin (sheep, calf, goats)
-(or vellum=finest quality of parchment)
-ground pigments suspended in egg yolk (tempera)
-ink, applied with feather quill pen
-gold leaf, applied with glue
Monastery
a building or buildings occupied by a community of monks living under religious vows.
scribe
a person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented.
reliquary
container for a relic
Relic
part of a saint’s body, or something that has come into contact with a saint or Jesus
Barrel vault
an architectural element formed by the extrusion of a single curve
Groin vault
A groin vault or groined vault is produced by the intersection at right angles of two barrel vaults
Ribbed vault
A rib vault or ribbed vault is an architectural feature for covering a wide space, such as a church nave, composed of a framework of crossed or diagonal arched ribs
Stained glass
pieces of colored glass fused
together with strips of lead;
details painted on
How is stained glass made
quartz crystals, sand, and ash
+minerals for color
melted together
Buttress
an architectural support attached to a wall
Flying buttress
an arch on the exterior of a building that
transfers the weight of the vault to another buttress
“Four Tetrarch” Venice
-Late Roman
-Four rulers
-Porphyry (stone)
-harmony
-military figures
Constantine the Great - colossal head
-Late Roman
-Marble
-He legalized Christianity and other religions
-originally located in the Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine
Old St. peters (Rome)
-Early Christian
-site where peter was buried
-nave, aspe, Transept
Book of kells “CHI RHO IOTA” page
-Early middle ages
-First letters of Christ [XPI]
-Ink and pigment Vellum
-Illuminated manuscript
Reliquary of St. Foy
-Romanesque
-Made with gold and jewels
-contains skull of St. Foy
-Foy= Faith,
-young women who converted to Christianity and was killed by roman authorities for refusing to sacrifice to pagan gods
church of saint Foy, France
-Romanesque
-Barrel-vaulted have lined with arches
-takes the symbolic form of the cross
“Last Judgment” tympanum Autun, France
-reminder about the joys of heaven and torments of hell
-made people consider their eternal fate
“Flight into Egypt”
-pieces of colored glass fused together with strips of lead; details painted on
Norte Dame Cathedral
-Gothic
-Symbol of theological and worldly power
-spiritual power comes from the relic of the tunic of the virgin Mary
-stain glass focused on light/geometry
-light is symbol for the divine
