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General Art History Terms Flashcards

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The physical material of a work of art

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Medium/Media(plural)

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2
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An unconscious representation of its ideological age

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Art

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3
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What is the study of images?

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Iconography

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What is the identification of separate elements in a composition in order to identify the subject matter?

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Iconographic Analysis

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What is the manner, form, character, representation, construction, or expression of a work

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Style/ Art Movement

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Illusion of a 3 dimensionality on a flat surface

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Illusionism

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The use of lights and darks to achieve illusionism

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Chiaroscuro

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Depicting objects as they appear in nature

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Naturalism

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A freedom of form that is not naturalistic

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Abstract

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A thin smooth application of paint with great detail and blend to eliminate brush strokes

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Linear Application

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A thicker pigment of color and paint with less details and more brushstrokes

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Painterly Application

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An examination of common elements of an art piece to include artist, style, media, subject matter - iconographic analysis, genre, composition

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Formal Analysis

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An analysis of a work’s context to determine the significance of the object: patronage, social condition, economic, political, military, religious influences

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Socio-historical Analysis

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The person, group, or organization that commissions the artist to create a work

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Patron

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15
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The chronological history of an artworks location/owners

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Provenance

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16
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An artist’s entire collection of work

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Oeuvre

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17
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The ideological representation of discussion through the composition of an art piece

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Subject Matter

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18
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Revival of Ancient Greek/Rome art

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Classicism

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Order, balance, symmetry

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Classicism

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20
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Para Done

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Rivalry

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21
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Capital order of the pillar: Doric, Ionic, Corinthian

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Classical orders

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22
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Original design of classical order

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Doric

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23
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Scroll on the side (volutes)

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Ionic

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24
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Leafy top capital

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Corinthian

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Reminder of death

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Memento mori

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Diagonal lines in perspective system

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Orthogonal

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Mathematical system for creating the illusion of space and distance on a flat surface

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Linear perspective system

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Optical illusion that considers the lessening of detail as an object is further into the distance

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Atmospheric perspective

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Left foot back and raised, right foot slightly forward, head tilted

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Contrapposto

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Paint technique used to simulate stone

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Playful chubby Angel babies

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Reinterpreted ancient ideas of Plato

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Neo-platonic philosophy

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One hand covering genitals

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Modesty pose

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Painting with pigments in a water soluble mixture such as water and egg

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Two wooden panel altarpiece

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Three wooden panel altarpiece

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Multi wooden panel altarpiece

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Intuitive perspective/ one-point perspective

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Naturalism of the north

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Taking a moment from ancient history and incorporating a scene from present era

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Disguised symbolism

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Metal engraving

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Melancholia

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Experimental fresco

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Plaster, tempera, oil paint, varnish seal

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Smoke appearance to lessen rigidity of contour line

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To fool the eye

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Twisting shape of the body

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Serpentinata

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Hard contract of darks to create a spotlight effect

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People who copied the style of Caravaggio

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Caraviggisti

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Known as the Dutch Republic

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Northern Flanders

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Images that suggest the fleeting moments of beauty in the passing of time

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Group of people that don’t use tithes on artwork to decorate churches

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Iconoclasts

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Collection of objects sitting still

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Still life

51
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Hierarchy of Genres

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  1. History
  2. Portraiture
  3. Genre
  4. Landscape
  5. Animal
  6. Still Life
52
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Award given to artist of Royal Academy to go and study in Rome

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Prix de Rome

53
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Louis XIV formal living room

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The Salon - Salon Carre

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Art style that resembles sea shell patterns

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Townhomes in Paris

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The fanciest room in an aristocrats estate, used to hold parties

57
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A genre developed to teach British culture morality

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Moral genre

58
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Fete Galante

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Elegant party

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