Gothic through Early Renaissance Flashcards
an image in art that depicts the Virgin Mary holding the dead Christ
Pieta
commonly a religious image that includes at the sacred event the people who have paid for the artwork
donor portrait
an image in art that depicts the dead Christ coming down from the cross
deposition
the first gothic church conceived by Abbot Sugar and consecrated in 1137. this church ushered in the gothic aesthetics
St. Denis
the main aisle of a basilica, it translates as the bottom of a ship
nave
the depiction of Jesus and the disciples eating their last meal with Jesus
Last Supper
a region that is present day Belgium,Luxembourg and part of France and the Netherland, famous as a cultural arts center
Flanders
a roman civil building adapted as a church by the christian religion
basilica
a painting made up of more than 3 separate pieces
polyptich
a pigment body mixed with a linseed oil binder
oil paint
a journey of religious nature, the main purpose of which is to seek or repay divine intervention
pilgimage
the concept of creating pictorial space on a 2D surface using a system of vanishing points and line of convergence
mathematical perspective
the rebirth of ideals and concepts from Greco Roman antiquity
Renaissance
religious drawings and or paintings illustrating books with biblical or scriptural imagery
illuminated manuscript
structural support that allowed the heightened of and lightening of walls of gothic buildings. this particular engineering structure is attached to the outside of the building
flying buttresses
