Italian Renaissance Flashcards
most commonly refers to a technique used
in painting, where paint is laid on an area of the surface (or the entire canvas) very
thickly, usually thickly enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible.
Impasto
most commonly refers to a technique used
in painting, where paint is laid on an area of the surface (or the entire canvas) very
thickly, usually thickly enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible.
DANTE
a chair of the Renaissance having a number of transv
erse,curved legs, crossing beneath the seat and rising
to support the arms and back. This folding arm chair
was a widely used type of furniture. Made up from
many curved strips of wood pivoted at the center of
the seat, it was named after the famous Italian
preacher who, it is thought, favored this design
SAVONAROLA
This was a somewhat massive chair
with four square legs supporting
arms. Seat and back were bands of
leather attached to the frame with
nails, the nailheads acting as a form
of decorative trim.
SEDIA
Wooden side chair of the Italian Renaissance based on primitive three-cornered stools.
Early types had three legs wedged into solid seat, with board back. Later elaborations had
scroll-cut slab bases, sometimes with drawer or hinged lid and elaborately pierced and
carved back panel. The style persists, especially in provincial work in all European
countries. This might be a stool or a small, simple chair—really a stool with a wooden slab
back. The seat might be octagonal, and elegant versions might have richly carved details.
SGABELLE/SGABELLO
a Renaissance chair having three
splayed legs and a shaped back
joined into a solid wooden seat.
PANCHETTO
This was a lift- lid chest, usually of solid walnut (the wood most used for
Renaissance furniture), quite large and often elaborately carved with
architecturally related details, with sculptural relief carvings of
mythological or allegorical subjects,
CASSONE
Italian settee formed by adding arms and back to a
chest_literally cassone plus banca.
CASSAPANCA
served as a sideboard or serving table. It also provided storage for silver, glassware, dishes,
and linens.
The same evolution that produced this sense in Italian also worked on English word credence, which in Middle English also meant “
act or process of testing the nature or character of food before serving it as a precaution
against poison,”
CREDENZA
A piece of furniture for kneeling at; a shelved
wooden desk for use when praying, usually with
a low surface for kneeling on and a higher
surface for resting the elbows or a book on.
PRIE-DIEUX
a reversible, elaborately
patterned fabric; originally made of silk
DAMASK
an art or technique of decorating a surface with inlaid
patterns,especially of wood mosaic, developed during t
the Renaissance.
INTARSIA
a plaster used during the Italian Renaissance for bas-
relief ornament offurniture, being applied in layers, mo
lded, carved, and gilded.
PASTIGLIA
A technique of inlaying light-colored material as bone, ivory, metal or pale wood in elaborate designs on a dark
ground.
CERTOSINA
large enameled
earthenware plates
Majolica ware-
