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Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque Period Flashcards

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Generally, what was the Middle Ages art like?

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Flat 2-dimensional

Less emphasis of scholarship and science

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When were the Middle Ages

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500 A.D. - 1400 A.D

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Compared to classical art, how was the quality of visual art?

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Less realistic and refined

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What were the 3 significant “schools” of the Middle Ages

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Byzantine
Romanesque
Gothic

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Eastern Orthodox, believed to hold special powers

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Icon

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Most significant architectural creation of Byzantine style

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Hagia Sophia other known as church of holy wisdom

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Allowed a some to be built on a square building

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Pendentives

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Describe the art of Romanesque period

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A lot of curved arches

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Who was the leading patron of the Romanesque style

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Catholic Church

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What are the common elements of gothic cathedrals

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Ribbed vaults, POINTED arches, stained-glass windows

Groin vaults

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What was the gargoyles actual function and believed purpose

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Actual was to serve as water spouts

Believed keep demons away

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What was the labyrinth meant for?

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Meditation

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Most famous work of the gothic period

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Cathedral of Norte Dame in Paris

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Religious music for worship services

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Gregorian chants

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Chants done by one person with an additional melodic line

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Organum

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Lyric poets who held knightly rank and sang emotional and religious stories

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Troubadours

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What was the opinion of literature in the Middle Ages

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Cared very literature

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Earliest English work

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Beowulf

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Oldest surviving work in french literature

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Song of Roland

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Highlight of English late Middle Ages literature

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The Canterbury tales

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What was the renaissance

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REBIRTH of the classical era

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What was

The location of the renaissance

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Started in Florence then moved to Rome

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During the renaissance what were the 4 breakthroughs in painting

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Oil paint on canvas
Perspective
Chiaroscuro
Pyramid configuration

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Replaced

Tempera paint on wood and fresco on plaster

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Made out of egg yolk

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Illusion of depth on a flat surface - objects fade toward a vanishing point

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Perspective

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Use of light and shadow to create depth and realism through shading

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Chiaroscuro

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Building the focus of an image to a climax in the center

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Pyramid

Configuration

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What were the three significant eras of the renaissance

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Early renaissance
High renaissance
Northern renaissance

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When was the early renaissance

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1400 to 1500

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Key patron of the early renaissance

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Medici family

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Major theme of renaissance art

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Religion

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The father of renaissance painting

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Masaccio

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The father of renaissance sculpture

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Donatello

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Birth of Venus

Used new techniques to tell story of the classical

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Botticelli

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What is the period of the high renaissance

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1500-1600

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What happens to the renaissance movement during the high renaissance

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Shifts to Rome

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Who was the key patron of the high renaissance

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Pope Julius II

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37
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When does the high renaissance period begin

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Leonardo da Vinci paints his “last supper”

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What is the key sculpture during the high renaissance

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Michelangelos pieta

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What is the date of the northern renaissance

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1400-1600

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What was the northern renaissance closely linked to

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Protestant reformation

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Stories where fictional characters symbolically represent another level of “Truth”

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Allegory

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Who found Protestantism

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Martin Luther

43
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What performing art was born in Italy and was an interpretation of fencing

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Ballet

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The first opera performed in 1597

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Dafne by jacopo peris

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What was Leonardo da Vinci known as

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The renaissance man

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What was da vincis one flaw

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He had ADD and so it was hard for him to complete his works

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Who painted the arnolfini wedding and where was he from

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Jan van eyck

Holland

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Who painted the resurrection and where was he from

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El Greco

Spain

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Who painted the four horseman of the apocalypse

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Albrecht durer

Germany

50
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Who painted hunters in the snow and where was he from

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Pieter Bruegel

Belgium

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Who painted the Sistine chapel ceiling

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Michelangelo

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What was the key contribution of architecture during the high renaissance

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Donato bramante’s

Tempietto

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When was the baroque/ rococo period

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1600-1800

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What was the baroque/ rococo period noted for

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Elaborate presentation and excessive detail

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Who established the council of Trent and why

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Catholic Church to support a counter-reformation against Protestantism

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Who helped fund baroque period

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Aristocracy

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What was the most important building of the baroque period

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Palace of Versailles near Paris

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What is the final phase of the baroque period called

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Rococo

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What does the rococo period show

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Baroque at it’s height and most decorative

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Greatest sculptor of the baroque era

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Bernini

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Most noted for full bodied female nudes

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Rubens

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Painter from holland who had really detailed and lifelike paintings

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Vermeer

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Architect who designed more than 50 stone churches in London

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Wren

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Made the worlds greatest painting

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Velazquez

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Most significant of Italian baroque painters

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Caravaggio

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1st woman in history to make significant contributions to the art of her era

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Gentileschi

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What type of novel is popularized in Spain

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Picaresque

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What is considered the greatest novel in Spain

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Don Quixote by Cervantes

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Links visual arts with performing arts

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Ornamentation

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One of greatest musical geniuses of all time who was in the baroque era

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Bach

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Other important composers of baroque era

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Antonio Vivaldi and G.F. Handel

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Who is considered the best painter ever

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Rembrandt

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How many self portraits did Rembrandt create

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About 100

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Made the Ecstasy of St. Theresa

St. Peter’s Cathedral

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Bernini

From Italy

75
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the descent from the cross

From Flanders

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Rubens

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The milkmaid

Girl with Peal earing

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Vermeer from holland

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St. Paul’s Cathedral

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England

Wren

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Las meninas

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Spain

Velazquez

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Calling of at Mathew

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Caravaggio

Italy

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I doth and the Holofernes, women getting revenge

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Italy gentileschi

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Where is the Hagia Sophia located

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Istanbul

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Pointed structures in gothic architecture

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Flying buttresses

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What was new about the background of the Mona Lisa

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Imaginary landscape

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Who owns the Mona Lisa today’s

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France

85
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An interpretation of the arnolfini wedding

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Woman in painting was dead

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Which country was Pieter Bruegel from

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Netherlands

87
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Machiavelli wrote the prince in 1513. He believed that a person must be what to be a powerful leader

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Feared

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Technique when colors are all well blended together

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Sfumato

89
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What does mona mean

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Mrs

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Who sculpted bronze version of David

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Donatello

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Who sculpted David

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Michelangelo

92
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What is the ignorance of the pieta

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Mary looks extremely young and he used one slab Of marble

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Name one invention of da Vinci

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Helicopter

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Who created the printing press and what was the first thing it printed

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Gutenberg and the bible

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