Midterm 1: Keyterms Flashcards
S-Curve
Curved Spine Look
Sluter-esque
Style of Drapery
(Clause Slater, Well of Moses)
International Style
Gothic Art + Gold Frames + Arches
Byzantine Influence
Weight
Dimension of Figures having weight within a picture, heavier drapery helps make effect, perspective, horizon lines
Stylized
Not natural, show culture values within beauty standards
Disengo
Line in Italian, Obsession with perfect lines
2-point perspective
Corner to see two sides of something
Classicism
Roman and Greek Art (Greco-Roman periods)
Focus on Form, weight, space, humanistic
Atmospheric Perspective
Scene behind subject is blurred
Contrapposto
Natural shifting of resting and bearing weight (often in legs)
Humanism
Interest in real people: classicism, science, and philosophy, education, civic duty, individual potential
Summa Theologica
Text by Thomas Aquinas, Recenters man as center of God’s creation,
Less of man at center of universe
People should reflect Christ within their behavior as His creation
CE: 1275
Reformation & Counter Reformation
Call for Catholic church to be reformed -> led to protestant branches (Martin Luther)
Catholic Church opposed this or countered it
Oil Paint
Invented after Temperature paint
Allows for microscopic details and layers and reflection, because it takes so long to dry
Didactic
Moral or religious subjects
Iconography
Symbols of culture within a piece, usually religious within the Renaissance
3/4 View
Northern Renaissance thing, people in paintings are facing a little away from painter
Patronage
Who commissioned the painting
Arcadian
Arcadia in Greece: Rural, mythical simplistic, countryside, idyllic (extremely happy)
Impasto
Paint applied thickly to stand out from canvas and catch eyes
Neo-platonism
Beauty = Truth
Platonic ideas of Beauty and perfectionism with Christian Truths (Venus and Virgin of Mary in Primavera)
