Midterms Flashcards
Buon Fresco
painted in fresh plaster
Tempera
pigment in egg yolk
Sacre Conversazione
intimacy between sacred figure and the surrounding religious figures
Trompe l’oeli
trick of the eye
Di sotto in su
looking from below directly up
Votive
asking for prayers
Polyptych
Folds in several different ways
Diptych
Two parts you close like a book
Triptych
3 parts
Grisaille
painted in shades of grey to appear like a relief
Poesie
poetic painting / in painting as in poetry
Relief
woodcut - reveals lines
Intaglio
engraving/etching - creating lines
anamorphosis
a picture within a picture
silverpoint
artist uses thin pieces of silver wire to make marks on paper
cartoon
full-scale preparatory drawings
the rationalization of sight
simple but logical way to show perspective
Mathematical / One point perspective
Realistically depicting 3D space in 2D plane, things get smaller at a single vanishing point
Optical Correction
Slight modification of lines to make them appear correct to the eye
Giornata Fresco
one day’s work
Sinopia
Reddish-brown chalk used for fresco
Arriccio
Second coat of fresco plaster
Intonaco
final layer of plaster on a fresco
rilievo schiacciato
treating sculpture like painting, 2D
venus pudica
prude or chaste venus
Sfumato
the technique of allowing tones and colors to shade gradually into one another without clear boundaries
