Stupid Vocab Test Flashcards
Emblem bearing a coat of arms
Escutcheon
Florentine family who supported many artists and writers
Medici
Perspective technique of showing from below
di sotto in su
Technique of depicting space in which all parallel lines converge at a point on the horizon
linear perspective
Family who commissioned Brunelleschi to build a chapel
Pazzi
The part of a building above the capitals and columns and below the roof or upper story
entablature
deceives the eye
trope l’oeil
modest Venus
Venus pudica
Apparent visual contraction on a plane that is not perpendicular to the line of sight
foreshortening
a flat rectangular vertical member projecting from the wall of which it is a part
pilaster
technique of beveling the edges of stones to make the stonework appear rough
rustification
nickname for Erasmo Di narni
Gattamelata
Use of light and dark to create modeling
chiaroscuro
Renaissance ideal of a man who was good at many things
l’uomo universale
principle of weight shift in which the body is counter positioned around a central axis
contrapposto
A line imagined to be behind and perpendicular to the picture plane that seems to recede toward the vanishing point
orthogonal
lord of Rimini who commissioned Alberti to build a temple-tomb for the great humanist scholars
Sigismondo Malatesta
Neo-Platonic philosopher
Marsillio Ficino
Italian military leader
condottiere
plave on th horizon where all parallel lines appear to converge
vanishing point
ancient Roman architect and theoretician whose works had profound influence on Renaissance architects
Vitruvius
horizontal molding usually marking an interior division
stringcourse
incising into a metal plate or a print made from the pate
engraving
framework supporting the deceased
catafalque
Reformist monk who became virtual dictator of Florence
savonarola
illness caused by ergot fungus
ergotism
French castle
Chateau
sixteenth century French sculptor
Jean Goujon
sixteenth century German artist
Durer
patron saint to ward off disease
St. Sebastian
personification of knowledge lacks ability to act
Melancholy
radical Protestants
Anabaptists
Danube style
Donaustil
engraving tool
Burin
active life
vita activia
multipaneled altarpiece
polyptych
nickname for Jan Gossaert
Mabuse
corroding design onto metal surface
etching
German reformer
Martin Luther
a style based on delicate execution of ornament
Plateresque
Martin Luther’s epithet for Roman Catholic church
“whore of Babylon”
graphic technique popularized by Durer
woodcut
hub of economic activity for Low Countries
Antwerp
sixteenth century French palace
Fontainebleau
