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Term Test #1 Flashcards

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Which areas in Italy acted as a foundation for the Renissance period?

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Florence and Siena

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What style does this painting represent?

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Byzantine Style:

almond eyes, long nose, small mouth, abstract 2D

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Artist, Title, Date

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NA, Madonna and Child, 1200

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What style does this painting represent?

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French Gothic Style: “S” shaped people, decprative, elegant

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Artist, Title, Date

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Jean Pucelle, Arrest of Christ and Annunciation, 1325-28

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What style does this painting represent?

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Early Christian Style: bulky, simple, straight forward-not like gothic at all (4th century following legalization of Christianity

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Artist, Title, Date

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Ravenna, St. Lawrence going to his Martyrdom, 1450

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What is drapery?

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the manner in which cloth hangs on forms

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Artist, Title, Date

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Duccio, Maesta (front panel), 1308-11

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What is iconography?

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The subject matter of a painting. Also refers to the visual conventions for depicting the subject.

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What is an altarpiece?

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A kind of painting that stood on the back of an altar in a church.

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Artist, Title, Date

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Giotto, Madonna and Child Enthrones, 1310

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What is modeling?

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A transition from highlight to shade through color saturation (aka shading)

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What is pictorial space?

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The illusion of a 3D space.

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What is style?

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It is how the forms are represented

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Artist, Title, Date

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NA, Entry into Jerusalem (Midieval Wall Painting), ND

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Artist, Title, Date

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Duccio, Maestra (back panel)–Entry into Jerusalem, 1308-11

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What is fresco?

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A method of wall painting that includes adding pigment to wet plaster.

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Who did this? When did they do it? What is this place called?

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Giotto, 1305-06, Arena Chapel

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Artist, Title, Date

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Giotto, Entry into Jerusalem (at Arena Chapel), 1305-06

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Artist, Title, Date

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Giotto, Lamentation (at Arena Chapel), 1305-06

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What does Renaissance mean and what does this time period focus on?

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Renaissance= rebirth. Classical tradition; focus on human; celebration of the individual; celebration of the physical world.

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What is this building called and where is it located?

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Orasanmichele, Florence

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Artist, Title, Date

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Ghiberti, John the Baptist, 1412-16

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Artist, Title, Date

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Donatello, St. Mark, 1411-13

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What does contrapposto mean?

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(counter position) It is the way of posing the body with a stiff leg holding the weight and a bent knee in contrast.

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Artist, Title, Date

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Nanni di Banco, Four Crowned Saints, 1412-15

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Artist, Title, Date

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Donatello, Feast of Herod, 1425

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Artist, Title, Date

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Gentile da Fabriano, Adoration of the Magi, 1423

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Artist, Title, Date

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Masaccio, Madonna and Child Enthroned, 1426

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Artist, Title, Date

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Masaccio, Holy Trinity with the Virgin, Saint John, and Two Donors, 1428

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Where are these paintings? Who did them and when?

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Brancacci chapel. Masaccio and others, 1424-27 (there is an alter to the right of the image)

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Artist, Title, Date

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Masaccio, The Tribute Money (at Brancacci chapel), 1425

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34
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What is atmospheric perspective?

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It is the shift from one color to another and/or the reduction of detail into the background that is used to create the illusion of distance

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35
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Artist, Title, Date

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Fra Angelico, Annunciation, 1440-45

36
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Artist, Title, Date

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Botticelli, Birth of Venus, 1482

37
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Artist, Title, Location, Date

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Filippo Brunelleschi, Dome, Cathedral of Florence, 1420-36

38
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What is this called, where is it located, and when was it designed?

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S. Croce, Florence, late 13th Century (also, recognize this design plan!)

39
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What is the basilica?

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The large middle isle within a cathedral

40
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What is the nave arcade?

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The pillars on either side of the main path within a cathedral

41
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What is the clerestorey?

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The area above the pilars on either side of the main path where the windows are located in a cathedral

42
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What is the transept?

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The top of the “T” design commonly used in cathedrals

43
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What is the choir or sanctuary?

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The center or the largest of the chapels at the top of the T that houses the choir during services (as in common cathedrals)

44
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Where are the chapels located?

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In the top of the T (also called the transept) of a cathedral. They are little square boxes.

45
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Artist, Title, Location, Date

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Brunelleschi, S. Spirito, Florence, 1436 (also, recognize these design plans!)

46
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What are impost blocks?

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The blocks that sit above each column as decoration

47
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What is a crossing?

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The distance between one column to the next

48
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What is the bay?

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The area at the center of the church where all of the crossings come to meet

49
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Who is Vitruvius?

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An ancient author who wrote a theory about architecture

50
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Who is Alberti?

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A man that read the work of Vitruvius and christianized what he had said

51
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Artist, Title, Location, Date

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Brunelleschi, Pazzi chapel (attatched to S. Croce, Florence, 1440

52
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What is facade?

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The front of the church, it’s exterior look

53
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Artist, Title, Location, Date

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Leon Battista Alberti, S. Andrea, Mantua, 1470

54
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Who made these calendar like images? Artist, Title, Date

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Limbourg Brothers, Tres Richese Heures du Duc de Berry, 1413-16

55
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Artist, Title, Date

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Robert Campin (master of Flemalle), Merode Alterpiece, 1425-28

56
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Artist, Title, Date

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Jan van Eyck, Giovanni Arnolfini and his bride, 1434

57
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Artist, Title, Date

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Rogier van der Weyden, Deposition, 1435

58
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Artist, Title, Date

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Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, 1495-97/98

59
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Artist, Title, Date

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Leonardo da Vinvi, Virgin and Chid with Saint Anne and the Infant St. John, 1505-07

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Artist, Title, Date

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Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, 1503-06

61
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What is sfumato?

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The indistinctness of the contour–no harsh lines

62
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What is Neoplatonism?

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A kind of Christian philosophy that branched off the ideas of Plato and meshed with Catholic beliefs

63
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Artist, Title, Date

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Michelango, David, 1501-04

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Artist, Title, Date

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Michelangelo, Moses, 1513-15

65
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What is this place? What portion did Michelangelo paint? When?

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Sistine chapel, Ceiling, 1508-12

66
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What are ignudi?

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Artist, Title, Date

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Michelangelo, Creation of Adam (Sistine chapel ceiling), 1508-12

68
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Artist, Title, Date

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Michelangelo, The Last Judgment (Sistine chapel wall), 1536-41

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Artist, Title, Date

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Raphael, Modanna of the Meadow, 1505-06

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Artist, Title, Date

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Raphael, Philosophy (School of Athens), 1509-11

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Artist, Title, Date

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Raphael, Galatea, 1513

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Artist, Title, Date

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Pontormo, Descent from the Cross, 1525-28

73
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Artist, Title, Date

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Giovanni Bellini, San Zaccaria Atarpiece, 1505

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Artist, Title, Date

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Giorgione, The Tempest, 1510

75
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What is impasto?

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The raised bumpy surface of paint

76
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Artist, Title, Date

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Titian, Assumption of the Virgin, 1516-18

77
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Artist, Title, Date

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Titian, Venus of Urbino, 1538

78
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What are forms?

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The objects

79
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What is composition?

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How the forms are arranged on the canvas

80
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What is a line?

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A continuous, invisible line of sight used to create forms, movement, and texture

81
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What is color?

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the wavelength of light that is visible (hue-the name of the color, value- high lights and low lights, intensity- the brightness)

82
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What is texture?

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1) True texture is the actual feeling of something you can touch. 2) Representational texture is the illusion of texture using light and color

83
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What is proportion?

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The size of objects in relation to one another

84
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What is scale?

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How the proportion of an object relates to the dimension of the art

85
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What is perspective?

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How elements are arranged and scaled in order to create the illusion of 3D

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What is foreshortening?

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A means of suggesting a part of the body is 3D even though it is not visible

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