Terms Flashcards
byzantine style
greek manner, heavy Christian imagery, not realistic, formal presentation,
Italo_byzantine style
Italian narrative of the byzantine style, greater interest in telling a story
linear perspective
creates an illusion that there is space further back painting using angled lines that converge in a vanishing point
atmospheric perspective
the fading of objects in the back of the painting to make them look further in the distance, different color in the sky
altarpiece
it is at the front of the church and depicts a scene from the bible and sometimes has the local saint or patrons future in it.
fresco
it is made by applying water-based pigments to wet plaster, hard to show texture
oil painting
oil-based paints that can show very fine detail dry slowly so artists can work on something for a while.
contrapposto
slight tilt in the hips. weight put mostly on one foot.
protestant reformation
Martin Luther 93 thesis
continuous narration
different scenes of the story happen in different of t the painting
iconoclasm
destruction of religious images or the resistance to
still life painting/ vanitas
show qualities of their owners
engraving
scratching metal filling lines with ink. areas that were removed
woodcut
wood is cut out and what is left has ink is applied to it to press on paper