The Renaissance to Post Impressionism Flashcards
Italian Renaissance
14th-16th centuries, means rebirth
Northern Renaissance
15th-16th centuries
Baroque (Italian and Northern)
17th century
Rococo
18th century
Neoclassicism
18th century
Romanticism
19th century
Realism
19th century
Impressionism
19th century
Post-Impressionism
19th century
Fresco
a painting done rapidly in watercolor on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling, so that the colors penetrate the plaster and become fixed as it dries.
Linear Perspective
a type of perspective used by artists in which the relative size, shape, and position of objects are determined by drawn or imagined lines converging at a point on the horizon.
Sfumato
the technique of allowing tones and colors to shade gradually into one another, producing softened outlines or hazy forms.
Triptych
a picture or relief carving on three panels, typically hinged together side by side and used as an altarpiece.
Polyptych
a painting, typically an altarpiece, consisting of more than three leaves or panels joined by hinges or folds.
Grisaille
a method of painting in gray monochrome, typically to imitate sculpture.
Woodcut print
Woodblock printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper.
Engraving
the process or art of cutting or carving a design on a hard surface, esp. so as to make a print.
Memento mori
an object serving as a warning or reminder of death, such as a skull.
Genre scene
Genre art is the pictorial representation in any of various media of scenes or events from everyday life.
Daguerreotypes
a photograph taken by an early photographic process employing an iodine-sensitized silvered plate and mercury vapor.
Porcelain
Porcelain is a ceramic material made by heating materials, generally including clay in the form of kaolin, in a kiln to temperatures between 1,200 °C (2,192 °F) and 1,400 °C (2,552 °F).
Mihrab
a niche in the wall of a mosque, at the point nearest to Mecca, toward which the congregation faces to pray.