Art History Terms Flashcards
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Sprezzatura
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Without effort, hiding rigidity of Renaissance, passage into harmony
2
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Sfumato
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Use of no contour lines, smoky background and the melting of characters into the background
3
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Chiarascuro
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dark and light
4
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Serpentinata
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an exaggeration of
5
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Pastophoria
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Byzantine style of architecture
6
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Coloring vs. Drawing
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Coloring has solid tones while drawing shows more texture
7
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Maniera
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virtuoso (elongation), complexity, use of classical inventions in non-functional way (art of the elite)
8
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Impasto
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raised brushstrokes with thick paint – slow technique
9
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Frieze
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frescoes painted on the upper half of the walls
10
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Prestezza
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a painting technique that utilizes rapid brushstrokes to make impressions of faces and objects as opposed to painting them out in detail.
