ARTH 100 FINAL Vocab

Question 1

Tempera

Answer 1

painting with pigment + egg yolk, fast drying

Question 2

One Point Perspective

Answer 2

shows how things appear to get smaller as they get further away, converging towards a single “vanishing point” on the horizon line

Question 3

Atmospheric Perspective

Answer 3

further away an object, the less clear they are, and the more they take on the value and hue of the background

Question 4

Fresco

Answer 4

painting on fresh plaster with water

Question 5

Contrapposto

Answer 5

a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot, so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs in the axial plane

Question 6

Guild

Answer 6

associations of craftsmen and merchants formed to promote the economic interests of their members

Question 7

Halo

Answer 7

radiant circle around the head of a holy person, representation of spiritual character through the symbolism of light

Question 8

Pyramid Composition

Answer 8

created a sense of balance and harmony by arranging the figures into a stable triangle shape

Question 9

Sfumato

Answer 9

Exclusively used for da Vinci

Means smokey

Question 10

Disegno

Answer 10

intellectual choices made in design

Question 11

Oil Painting

Answer 11

replaced both tempera and fresco as the principal painting medium of the Italian Renaissance

Question 12

Annunciation

Answer 12

Angels tell Mary she is pregnant with Gods son

Question 13

Donor Portraits

Answer 13

commissioned art, commissioner is depicted in the art, makes it obvious to god that he made

Question 14

Three-Quarter View

Answer 14

a representation of a figure posed about halfway between front and profile views

Question 15

Mannerism

Answer 15

Self-conscious style

Rejected high renaissance serenity, grace perspective and harmonious coloring

Disturbing spatial relationships, coldness, pale colors, dream like

Question 16

Council of Trent

Answer 16

Met to review controversial church doctrines

Declared that painting, sculpture, and architecture were a way of conveying catholic theology

Question 17

Bel Composto

Answer 17

Well-known beautiful composition

In baroque period, everything that went into the church had to be moving

Question 18

Tenebrism

Answer 18

describe a certain type of painting in which significant details such as faces and hands are illuminated by highlights which are contrasted with a predominantly dark setting

Question 19

What is the name of the Stone highly sought after in renaissance, Arena Chapel what was painter trying to show on the bottom register?

Answer 19

Porphyry

Question 20

How is the figure (small girl dressed in white, princess) colloquially referred to in Las Meninas?

Answer 20

InFanta (infant)