Flashcards in Baroque Vocab Deck (25):
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Genre
paintings in which scenes of everyday life form the subject matter
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Naturalistic
imitating nature
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Glazes
to cover (a painted surface or parts of it) with a thin layer of transparent color in order to modify the tone
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Impasto
laying on paint thickly
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Pizazza
an open square or public place in a city or town,
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Obelisk
a tapering, four-sided shaft of stone
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Pilasters
a shallow rectangular feature projecting from a wall, having a capital and base and usually imitating the form of a column
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Entablature
the entire construction of a classical temple or the like between the columns and the eaves, usually composed of an architrave, a frieze, and a cornice.
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Baldachin
a permanent ornamental canopy, as above a freestanding altar or throne
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Composite columns
A classical order dating from late Roman times, formed by superimposing Ionic volutes on a Corinthian capital
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Putti
naked, chubby angel babies
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Reliquaries
receptacle for relics
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Porticoes
a structure consisting of a roof supported by columns or piers
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Cartouche
oval or oblong figure
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Balustrade
railing with supported balusters
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Travertine
form of limestone deposited by springs
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Cornice
overhanging section of entablature
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Trompe l'oeil
realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions
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Allegory
symbolical narrative
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Quadro riportato
"carried picture". describes gold-framed easel paintings or framed paintings that are seen in a normal perspective and painted into a fresco.
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Tenebrism
style of painting characterized by large areas of dark color, usually relieved with a shaft of light
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Caravaggisti
stylistic followers of Caravaggio.
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Retablos
Latin American devotional painting
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Matte
having dull or lusterless surface
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