Terms Flashcards

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byzantine style

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greek manner, heavy Christian imagery, not realistic, formal presentation,

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Italo_byzantine style

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Italian narrative of the byzantine style, greater interest in telling a story

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linear perspective

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creates an illusion that there is space further back painting using angled lines that converge in a vanishing point

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atmospheric perspective

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the fading of objects in the back of the painting to make them look further in the distance, different color in the sky

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altarpiece

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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.

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fresco

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it is made by applying water-based pigments to wet plaster, hard to show texture

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oil painting

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oil-based paints that can show very fine detail dry slowly so artists can work on something for a while.

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contrapposto

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slight tilt in the hips. weight put mostly on one foot.

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9
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protestant reformation

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Martin Luther 93 thesis

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continuous narration

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different scenes of the story happen in different of t the painting

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iconoclasm

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destruction of religious images or the resistance to

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still life painting/ vanitas

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show qualities of their owners

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engraving

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scratching metal filling lines with ink. areas that were removed

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woodcut

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wood is cut out and what is left has ink is applied to it to press on paper

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