Vocabulary Flashcards
Understand terms (34 cards)
Humanism
-emphasis on education and expanding knowledge
exploration of individual potential
civic responsibility/moral duty.
Neoplationism
Beautiful objects, sacred images, and architecture leads one’s soul to a closer union with the Divine.
Chiaroscuro
The illusion of three-dimensionality with consistent light sources, explainable spaces, a development of perspective and suggesting atmospheric effects.
Virgin of the Rocks
Virgin and Child W/St. Anne …a
Disegno
drawing is external physical manifestation of internal intellectual idea of a design
Virgin and Child W/St. Anne …a
Sfumato
“smoky” or “hazy”
line and left somewhat undefined
Mona Lisa
One-point “scientific” perspective
a single vanishing point and are “constructed” with orthogonal which converge upon that point
Last Supper (High)
Orthogonal
The lines which can be traced from compositional elements converging upon a single vanishing point
Last Supper
Foreshortening
an object that extends back in space at an angle to the perpendicular plane of sight.
Virgin of the Rocks
Pyramidal composition
-a composition in painting or sculpture which was based upon the pyramid.
- calmness and stability
- appealed viewer’s sense of logic
- developing its space or perspective.
Virgin of the Rock
Fresco
thin layer of fresh plaster on an existing plaster surface and then immediately applying color pigments (tempera)
permanent part of the wall surface
Last Supper (High)
Philosophy
Galatea
Cartoon
a full-size drawing made to transfer to large work.
artist’s ideas evolve
Vigrin w/ St. Anne …
Figura serpentinata
new contrapposto
animated, dynamic, and twisting.
Galatea
Pope Julius II
- Warrior Pope
- powerful spiritual and political leader
- patron of High Renaissance
`Terribilita
The notion of the Sublime: awe-inspiring beauty and intellectual expression shadowed by the fearful
Michelangelo
Pieta
pity & piety.
dead Christ Jesus on the lap of his mourning mother Mary.
not as horrible as other versions
Contrapposto
“stand against.”
distribution of the weights and balances of the body
David
Mannerism
emphasizes artifice and contrived imagery not derived directly from nature.
hyper-idealization, unorganized, erratic line, sour color palettes, and ambiguous space.
-provocative nudes, mythological subjects, allegories, and Catholic mysticism.
Sack of Rome
1527 attack of Rome by Spain
45,000 killed by the army of Charles V. Roman churches,
Sistine Chapel survived
Allegory
representation or story not clear.
Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time
Ambiguous space
compositional lacks “believable space” such as one-point perspective; fore, middle and background, etc.
Decent from the Cross
Madonna with the Long Neck ]
Arcadian
Depictions of an idyllic place of rural peace and simplicity.
Feast of the Gods,
The Tempest
Cassone /cassoni
chests made in Italy
1300-1500
bride to store her trousseau.
Colorito
Color or painted application in Venetian Renaissance art.
after disegno
Diorama
small-scale composition using clay figurines viewed through one side
Tintoretto’s Last Supper
