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Art History Exam 2
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
11/01/2017

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Rococo
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movement was an art movement that emerged in France and spread throughout the world in the late 17th and early 18th century. The word is a derivative of the French term rocaille, which means “rock and shell garden ornamentation”
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Grand Tour
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Neo-Classicism
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the revival of a classical style or treatment in art, literature, architecture, or music. form of art harkening back to the grandeur of ancient Greece and Rome. Its rigidity was a reaction to the overbred Rococo style and the emotional charged Baroque style.
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Romanticism
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a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual.
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Camera Obscura
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a darkened box with a convex lens or aperture for projecting the image of an external object onto a screen inside. It is important historically in the development of photography.
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Quadro riportato
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("transported paintings") is the Italian phrase for "carried picture". It is used in art to describe gold-framed easel paintings or framed paintings that are seen in a normal perspective and painted into a fresco.
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Quadratura
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perspective tools such as foreshortening, and other spatial effects are used to create the illusion of three-dimensional space on an ...
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Baroque
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is a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, theatre, and music.
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Ovid, Metamorphoses
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is a Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus.
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Chiaroscuro
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is an Italian artistic term used to describe the dramatic effect of contrasting areas of light and dark in an artwork, particularly paintings. It comes from the combination of the Italian words for "light" and "dark."
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Peter Paul Rubens. The Garden of Love. Rococo.
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