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| [image]The “New York Kouros |
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| [image]The “Peplos Kore,” |
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| [image]Achilles and Ajax playing dice |
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447-438 BC
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"weight shift" cause the weight of the body tends to be thrown to one
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the style of painted or sculpted representation based on close
observation of the natural world that was the core of the classical tradition |
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the silhouetting of dark figures against a light background of
natural,reddish clay, with linear details incised through the silhouettes
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the silhouetting of red figures against a black background with
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| figures projecting from a background of which they are part of |
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| [image]Temple of Portunus |
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| [image]Second Style wall-painting from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor |
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| [image]Detail of Third Style wall-painting from the Villa of Agrippa Postumus |
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| [image]Portrait of Augustus as a general |
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| [image]Female personification (probably the Earth-goddess Tellus) |
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| [image]Portraits of the four Tetrarchs |
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a building material invented by the Romans and consisting of various
proportions of lime mortar, volcanic sand, water, and small stones |
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| semicylindrical in cross section is in effect a deep arch or an uninterrupted series of arches one behind the other over an oblong space |
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formed at the point at which two barrel vaults intersect at right angles
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all parallel lines converge on one two or three vanishing points located
with the reference to eye level of the viewer and associated objects are rendered smaller the farther from he viewer they are intended to seem. |
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| [image]Colossal head of Emperor Constantine |
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| [image]Apse mosaic of Justinian and Archbishop Maximian |
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| [image]the church of Hagia Sophia |
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532-537
Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus |
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| [image]The Barberini Ivory, showing ‘Justinian as world conqueror |
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| [image]Icon showing the Virgin and Child between Saints Theodore and George |
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| [image]Cross-inscribed carpet page, from the Lindisfarne Gospels, |
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| [image]Purse cover, from the Sutton Hoo ship burial in Suffolk, England |
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| [image]Equestrian portrait of Charlemagne |
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a portrait or image; especially in Byzantine churches a panel with a painting of sacred personages that are objects of veneration
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a luxurious hand made book with painted illustrations and
decorations |
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| in Christian architect an church; in Roman architecture a public building for legal and other civic proceedings |
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| a recess, usually semicircular in the wall of a building, commonly found at the east end of a church |
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| [image]Saint Sernin, Toulouse |
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| [image]Ambulatory and radiating chapels, Saint-Denis |
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| [image]Royal Portal, west façade, Chartres Cathedral, |
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| [image][image]Chartres Cathedral, |
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| [image]Notre Dame de la Belle Verrière, Chartres Cathedral, |
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| [image][image]Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, |
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| [image]God as architect, Moralized Bible, |
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| [image]Head reliquary of Saint Alexander from Stavelot Abbey |
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| [image], Three King’s Shrine reliquary, |
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| a container for holy relics |
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| the action of saying a prayer on behalf of another person |
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a vault in which the diagonal and transverse ribs compose a structural
skeleton that partially supports the masonry web between them |
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inclined member carried on arch or a series of arches and a solid buttress
to which it transmits lateral thrusts |
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| [image]Great Stupa at Sanchi, |
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| third century BCE to first century BCE. |
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| [image]Interior of chaitya hall |
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| [image]Bodhisattva Padmapani, detail of wall painting in Cave 1 |
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| second half of fifth century |
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| [image]Shakyamuni Buddha, from Hebei Province, |
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| [image]Vairocana Buddha, disciples, and bodhisattvas, Fengxian Temple, Longmen Caves, |
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| [image]Paradise of Amitabha |
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| [image]Sixth Chan Patriarch Chopping Bamboo |
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early 13th century
Liang Kai, |
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| [image] Ariel view of Borobudur, |
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| [image]Sacrifice of Isaac |
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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| [image] Philosophy (School of Athens) |
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| [image]Sistine Chapel ceiling |
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| painting on wet lime plaster |
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creates the illusion of distance by the greater diminution
of color intensity |
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all lines converge on one or two or three vanishing points with
reference to the eye level of the viewer |
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| point where all lines converge on an image |
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the treatment and use of light and dark especially the gradations of light
that produce the effect of modeling |
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1536-1541
Michelangelo Buonarroti |
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Michelangelo Buonarroti |
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| [image]Madonna with the Long Neck |
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| [image]Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time |
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| [image]Portrait of the Artist’s Sisters and Brother |
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Sofonisba Anguissola |
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| [image]Portrait of a Noblewoman |
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| [image]Madonna of the Pesaro Family |
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| [image] Christ in the House of Levi |
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| was the schism within Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther, John Calvin, and other early Protestant Reformers to go agaist the injustices of the catholic church |
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| the period of Catholic reviva |
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| Italian for style or manner |
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| a correct rule of proportion |
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“holy conversation” a style of altarpiece painting popular after the middle
of the 15th century in which saints from different epochs are joined in a unified space and seem to be conversing with one another or the audience |
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| painting on lime plaster either dry or wet |
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