Renaissance

rebirth (of an interest in Ancient Greece/Rome).

Humanism

emphasis on education, indivisualism, moralism.

Relief Sculpture

figures projecting from the background.

Naturalistic

Style of art based on real world observation.

Contrapposto

Half-relaxed pose.

Sculpture in the round

: A sculpture that you can walk around and see in 3D.

Portico

A roofed colonnade (also an entranced porch).

Cupola

A dome.

Pendentives

Concave, triangular section to hold up a dome.

Oculus

round opening in a dome.

Loggia

a gallery with an open arcade on one or both sides.

Rustication

to give a rustic appearance by roughening surface.

Cornice

A crowning projection.

Niche

Recess in a wall.

Linear perspective

method of presenting an illusion of 3-D in 2-D space.

Orthogonals

a line imagined to be behind and perpendicular to the picture plane (the lines that go to the vanishing point).

Illusionism

The representation of the 3D surface in a manner that creates the illusion that person/object is 3D.

Trompe l’oeil

“Fools the eye.” A form of illusion painting that deceives people into seeing real objects rather than paintings.

Pyramidal construction

Objects are placed at an angle to the picture plane, but their linear elements don’t converge at a single point.

Intuitive Perspective

objects are placed at an angle to the picture plane, but their linear elements don’t converge at a single point; an illusion of depth is suggested, but the space doesn’t seem coherent

Linear

The extension of a point along a path.

Triptych

A 3 paneled painting

Magical Realism

Style of painting in which fantastic/unsettling images/events are depicted in a sharply detailed manner.

Chiaroscuro

in drawing/painting, the treatment/use of light/dark to produce the effect of modeling

Lunette

A semicircular area in a wall over a door/window. Also: a painting or relief with a semicircular frame.

Spandrel

Triangular shaped element between 2 arches.

Ignudi

Young male nudes.