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Art History
Undergraduate 2
10/19/2011

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Metope
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In classical architecture, a metope is a rectangular architectural element that fills the space between two triglyphs in a Doric frieze, which is a decorative band of alternating triglyphs and metopes above the architrave of a building of the Doric order.
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FLying Buttress
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The purpose of any buttress is to resist the lateral forces pushing a wall outwards
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Doric
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The Doric order was one of the three orders or organizational systems of ancient Greek or classical architecture. their vertical shafts were fluted with 20 parallel concave grooves; and they were topped by a smooth capital
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Tempera
Definition
painting medium in which pigment is mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size or egg yolk.
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Triforium
Definition
A gallery or arcade above the arches of the nave, choir, and transepts of a church.
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Ionic
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The Ionic columns normally stand on a base which separates the shaft of the column from the stylobate or platform; The cap is usually enriched with egg-and-dart.
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Cella
Definition
In Ancient Greek and Roman temples the cella is a room at the centre of the building, usually containing a cult image or statue representing the particular deity venerated in the temple.
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Stylobate
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is the top step of the crepidoma, the stepped platform on which colonnades of temple columns are placed (it is the floor of the temple).
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Triglyph
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Triglyph is an architectural term for the vertically channeled tablets of the Doric frieze,
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Capital
Definition
forms the topmost member of a column (or pilaster).
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Nave
Definition
The central part of a church building, intended to accommodate most of the congregation.
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Transept
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in a cross-shaped church) Either of the two parts forming the arms of the cross shape, projecting at right angles from the nave.
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Clerestory
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Architecture. a portion of an interior rising above adjacent rooftops and having windows admitting daylight to the interior.
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Choir
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the part of a cruciform church east of the crossing.
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Giornata
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Term used in true fresco painting for the area of wet plaster that could be painted in a single day's work.
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[image]
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Parthenon 447 BC

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Amiens Cathedral 1220

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Raphael, The Vision of a Knight, ca. 1504


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Raphael, Marriage of the Virgin, ca. 1504

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[image]
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Raphael, La Belle Jardinière, 1507

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[image]
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Raphael, Madonna of the Meadow,  c. 1505,

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Raphael, Portrait of Maddelena Doni, c. 1506

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Sistine Madonna 1513-1514 Raphael 


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Raphael, Disputa, 1508-1511, (fresco), Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican Palace


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Raphael, The School of Athens, ca. 1509-11, Stanza della Segnatura, Papal Apartments, Vatican


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MichaelAngleo Pieta, 1498-99

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Michelangelo, Doni Tondo, 1503-04


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Sistine Chapel,  Ceiling frescoes 1508-12

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David, MichaelAngelo 1501-1504 

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Tomb of Guiuliano 1526-1531 MichaelAnglo 

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Bernini, Gian Lorenzo. 1632. 


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Pluto and Persephone, front view, 1622-1625

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David 1623-1624 Bernini

 

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Apollo and Daphne 1622-1625 Bernini


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Ecstasy of Saint Teresa 1647-1652 Bernini

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Conversion of St. Paul. Bruegel 1567

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Crucifixion (The Procession to Calvary)1564. Bruegel. 

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Bruegel, Hunters in the Snow , 1565


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The flight between Carnival and Lent. Bruegel. 1569.

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Bruegel, Big Fish Eat Little Fish, 1556

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Frieze

Definition
 is the wide central section part of an entablature and may be plain in the Ionic or Doric order, or decorated with bas-reliefs.
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[image]
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Bust of Costanza Bonarelli

c. 1636-37

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[image]
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1490-2:  Battle of the Centaurs & Lapiths,

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Michelangelo, Bacchus 1497

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Circumscription
Definition
this is when one draws invisible lines that come to one point.
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Composition
Definition
is simply how different parts of a painting are composed together
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reception of light
Definition
how light falls onto a figure
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