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Test 1
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
02/09/2011

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[image]
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Last Judgement, The Scrovegni Chapel. c.1305. GIOTTO (GIOTTO DI BONDONE). Fresco. Comissioned by Enrico Scrovegni for the Scrovegni (Arena) Chapel, Padua
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[image]
Definition
Raising of Lazarus, The Scrovegni Chapel. c.1305. GIOTTO (GIOTTO DI BONDONE). Fresco. Comissioned by Enrico Scrovegni for the Scrovegni (Arena) Chapel, Padua
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[image]
Definition
Lamentation, The Scrovegni Chapel. c.1305. GIOTTO (GIOTTO DI BONDONE). Fresco. Comissioned by Enrico Scrovegni for the Scrovegni (Arena) Chapel, Padua
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[image]
Definition
Tommaso di ser Giovanni. Brancacci Chapel, left wall, second register: The Tribute Money. c.1425. MASACCIO. Fresco, 2.47 x 5.97 m. Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence
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[image]
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The Trinity. 1425-8? MASACCIO. Fresco. 667 x 317 cm. Florence, Santa Maria Novella.
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[image]
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Equestrian Monument of Gattamelata. 1444-50. DONATELLO. bronze; 336 x 396 cm. Piazza del Santo, Padua.
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[image]
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St. George. c.1416. DONATELLO. Marble. 214 cm. National Museum of Bargello, Florence.
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[image]
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Virgin and Child with Saint Anne. c. 1510-13. LEONARDO DA VINCI. Oil on panel; 168 x 130 cm. Louvre, Paris.
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[image]
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Last Supper (after 1979-99 restoration). Whole view with painted arches. 1495-98. LEONARDO DA VINCI. tempera and oil on plaster. 460 x 880 cm. Refectory, Santa Maria delle Grazie
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[image]
Definition
The School of Athens. 1508-11. RAPHAEL. fresco. Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican Palace, Rome.
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[image]
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Portrait of Baldassare Castiglone. c. 1514-15. RAPHAEL. Oil on canvas, 82 x 67 cm. Paris, Musee due Louvre.
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[image]
Definition
Pieta. c.1498-1500. MICHELANGELO. carrara marble. Saint Peter's Cathedral, Rome.
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[image]
Definition
Creation of Adam, center third of section VII, The Sistine Chapel ceiling. 1508-1512. MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI. fresco; ceiling 45 x 128' (13.7 x 39 m). Vatican, Rome.
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[image]
Definition
The Sistine Chapel: The Last Judgement (view before cleaning). 1534-41. MICHAELANGELO BUONARROTI (1475-1564). Fresco; wall 48 x 44' (14.6 x 13.41 m). Vatican Palace, Rome
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[image]
Definition
Wedding Dance. before restoration. 1566. PIETER BRUEGHEL. Detroit
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[image]
Definition
Peasant Wedding Feast. c. 1566. PIETER BRUEGEL the ELDER. Oil on wood. 114 x 163 cm. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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[image]
Definition
The Garden of Earthly Delights. c.1470. HIERONYMUS BOSCH. oil on panel. center panel 220 x 195 cm, side panels 220 x 97 cm. Prado, Madrid
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[image]
Definition
Self-Portrait in a fur-collared robe. 1500. ALBRECHT DURER. Oil on panel; 26 1/4 x 19 1/4". Alte Pinakothek, Munich
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[image]
Definition
Melancholia. 1514. ALBRECHT DURER. Copper plate engraving; 241 x 192 mm
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[image]
Definition
Adam and Eve. 1504. Albrecht Durer. Copper plate engraving; 255 x 196 mm.
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Fresco
Definition

Buon-"true" fresco,painting on wet plaster

Secco-paint on fresco once dry,mix stone with wet plaster

(fresco is a single image)

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Fresco Cycle
Definition
Series of images relating to a certain theme.
Term
Role of Patron/Advisor
Definition
Support
Term
Typology
Definition
Old explains new and new explains old.
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Usury
Definition
Lending money with interest (loansharks).Against church law.
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Indulgence
Definition
Release from time in purgatory.
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Private(donor) Chapel/Church
Definition
For the use of one person or a select group.
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Social Identity
Definition
How to distinguish between different levels or types of identity.
Term
Artistic "Vocabularies"
Definition
Series of style that is consistent throught works.
Term
Lantern
Definition
The structure on top of a dome,lets in light and blocks out rain.
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Occulus
Definition
Big hole that lets light in from top of dome.
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Lateral Thrust
Definition
Where the vault meets the wall.(fights gravity)
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Buttress
Definition
Stabalizes arches and ceilings.
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Simultaneous Narrative
Definition
More than one scene in same story in same image.
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Guild Atelier
Definition
Artisan's Guild for Narrative Painting
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Quatrefoil(Barbed)
Definition

On the bapistry doors.

An engraving(casting).

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Classicism
Definition
Italian renaissance is known for its renewal of classical forms,motifs and subjects. Ex:School of Athens-Raphael
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Sciaccchiato
Definition
Minor variations in relief that looks deep.
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Contraposto
Definition

Counter poise.

Shifted body stance.

 

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Forced Perspective
Definition
Using optical illusion to make objects appear bigger,closer, or any deceiving of the human eye.
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Polychromy
Definition
The use of multiple colors in one entity.
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Condottieri
Definition
Contractor.
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Bronze Casting
Definition
Using a model to pour in metal and harden.
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Single-Point Perspective
Definition
Having a single vanishing point.
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Istoria
Definition
Subject of a painting based on history.
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Aerial Perspective
Definition
The way that an atmosphere can change how something in the distance appears.
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Tondo
Definition
Circular work of art.
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Oil Glaze Technique
Definition
A method of covering an already complete work of art to give it a glowing appearance.
Term
Woodcut
Definition
Technique of printmaking where an image is carved into a block of wood.
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Engraving
Definition
An illustration made by cutting lines into a surface (usually wood or metal), inking the surface, and then printing it.
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Hatching/Cross Hatching
Definition
A shading technique used in both drawing and painting, where tone is built up through a series of thin strokes or lines that are more or less parallel.
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Chimera
Definition
Fantasy and science-fiction art.
Term
Predella
Definition
A painting or sculpture or a series of small paintings or sculptures in a long narrow strip forming the lower edge of an altarpiece or the face of an altar step or platform
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Polyptych
Definition
Painting divided into multiple sections or panels.
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Triptych
Definition
Painting divided into three parts.
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Diptych
Definition
Painting divided into two parts.
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