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vocab--AP prep
vocab, important works, etc.
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Art History
12th Grade
05/09/2008

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Kitsch

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something of tawdry design, appearance, or content created to appeal to popular or undiscriminating taste.

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KRATER
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Gilgamesh
Definition
a legendary Sumerian king, the hero of Sumerian and Babylonian epics.
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Hiberno-Saxon
Definition
1.having the characteristics of both the Irish and English; Anglo-Irish.
2.pertaining to or designating the style of art, esp. of manuscript illumination, developed principally during the 7th and 8th centuries a.d. in the monastic scriptoria founded by Irish missionaries, characterized chiefly by the use of zoomorphic forms elaborated in interlaced patterns and often set within a symmetrically balanced framework of geometric shapes; Anglo-Irish.
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Roman first style painting
Definition
mimicked more expensive materials with fresco
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VENETIAN RENAISSANCE
Definition

use of color, looser brushstroke, erotic and secular subjects
TITIAN--Venus of Urbino (1538)

GIORGIONE--The Tempest (1505)

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NORTHERN RENAISSANCE
Definition

increased differentiation in subject, attention to detail, perfection of the new medium of oil painting

GRUNEWELD--Isenheim Altarpiece (1509/10-15)

DURER--Self-Portrait (1500)

HANS HOLBEIN THE YOUNGER--The French Ambassadors (1533)

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MANNERISM
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elongated, cramped compositions, exaggeration of human form, expressive nature, ambiguity, spatial discontinuities

MICHELANGELO--The Last Judgement (1534-41)--he bridges the movements

PARMIGIANINO--Madonna with the Long Neck (1535)

EL GRECO--The Burial of Count orgaz (1586)

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BAROQUE
Definition

highly decorative, rhythmic, dramatic lighting (tenebroso), theatrical, two types (aesthetically exuberant and self-consciously classical), covered a large geographical area

CARAVAGGIO--Conversion of St. Paul (1600-01)

CARRACCI--Ceiling of Palazzo Farnese (1597)

BERNINI--Ecstacy of St. Teresa (1645-52)

BORROMINI--San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (1665-1667)

VELAZQUEZ--The Maids of Honor (1656)

RUBENS--Triptych of the Raising of the Coss (1609-1610)

POUSSIN--The Rape of the Sabine Woman (1637)

VERMEER--Woman holding a Balance (1650)

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ROCOCO
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frivolous, decorative, light, interest in high society

CHARDIN--Back From teh Market (1739)

FRAGONARD--The Swing (1767)

NEUMANN--Residenz, Wurzburg (1719-44)

HOGARTH--The Rake's Progress (1735)

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NEO-CLASSICISM
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return to classical style and subjects, focus on history painting, moralistic, "academic" style (smooth, finished surface with non visible brushstrokes, suppression of the individual hand of the artist)

DAVID--Oath of Horatii (1784-1785)

INGRES--Grande Odalisque (1814)

SOUFFLOT--The Pantheon (1757-1792)

CANOVA--Pauline Borghese as Venus (1735)

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