Art History II Vocab

  1. Humanism
  2. Bugundian Court
  3. Dukes of Burgundy
  4. Intuitive Perspective
  5. Atmospheric Perspective
  6. Tempera Paint
    • Egg Based pain
    • Dries quickly
    • Hard to correct
  7. Oil Paint
  8. Panel Paintings
  9. Gesso
  10. Altar
  11. Altarpiece
  12. Diptych
  13. Triptych
  14. polytych
  15. Book of Hours
  16. Vellum
  17. International Gothic
  18. Tapestry
  19. Embroidery
  20. Cloth of the Gold
  21. Order of the Golden Fleece
  22. "Hidden Symbols"
    Things that a person of the time would understand and take from the artwork that a person from a later time period would miss or mis-interpret
  23. Picture Plane
  24. Trompe l'oeil
    Tick of the Eye
  25. Guild
    A group of artist who work with the same material (bronze, painting, wood working). The commission artist and artwork. Huge part of the Renaissance
  26. Masterpiece
  27. Apprentice
    A person who learns from another artist. He/she learns the craft that will be their source of income.
  28. Workshop
  29. Flamboyant Style
  30. Woodblock/Woodcuts and Wood Block Print
  31. Engraving
  32. Intaglio
  33. Burins
  34. Oculus
  35. Linear Perspective
  36. Orthogranals
  37. Vanishing Point
  38. Condottieri
  39. Neoplatonism
  40. Medici
  41. Oligarchy
    A few Wealthy Families rule the land
  42. Council of Ten
  43. Pietra Serena
  44. Rusticated
  45. Palazzo
  46. Bronze
  47. Lost-Wax Casting
  48. Buon Fresco
  49. Fresco Secco
  50. Giornate/Giornata
  51. di sotto in sù
  52. Allegory
  53. "Venus Pudica" pose or "Modest Venus"
  54. Chiaroscuro
  55. Vitruvius
  56. Cartoons
  57. Pietà
  58. Sfumato
  59. Ignudi/Ignudo
  60. Putti
  61. Tondi
  62. "Painted Poems"
  63. Cassoni
  64. Mannerism
  65. Reformation
  66. Counter-Reformation
  67. Disiderius Erasmus
  68. Martin Luther
    • Father of the Luthern Church
    • Wedged the split in the church
    • Wanted the church to rectify their wrongs, didn't want the split necesssarily
  69. John Calvin
  70. "95 Theses"
    • List of 95 things the church was doing wrong,
    • such paying to be prayed for (for their soul to be saved).
    • Written and posted on church doors by Martin Luther
  71. Council of Trent
    A council that set up rules for the church to try to rectify their wrongs.
  72. Iconoclasm
  73. Piazza
    • Extra part added onto the Vatican.
    • Oval, not circular...
  74. Stucco
  75. Genre Painting
  76. Barberini Family
    • Oranges and Honey Bees
    • Gave multiple priceless bronzes to be melted down for the creation of the Baldachino
  77. Baldachino
    • Made from melted down bronze pieces of Greek artwork from the Barberini Family's collection
    • Huge, used to fill a large empty space
    • Next to where St. Peter is Buried
  78. Porticoes
  79. Pilasters
  80. Cornice
  81. Pendentives
  82. Coffers
  83. Filippo Neri
  84. Tenebrism
  85. Disegno
  86. gquadratura
  87. quadro riportato
  88. Connoisseurship
  89. Provenance
  90. Realism
  91. Naturalism
  92. Camera Obscura
  93. Still Life
  94. Impasto
  95. Tronies
  96. Memento Mori
    • Rememberance of Death
    • Reminder of what is to come after death
    • the after life
  97. Vanitas
  98. Kunstkammer
  99. Limmers
  100. Dogegon
  101. Fleurs-de-lis
    Symbol of French Royalty
  102. The Sun King (le Roi Soleil)
    Louis XIV
  103. Versailles
  104. Enlightenment
  105. Samons
  106. Hôtels
  107. Arabesques
  108. Fête Galante
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Art History II Vocab
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Art History II Vocab
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