Art History Vocabulary PDF

Medium or media: the material you use to create art Renaissance: a rebirth of a classical ancient art Classical: the new interest in arts of the ancient Greeks and Romans Humanism: the celebration of human achievement Florence: wealthy people commission art; the birth place of the Italian renais...

Medium or media: the material you use to create art Renaissance: a rebirth of a classical ancient art Classical: the new interest in arts of the ancient Greeks and Romans Humanism: the celebration of human achievement Florence: wealthy people commission art; the birth place of the Italian renaissance Duomo: the Florence cathedral Dome: the tall structure that spans over an opening Linear perspective: what was created by Bumicei to accurately portray buildings and figures; the correct way to make more accuracy orthogonal lines: lines that come from the front and the back vanishing point: all the lines go contrapposto: a way that humans show their statues relief sculpture: a sculpture on a flat surface Sculpture in the round: when you can walk around the sculpture Fresco: when you have a wall and put plaster on it Cartoon: a large piece of paper that is the rough draft for the painting Iconography: symbolizes when one thing stands for something else; when ideas come together for a certain meaning Atmospheric perspective: when something is far away; you don\'t see it well tempera paint: powdered pigment and binder (egg yolk) trompe ioeil: fool of the eye foreshortening: when things that are in front of you look bigger putti: naked flying babies that aren\'t angels pediment: triangular component above columned parch pilaster: fire standing column stuck to something column: fire standing supports Attic story: a story that is located above the main cornice of a building and is either fully or partially within the roof framing lost wax technique: clay is wrapped around wax, fires in a kiln, then pour Melton metal inside altarpiece: sculpture or painting above alter table Michelangelo: from Florence and proud and got a lot of jobs from Rome Leonardo da Vinci: digital renaissance Pyramidal composition: a 3D triangle shape they could make with an ice bottom Chiaroscuro: means lights are dark; hard to see Sfumato: golden haze (used in the Mona Lisa) Vitruvian man: portioned perfect of a man Vatican: Latin name for saint peter\'s burial location catholic reformation: used sacred art and architecture to expand faith Polychrome: many colors Patronage: person or instituted who funds artwork Parchment: animal skin substance illuminated manuscript: man written book that isn\'t the final Flanders: modern day Belgium Altarpiece: painting or sculpture above or behind alter table Tapestry: design or picture woven into fabric Woodcut: painting process where image is carved in wood Engraving: carving out a material to create a design protestant reformation: a time where art was used to warn against sin Martin Luther: Protestant reformer who wrote 95 theses that led protest against western churches garden of earthly delights: shows act of the human appetite Albrecht Durer: used self portraits to capture human image and had confidence to make art about himself and excelled at realism still life: art of nature or objects secular art: non religious art Hans Holbein the younger: court painter for henry the 4^th^ Baroque: 17th century drama and still life Illusionism: using painting to create optical illusions Caravaggio: baroque painter who had a bit of criminal history and mastered tenebrism Artemisia Gentileschi: female painted who joined her father in painting used techniques of Caravaggio Velazquez: one of the most important Spanish painters in the 17th century of western art Rubens: fusion of the traditions of Flemish realism with the classicizing tendencies of the Italian renaissance genre scene: scenes of everyday life historically in art raking light: the illumination of objects from a light source at an oblique angle or almost parallel to the surface tenebrism: intense light and dark where the dark dominates in the image painterly: characterized by color and texture, rather than line Triptych: a three-part work of art often 3 panels attached together Impasto: the texture produced by paint applied very thickly still life: an artwork depicting an arrangement of objects, typically including fruit, flowers, bowls or glassware stucco: fine plaster that can be easily carved and used to cover walls to decorate a surface Versailles: 17th century French art camera obscura: a prescover of the modern camera light proof box with a small hole in one side through which an inverted image of the world outside is projected onto an opposite wall from the Latin for dark room vanitas: Latin for vanity, a sub-genre of painting containing symbols of death or change as a reminder of their individuality etching: a print making process that uses the action of acid to make a design scratched into a coating on a metal plate dry point: a printmaking technique that involves engraving an image into a metal plate using a sharp tool, such as a needle gliding: a decorative technique that involves applying a thin layer of metal to a surface to give it a luxurious finish