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Atmospheric perspective
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Backgrounds seem fuzzy, gray and distant. Colors are not as vibrant as in foreground. It is a useful artistic tool for showing distance, especially in a painting
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Albrecht durer
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Famous Northern Renaissance artist from germany, he often used woodcutting along with Italian Renaissance techniques like proportion, perspective and modeling. (Knight Death, and Devil; Four Apostles)
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high renaissance
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A period beginning in the late 15th century, it produced some of the most well-known religious and secular artwork of the period from such figures as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo.
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organum
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Earliest kind of polyphonic music, which developed from the custom of adding voices above a plainchant; they first ran parallel to it at the interval of a fifth or fourth and later moved more freely
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humanism
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A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements
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lieder
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The plural of lied, the German word for "song." It refers to art songs in German mainly from the nineteenth century. The most notable composer of the word was Franz Schubert.
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gothic style
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Type of European architecture that developed in the Middle Ages, characterized by flying buttresses, ribbed vaulting, thin walls, and high roofs
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Medici Family
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A family, made wealthy by starting a banking industry in Florence, who were major patrons to the arts during the renaissance.
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Asceticism
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A way of living, often out of religious motivation, that is marked by self-denial, self-discipline, and austerity.
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Montasticism
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Greek monos; meaning single or alone, usually refers to a way of life in which an ideal of perception of a higher level of religious experience is
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florence cathedral
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Gothic, basilican church with tuscan style marble encrusted walls, striking contrast to reims cathedral. Shows diversity of gothic architecture
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joan of arc
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French heroine and military leader inspired by religious visions to organize French resistance to the English and to have Charles VII crowned king, she was later tried for heresy and burned at the stake
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Brunellesuchi's accomplishments
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Dominated skyline of Florence and surrounding valley of river arno
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Gero crucifex
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o Medium size o Life likeness of crucified Christ
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Pomanesque
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o Sculpted greatest masterpiece of 15th century o Italian renaissance o Dramatic and forceful works o Greatest achievement is equestrian monument to Batamelata
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measured rhythm
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a notational system associated with the school of Notre Dame which established a more precise form of metered rhythm. melisma, several notes are sung per syllable. Some melismas are very long with many notes sung using one syllable of text.
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Horizon line
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• Actual or imaginary line in art representing the point at which water or land seems to end and the sky begins
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Proscenium
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• The most common type of Theatre space, known for its framed arch that outlines the stage opening, having the audience facing one side directly in front.
