Chapter 16/17 – Flashcards
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krater
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the vessels handled shape used for mixing ceremonial beverages
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classical art
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emphasizes rational simplicity, order and restrained emotion
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Venus De Medici
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this figure represents feminine ideal and influenced many works
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Roman copy of a Hellenistic work
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Lacoon Group
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Roman Culture affected
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1) system of law and government 2) calendar 3) festivals 4) religion 5) languages
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catacombs
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underground burial chambers
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featured imaginative stone carvings that are an intergral part of the architecture
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Romanesque Churches
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Romanesque
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a style of European architecture from the 9th to the 12th centuries with round arches and barrel vaults
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Gothic
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a style in Western Europe characterized by pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and flying buttresses
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basilica
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Roman town hall with 3 aisles and an apse at one or both ends. Christians used this form for their churches.
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Humanism
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philisophical, literary, and artistic movement
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Giotto Di Bondone "Lamentation"
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portrayed feelings and physical nature of human beings. his innovative depictions of light, space, and mass, gave a new sense of realism.
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genre paintings
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depict everday life
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Baroque
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17th century period in Europe characterized in the visual arts by dramatic light and shade, turbulent composition, and pronounced emotional expression
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Renaissance
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a renewed interest in human-centered classical art, literature, and learning
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Rococo
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a style used in interior decoration and painting in france and southern germany using small scale, oranate decoration, pastel colors, asymmetrical curves
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Foreshortening
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In The Conversion of Saint Paul, Caravaggio created drama though the high contrast of lights and dark and the use of extreme
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Counter- Reformation
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Many Baroque characteristics developed as propaganda for the
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Roman Culture
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Portrait Head of an Old Man is an example of
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the Parthenon
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Which building was designed to honor the goddess of wisdom and prudent warfare?
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Notre-Dame de Chartre
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Which of these structures is Gothic?
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Ireland
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The meeting of decorative nomadic style and Christianity can be seen most clearly in illustrated books from
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over the central doorway
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The first large sculptures since Roman times can be found in what part of Romanesque churches?
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Caravaggio
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In her painting Judith and the Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes, Artemisia Gentileschi demonstrates the close influence of
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Fertility
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In Jan van Eyck's The Arnolfini Portrait, the woman is wearing a green dress to symbolize
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nude classical goddess
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The influence of Neoplatonism would be most likely when, in a painting, a Renaissance artist highlights a
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stained glass
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One feature that set Gothic architecture apart from Romanesque was the extensive use of
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government buildings
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The first Christian churches were patterned after basilicas that were used by the Romans as
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The wealthy merchant class
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In the seventeenth century, in the Netherlands, the major patrons of paintings were
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the French court and aristocracy
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With its decorative and sensual qualities, the Rococo style was particularly suited to the extravagant and often frivolous life of
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Linear Perspective
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Masaccio's The Holy Trinity fresco is considered to be the first painting based on the systematic use of
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Greek Sculpture
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Michelangelo's David has a naturalistic pose, set in contrapposto, demonstrating the influence of
