Renaissance Art: Terminology & Artists

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  1. 4. type of paint with egg yolk as binding medium noted for quick-drying a flat opaque colors
  2. 5. (use of light & dark to emphasize 3-dimensionality)
  3. 10. smoke-light or hazy effect that distances viewer from painting’s subject
  4. 12. a schematic, non-realistic manner of representing the visible world, abstracted from their natural appearance
  5. 14. da Vinci High Renaissance polymath whose innovations in engineering matched his dexterity in art
  6. 15. Greco-Roman prophetess whom Christians saw as prefiguring Christ’s coming
  7. 16. system for representing 3-dimensional space on a 2-dimensional surface
  8. 21. decoration produced by scratching through a darker layer of plaster or glaze
  9. 22. wood inlay
  10. 23. mathematical depiction of spatial recession
  11. 25. “trick of the eye”
  12. 26. painted naturalistic & emotionally expressive figures in this chapel in settings that evoked spatial depth & 3-dimensionality
  13. 27. Built between 1420 and 1430,the Florentine Duomo (still the world’s largest masonry vault) was designed by…
  14. 28. technique where elements are arranged to form an imaginary triangle within a work, creating a sense of stability, balance, and harmony
  15. 31. 1500s in Italian art
  16. 32. Early Renaissance painter in Florence known for portraits and sylvan scenes from Roman mythology
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  1. 1. extreme artistic technique that creates the illusion of a figure or object projecting dramatically toward the viewer or receding into the background
  2. 2. visual effect in which an object is shortened & turned into the image plane to give the effect of spatial recession
  3. 3. A horizontal “line” formed by the implied meeting point of earth and sky. In linear perspective, the vanishing point(s) are located on this “line”
  4. 6. 16th-century in Italian art
  5. 7. Any line running back into the represented space of a picture perpendicular to the imagined picture plane. In linear perspective, all orthogonals converge at a single vanishing point in the picture and are the basis for a grid that maps out the internal space of the image.
  6. 8. painting on wet plaster, using a binder, such as egg, glue, or oil, to adhere the paint to the surface
  7. 9. drawing by da Vinci that illustrates the ideals of Roman architect Vitruvius regarding the proportions of the human body
  8. 11. symbolic illustration of a concept or principle
  9. 13. wall painting technique where pigments are applied to dry plaster
  10. 17. Serena dark gray stone used for columns, arches, trim in Renaissance buildings
  11. 18. a method of rendering the effect of spatial distance by subtle variations in color and clarity of representation.
  12. 19. Raphael was so impressed by his Sistine Chapel ceiling paintings, that he re-painted the portrait of Heraclitus in this fresco in the Stanza della Segnatura.
  13. 20. In a perspective system,the point on the horizon line at which orthogonals meet.
  14. 24. painting or sculpture of a crucified Christ lying on grieving Mary’s lap
  15. 29. This artist was one of the first to deploy linear perspective in his Holy Trinity fresco in Florence’s Santa Maria Novella church.
  16. 30. nude corner figures on the Sistine Chapel ceiling