Across
- 5. A group of artists who believed that drawing and line were the most important elements of a painting, emphasizing logic and order.
- 6. The "intellectual concept" or central idea behind a Baroque artwork, often combining multiple mediums like sculpture and architecture.
- 9. A printmaking process where an artist uses acid to bite into a metal plate that has been covered with a protective wax ground.
- 12. The horizontal part of an architectural order above the columns, which Borromini made "snake-like" or undulating to create movement.
- 13. A style of portraiture that emphasizes the noble status of the subject through scale, setting, and classical references.
- 14. A lightweight plaster material used by Borromini to create the complex, undulating curves and shapes of the San Carlo ceiling.
- 17. A category of painting showing the French aristocracy at play in lush, outdoor park settings, popularized during the Rococo period.
- 18. An art technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions.
- 19. A ceiling painting technique where scenes are painted in panels to look like framed easel paintings moved to the ceiling.
- 20. A dramatic painting style using a "dark manner" where intense light contrasts with deep, murky shadows to create high drama.
Down
- 1. A type of space where the world of the painting or sculpture seems to break the "fourth wall" and enter the viewer's physical world.
- 2. A group of artists who argued that color was the most important element of painting because it appeals to the senses and emotions.
- 3. A theme in still-life painting that uses symbols like rotting fruit or skulls to remind viewers of the shortness of life and the certainty of death.
- 4. A perspective technique meaning "seen from below," used in ceiling paintings to make figures appear as if they are floating above the viewer.
- 7. An early optical device, similar to a pinhole camera, that some historians believe Vermeer used to achieve his precise light and detail.
- 8. The floral symbol of the French monarchy that appears frequently in the clothing and surroundings of King Louis XIV.
- 10. The Catholic belief that the bread and wine become the actual body and blood of Christ, a theme emphasized in Counter-Reformation art.
- 11. A style of painting that depicts scenes of everyday life, such as a woman weighing gold or a family in a domestic interior.
- 15. A concept where an artist unifies painting, sculpture, and architecture into one beautiful whole, as seen in the Cornaro Chapel.
- 16. A printmaking technique used by Rembrandt where a needle is used to scratch directly into a plate, creating a soft, blurred line.