Art History early Renaissance
Terms
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- altarpiece
- panel situated above an altar
- arcade
- a series of arches supported by columns
- arch
- curved structure and is composed of wedge shaped blocks
- arriccio
- the first, rough layer of lime plaster in a fresco painting
- baptistry
- the building near the church used for baptism
- bilaterally symmetrical
- a plan in which the parts are the same on either side of an axis
- burin
- pointed tool used for engraving
- campanile
- bell tower situated next to the church
- capital
- uppermost member of a column, serving as a transition from the shaft to the lintel
- clerestory
- the part of a church that rises above the roofs of other parts (the window level) or second floor
- coffer
- a sunken panel in a vault
- colonnade
- series of columns
- column
- consist of a base, shaft, and capital/ vertical architecture member
- condottiere
- professional military leader employed by the italian city-states
- contour line
- continous line defining the outer shape of an object
- cornice
- crowning member of the entablature framing the pediment
- crossing
- space in the church where the nave and trasept cross
- di sutto in su
- a technique representing prespective
- dome
- hemispheric vault
- erorche
- a figure painted to show the muscles of the body as if without skin
- engraving
- the process of incising a design into a hard material
- entablature
- the part of a building above the columns and below the roof
- facade
- the front of a building
- foreshortening
- the use of perspective to represent the visual contraction of an object the extends back in space
- fresco
- painting on lime plaster either dry or wet
- genre
- style or category of art
- gesso
- chalk used in art
- giornata
- the section of a fresco that is expected to be completed in one day
- glaze
- applied to pottery to seal and decorate the surface
- hatching
- technique used in drawings in which fine lines are drawn close together to achieve shading
- hue
- the name of the color
- humanism
- an emphasis on education and on expanding knowledge, and the exploration of the individual
- icon
- portrait or image
- iconography
- writing of images in greek
- intaglio
- technique in which a design is scratched on a metal plate
- international style
- brilliant color, lavish costumes, ornate and involved lords and ladies
- intonaco
- final layer of plaster in fresco painting
- maniera greca
- the greek style
- medium
- the material in which an artist works with
- memento mori
- reminder of human mortality
- modeling
- shaping of 3 dimensional forms in a soft material such as clay
- mural
- wall painting
- nave arcade
- in the basilica, the series of arches supported by columns seperating the nave from the aisles
- ogive
- diagonal rib of a gothis vault
- order
- in classical architecture, a stlye represented by characteristic design of the columns
- orthogonal
- a line imagined to be behind and perpindicular to the picture plan/ tend to recede towards a vanishing point
- pediment
- in classical architecture, the triangular space at the end of a building and very ornamental
- linear perspective
- all parallell lines converge on one vanishing point located with reference to the eye level of the viewer
- atmospheric or aerial perspective
- creates the illusion of distance by the greater diminution of color intensity
- pier
- vertical, freestanding masonary support
- pieta
- painted/sculpture repressenting the virgin mary mourning over the dead body of christ
- pilaster
- flat, rectangular member projecting from a wall of which it forms a part
- axial plan
- parts of a building are organized longitudinally
- cental plan
- parts of the structure are of equal dimensions around the center
- plan
- horizontal arrangement of the parts of a building
- predella
- narrow ledge on ehich an altarpiece rests on an alter
- primary colors
- red, yellow, and blue
- quatrefoil
- shape in which the parts assume the form of a clover leaf
- relief
- figures projecting from the background of which they are part
- rib
- relatively slender, molded masonry arch that projects from the surgace
- rustification
- rough, unfinished masonary
- sarcophagus
- a coffin, usually of stone
- school
- stylistic classification of works of art with stipulation of place
- sculpture in the round
- freestanding figures
- sfumato
- softlike haziness that subtly outlines in painting
- shaft
- tall, cylinder part of the column
- sinopia
- burnt orange pigment used in drawing on the arricio in fresco paintings
- stringcourse
- raised horizontal molding usually reflecting interior structure
- superimposed orders
- orders of architecture characterised by doric,ionic, and corinthian
- tempera
- technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
- terracotta
- hard baked clay that is used for builing material
- tondo
- circular painting
- transept
- part of a church with an axis that crosses the nave
- trefoil
- cloverlike ornament or symbol with stylized leaves in groups of three
- trompe l'oeil
- form of illusionistic painting that aims to decieve viewers into believing that they are seeing real objects
- vanishing point
- point on which all orthogonal lines converge in a mathematical one point perspective
- vault
- ceiling constructed on the arch principle
- barrel vault
- deep arches (or many single arches)over an oblong space