Survey Test 3
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- allegory
- a literary, dramatic, or pictorial representation with deeper underlying meaning
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architecture of humanism
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involves man's ability to order his architecture scientifically and mathematically according to the concepts of proportion, scale, logic, perfection, harmony
- Atmospheric/aerial perspective
- the effect of distance in a painting created by using increasingly pale and less intense colors for faraway elements, representing then as they appear in nature owing to conditions of distance, air, and light
- balustrade
- a series of pillars supporting a railing to form a low wall, balcony, or parapet
- Camera Obscura
- an ancestor of the modern camera in which a tiny pinhole, acting as a lens, projects an image onto a screen, the wall of a room, or the ground-glass wall of a box
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complementary colors
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colors that are opposite one another on the color wheel
- corbel
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a projecting wall memeber typically used as a support for an element in the superstructure
- coulisses
- compositional elements often arranged in tiers at the sides of a picture to direct the eye into the center of the picture space
- ergot
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a fungus that grows on rye
- fenced garden
- a symbol of protection for Mary's Virginity
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Genre scene
- a category of art featuring realistic scenes of everyday life
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grand manner
- Poussin's "formula" for successful artworks, involving three components: 1) choose great subjects 2) avoid minute details and 3) use good judgment
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hidden/disguised symbolism
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when everyday objects take on symbolic meaning
- horizon line
- the line formed by the apparent intersection of the earth and the sky as seen by an observer
- Iconography
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"writing of images"; the study of the symbolic, often religious meaning of objects, persons, or events depicted in works of art.
- keystone
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a central stone of an arch , sometimes carved
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man is the measure
- a Greek concept put into pratice by Renaissance artists - everything is scaled to man
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memento mori
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a reminder of human mortality, usually represented by a skull
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one-point perspective
- a formula for projectsing an illusion of the 3-D world into a two-dimensional surface
- orthogonals
- in linear perspective, a line imagined to be behind and perpendicular to the picture plance
- predella
- the long, lowermost ledge or section on which an altarpiece rests on an altar
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primary colors
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the three basic colors; red, yellow, and blue
- prototype
- an original type of form that serves as a model on which later stages are based or judged
- quatrefoil
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a symbol or ornament most often used in architecture, with four half-circles and four corners
- roundel
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a circular painting or relief sculpture
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secondary colors
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obtained by mixing any two primary colors; orange, green, purple
- sfumato
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a smoke-like haziness that subtly softens outlines in painting
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single scale
- one system for determining the sizes of figures and/or objects in a work of art used consistenly throughout
- tenebrism
- in painting, the dramatically sharp contrast of light and shadow; often features "spot-lit" figures against a black, or very dark, background
- transversals
- in linear perspective, the horizontal lines that intersect the orthogonals and that appear gradually closer as they approach the horizon line
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Triptych
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a three-paneled painting or altarpiece
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vanishing point
- in perspectiv, the point on the horizon line at which receding parallel lines meet and seem to disappear
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Venus pudica
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means "venus of modesty";