AH384--Baroque terms
Terms
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copy deck
- foreshortening
- the illusion of depth created on a flat surface; comes out at the viewer and pulls one in
- carrara
- marble quarry
- tenebrism
- placing dramatic light next to dark with no gradation
- Apotheosis
- structural element of spirals used to lift viewer up to heavens
- baldacchino
- "canopy"
- apocrypha
- parts not used in the bible; books that aren't in the bible but are still revered as scripture
- memento mori
- reminder of mortality
- maquette
- french term for a small scale model
- The Flaming Heart
- Crashaw's poem which expresses the religious fervor/spirit of the time
- Bel Composto
- "Beautiful form"; combining all the arts to transport viewer to a mystical place
- Concetto
- concept or idea
- meraviglia
- "the marvelous"; so awesome that words cannot describe; elements used to achieve this feeling
- bozzetto
- italian term for a small scale model
- terriblita
- "awful force"; awful, coiled tension as seen in Bernini's David (violent emotionally charged contrapposto)
- kiss curls
- curl that lies next to the cheek as seen in Bernini sculptures
- barroco
- "irregular pearl"; baroque stems from this derogatory term
- Tintoretto
- "bell makers"; the family last name designated their trade
- cognosceti
- people in the know
- Vasari's Lives
- descriptions of the lives of Italian Renaissance artists
- Disegno
- "to draw"
- transverberated
- shot through with an arrow
- "The Roving Nun"
- carmelite nun that established several monasteries in Spain
- putto
- tiny naked children
- oeuvre
- body of work
- Contrapposto
- counterbalancing; placing the weight of the body to one side
- Index expurgatories
- list of forbidden books; banned books
- chasing
- clean up of excess wax emerging from the lost wax technique
- painterly
- big, juicy brushstrokes
- Heresy
- from "heresis" which means choice
- zeitgeist
- "spirit of the age"; the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era
- theorbo
- a very large lute that is the length of a baby grand piano
- cire perdue
- "lost wax"; a sculpture technique