Culture and Values 11-13
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- Fresco
- Painting done on fresh coats of plaster
- Trecento
- Italian for Three Hundred; generally used to refer to the 1300s, i.e., the 14th century
- Duomo
- Italian word for Cathedral
- Ballades Ballate
- Songs or ballads often written for a single voice with accompanying instruments
- Pieta
- Term used to describe depictions of Mary holding the head Christ in her arms
- Ars Nova
- New musical style, which developed in the early 14th century
- Isorhym
- System of musical composition whereb one voice in a pulyphonic work is given a sinle, repeating rhythm
- Canzone
- Song, generally with a more literary text than a ballad
- Exemplum
- Moral tale
- Chapel
- A small worship space either free standing or part of a larger church
- Palio
- Bareback horse-rave run in Siena twice a year
- Sonnet
- Short poem of fourteen lines
- Patron
- A person or institution who supplies the financial and more backing for artistic or literary projects
- Sarcophafus
- A burial container for a juma nbody typically made from some form of stone and often ornamented both on the lid and the side panels. From the Greek words for flesh (sarx) and to consume (phagein)
- Great Schism
- Division in the Church, with two rival popes
- Courtier
- A person who is attached to a royal court and who is trained to act appropriately
- Talkmud
- The authoritative collection of ancient Jewish learning
- Pyramidal arrangement
- The manner of articulating artworks, common in the Renaissance, in which minor figure form the base and the central figure the apex of the artwork
- Loggia
- A roofed-over gallery of a building
- Guild
- Medieval associations of artisans or tradesmen; precursors of modern trade unions
- Neo-Platonism
- Philosophical movement ultimately derived from the work of Plato and his followers, which emphasized the drive toward the ideal as a goal of transcending mere material reality
- Polyshonic
- Music involving several lines or "voices."which interweave with one another
- Musica Ficta
- The art of performing music by departing from the written notes and introducing embellishments
- Fabliaux
- Fables, often obscene
- Allegory
- In art, a genre where fictional character symbolically represent another level of Truth
- Madrigal
- Song for three or more voices
- Canzoniere
- Book of songs
- Polychrome
- Literally "many colors," used to describe sculpture/ceramics that are painted
- Studium
- Lecture halls for professors either in monasteries or civil establishments
- Cameo carving
- Small sculptures on shell or stone in which figures in relief are set off from the background of the shell or stone
- Diptych
- Painting made up of two panels
- Typeface
- The carved piece of letter used by printer to assemble a page for printing. The type varied according to design (e.g., Italic or Roman)
- Perpendicular
- Style of English architecture, which emphasized the vertical lines of the inside of a building
- Entablature
- In architecture, the upper part of a wall supported by a column or pillar
- Uncanonical
- Ant form or idea that violated the agree-on rule (cannon) of the authentic or the generally accepted