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Renaissance
ART
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| Barrel vault |
A roofed-over space or tunnel that is constructed
by placing arches behind one another. |
| Chiaroscuro |
An artistic technique in which subtle gradations
of value created the illusion of rounded three-dimensional forms
in space; also termed modeling. Using dramatic lighting.
From Latin roots meaning clear and dark. |
| Contrapposto |
A way representing the parts of the body so
that they are obliquely balanced around a central vertical axis.
Also see weight-shift principle. |
| Genre painting |
Simple human representations; realistic figure
painting that focuses on themes taken from everyday life. |
| Iconography |
In a work of art, the conventional meanings
attached to the images used by the artist; as an artistic approach,
representing or illustrating by using the visual conventions
and symbols of a culture. |
| International style
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A school of art and architecture that used
modern materials and methods, and expressed the view that form
must follow function. post-World War I |
| Linear |
Determined or characterized by the use of
line. |
| Linear perspective
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A system of organizing space in two-dimensional
media wherein lines that are in reality parallel and horizontal
are represented as diagonals converging at a point. The method
is based on foreshortening; the space between the lines grows
smaller until it disappears. Linear perspective is made possible
by the fact that the images of objects grow smaller as the objects
become more distant. |
| Mannerist art |
A post-Renaissance sixteenth-century style
of art characterized by artificial poses and gestures, harsh
color, and distorted, elongated figures. |
| Painting |
The application of a pigment to a surface;
a work of art created in this manner. |
| Panel painting |
A painting whose ground is a wooden panel.
The vehicle is usually tempera but can be oil. |
| Quatrefoil |
In architecture, a design made up of four
converging arcs that are similar in appearance to a flower with
four petals. |
| Renaissance |
The French word meaning rebirth. It refers
to a period spanning the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
ce in Europe. The Renaissance rejected medieval art and philosophy;
it first turned to Classical antiquity for inspiration and then
developed patterns of art and philosophy that paved the way
toward the modern world. |
| S-curve |
Developed in the Classical style as a means
of balancing the human form, and consisting of the distribution
of tensions such that tension and repose are passed back and
forth from one side of the figure to the other, resulting in
an S-shape; contrapposto. |
| Venus |
The Roman goddess of beauty; a prehistoric
fertility figure such as the Venus of Willendorf. |
