Renaissance Vocabulary

ID the technique using vanishing points, ground line, and diagonals to create a 3D space

The word for an Italian Palace

ID when Christ's body is in the process of being removed from the cross

ID the period from the 14th to 17th century in Europe that occurred in different times & places

ID the painting style from Venice that focuses on scenes of secular love

The Black Death prompted the building of more...

ID the post-Renaissance movement away from naturalism, using artifice instead

ID the term for paintings that employ dark backgrounds and lit central figures

ID the period of the Greeks and Romans that inspired the Renaissance

ID the type of religious artwork that shows the mother of Jesus as Queen of Heaven

ID the style promoted by Simone Martini that features gilded gold and precious stones

ID when Christ's body is removed from the cross when the disciples & Mary view his body

ID the term for the Medici in Florence, who weilded illegitimate power

ID paintings in which patrons are portrayed alongside the disciples of Christ

ID the medium that first appeared in Northern Europe by artists like Jan van Eyck

ID painting in shades of gray to mimic statues, a tromp l'oeil

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ID a technique where objects appear to emerge at the viewer from the picture plane

ID a type of printmaking using engravings

In the Renaissance, Italy was not a united country but instead a collection of independent...

ID paintings that show scenes of everyday life

What building did Ghiberti create doors for?

ID the painting style set in the ideal countryside

ID the philosophy based on the Classical World focusing on individual achievements

ID the practice of paying for the prayers of clergy in order to earn forgiveness for sins

ID the medieval/Byzantine painting style that Italian artists like Cimabue employed

ID a mercenary such as in Gattamelata by Donatello

ID an altarpiece with two panels

ID the church's efforts to stop the spread of Protestantism across Europe

ID an altarpiece with four or more panels

ID the church courts that tried and tortured heretics

What is the type of written language that is commonly spoken? Dante is instrumental in ___ Italian

ID an altarpiece with three panels

ID the term for the practice of destroying art in hopes of destroying sin

ID the religious movement away from Roman Catholicism led by Luther and Calvin

Jan van Eyck hailed from what region of Northern Europe?

ID the practice of appointing relatives to positions of power

ID the term for the person or group that sponsors an artistic work

ID the organizations of tradespeople and craftsmen that exerted political power

ID the type of printmaking employed by Cranach the Elder in Allegory of Law and Grace

ID the Friar who ruled Florence after the Medicis went to Rome

ID the events in the life of Christ after he enters Jerusalem and is crucified

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ID the newly created group of clergy who answer only to the Pope