Art History - Trecento to Northern Renaissance

Vocabulary flashcards covering Italian Trecento, Quattrocento sculpture, architecture, painting, and the Northern Renaissance.

Trecento

Refers to the 1300s period in art history.

Duccio

A Siena artist who used a traditional style and created the Maestà.

Giotto

A Florence artist known for naturalism, humanism, realistic space, and fresco.

Quattrocento

Refers to the 1400s period in art history.

Donatello

A Quattrocento sculptor known for contrapposto.

Linear perspective

An artistic technique used to create depth.

Brunelleschi

An architect who created the double shell Florence Cathedral Dome.

Pazzi Chapel

An architectural structure featuring a central plan.

Masaccio

A painter known for perspective, naturalism, and foreshortening.

Holy Trinity

A fresco created by Masaccio.

Tribute Money

A work by Masaccio that utilizes perspective.

Fra Angelico

The painter of the Annunciation.

Botticelli

An artist who created Birth of Venus and incorporated Neo-Platonism.

Northern Renaissance

A 15th-century movement characterized by a focus on details, the natural world, and oil painting.

Limbourg Brothers

The artists who created Très Riches Heures.

Campin

The artist who created the Mérode Altarpiece, which is a triptych.

Jan van Eyck

The artist who painted Arnolfini using oil, detailed realism, and a convex mirror.