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polytych

altarpiece

retablo

church militant

build up of materials to where it creates raised sections in the painting

pastiglia

tin glazed earthen ware with a metallic sheen

lusterware

“aztec” comes from nahua word

Aztlan

deity/god of fire, sun, and warfare

huitzilopochtli

deity of water, rain, and agricultural, fertility of food, and life giving

tlaloc

destrpuomg image/image breaking

iconoclasm

monolith

ear spools

she of the serpent skirts

coatlique

related to the stars, maternal power, and act of giving birth

tzitzimime

skull rack

tzompanti

obisidan glazed weapon that helped tear flesh on weapons

Macana

feather workers

amanteca

mosaic type feather work, popular technique in Spain. part of indigenous bird

feather work/painting

atrium

characterized by artifically, elegance, and a depature from the balanced harmony of the High Renaissance(accurate human anatomy) emphasizing complexity and tension

mannerism

imperial allegory

self driven, mechanical device

automaton/automata

“roman designed houses” how Hermes were represented, warded off evil/keeping away evil

Grotesque Herm

making an emotional appeal/connection to the viewer
-heighting the pain of Christ during his cruxification

catholic baroque

Hispano-philippine ivory

fielding privacy screen, “protection from the wind”

Byobu

namban

hung in a home usually weere convo starters. showed the value of the object owners

still-life painting

“the afternoon snack” like British tea time

merienda

daily life activities/materials of consumer goods

sumptuous still life

reflects on the idea, that beauty withers,, and everything dies.
-to dusk we came, to dusk we will return.

-fleetingness of life

vanitas

still life but with flowers

flowerpaintings

kind of character study of facial expressions

tronie

tenebrism

study of insects

etymology

thin, hard, shininess porcelain

true/hard paste porcelain

derived from a portuguese trading ship

kraak

the study of teh earth in relation to the rest of the universe, interested in the organization and structure of the universe

cosmography

mapmaking and map makers, _________ served cosmopgraphy by visually representing and documenting the growing understanding of the Earth and the universe

cartography/cartographers

portrait of a city, shows the city’s character and value

chorographic map

concepts of lang and long in map making

ptolemaic map

plinian races

map of the known world. the vertical line dividing by the mederritean sea dividing europe and asia, while hte horizontal divides asia and europe

T and O style Map/Mappa Mundi

image is stretched on horizontal grid

anamorphic perspective