high renaissance and mannerisms vocab AP Art History

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arcadian

a simple rural, rustic, setting used in venitian high renaissance paintings. Named after a district in Greece where artists have attributed to the simplicity and idyllically untroubled world

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canvas

a heavy woven surface for painting, first used in Venice

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Cassone (plural: cassoni)

a trunk used to store clothing for a wifes trousseau

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Chiaroscuro

a gradual transition from light to dark in a painting where forms aren’t determined by outlines, but by the meeting of lighter & darker areas

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cinquecento

this 1500s, 16th century, in Italian art

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Entombment

a painting/sculpture depicting Christs burial after his death

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Flood Story

In Genisis 7 of the Bible, Noah and his family escape a flood by building an arc with 2 of each animal aboard

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Genre Painting

paintings where scenes of daily life are depicted

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Glazes

thin transparent layers put over a painting to altar color and build up a sonorous effect

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Ignudi

nude figures on the Sistine Chapel ceiling

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Last Supper

a meal shared by Jesus and his apostles before crucifixion (death)

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Sfumato

a smoke-light/ hazy effect that distances the viewer from the subject of a painting

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sibyl

a Greco-Roman prophetess whom Christians saw as a prefiguring the coming of Jesus Christ

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Still Life

a painting of a group of inanimate objects; ex: flowers/ fruit

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