Art History Survey 2 Exam 2

Tondo

a circular work of art

* example: Pontormo, *Annunciation*

desaturated colors

Muted, washed out color that contains more white than a saturated color

* example: Pontormo, *Entombment*

Changeant (as in fabric)

Fabric that changes when moved in light

* example: Pontormo, *Entombment*

pastoral (the sense having to do with art and literature, not church leaders)

related to countryside;idealized; peaceful scenes

* example: Giorgione, *The Tempest*

Poesie

literally poetry; art that evokes a mood like poetry

* example: Giorgione, *The Tempest*

Cassone

decorated wedding chest

* example: Titian, *Venus of Urbino*

Impasto

thick application of paint to a surface

* example: Titian, *Pieta*

Anamorphosis

a distorted image that only looks correct from an angle

* example: Tintoretto, *The Last Supper*

Tenebrism

strong contrast between light and dark

* example: Caravaggio, *The Calling of St. Matthew*

Caravaggisti

stylistic followers of Caravaggio

* example: Artemisia Gentileschi, *Judith Beheading Holofernes*

Baldacchino

a monumental canopy over an alter or throne

* example: Baldacchino in St. Peter’s Basilica

still life

a scene of inanimate objects

* example: Francisco de Zurbarán, *Still Life with Lemons, Oranges, and a Rose*

Vanitas

a painting in which all the objects symbolize the transience of life (word taken from Ecclesiastes chapter 1)

* example: Pieter Claesz, *Still Life with Tazza*

Rubenesque

plump or rounded, usually in an attractive way

* example: Rubens, *Marie de’ Medici, Queen of France, Landing in Marseilles*

Wunderkammer

literally, "room of wonders"; a collection of curiosities

* example: Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens, *Allegory of Sight*

genre painting

a painting depicting a scene from everyday life

* example: Frans Hals, *The Jolly Toper*

speaking likeness

an image in which a character appears to be speaking to the viewer

* example: Judith Leyster, *Self-Portrait*

camera obscura

a darkened enclosure in which images of outside objects are projected through a small aperture or lens onto a facing surface

* example: Vermeer, *Woman Holding a Balance*

Reformation

A religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches

* example: Albrecht Durer, *Self-Portrait*

Counter-Reformation

the reaction of the Roman Catholic Church to the Reformation reaffirming the veneration of saints and the authority of the Pope (to which Protestants objected)

* example: Caravaggio, *The Calling of St. Matthew*