baroque through colonial americas ca3

Baroque

An artistic style of the seventeenth century characterized by complex forms, bold ornamentation, and contrasting elements

Protestant 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.

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)

Iconoclasm

Opposing or even destroying images, especially those set up for religious veneration in the belief that such images represent idol worship.

Printmaking

The process of designing and producing prints using a printing block, woodcut, etching, lithographic, or screenprinting.

genre scene

a category of art featuring realistic scenes of everyday life

Fresco

painting in wet plaster

Serpentine

curvy lines, elegant

Erudite

learned; scholarly

Anticlassical

not based on roman or greek art, not using realistic proportions

tenebrism

dramatic use of intense darkness and light to heighten the impact of a painting

trompe l'oeil

fool the eye

di sotto in su

"from the bottom up", works are ceiling paintings in which the figures seem to be hovering above the viewers

allegorical

symbolic

minarets

Tower attached to a Muslim mosque, having one or more projecting balconies from which a crier calls Muslims to prayer.

Maqarnas

3 dimensioanal ceiling decoration of Islam culture, made to resemble the heavens when the viewer gazes up

momento mori

an object serving as a warning or reminder of death, such as a skull

still life

a picture depicting an arrangement of inanimate objects

camera obscura

a darkened box with a convex lens or aperture for projecting the image of an external object onto a screen inside. It is important historically in the development of photography.

codex

an ancient manuscript text in book form.

Enconchados

shell-inlay paintings; tiny fragments of mother-of-pearl placed onto a wooden support and canvas and covered with a yellowish tint and thin glazes of paint

Laquerware

objects covered in a type of hard and potentially shiny coating or finish applied to materials such as wood or metal, originated in East Asia

Acheiropoieta

Christian icons which are said to have come into existence miraculously, not created by a human

Caste paintings

These paintings reveal the ways in which the Spanish identified people through race in the Spanish American colonies.