arth104 ☆ 1400-1960

all the makeshift vocab words used in arth104 lectures!

camera obscura

light box that projects an image…somehow

genre scene

scene of everyday life

vanitas

works made to remind you of how time is always passing

didactic

trying to tell the viewer something through something specific 

impasto

thick application of paint

bodegones

eating places like pubs

tenebrism

opposite chiaroscuro / harsh light to dark

baldacchino

 silk like canopy made out of stone

pastoral

 idealized landscape

sfumato

smokiness/haziness

trompe l’oeil

realism so good it tricks you into thinking it’s real

disegno

design that makes you smarter when you view it & is done well

chiaroscuro

subtle transition from light to dark

iconography

study all abt symbols and how they function

annunciation scene

moment where mary was visited by gabriel about jesus

nativity/adoration scene

moment where people surrounded and adored jesus at birth

triptych

3 part altar piece

classicism

pre-renaissance, hybrid culture of greek and roman art

humanism

interest in the things humans create/do

continuous narrative

 tell an entire story in one image using the repetition of a person

atmospheric/aerial perspective

far away things are less detailed/hazy