Module 11 Study Guide: Renaissance, Mannerism, Reformation, and Baroque

A set of vocabulary flashcards based on key concepts from the Renaissance, Mannerism, Reformation, and Baroque periods.

Fresco

______________ is a type of wall painting in which color pigments are mixed with water and applied to wet plaster. As the plaster and pigments dry, they fuse together and the painting becomes a part of the wall itself. 

Mannerism

___________________ is a style of art developed at the end of the High Renaissance, characterized by the deliberate distortion and exaggeration of perspective, especially the elongation of figures. 

Rebirth

The term Renaissance means "_____________".

Florence

Renaissance art, which began in ________, stressed the forms of classical antiquity, a realistic representation of space based on scientific perspective, and secular subjects. 

Secular

While religion was an important element in the daily life of people living during the Renaissance, and remained a driving factor behind artistic production, we also see a new avenue open to painting—_____________________ subject matter. 

High

The most well known artists from the ________________________ Renaissance are Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Titian, and Michelangelo. 

15th century

Humanism was an intellectual movement embraced by scholars, writers, and civic leaders in _____ century Italy. 

Humanism

While ________________ initially began as a predominantly literary movement, its influence quickly pervaded the general culture of the time, reintroducing classical Greek and Roman art forms and leading to the Renaissance. 

True

( True / False ) The three most prominent painters during this period, Jan van Eyck, Robert Campin, and Rogier van der Weyden, were known for making significant advances in illusionism, or the realistic and precise representation of people, space, and objects. 

Filippo Brunelleschi

The most representative architect of Italian Renaissance Architecture is ____________________. 

Northern

The Northern Renaissance describes the Renaissance as it occurred in ________________ Europe. 

Irregular

The term Baroque means "__________________________" 

95 Theses

Luther sparked the Reformation in 1517 by posting, at least according to tradition, his “___________________” on the door of the Castle Church. 

Counter-Reformation

The ___________________________ was the period of Catholic revival beginning with the Council of Trent (1545–1563) and ending at the close of the Thirty Years’ War (1648); sometimes considered a response to the Protestant Reformation. 

Reformation

The religious movement initiated by Martin Luther in the 16th century to reform the Roman Catholic Church was known as the ____________________. 

True

( True / False ) The Council of Trent was one of the Roman Catholic Church’s most important ecumenical meetings, held between 1545 and 1563 in northern Italy; it was prompted by the Protestant Reformation and has been described as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation.

Baroque

The _____________________ movement in European painting occurred during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, characterized by violent movement, strong emotion, and dramatic lighting and coloring. Important artists of this movement were Bernini, Caravaggio and Rubens. 

True

( True / False ) Baroque sculpture attempted to capture dynamic movement of human figures, spiraling around an empty central vortex or reaching outwards into the surrounding space. 

Tenebrism

____________________ is a style of painting using very pronounced light contrast (chiaroscuro), with darkness a dominating feature of the image. 

Medici

Architects of the Renaissance were sponsored by wealthy patrons including the powerful ____________ family and the Silk Guild, and approached their craft from an organized and scholarly perspective that coincided with a general revival of classical learning.