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Artwork
100
A set of techniques for depicting spatial depth within a two-dimensional pictorial space.
What is perspective?
100
The person, object, or idea represented in the artwork.
What is the subject?
100
In Cole's View on the Catskill—Early Autumn, a small Indigenous figure in the scenery serves as this.
What is staffage?
100
This drawing by Leonardo da Vinci places the human figure within a circle and a square to explore proportion and the relationship between the body and geometry.
What is Vitruvian Man?
100
This 1656 painting of the Spanish princess and her attendants was paired in class with Spaceballs.
Las Meninas (1656) by Diego Velázquez
200
A 17th-century still life and a 20th-century Magritte both look "realistic" but mean very different things, because realism depends on this.
What is episteme(the period's way of ordering knowledge)?
200
This concept describes how viewers engage with and interpret images.
What is spectatorship?
200
Burtynsky's Breezewood, Pennsylvania, a tangle of highway interchanges, introduced this term in lecture.
What is the Anthropocene?
200
This American artist painted both The Gross Clinic and The Agnew Clinic, allowing viewers to compare changes in medical practice.
What is Thomas Eakins?
200
This artwork critiques the gaze and the role of the viewer, reminding audiences that looking is never a neutral act.
Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face (1981-83) by Barbara Kruger
300
The technique used to make the body appear to recede into space.
What is anatomical foreshortening?
300
This is a prison structure featuring a ring of open cells surrounding a central tower that illustrates our modern culture of surveillance.
What is panopticon?
300
This approach studies how images represent the environment and the relationships between people and nature.
What is ecocriticism?
300
Lavater's 1797 essays taught readers to judge character from the shape of a nose or ear.
What is Physiognomy?
300
Thomas Cole transformed these famous New York waterfalls into a symbol of untamed American nature in this 1826 painting.
What is Falls of Kaaterskill
?
400
This optical device projects an inverted image through a small opening and is considered a conceptual precursor to photography.
What is a camera obscura?
400
Hugh Welch Diamond's 1855 photograph of a seated woman shows this gaze, which turns a person into something to observe, classify, or diagnose.
What is a medical/scientific gaze?
400
This misleading practice uses environmental imagery or claims to make a company, product, or institution appear more environmentally responsible than its practices justify.
What is Greenwashing
400
Fitness trackers and smartphones extend this, the use of bodily data to manage and control populations.
What is biopower?
400
This idealized urban scene by Piero della Francesca demonstrates the mathematical approach to space that became a hallmark of Renaissance perspective.
What is 
Piero della Francesca, Ideal City, ca. 1470
500
Leon Battista Alberti compared the painting surface to this object through which viewers observe the world.
What is a window?
500
The rapid growth of cities, industrialization, and new technologies that happened because of the French Revolution are examples of this concept rather than an artistic style.
What is Modernity?
500
Cannupa Hanska Luger used this technology to place an Indigenous figure over a Thomas Cole landscape at the Met.
What is augmented reality?
500
Early anatomical figures that pose like ancient sculptures, such as the Belvedere Torso, show this relationship between two fields.
What is the blurring of art and science?
500
Located in a Dutch university city, this anatomy theater became a major tourist attraction, appearing in guidebooks and showcasing public dissections and scientific displays.
The Anatomy Theater at Leiden (1619)