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An Era of art that stopped in 3000 BCE.
What is the Pre-Historic Era?
An artist who painted portraits of King Louis XVI. This artist was considered the first recognized female painter.
Who is Madame Le Brun?
This artist sculpted "Moses of Rome' which depicted Moses with dull horns. He was also considered to be a grouchy and pessimistic Renaissance sculptor and painter.
Who is Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni?
A high contrast background that makes the subject look bright and centered by comparison.
What is tenebrism?
Perfected by Greek sculptors who wanted to make their sculptures looks more complex.
What is Contrapposto?
Caves, blood, mud, bones and charcoal.
What are Pre-Historic Art Tools?
A painter who focused heavily on shapes and depicted "Guernica," a battle of the Spanish Civil War.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
The other name for Jesus' mother.
What is Madonna?
This book is often the subject in Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Art.
What is the Holy Bible?
This is a word that means "a tool for making art."
Hint: starts with an "m"
What is a medium?
It's the amount of time that the Medieval Period lasted.
What is 1000 years?
The main artist we looked at for Baroque.
Who is Michelangelo Caravaggio?
This material used for sculpting was popular among Greek sculptors for its incredible durability.
The idea that humans have God-given talents and intelligence, that they are glorious and worthy.
What is Humanism?
A pointy tip of a late medieval castle.
What is a spire?
What is the ancient period?
A painter who depicted St. Thomas as poking his finger into the wounds of Christ.
Who is Caravaggio?
The sculpture made by Polykleitos that the Romans copied extensively.
What is Doryphoros?
Romans could not master contrapposto and needed this as a result.
What is a relief?
The word for an almost completely black background.
What is chiaroscuro?
An era of art that focused on recreating Ancient sculptures in paintings.
What is Neoclassical?
A painter who worked for King Ludovico in Italy and took notes in mirror-script (backwards handwriting).
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
Who is Antonio Canova?
These fat little baby angels resemble cupid and are used in medieval, renaissance and baroque art.
What is a cherub?
This artist passed away on a beach in Italy, likely from an injury he recieved in a brawl. His remains are kept in a small box in St. Erasmus cemetary (Italy). Nobody knew where he was buried for over 300 years.
Who is Caravaggio?