Architecture
This Roman structure becomes the main foundation for Christian cathedrals?
What is a basilica?
Jan Van Eyck's "Arnolfini Portrait" set the standard for this oil painting technique.
What is glazing?
Featured in the Scrovegni (Arena) Chapel, this is one of the most significant artists to usher in the Renaissance.
Who is Giotto?
The works of this movement emphasize humanism, rational space, clarity, and human anatomy to express ideas.
What is Southern Renaissance?
This northern symbol can be found in both the "Annunciation Triptych" and Albrecht Durer's "Adam and Eve."
What is a mousetrap?
The Hagia Sophia's astounding dome structure is elevated by the use of this architectural element.
What is a pendentive?
This extreme form of chiaroscuro depicts forms emerging from complete darkness.
What is tenebrism?
Not unlike the Hellenistic "Seated Boxer," the nude body once again becomes a veneration of expression in this work.
What is Donatello's "David?"
This style emphasizes light, color, naturalism, and symbolic value of expressions.
Depicting daily domestic life, "Hunters in the Snow" is an example of this 16th century painting subject.
What is a Genre Painting?
This floor-plan emerges as a result of Christian pilgrimages, as seen in the Church of Sainte Foy.
What is a cruciform plan?
Leonardo Da Vinci's "Last Supper" uses this unique atmospheric form of chiaroscuro.
What is sfumato?
In Botticelli's "Birth of Venus," we see Christianity attaching itself to classic Greek (pagan) values via this Renaissance concept.
What is Neoplatonism?
Emerging as a result of the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, this movement is characterized by instability and elongated bodies.
What is Mannerism?
Emerging with Gothic emotionalism, what compositional motif describes Mary holding Christ after the crucifixion?
What is the pieta?
Il Gesu is identifiable as a Baroque structure before even setting foot inside because of this.
What are curvilinear elements (volutes)?
"The Virgin of Guadalupe" uses this Indigenous American technique of inlaying seashell.
What is enconchado?
Renaissance values of harmony and balance can be found in Da Vinci's "Last Supper" by his use of this classical proportioning of the image.
What is the Golden Ratio (The Divine Proportion)?
The dynamic and dramatic art of this period emerges as a counterpoint to the Protestant Reformation.
What is Baroque Art?
Emerging in Dutch Baroque art, this painting motif is a reminder of the transience of earthly life/certainty of death.
What is a vanitas image?
Sometimes called "Honeycomb Vaulting," this Islamic element was adapted from squinches and can be seen supporting domes at Alhambra.
What are muqarnas?
Michelangelo created dark values by layering saturated colors as opposed to adding black, a technique known as....
What is cangiante?
This artist and painting represent a major shift during the Renaissance by presenting a figure who is not religious, neoplatonic, or mythological.
Who is Titian, "Venus of Urbino?"
This art movement emerges due to a shift in patronage from the church to a growing merchant class (a result of the Protestant Reformation).
What is Dutch Baroque?
Van Eyck and Velasquez share this visual motif that complicates the interior scene of a room by presenting the viewer with more than one view.
What is the mirror/reflection?