What is a medieval country in northern Europe that included regions now parts of northern France and Belgium and southwestern Netherlands
100
Reformation
What is a 16th-century movement for the reform of abuses in the Roman Catholic Church ending in the establishment of the Reformed and Protestant Churches.
100
Vanitas
What is a still-life painting of a 17th-century Dutch genre containing symbols of death or change as a reminder of their inevitability.
100
Hemispherical dome
What is a vaulted roof having a circular, polygonal, or elliptical base
100
Cassone
What is a large Italian chest of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, usually highly ornamented
200
Merchant Class
What is Of or relating to merchants, merchandise, or commercial trade
200
Genre Painting
What is a style of painting depicting scenes from ordinary life, esp. domestic situations. Genre painting is associated particularly with 17th-century Dutch and Flemish artists.
200
counter reformation
What is the reaction of the Roman Catholic Church to the Reformation reaffirming the veneration of saints and the authority of the Pope (to which Protestants objected); many leaders were Jesuits
200
Rustication
What is an architectural feature that contrasts in texture with the smoothly finished, squared block masonry surfaces called ashlar
200
Chiaroscuro
What is the treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting.
300
Modern devotion
What is a movement for religious reform, calling for apostolic renewal through the rediscovery of genuine pious practices such as humility, obedience and simplicity of life
300
Temperament
What is the adjustment of intervals in tuning a piano or other musical instrument so as to fit the scale for use in different keys; in equal temperament, the octave consists of twelve equal semitones.
300
stylobate
What is the immediate foundation of a row of classical columns
300
Rotunda
What is a round building or room, esp. one with a dome.
300
Sfumato
What is the technique of allowing tones and colors to shade gradually into one another, producing softened outlines or hazy forms.
400
Engravings
What is a print made from an engraved plate, block, or other surface
400
Melancholia
What is deep sadness or gloom; melancholy
400
Balustrade
What is a railing supported by balusters, esp. an ornamental parapet on a balcony, bridge, or terrace.
400
broken pediment motif
What is triangular gable forming the end of the roof slope over and segmentally curved shapes
400
Neoplatonism
What is a system of philosophical and theological doctrines composed of elements of Platonism and Aristotelianism and oriental mysticism; its most distinctive doctrine holds that the first principle and source of reality transcends being and thought and is naturally unknowable
500
Triptych
What is a serine protease from the PA clan superfamily, found in the digestive system of many vertebrates, where it hydrolyses proteins.
500
anamorphic image
What is pertaining to gradual evolution from one type of organism to another
500
Tholos
What is an ancient Roman feature found in the macellum. It is a round structure, usually built upon a couple of steps, with a ring of columns supporting a domed roof
500
pictorial construction
What is characterized by, or composed of pictures
500
Scaffold
What is a raised wooden platform used formerly for the public execution of criminals