Techniques and Terms
Painting or sculpture that sits on an altar.
What is an altarpiece?
The place where one is baptized as a christian.
What is a baptistry.
Florence's favorite poet.
Who is Dante?
This epidemic in 1348 killed many people all over Europe.
What is Bubonic Plague?
Method of posing a person so that their weight rests on the back leg.
What is Contrapposto?
Uses egg yolk as the binder in a painting.
What makes tempera paint stick to a surface?
The city famous for its canals.
What is Venice?
He painted a famous image of the Last Supper.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
In 1453, this city was captured by Turks, so many Byzantine scholars and artists fled to Italy.
What is Constantinople (Modern Istanbul)?
Method of projecting a three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional plane.
What is Perspective?
A small room where one can pray. Sometimes served as a burial place.
What is a chapel?
Location of the Pope's Cathedral.
What is the Vatican?
The family that controlled Florence for much of the Renaissance period.
Who are the Medici?
Intellectual movement that led to the study of worldly subjects such as math, sciences, and arts.
What is Humanism?
Method of carefully rendering in a painting or drawing the fall of light on an object.
What is Chiaroscuro?
The Town Hall of Florence.
What is the Palazzo della Signoria?
Most famous painter of Venice.
Who is Titian?
In the 1450's a new technology for making books by mechanical means was invented in Germany and spread throughout Europe.
What is printing or the printing press?
Technique of carving lines into a copper plate so that the lines can be inked and printed.
What is engraving?
Architectural detail of a flattened form of a column.
What is a pilaster?
This city was sacked by troops of the Holy Roman Emperor in 1530, forcing the artists who served the pope to scatter.
What is Rome?
Sculpted the statue of David for the Cathedral of Florence, though it didn't wind up there.
Who is Michelangelo?
City where artists and scholars studied the buildings and sculptures of antiquity up close and personal to better understand and revive them.
What is Rome?
Institution for teaching art that enabled artists to claim the status of intellectuals in the sixteenth century.
What is the Academy?