Renaissance
Baroque
Vocabulary
19th Century
The Great Masters
100
This artist made oil painting into an important medium with his Lady with an Ermine.
Leonardo da Vinci
100
Hals, Vermeer and Rembrandt belonged on this side of the 16th century religious divide.
Reformation
100
A technique for making the figures in a painting look more real, the Italian word for smoky.
sfumato
100
A master of expressionist technique, he painted over many of his works.
Vincent Van Gogh
100
The Renaissance master of Classical sculpture.
Michelangelo Buonarotti
200
Classical contrapposto was reintroduced to sculpture by this artist.
Donatello
200
Paintings like these were essentially advertising for the Catholic church.
Counter-Reformation Paintings
200
Genre painting depicts what type of subjects?
Everyday life, ordinary people
200
19th century art became less representational and more_____.
Abstract
200
The master of political art in the Neoclassical period.
Jacques-Louis David
300
He designed the largest masonry dome ever built.
Filippo Brunelleschi
300
Reformation artists valued the individual, especially evident in this artist's works.
Johannes Vermeer
300
The Impressionists preferred to paint in this way, abandoning the studio.
plein air
(outdoors)300
Stone construction was abandoned in the 19th century in favor of this new technique.
Steel Frame construction
300
The Impressionist master of light.
Claude Monet
400
The Italian word for the Renaissance.
il Quattrocento
(the fourteenth century)
400
Reformation artists abandoned the idealism of the Renaissance, in favor of this style.
Realism
400
Linear perspective recedes into the distance, to this point.
Vanishing point.
400
Pablo Picasso pioneered this abstract movement in art.
Cubism
400
The Baroque master of theatrical drama.
Caravaggio
500
This Greek mathematical concept, found in nature, helped define perfect form for Renaissance artists.
The Golden Ratio
500
The technique that lends high drama to Baroque paintings.
Tenebrism
500
The painting technique called trompe l'oeil in French, translates to what phrase?
to deceive the eye
500
The technique, often used by Impressionists, of laying on thick layers of unmixed paint.
Impasto
500
Frans Hals is known as the master of this type of painting (a novelty at the time.)
Portraits