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100
An open square or space used for public meetings or business in ancient Greek cities.
What is an agora
100
In sculpture, figures projecting from a background of which they are part.
What is bas relief or relief
100
The weaving together of threads of different colors.
What is brocade
100
She was an Italian Renaissance painter born in Cremona. She received a well-rounded education that included the fine arts and her apprenticeship with local painters set a precedent for women to be accepted as students of art.
Who is Sofonisba Anguissola
100
He was a Flemish Renaissance painter and printmaker known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so called genre painting).
Who is Pieter Bruegel the Elder
200
A smokelike haziness that subtly softens outlines in painting; particularly applied to the painting of Leonardo and Correggio.
What is sfumato
200
A wedge-shaped block used in the construction of a true arch
What is key stone or voussoir
200
A cross with four arms of equal length and at right angles.
What is a Greek Cross?
200
His Tempietto (San Pietro in Montorio) marked the beginning of the High Renaissance in Rome (1502) when Alexander VI appointed him to build a sanctuary that allegedly marked the spot where Peter was crucified
Who is Bramante
200
He was known for elements of fantasy and human folly
Who is Bosch?
300
In Renaissance art, a contortion or twisting of the body in contrary directions, especially characteristic of the sculpture and paintings of Michelangelo and the Mannerists.
What is figura serpentinata
300
A system of construction in which two posts support a lintel.
What is post-and-lintel system
300
A blanket designation for the art of the period 1600 to 1750.
What is Baroque
300
He was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci
300
He was a German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style. He is best known as one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. He also produced religious art, satire, and Reformation propaganda, and made a significant contribution to the history of book design.
Who is Hans Holbein the Younger
400
Italian, “drawing” and “design.”
What is disegno?
400
A picture showing natural scenery, without narrative content.
What is a landscape?
400
A style or category of art; also, a kind of painting that realistically depicts scenes from everyday life.
What is a genre
400
He is famous today for his angels
Who is Raphael
400
He was a German painter, engraver, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. His high-quality woodcuts established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance ever since.
Who is Durer
500
Italian, “holy conversation”; a style of altarpiece painting popular after the middle of the 15th century, in which saints from different epochs are joined in a unified space and seem to be conversing either with each other or with the audience.
What is sacra conversazione?
500
A rule, for example, of proportion
What is a canon
500
A style of later Renaissance art that emphasized “artifice, “ often involving contrived imagery not derived directly from nature. Such artworks showed a self-conscious stylization involving complexity, caprice, fantasy, and polish
What is Mannerism
500
His most famous work is a marble David in the city of Florence
Who is Michelangelo
500
Who signed his name with his initials?
Who is Albrecht Durer?