Techniques
A method of painting in gray monochrome, typically to imitate sculpture.
What is Grisaille?
The banning and destruction of images, especially icon and religious art
What is Iconoclasm?
An Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence,
Who is Michelangelo?
The School of Athens
Who is Raphael?
Renaissance Art in Italy
What is the 15th century?
The application of paper-thin gold leaf or gold pigment to an object made from another medium (for example, a sculpture or a painting). Usually used as a decorative finishing detail.
What is Gilding?
A belief that emphasizes faith and optimism in human potential and creativity
What is Humanism?
An Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. The Mona Lisa is the most famous of his works and the most famous portrait ever made.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
FEAST IN THE HOUSE OF LEVI
Who is Veronese?
Northern Renaissance in Europe
What is 15th century?
A method of creating the illusion of three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface by delineating a horizon line and multiple orthogonal lines
What is linear perspective?
The study of a group of representative pictures or symbols
What is Iconography?
Was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur
Who is Raphael?
The Elder RETURN OF THE HUNTERS
Who is Pieter Bruegel?
Roman High Renaissance
What is 16th century?
Italian for "smoky", technique used to blend details to look more realistic
What is Sfumato?
A manuscript in which the text is supplemented with such decoration as initials, borders (marginalia) and miniature illustrations.
What is Illuminated manuscript?
One of greatest Italian Renaissance artists, noted especially for his sculptures in marble, bronze, and wood. His sculpted figures were some of the first since antiquity to represent anatomy correctly
Who is Donatello?
THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE
Who is Albrecht Dürer?
Art in Northern Europe and the Iberian Penisula
What is 16th century?
A method of rendering the effect of spatial distance by subtle variations in color and clarity of representation
What is aerial perspective?
Italian term meaning "set against," used to describe the Classical convention of representing human figures with opposing alternations of tension and relaxation on either side of a central axis to imbue figures with a sense of the potential for movement.
What is Contrapposto?
A German monk who became one of the most famous critics of the Roman Catholic Chruch. In 1517, he wrote 95 theses, or statements of belief attacking the church practices.
Who is Martin Luther?
The French Ambassadors, 1533
Who is Hans Holbein?
Rococo Style
What is 18th century?