Byzantine/ Christian art
A glass picture made from small colored pieces of material such as stone or glass
What is a mosaic?
Another name for the Middle Ages
What is the Dark Ages?
Walls of colorful glass that let light flow into cathedrals
What is stained glass
A suspension of pigments mixed with an oil-based medium that allowed for slower drying, so artist could make adjustments. This allowed for a greater range of luster and minute details.
What is oil paint?
This artist considered himself more of a sculptor, but he painted the Sistine Chapel when Pope Julius II commissioned him.
Who is Michelangelo?
Underground passageways mainly outside the city as places to bury their dead
What is a catacomb?
The function (or the patrons) of most art created in the Middle Ages
What are Religion, Churches, Monasteries.
A support or brace that counteracts the outward thrust of an arch or vault
What is a buttress or flying buttress?
The Reformation sparked the long split in the Christian faith between these two groups
Who are the Catholics and the Protestants?
Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper is his only work remaining in situ (in its original location). This painting was placed in a room used for____________.
what is a dining hall (refectory) for an abbey of friars?
Early Christian artist developed symbols as a kind of code. This was called _____
What is iconography (icon)?
Bright painting on manuscripts.
What is an illuminated manuscript?
Where is the Chartres cathedral?
What is Chartres, France
Printmaking revolutionized the world during the Renaissance. Albrecht Durer's, Adam and Eve was this type of print.
What an engraving?
Where is the Sistine chapel located
What is the Vatican Rome, Italy
A long spacious buildings that Late Romans had used for their public meeting halls. Later, an early Christian church building consisting of nave and aisles with clerestory and a large high transept from which an apse projects
What is a basilica?
Half round panel that fills the space between the lintel and the arch over the doorway of a church.
What is a tympanum?
What are the main differences between Romanesque and Gothic period Architecture
What is curved and pointed arches, Gothic Stained glass, the rib vault (gothic)
The scene depicted in the center of Robert Campin's Triptych
What is the Annunciation?
Raphael's School of Athens depicts two great figures of ancient Greek thought; Plato and Aristotle. Raphael painted the architecture in a way that all of the orthogonals of the buildings and floor point to these two figures in the center. This technique to create 3-d illusion is called _____________
What is Linear Perspective?
The name later given to the eastern half of the Roman empire, established by Emperor Constantine, after the fall of Rome in Italy.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
Romanesque churches were built with a ________ were the congregation would sit for the sermon. the _______ where the altar was housed, and an _____________ the circled around these areas for pilgrims to travel through to see relics.
What is the Nave, Apse, Ambulatory
The Painter of the Lamentation from the Arena Chapel was considered the father of the Renaissance.
Who was Giotto?
This item represents the presence of God in Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait.
What is the burning candle?
The painter of the Venus of Urbino who used thin layers of oil paint called glazes to achieve rich color and a soft, sensuous effect.
Who is Titian?