Intro to fine arts- test 2(chap 14-16)

transept

An extended, legnthwise section set perpendicular to the center space is called a ________.

Northern Renaissance

An extension of the Italian Renaissance to the nations Germany, Flanders, France, and England; it took on a more religious nature than the Italian Renaissance

spynx

located in egypt

Constantine

Emperor ______ moved the capital of the Roman Empire to Byzantium.

Nave

the central area of a church

Rococo

use of gentile pastels, lighthearted and playful, suitable for more intimate spaces

Baroque

use of intense colors, dramatic, used on a grand scale

Rococo

very highly ornamented; relating to an 18th century artistic style of elaborate ornamentation

Sandro Botticelli

(1445-1510) A painter who embodied platonist ideas, used color, made many paintings on an allegorical level. on aesthetic path. more concerned with grace and elegance, works: birth of Venus

Raphael

(1483-1520) Italian Renaissance painter; he painted frescos, his most famous being The School of Athens.

Titan

A Venetian man who created the style of mannerism in which artists sometimes distorted figures to express emotion and drama

Basilica

A common structure in Roman architecture was the multipurpose meeting hall called a ________.

High Renaissance

A period beginning in the late 15th century, it produced some of the most well-known religious and secular artwork of the period from such figures as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo.

Narthex

A porch or vestibule of a church, generally colonnaded or arcaded and preceding the nave

apse

A recess, usually semicircular, in the wall of a Roman basilica or at the east end of a church.

Icon

An ________ is a specific kind of image, either a portrait of a sacred person or a portrayal of a sacred event.

Masaccio

He used light and dark imagery to illustrate different feelings and emotions

Lorenzo Ghiberti

In his The Story of Jacob and Esau, exhibited an early use of linear perspective.

san carlo alle quattro, oval

Francesco Borromini became famous for his design of _________, in which he used an ____ shape for the domed interior

Flamboyant

French for "flamelike", the _______ style was a late-gothic aesthetic.

cornaro chapel

Gianlorenzo Bernini contributed his immense talents in his deisgn of ________, which features St.Teresa in Ecstacy.

techne

In ancient greece, sculpture, painting, and architecture were discussed as ________ , subjects that required a special body of knowledge.

Leon Battista Alberti

In his plans for the church of Sant'Andrea, architect _______ used ancient Roman building, such as the Pantheon, as inspiration.

illumination

In the early Middle Ages, monks copied many manuscripts, enhancing the texts with a decoration known as _________.

Abstract Expressionism

Influenced by Surrealism, ______________ describes a style that focuses on the unconscious and nonrepresentative subjects.

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect

Neo-dadaism

John Cage, influential in several artistic circles, emphasized the role of art to affirm life, a sentiment that led to ____________.

ishtar gate

Located at the main entrance to ancient Babylon. Lapis Lazuli gives it its blue color

Late Renaissance

Mannerism,

Pompeii

Many important works of art were discovered during the excavation of _______, a city buried under volcanic ash in 79 C.E.

Sistine Chapel

Michelangelo used fresco medium, The Creation of Adam is the most familiar of the paintings in the chapel, Michelangelo used a neo-platonic approach in the work, the ceiling is 70 feet above the floor

babylonian

Nebuchadnezzar, Hammurabi's code, Ishtar Gate(blue door)

The Ashes of Phokion

Nicolas Poussin, in his piece ___________, demonstrates the French approach to Baroque painting, keeping the classical elements of the Renaissance and mixing them with the drama of Baroque techniques.

Egyptian

Portraying each part of the human body to best advantage,

Pantokrator

Some Byzantine artworks portray Christ as _______, a divine, awe inspiring, and majestic figure.

Romanesque

Style of church architecture using round arches, domes, thick walls, and small windows, sudden building boom

Rome

The Colosseum, located in ______, is an engineering marvel, capable of accommodating some 50k people.

aisles

Surrounding the open center space are _______, which can buttress the main structure.

Italy

The Renaissance began in _______.

Giorgione

The Tempest

Narthex

The _____ served as an entry porch directly in front of the church or the meeting hall.

Merchant

The ______ class was a new and important resource in the patronage of the arts during the Renaissance.

Clerestory

The ______ is the upward extension of the central hall that served to admit light.

Krater

The _______ was a well-known greek pottery shape used to hold wine.

Neo-Babylonian

The _________ empire included some of the greatest architects of the ancient world.

Sumerian

The _________ used wedge shaped marks pressed into damp clay for keeping records.

Assaryian

The __________ empire was led by assurnaspiral II.

Akkadian

The __________ empire was ruled by Sargon I.

Medici Family, neo-platonic

The __________ sponsored an academy where artists and intellectuals met to discuss the intersection of classical sulture and its relationship to Christianity, giving rise to ______ philosophy.

Babylonian

The ____________ empire was established by the amorites, and the most important contribution was the Hammurabi's code.

Ambulatory

The aisle around the apse in a church is called an _________.

Entasis

The columns of the parthenon bulge slightly out at the middle, an application known as _______.

Entombment of christ

The use of extreme lights and darks in a painting was an innovation of Caravaggio and can be seen in his work __________.

Hagia Sophia

The great masterpiece of early Byzantine architecture is the ________.

Nave

The open center space of a meeting place, later adopted into the design of churches, is called the ______.

San Vitale

Under the patronage of emperor Justinian and the empress Theodora, the _____ church was built in the unusual form of an octagon.

tapestry

Valued more then paintings during the Middle Ages, a ________ is a large woven hanging that often told stories.

Roman

Valued the virtues of fidelity and harmony,

Mycenaean

acquired vast amounts of gold,

embroidery

Work in which colored yarns are sewn to an existing woven background is known as _________.

Donatello

________ among the first generation of renaissance srtists, produced the statue of Saint Mark.

Athens

________ was perhaps the most important city-state of classical Greece.

Aisle

a passageway between rows of seats

action painting

an abstract painting in which the artist drips or splatters paint onto a surface like a canvas in order to create his or her work

Greek

artists and engineers often used the golden ratio in their works,

St peters

building upon michaelangelos work, berinini added a spectacular colonade to ________ church in Rome.

Sumerian

cuneiform writing, zigguarts, nanna moon god

early renaissance

discovery of linear perspective,

Michelangelo

dissected corpses to better represent the human body in his works, the younger of he and da vinci, preferred sculpture to painting

Minoan

frescoes, lighthearted and cheerful people,

Artemisia Gentileschi

heightened sense of danger and drama, extensive use of shadows.

associated with art academies

inherently conservative, emphasized works from classical past, focused on mastering the human form, cosimo de medici sponsored the first formal academy

Palace of Assurnaspiral

located assyria near babylon

Nanna Ziggurat

located in babylon lower part

Cycladic

located on a group of small islands,

Color Field Painting

painting, as practiced by Mark Rothko, draws the viewer in and invites contemplation.

Neoclassical

relating to a simple, elegant style (based on ideas and themes from ancient Greece and Rome) that characterized the arts in Europe during the late 1700s

Gothic

relating to a style of church architecture that developed in medieval Europe, featuring ribbed vaults, stained glass windows, flying buttresses, pointed arches, and tall spires

Leonardo da Vinci

represented the "Renaissance man", left many unginished projects,

Baroque Peroid

the age of kings, colonial settlement began in north america, the mayflower arrived in what is now massachusetts, the french revolution

NOT during Baroque period

the eiffel tower was built, creation of the sistine chapel, german tribes began to overtake the roman empire