Mona lisa to modernism exam 2

landscape

A picture showing natural scenery, without narrative content.

Sfumato

Italian for "smoky", a smoke like haziness that subtly sosftens outlines in painting, particularly applied to the paintings of leonardo da vinci and corregio

momento mori

Latin, "reminder of death." In painting, a reminder of human mortality, usually represented by a skull.

Christ Carrying the Cross, titian

Titian

the reformation

a 16th century movement for religious reform, leading to the founding of Christian churches that rejected the pope's authority

Genre

a style or category of art, also a kind of painting, that realistically depicts scenes from everyday life

poesia

a term describing "poetic" art, notably venetian Renaissance painting, which emphasizes the lyrical and sensual

emulation

choose an artist to rival, select features of their art to focus on and then innovate to create your own style

imitation

copy earlier great artists to master their style and technique

Disengo

italian "drawing" and "design". Reniassance artists considered drawing to be the external physical manifestation of an internal intellectual idea of design

Chiaroscuro

the treatment and use of light and dark, especially the gradations of light that produce the effect of modeling