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