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