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Chapter 19 - BAROQUE & ROCOCO |
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Apex | → | ____
A peak or top point. |
Architectural Interior | → | ____
Subject in genre painting, particularly popular in Holland in the 17th
century, depicting the interiors of churches and other important civic
buildings. |
Breakfast Piece | → | ____
Painting depicting a still life of plates and food. |
Camera Obscura | → | ____
Early cameralike device used in the Renaissance for capturing images of
nature. Dark box with a hole in one side, it operates when bright
light shines through the hole, casting an upside-down image of an object
outside onto the inside wall of the box. The image can then be
traced. |
Caravaggism | → | ____
Style of painting based on the example of the Italian painter
Caravaggio. (duh.) |
Churrigeresque | → | ____
Showy style of Baroque architecture and ornament. |
Drypoint | → | ____
Intaglio printmaking process by which a metal is directly inscribed by
means of a pointed instrument (stylus). |
Etching | → | ____
Intaglio process in which a metal plate is coated with acid-resistant
resin and then inscribed with a stylus to reveal the plate below. |
Fete Galente | → | ____
Subject in painting depicting well-dressed people at leisure in a park
or country setting. |
Flower Piece | → | ____
Any painting with (are you ready for a surprise?) flowers as the primary
subject. |
Galleria | → | ____
In secular architecture, a long room, usually above the ground floor in
a private house or a public building, used for entertaining or
exhibiting pictures. |
Half-Timber Construction | → | ____
Beginning with a timber framework, the builder would construct the walls
between the timbers with bricks and mud. The exterior could then
be faced with plaster. |
History Painting | → | ____
A term used to denote paintings that include figures in any kind of
HISTORICAL narrative. History paintings generally convey a high
moral or intellectual idea. (... "high moral or intellectual
ideas"? What period of history could they have possibly found for that?) |
Memento Mori | → | ____
From the Latin terms meaning "reminder of death" -- an object, such as a
skull or extinguished candle, symbolizing the transience of life. |
Pastel | → | ____
Dry pigment, chalk and gum in stick form. |
Tenebrism | → | ____
The prevalent use of dark areas in a painting. Uses strong
chiaroscuro and artificial illuminated areas to create a dramatic
contrast of dark and light. |
Travertine | → | ____
Mineral building material similar to limestone. |
Vanitas | → | ____
Image in which the objects symbolize the transience of life. |
Wattle and Daub | → | ____
Wall construction method combining upright branches, wove with twigs
(wattles) and plastered or filled with clay or mud (daub). |
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