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56 Cards in this Set
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Renaissance Humanism
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"Man is the measure of all things"
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The Medici
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Dominant Florentine banking family in the fifteenth century. De facto rulers of Florence; leading supporters of humanism.
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paradiso
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The space between a cathedral and its baptistery
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diptych
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two panels
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triptych
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three panels
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polyptych
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more than three panels
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Vasari
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Mannerist architect who gave an account of Renaissance art in his "The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
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Julius II
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Humanist Pope; made the most contributions to the Renaissance
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Saint Mark
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Fifteenth Century, Donatello: Flowing Cloth out of marble is revolutionary
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Stigmata
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wounds of Christ
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Savonarola
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Dominican abbot of San Marco, vigorously opposed Medici support of humanism - "Bonfires of the Vanities"
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balustrade
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a series of balusters, or upright pillars, supporting a rail (as along the edge of a balcony or bridge)
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reliquary
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a casket or container for sacred relics
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indulgences
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buying your way into heaven
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Martin Luther
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instigator of the Protestant Revolution...etc
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Broken pediment
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the pediment (triangle thing over door) is BROKEN
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Bargello
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Originally built to house a magistrate, now an art museum
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Palladio (first Italian Guidebook)
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Greatest architect of late sixteenth-century Italy -synthesized elements of Mannerism with High Renaissance ideals
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Council of Trent
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Roman Catholic Church - Counter-Reformation: anti-humanist
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melancholy
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The idea that artistic genius is tied with "melancholy" -a madness/moodiness
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Linear Perspective
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system based on the fact that distant objects appear smaller than close objects
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One-point perspective
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single vanishing point in picture
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Chiaroscuro
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light and shadow creates the effect of three-dimensionality
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sfumato
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definition of form by delicate gradations of light and shadow
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High Renaissance (dates)
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c. 1480-1550
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Figura Serpentinata
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twisting movement in art (Mannerist)
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woodcut
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relief printmaking process
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intaglio
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printmaking process in which lines are incised into the surface of a plate or print form (engraving/etching)
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engraving
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incising an image on a hard material
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editions
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a batch of prints made from a single plate or print form
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Dome for Florence Cathedral
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Brunelleschi, 1410-1436, Florence
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Hospital of the Innocents
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Brunelleschi, 1419, Florence
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Ghent Altarpiece
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Jan van Eyck; 1432; Cathedral of Saint Bavon, Ghent, Belgium
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Man in the Red Turban
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Jan van Eyck, 1433, National Gallery, London
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Birth of Venus
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Sandro Botticelli, c. 1480, Florence
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Plan of the Florence Cathedral
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Brunalleschi? Late 13th century
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The Gates of Paradise
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Lorenzo Ghiberti, 1424-1452, Florence
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Tempietto
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Donato Bramante, c. 1502-1503, Rome
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Dome for Florence Cathedral
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Brunelleschi, 1410-1436, Florence
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Hospital of the Innocents
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Brunelleschi, 1419, Florence
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Ghent Altarpiece
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Jan van Eyck; 1432; Cathedral of Saint Bavon, Ghent, Belgium
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Tempietto
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Donato Bramante, 1502-1503, Rome
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School of Athens
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Raphael, 1500-1511, Vatican, Rome
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Last Supper
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Leonardo da Vinci, 1495-1498, Milan
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Rome Pieta, Sistine Ceiling, Moses, and Last Judgement
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Michelangelo, 1508-1541, Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome
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Vitruvian Man
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Leonardo da Vinci, 1485-1490, Venice
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Mona Lisa
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Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1503-1505, Louvre, Paris
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Lives of the Artists
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Giorgio Vasari, 1550
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The Four Books of Architecture
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Palladio, 1570
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Titian
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Assumption of the Virgin, Pesaro Madonna, Venus of Urbino, Rape of Europa
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The Garden of Earthly Delights
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Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1510-1515, Madrid
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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Albrecht Durer, c. 1497-1498, New York
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Durer
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Self-Portrait (curly hair awesome), Melencolia (sad guy thinking, compass)
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Han Holbein
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Erasmus of Rotterdam, Henry VIII (pg. 622)
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Isenheim Altarpiece
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Matthias, Grunewald, c. 1510-1515, France
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Icarus
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1554-1555, Brussels
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