renaissance - baroque vocab

a panel, painted or sculpted, situated above and behind an altarpiece

the announcement by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary of her conception of Christ

the person who commissions and pays for the creation of an artwork

printmaking process in which lines are cut into a metal plate in order to hold the ink

printmaking process in which lines or areas are incised using acid into a metal plate in order to hold the ink

allowed artists to paint in layers or glazes that convincingly mimicked the appearance of textures

the long horizontal structure at the base of an altarpiece

a period of challenge to the Catholic church; artists began to focus on non-religious themes

an artwork consisting of three panels

a relief process in which knives and other tools are used to carve a design into the surface of a wood block

a building or room that is part of a cathedral, monastery, or collegiate church in which meetings are held

seeing life and human nature as it actually is

a representation of Mary, either alone or with her child Jesus

a slender vertical division between adjacent lights or subdivisions in a window or between windows in a group

seeks to locate the One (or God in Christian neoplatonism) in the finite world and human experience

imaginary lines which are parallel to the ground plane and line of sight of the viewer

the representation of 3D objects or spaces in 2D artworks

the relative size, shape, and position of objects are determined by lines converging at a point on the horizon

the point at which receding parallel lines, when viewed in perspective, seem to vanish

modulating color to simulate changes changes effected by the atmosphere on the colors of things seen at a distance

a blue-grey sandstone used extensively in Renaissance Florence for architectural details

shallow rectangular column that projects slightly beyond the wall into which it is built and conforms precisely to the order or style of the adjacent columns

“to deceive the eye”; the artist fools the viewer into thinking they’re looking at the real thing

A simple rural and rustic setting used especially in Venetian paintings of the High Renaissance; named after Arcadia, a district in Greece to which poets and painters have attributed a rural simplicity and an idyllically untroubled world

A heavy woven material used as the surface of a painting; first widely used in Venice

A trunk intended for storage of clothing for a wife's trousseau

A gradual transition from light to dark in a painting. Forms are not determined by sharp outlines, but by the meeting of lighter and darker areas

A painting of sculpture depicting Jesus Christ's burial after his crucifixion

As told in Genesis 7 of the Bible, Noah and his family escape the rising waters by building an Arc and placing two of every animal aboard

Painting in which scenes of everyday life are depicted

Thin transparent layers put over a painting to alter the color and build up a rich sonorous effect

Nude corner figures on the Sistine Chapel ceiling

A meal shared by Jesus Christ with his apostles the night before his death by crucifixion

A smoke-light or hazy effect that distances the viewer from the subject of the painting

A Greco-Roman prophetess whom Christians saw as prefiguring the coming of Jesus Christ

A painting of a grouping of inanimate objects, such as flowers or fruit