a technique for painting on walls with water-based pigments applied to wet lime plaster, which results in a durable and long-lasting mural.

an intellectual movement during the Renaissance that emphasized human beings, their potential, and the study of ancient Greek and Roman texts and ideals

Strong light and dark contrasts. (more range in values)

a geometric and mathematical method used to create the illusion of three-dimensional depth and space on a flat, two-dimensional surface by having parallel lines converge at a vanishing point on the horizon line

The catholic revival, this is the response/ opposition of reformation. which led to lots of religious iconography Characteristics include dynamism, tenebrism, forshortening and collapse of divisions between architecture sculpture and painting.

Dramatic/stark contrast of light and dark. (less range in values)

A painting that depicts significant human action. Includes actual history and things that did not happen.

a work of art which represents some abstract quality or idea either by means of a single object or figure. Typically ________ of women.

an 18th-century art, cultural, and architectural movement that revived interest in classical antiquity, particularly the art of ancient Greece and Rome

As people separated from the church lead by protestants there was a decrease of religious art and an increase of still lifes, portaits and landscapes.

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Art History Terms

Term	Definition
Fresco	a technique for painting on walls with water-based pigments applied to wet lime plaster, which results in a durable and long-lasting mural.
Humanism	an intellectual movement during the Renaissance that emphasized human beings, their potential, and the study of ancient Greek and Roman texts and ideals
Chiaroscuro	Strong light and dark contrasts. (more range in values)
Linear Perspective	a geometric and mathematical method used to create the illusion of three-dimensional depth and space on a flat, two-dimensional surface by having parallel lines converge at a vanishing point on the horizon line
Foreshortening	a geometric and mathematical method used to create the illusion of three-dimensional depth and space on a flat, two-dimensional surface by having parallel lines converge at a vanishing point on the horizon line
Counter-Reformation	The catholic revival, this is the response/ opposition of reformation. which led to lots of religious iconography Characteristics include dynamism, tenebrism, forshortening and collapse of divisions between architecture sculpture and painting.
Tenebrism	Dramatic/stark contrast of light and dark. (less range in values)
History Painting	A painting that depicts significant human action. Includes actual history and things that did not happen.
Allegory	a work of art which represents some abstract quality or idea either by means of a single object or figure. Typically ________ of women.
Neo-Classicism	an 18th-century art, cultural, and architectural movement that revived interest in classical antiquity, particularly the art of ancient Greece and Rome
Reformation	As people separated from the church lead by protestants there was a decrease of religious art and an increase of still lifes, portaits and landscapes.

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