Who wrote the most important of the Architectural treatises called the "De re aedificatoria"?

An ideology that believes that humans had been given the ability for rational thought to some meaningful end.

The weakening of the spiritual and political leadership of the Church.

Father of Renaissance architecture.

Who won the competition to design a set of doors for the east side of the Florence Baptistry.

Prominent family of Florence. They acquired great wealth in banking

Filippo Brunelleschi designed the enormous octagonal dome of ____________, also called the Duomo, completed in 1436. The dome was considered one of the most impressive engineering and artistic feats since Roman times.

What type of perspective did Brunelleschi first invented?

The use of light and dark to achieve a heightened illusion of depth. The use of shadows to give massing instead of outlines.

Method of rendering a specific object in depth. The distortion that is seen by the eye when an object is viewed at a distance.

The founder of Renaissance painting. He is known as the first naturalistic painter of Italy

A disciple of Giotto. 1st great painter of the Italian Renaissance. He created one the best examples of chiaroscuro which was a painting named The Expulsion from Eden.

A Dominican monk who created purely religious art. He made use of luminous, gem-like colors and diffused light in slender forms.

A complete antithesis of Fra Angelico; he was also a monk but was dismissed because of abducting a nun. One of his works is Madonna and Child that was set in contemporary times and was made like so in order to make religious art relatable.

His works drew from mythological inspirations. In his painting Primavera, which is Italian for spring, Venus was depicted at the middle and was believed to have the same qualities of that of Mary. He also painted The Birth of Venus, Venus was once again portrayed like Mary wherein Venus is born from sea foam.

A Belgian painter who perfected the process of painting with oil and varnish. One of his works is the Ghent Altar Piece, Visitation.

The use of all grey tones to create a sculptural effect on paintings; gives an impression of sculptural relief.

A sculptor known for scared themes. He portrayed a young David in his sculpture. The age, 12-13 yrs. old, when David has just killed Goliath. David is seen standing on the head of Goliath.

A round arch wherein the space between the columns would form a perfect square.

An arcading that opens to one side.

Rectangular window surmounted by a pediment.

Brunelleschi and Michelezzo. Divided into storeys of decreasing heights by long, unbroken bands called string cornices.

Largest palace in Italy.

Style characterized by draftsmanship, the illusion of sculptural volume in painting and building, by the limitive use of whole orders and compositional rules after precepts of Vitruvius.

Most famous Venetian renaissance painter. Works: Tempest, Sleeping Venus

Painter: Madonna of the Rocks

Works: Sistine chapel ceiling, The Holy Family (Doni Tondo), David, Pieta, The Deposition, The Last Judgmen

Works: The School of Athens, The Marriage of the Virgins, Tempest, Sleeping Venus

Leader of the 16th century Venetian school of Italian Renaissance. Works: Assumption of the Virgin (Assunta), The Rape of Europa

"Leonardo of the North." Works: Apocalyps, St. Jerome in His Study, Four Apostles

Modeling technique which consisted of blurring sharp outline

Greatest Flemish painter known for landscapes and peasant scenes. Works: Peasant Wedding, Hunters in the Snow, The Blind Leading the Blind

High Renaissance landmark: by Donato Bramante. Marked the spot of St. Peter's crucifixion

High Renaissance landmark: Means small temple

High Renaissance landmark: by Michelangelo. Composed of the Palace of the Senate, the Conservatory, and the Capitoline Museum where the statue of Marcus Aurelius stood.

Exaggerated styles, striking visual effects characterized by elongated or over muscular figures set in extravagantly contorted panes

17th Century

"Il Furioso" because of his phenomenal energy in painting, dramatic use of perspective and special lighting effects. Master of mannerism.

Triumvirate of pre-eminent Venetian painters of the late Renaissance.

Mannerist painter known as a supreme colorist, illusionist decorations in fresco and oil, dramatic narrative cycles.

Cool, mannerist portraits. Work: Portrait of a Young Man

Italian regarded as the greatest architect of 16th century northern Italy. Works: Villa Rotonda, I quattro libri dell'architettura, Villa Capra

Characterized by asymmetrical compositions, powerful effects of movement, strong lighting in combination with dramatic interpretations. "Distorted pearl"

19th century Swiss historian, first to use the term baroque

Movement within the Catholic church to reform itself from Protestant attacks

19th Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church convened as response to the reformation. Standardized the mass

A Renaissance chair having three splayed legs and a shaped back joined into a solid wooden seat.

An ornamented chest or trunk; a highly decorated Italian chest of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance period.

Italian settee formed by adding arms and back to a chest_literally cassone plus banca. Chiefly Middle Renaissance Florentine; prototype of the English settle. A variation on the cassone resulting from the addition of a back and arms, this unit was usable for seating as well as for storage.

A piece of furniture for kneeling at; a shelved wooden desk for use when praying, usually with a low surface for kneeling on and a higher surface for resting the elbows or a book on.

Wooden side chair of the Italian Renaissance based on primitive three-cornered stools. Early types had three legs wedged into solid seat, with board back.

Wooden side chair of the Italian Renaissance based on primitive three-cornered stools. Early types had three legs wedged into solid seat, with board back.

A chair of the Renaissance having a number of transverse pairs of curved legs, crossing beneath the seat and rising to support the arms and back. This folding arm chair was a widely used type of furniture. Made up from many curved strips of wood pivoted at the center of the seat, it was named after the famous Italian preacher who, it is thought, favored this design.

This was somewhat a massive chair with four square legs supporting arms. Seat and back were bands of leather attached to the frame with nails, the nailheads acting as a form of decorative trim.

The combination of light effects and color also known as chromatic intensity.

Processional sequence of increasingly rich interiors hat culminated in a presence chamber, throne room, or state bedroom.

Dramatic, realistic and chiaroscuro technique. Ordinary people as the figures in his religious work. Works: The Conversion of St. Paul, The Entombment of Christ

Greatest genius of the Dutch school who painted portraits and scenes of genre and religious subjects. Artificial and unique technique of handling light and shadow. Works: Night Watch, Belshazzar's Feast

Artificial and unique technique of handling light and shadow.

Subjects focus on women and household chores. Works: Maidservant Pouring Milk.

Painter specialized in aristocratic portraiture with silken fabrics, fine laces and trimmings.

Intense and animated sculptures influenced by Michelangelo. Works: Ecstasy of St. Teresa, Fountain of Trevi, David, Scala Regia

Italian Baroque architect who designed churches: St. Carlino of Four Fountains and St. Yves at La Sapienza

A Theatine monk who settled in Turin, wrote the Architettura Civile and designed the Palazzo Carignano and St. Lorenzo

A Theatine monk who settled in Turin, wrote the Architettura Civile and designed the Palazzo Carignano and St. Lorenzo

Baldachino and piazza designed by Bernini, facade by Carlo Madera, dome by Michelangelo. Has 284 Tuscan columns, 88 Corinthian pilasters, 140 statues.

Barrel vaulted collonade, flight of steps to the Vatican built by Da Sangallo and restored by Bernini.

Largest Baroque fountain in Rome.

By Borromini. Has daring architectural innovations that featured an alternation of concave and convex elements in the facade and a drum that supported an oval dome.

Giacoma Vignola. Mother church o the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). "Finest truly baroque facade."

Italian Renaissance: Bed with massive structure on a base. Has a canopy and a paneled footboard.

Italian Renaissance: Enameled earthenware pieces.

Lost wax method for metal casting. Process by which a duplicate metal sculpture (often silver, gold, brass or bronze) is cast from an original sculpture

Intarsia, inlaid stone panels often mounted on ebony cabinet-on-stands

A small motif composed of columns or pilasters supporting a pediment; typically surrounds a niche or wall

A double window typically with either a rounded or lancet arch style top divided by a colonnete. Usually the windows were found to be mullioned.

man's study; located in major palaces. Where scientific experiments/alchemy were performed

Smooth or rough-cut blocks of stone with deeply cut joints; gives a rich textural appearance

Italian Baroque: Painted illusionist architecture

Images enclosed by illusionist framing

"From below to above" Painting showing an illusionistic view upward into a seeming dome, sky, or heaven.

Use of sharply contrasting light and dark; overall darker in quality

Humorous or critical portrait based on exaggeration

Moldings that project beyond the face of a panel

A medallion or coat of arms often decorating the ceiling

Small ivory inlay pattern in wood

Small ivory inlay pattern in wood