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What is a halo?
As time went on, Renaissance artists slowly phased out this symbol of divinity.
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What is Florence?
A city that established itself as "The New Athens"
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What is the printing press?
This invention spread ideas and brought fame to artists.
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What is the Late Renaissance?
The Mannerist style came about during this period, in an attempt to be original.
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What is tenebrism?
The stark contrast between light and dark, used to create drama in a painting.
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Who is Martin Luther?
The Ninety-Five Theses or critiques of the Catholic Church were posted by him.
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What is the Colosseum?
Alberti modeled the Palazzo Rucellai on the building from antiquity.
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Who is Jan Van Eyck?
This clever artist confused art historians with his double portrait in which he witnesses a sacred oath of some sort.
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Who is Pontormo?
This artist painted a religious scene, but eliminated all clues to what part of Christ's life was being shown.
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Who is Caravaggio?
An man who painted his figure intensely naturalistic, and wa son the run for murdering a man over a tennis match.
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What is Humanism?
An intellectual movement emphasizing the secular over religious, attracted to the achievements of the classical past, which stressed the study of classical literature history, philosophy and art, where man believed in himself.
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What is Genesis?
The center of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling depicts the stories from this Book of the Old Testament.
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What is Adam and Eve?
Influenced by a trip to Italy, Albrecht Durer created this engraving based on Apollo and Aphrodite statues he saw there.
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What is Hellenistic?
Mannerist artists strayed away from the idea of observing nature, and instead looked back to artworks of this Ancient Greek style.
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Who is Bernini?
A religious artist who brought together sculpture, painting, architecture, theater and faith in the Cornaro chapel.
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What are humors?
Bodily fluids were thought to control health and personality in the Medieval period
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Who is Aristotle and Plato?
These Greek philosophers were at the center of Raphael's School of Athens.
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What is oil paint?
This art medium was invented in Northern Europe, and allowed artists to depict incredible detail and texture.
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What is form stops following function?
In Mannerist architecture, classical elements are used purely for decoration. This phrase sums up this idea.
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Who is Borromini?
This architect wa know to set facades into motion with his undulating walls.
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Who is Brunelleschi?
This architect made his floor plans based on unit of space called “space blocks.”
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What are gestures?
The narrative moment in the Last Supper is expressed through these hang motions.
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What is the Annunciation?
The center panel of Robert Campin's altarpiece depicts this important New Testament event.
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What is artificial?
In architecture and emotions of Mannerist style, a term that describes the idea of being contrived or fake.
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Who is Vermeer?
A Dutch Baroque artist who painted genre scenes, sometimes imbued with religious meaning.
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