ARTHI 6B Study Guide - Final Guide: Lightdark, Nicolas Fouquet, Artemisia Gentileschi
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Topics likely to be on test in red. Renaissance > changing status of the artist, have new ideas about art in nature and changing political role for images. Engagement with antiquity > greek and roman world. Iconography, frontal composition, geometric patterning with minimal movement. Altarpiece: a panel that is painted or sculpted representing a religious subject that is placed above and behind an altar in a church. Naturalism: in renaissance art, a strategy of representation that posits a link between represented forms and corresponding features in the world. Fresco: technique of mural painting where paint is applied to wet of fresh plaster. Plan of frescoes: life of christ and mary. Narrative: a representational mode that presents an event or series of events unfolding over time. Individual faces with lots of movement and a naturalistic feel. Foreshortening: use of perspective to show the extension of an object back into space. Clusters of people in landscape with mix of clothing and poses.
