Art 201 Final Exam
Medieval Double Scale - ANS Two different scales in the artwork,
one scale for architecture
one scale for people
Perspective - ANS A method of presenting an illusion of the three dimensional world on a
two-dimensional surface
Orthogonals - ANS A line imagined to be behind and perpendicular to the picture plane; in a
painting, the appear to recede toward a vanishing point on the horizon
Transversals - ANS that point toward which receding parallel lines appear to converge.
Vanishing Point - ANS that point toward which receding parallel lines appear to converge.
Atmospheric Perspective - ANS method of creating the illusion of depth, or recession, in a
painting or drawing by modulating color to simulate changes effected by the atmosphere on the
colors of things seen at a distance
Humanism - ANS the course study of classical art, drama, rhetoric, and poetry
Fresco - ANS Painting on lime plaster, either dry or wet
(dry - dry fresco, or fresco secco)
(wet - true, or buon, fresco)
In the latter method, the pigments are mixed with water and become chemically bound to the
freshly laid lime plaster.
A painting executed in either method
Catasto - ANS is the Italian system of land registration
Chiaroscuro - ANS in drawing or painting, the treatment and use of light and dark, especially the
gradations of light that produce the effect of modeling
Relief - ANS in sculpture, figures projecting more forward from a background of which they are
part
Scientific Inquiry - ANS Reading and learning about astronomy and other things and then
reproving the theories
Baldacchino - ANS A canopy on columns, frequently built over an altar
, Foreshortening - ANS to reduce or distort (parts of a represented object that are not parallel to
the picture plane) in order to convey the illusion of three-dimensional space as perceived by the
human eye: often done according to the rules of perspective.
sfumato - ANS Italian, "smoky" a smokelike haziness that subtly softens outlines in painting
disegno - ANS from the Italian word for drawing or design, carries a more complex meaning in
art, involving both the ability to make the drawing and the intellectual capacity to invent the
design.
Rood screen/chancel - ANS Rood screen, in Western architecture, element of a Christian
church of the Middle Ages or early Renaissance that separated the choir or chancel (the area
around the altar) from the nave (the area set apart for the laity). The rood screen was erected in
association with the rood, which in Old English means "cross," or "crucifix."
Chancel, portion of a church that contains the choir, often at the eastern end. Before modern
changes in church practice, only clergy and choir members were permitted in the chancel. The
name derives from the Latin word for "lattice," describing the screen that during some eras of
church history divided the chancel from the nave and crossing.
Sprezzatura - ANS a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does
or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it
Transubstantiation - ANS the conversion of the substance of the Eucharistic elements into the
body and blood of Christ at consecration, only the appearances of bread and wine still
remaining.
Consubstantiation - ANS the doctrine, especially in Lutheran belief, that the substance of the
bread and wine coexists with the body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist
Reformation - ANS
Counter-Reformation - ANS efforts directed in the 16th and early 17th centuries both against the
Protestant Reformation and toward internal renewal
Council of Trent - ANS held between 1545 and 1563 in Trento (Trent) and Bologna, northern
Italy, was one of the Roman Catholic Church's most important ecumenical councils. Prompted
by the Protestant Reformation, it has been described as the embodiment of the
Counter-Reformation.
Latin Cross Church Plan - ANS An architectural plan for a church that is shaped like the cross
on which Christ was crucified
Medieval Double Scale - ANS Two different scales in the artwork,
one scale for architecture
one scale for people
Perspective - ANS A method of presenting an illusion of the three dimensional world on a
two-dimensional surface
Orthogonals - ANS A line imagined to be behind and perpendicular to the picture plane; in a
painting, the appear to recede toward a vanishing point on the horizon
Transversals - ANS that point toward which receding parallel lines appear to converge.
Vanishing Point - ANS that point toward which receding parallel lines appear to converge.
Atmospheric Perspective - ANS method of creating the illusion of depth, or recession, in a
painting or drawing by modulating color to simulate changes effected by the atmosphere on the
colors of things seen at a distance
Humanism - ANS the course study of classical art, drama, rhetoric, and poetry
Fresco - ANS Painting on lime plaster, either dry or wet
(dry - dry fresco, or fresco secco)
(wet - true, or buon, fresco)
In the latter method, the pigments are mixed with water and become chemically bound to the
freshly laid lime plaster.
A painting executed in either method
Catasto - ANS is the Italian system of land registration
Chiaroscuro - ANS in drawing or painting, the treatment and use of light and dark, especially the
gradations of light that produce the effect of modeling
Relief - ANS in sculpture, figures projecting more forward from a background of which they are
part
Scientific Inquiry - ANS Reading and learning about astronomy and other things and then
reproving the theories
Baldacchino - ANS A canopy on columns, frequently built over an altar
, Foreshortening - ANS to reduce or distort (parts of a represented object that are not parallel to
the picture plane) in order to convey the illusion of three-dimensional space as perceived by the
human eye: often done according to the rules of perspective.
sfumato - ANS Italian, "smoky" a smokelike haziness that subtly softens outlines in painting
disegno - ANS from the Italian word for drawing or design, carries a more complex meaning in
art, involving both the ability to make the drawing and the intellectual capacity to invent the
design.
Rood screen/chancel - ANS Rood screen, in Western architecture, element of a Christian
church of the Middle Ages or early Renaissance that separated the choir or chancel (the area
around the altar) from the nave (the area set apart for the laity). The rood screen was erected in
association with the rood, which in Old English means "cross," or "crucifix."
Chancel, portion of a church that contains the choir, often at the eastern end. Before modern
changes in church practice, only clergy and choir members were permitted in the chancel. The
name derives from the Latin word for "lattice," describing the screen that during some eras of
church history divided the chancel from the nave and crossing.
Sprezzatura - ANS a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does
or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it
Transubstantiation - ANS the conversion of the substance of the Eucharistic elements into the
body and blood of Christ at consecration, only the appearances of bread and wine still
remaining.
Consubstantiation - ANS the doctrine, especially in Lutheran belief, that the substance of the
bread and wine coexists with the body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist
Reformation - ANS
Counter-Reformation - ANS efforts directed in the 16th and early 17th centuries both against the
Protestant Reformation and toward internal renewal
Council of Trent - ANS held between 1545 and 1563 in Trento (Trent) and Bologna, northern
Italy, was one of the Roman Catholic Church's most important ecumenical councils. Prompted
by the Protestant Reformation, it has been described as the embodiment of the
Counter-Reformation.
Latin Cross Church Plan - ANS An architectural plan for a church that is shaped like the cross
on which Christ was crucified
