Art History Exam 2 Terms Questions And Answers Well Elaborated.

Sfumato - correct answer sItalian term meaning "smoky," soft, and mellow. In painting, the effect of haze in an image. Resembling the color of the atmosphere at dusk, it gives a smoky effect. Ignudi - correct answers Heroic young figures of nude men Iconoclasm - correct answers The banning and/or destruction of images, especially icons and religious art. Impasto - correct answers Thick applications of paint that give a painting a palpable surface texture. Chiaroscuro - correct answers An Italian word designating the contrast of dark and light in a painting, drawing, or print. It creates spatial depth and volumetric forms through gradations in the intensity of light and shadow. Cartoon - correct answers A full-scale drawing of a design that will be executed in another medium, such as wall paining, tapestry, or stained glass. Vanitas - correct answers An image, especially popular in Europe during the 17th c., in which all the objects symbolize the transience of life. They are usually of still lifes or genre subjects. Genre Painting - correct answers A term used to loosely categorize paintings depicting scenes of everyday life, including (among others) domestic interiors, parties, inn scenes, and street scenes. Tenebrism - correct answers The use of strong chiaroscuro and artificially illuminated areas to create a dramatic contrast of light and dark in a painting. Maniera - correct answers Italian term that is the basis of the term "Mannerism.". It means "style." Quadro Riportato - correct answers A ceiling design in which painted scenes are arranged in panels resembling framed pictures transferred to the surface of a shallow, curved vault. Camera Obscura - correct answersA dark room (or box) with a small hole in one side, through which an inverted image of the view outside is projected onto the opposite wall, screen, or mirror. The image is then traced.