Chapter 20-Northern Renaissance
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Rotunda | a round building usually with a dome |
| Gesso | plaster mixed with a binding material |
| Polyptychs | (usually hinged wood) multipaneled paintings |
| Diptych | two panel paintings |
| Triptych | three panel painting |
| Disguised Symbolism | A Northern Renaissance technique of giving a spiritual meaning to ordinary objects in the painting, so these detail can carry the spiritual message |
| Egg Tempera | egg combined with a wet paste of ground pigment |
| Sfumato | softened outline which results in a smoky haze |
| Glazes | a thin film of transparent oil |
| Medium | material |
| Oil paint | paint pigments mixed in a viscous, slow-drying oil medium which dries by oxidation and blends easily. It can be used as a glaze or a heavy impasto |
| Impasto | creamy, heavy bodied paint |
| Linear perspective | a technique which made it possible to represent three dimensional objects on a flat surface in a systematic way, so that all the lines receding at right angles on the picture plane converge at a vanishing point on the horizon |
| Atmospheric or aerial perspective | a Renaissance technique gives a sense of distance. The further from the viewer the object was placed, the hazier and grayer it became (due to dust particles and water vapor) |
| Deposition | placing of the body in the tomb |
| Graphic Art | is related to printmaking-engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy and woodcut. All these images can produce multiple copies |
| Letterpress | printing with movable type |
| Relief | carving into the surface of a block and removing the negative space so the image is raised |
| Woodcut | the carving of a woodblock so the background is removed. The raised image is inked with a roller and then put through a press |
| Block books | woodcuts combining image and text into books |
| Edition | a set of prints created from a single print surface |
| Intaglio | the artist incises or scratches an image on a metal plate |
| Engraving | V shaped grooves are cut into a metal plate with a tool ballad called a burin. The ink is then rubbed into the grooves, the surface of the plate is wiped then printed unto wet paper, which picks up the image |
| Etching | an acid bath eats into the exposed parts of a plate where the artist has drawn through the acid resistant coating |
| Retablo | the Spanish word for altarpiece. A decorative screen set behind an altar |
| Bosch, Hieronymus | an Artist from the north whose work was one the last profound expressions of the medieval world. Based on landscape it is full of religious iconography and symbol |
| Campin, Robert ("Master of Flemalle") | very early Netherlandish painter probably invented grisaille painting and used disguised symbolism |
| Dry point | printmaking where the design is scratched into the steel plate with a hard, steel tool |
| Edition | a set of impressions from a single print surface |
| Hatching | fine lines are cut or drawn close together to create the effect of shading |
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