Art Appreciation Quiz FLashcards

Study and prepare for Art Appreciation Quiz 4 with these quiz-based flashcard quizzes. Get familiar with different terms, definitions in Art Appreciation Quiz 4 with quiz-based flashcards quizzes.

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Cards In This Set

Front Back
Autobiography
Helps to understand the art; Atermisia gave her rape account in a trial
Baroque
Time period 1600-1700, dramatic and vivid style
Linear Style
Tiny brushstrokes and intense details
Tenebrism
Figures look like they are coming from darkness
Glazing
Several layers of oil painting, gives more intense colors
Artemisia Gentileschi
Judith Beheading Holofernes 1614
Rembrandt
The Night Watch 1642
Impasto
Thick, dense paint
Chiaroscuro
Dark background, dramatic light vs. dark
Escutcheon
Oval plaque meant to receive a coat of arms
Painterly
Large obvious brushtrokes
Etching
"to eat" something has eaten into the material to form the grooves
Etching process
Ground: waxy coat needle: scratches through the groundacid bath: acid eats into the exposed linensclean off the groundforce ink into the grooverub off excess inkprint
States
Sophistication of Rembrandt's process
Bernini
Ecstasy of Teresa 1650