vocabulary art history

mural painting technique involving the application of permanent limeproof pigments, diluted in water, on freshly laid lime plaster. Because the surface of the wall absorbs the pigments as plaster dries, one of the most durable painting techniques

• idealized

• naturalism

• relief

• fresco

portrait that shows the figure in the best light possible (perfected)

• registers

• naturalism

• fresco

• idealized

the oldest and simplest way to build a passage or a doorway; two upright posts of the same size placed vertically, then a lintel (horizontal beam) placed on top

• post-and-lintel

• relief

• contrapposto

• fresco

one of the superimposed bands or friezes in a pictorial narrative, or the particular levels on which motifs are placed

• relief

• composite view

• daedalic/daedalus

• registers

an artistic convention in which greater size indicates greater importance

• profile view

• hierarchy of scale

• archaic smile

• fresco

in sculpture, figures projecting from a background of which they are part

• corbel-vaulting

• relief

• repousse

• composite view

the disposition of the human figure in which one part is turned in opposition to another part, creating a counterpositioning of the body about its central axis.

• contrapposto

• registers

• corbel-vaulting

• fresco

realistic style of art that aims to capture with detail and accuracy the aspects of the natural world, particularly human beings

• idealized

• naturalism

• daedalic/daedalus

• archaic smile

side view or something which can be observed partially or from a side

• profile view

• composite view

• registers

• hierarchy of scale

formed in relief by beating a metal plate from the back, leaving the impression on the face. the metal sheet is hammered into a hallow mold of wood or some other pliable material and finished a with graver.

• archaic smile

• repousse

• composite view

• hierarchy of scale