IB ART HISTORY
Vocabulary for 2015 Paper 1
Baroque barroco
Protestant Reformation
Catholic Counter-Reformation façade verticality scroll buttresses angular and rounded pediment projecting columns and pilasters central axis, axis, axial alignment niches central plan longitudinal, basilica plan clergy, laity
(Greek and Roman architectural vocabulary) column, capital, pediment, frieze balustrade, canopy balcacchino
Cathedra Petri apse spiral column serpentine brackets orb piazza lost wax, cire perdue, hollow cast bronze linear perspective aerial or atmospheric perspective foreshortening continuum of time chapel proscenium (part of stage in front of curtain) undulating façade flat lateral plane niches oval coffer, coffering, coffered dome elevation, plan, section lantern
Academy of art
“classical” landscape, academic art arcadia, idyllic life pastortal landscape narrative naturalism, idealism low horizon line ceiling fresco rotunda, dome quaddro riportato chiaroscuro tenebroso, tenebrism illusionism
Caravaggism, Caravaggisti transubstantiation
Bolognese Academy stucco extensions devotional image genre scene, genre paintings alla prima impasto camera obscura circles of confusion engraving, etching, drypoint watercolor
Hundred Gilder Print interior scene allegory momento mori vanitas painting still life, breakfast piece self-portrait, group portrait treatise generalized nature value gradations galleries des glaces
Protestant/Catholic color theory, pure colors, shadows not black reflection classicism secularized psychology of light rubenistes poussinistes putti dramactic intensity, unvarnished realism technical virtuosity