Vocabulary 7

 

• Exemplum virtutis: an example of both men and women of virtue.

 

• Grand Tour: an extended tour of Europe, formerly regarded as a necessary part of the education of young British gentlemen.

 

• Salon: an annual exhibition of works of art by living artists, originally held at the Salon d'Apollon, it became, during the 19th century, the focal point of artistic controversy and was identified with academicism and official hostility to progress in art.

 

• Academy: an association or institution for the advancement of art, literature, or science.

 

• Apotheosis: the elevation or exaltation of a person to the rank of a god.

 

• Grand manner: a style considered appropriate for noble and stately matters.

 

• Fete Galante: a representation, in art, of elegantly dressed groups at play in a rural or park-like setting.

 

• Pastel: a kind of dried paste made of pigments ground with chalk and compounded with gum water.

 

• Baldacchino: a permanent ornamental canopy, as above a freestanding altar or throne.

 

• Impasto: enamel or slip applied to a ceramic object to form a decoration in low relie

•  

• Poussinistes: any of the supporters of the supremacy of disegno.

 

• Rubenistes: advocated that colour is the essence of life and nature

 

• Quadro riportato: gold-framed easel paintings or framed paintings that are seen in a normal perspective and painted into a fresco.

 

• Di Sotto In Su: illusionistic ceiling painting, which includes the techniques of perspective di sotto in sù and quadratura, is the tradition in Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo art in which trompe l'oeil, perspective tools such as foreshortening, and other spatial effects are used to create the illusions of different things.

 

• Vanitas: a genre of still life painting that flourished in the Netherlands in the early 17th century.

 

• Anamorphic: having or producing unequal magnifications along two axes perpendicular to each other.

 

• Engraving: the art of forming designs by cutting, corrosion by acids, a photographic process, etc., on the surface of a metal plate, block of wood, or the like, for or as for the purpose of taking off impressions or prints of the design so formed.