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Describe these terms: Foreshortening Chiaroscuro Contrapposto Sfumato Horizon Line aka Vanishing Line aka Vanishing Point
Perspective / Foreshortening is the visual effect or optical illusion that causes an object or distance to appear shorter than it actually is because it is angled toward the viewer.
Perspective / Foreshortening Andrea Mantegna, The Lamentation over the Dead Christ
Chiaroscuro (Light and Darkness) in art is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition.
Chiaroscuro St Francis in ecstasy. Carravagio
Contrapposto (Balance and Proportion) is an Italian term that means counterpose. It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs. This gives the figure a more dynamic, or alternatively relaxed appearance.
Contrapposto
Sfumato comes from the Italian language and is derived from "fumo" (smoke, fume). "Sfumato" translated into English means soft, vague or blurred.
Sfumato
Sfumato
Horizon Line / Vanishing Line Vanishing Point is a point in the picture plane that is the intersection of the projections (or drawings) of a set of parallel lines in space on to the picture plane.
Horizon Line / Vanishing Line Vanishing Point
Horizon Line / Vanishing Line Vanishing Point
Horizon Line / Vanishing Line Vanishing Point
Horizon Line / Vanishing Line Vanishing Point
Horizon Line / Vanishing Line Vanishing Point Why?
Remember the most common artists
Who did it?
Who did it? Annunciation (1475–1480)—Uffizi, is thought to be Leonardo's earliest complete work.
Who did it?
Who did it? Titian, Sacred and Profane Love, c. 1513 – 1514
Who did it?
Who did it? Donatello David
Who did it?
Who did it? Raphael The Madonna of the Pinks c. 1506–7
Who did it?
Who did it? Leonardo Mona Lisa 1503–05/07
Who did it?
Who did it? Titian Woman with a Mirror 1515
Who did it?
Who did it? Raphael The Small Cowper Madonna 1505
Who did it?
Who did it? Boticelli Birth of Venus 1486
Who did it?
Who did it? Donatello St. Mark 1411–1413
Who did it?
Who did it? Titian The Crowning with Thorns 1542-43
Who did it?
Who did it? Michelangelo David 1504
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Who did it? Leonardo Virgin of the Rocks 1480’s
Who did it?
Who did it? Titian Salome with the Head of John the Baptist 1515
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Who did it? Donatello Penitent Magdalene 1453-1455
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Who did it? Michelangelo Madonna and Child 1504
Who did it?
Who did it? Raphael The Alba Madonna 1510
Who did it?
Who did it? Michelangelo Moses 1513–1515 (for the tomb of Pope Julius II) 1513–1515
Who did it?
Who did it? Michelangelo Bacchus 1496–97
Who did it?
Who did it? Raphael Madonna Solly 1502
Who did it?
Who did it? Raphael. Wedding of the Virgin, 1504 This is an altar piece.
Who did it?
Who did it? Raphael Madonna with the Blue Diadem 1512-18
Who did it?
Who did it? Michelangelo The Last Judgement 1534–41
Who did it?
Who did it? Raphael Transfiguration 1520, unfinished at his death.
Who did it?
Who did it? Michelangelo Doni Tondo 1504–06
Who did it?
Who did it? Boticelli Adoration of the Magi 1475
Who did it?
Who did it? Michelangelo Pietà 1498–99
Who did it?
Who did it? Raphael Sistine Madonna 1512
Who did it?
Who did it? Jan van Eyck The Arnolfini Portrait 1434
Who did it?
Who did it? Raphael Madonna of the Rose 1518-1520
Who did it?
Who did it? Michelangelo The Creation of Adam 1510