Italian Art History

Day Three - Painting

Chiaroscuro: An effect of

contrasted light and shadow in a 2D artwork

Sfumato: Colors gradually blend together creating soft edges and hazy forms

Vocabulary

Mona Lisaby Leonardo

da Vinci

Fresco: Painting where

colored pigments are added to wet plaster. When the plaster dries, the painting is now permanently part of the wall.

Vocabulary

School of Athensby Raphael Sanzio

Plato and Aristotle

Who could this be?

So Where’s Raphael?

The Sistine Chapel

by Michelangel

o

Look Up! It will give you such a crick in the neck!

The Creation of Man

Banishment from the Garden of Eden

Dado: The lower part of a wall – usually two-toned

Vocabulary

The Villa of Mysteries

The Initiation Rites of the Cult of Bacchu

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