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Linear perspective | a type of perspective used by artists in which the relative size, shape, and position of objects are determined by drawn or imagined lines converging at a point on the horizon. |
Fresco | a painting done rapidly in watercolor on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling, so that the colors penetrate the plaster and become fixed as it dries. |
Patronage | the support given by a patron |
Renaissance | marks the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the Modern world. It represents a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries. |
The Medici Family | was an Italian banking family, political dynasty and later royal house that first began to gather prominence under Cosimo de' Medici in the Republic of Florence during the first half of the 15th century |
Humanism | thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. |
Individualism | Showed individual people instead of groups |
Secularism | Fewer church paintings |
Classicism | classic Roman and Greek influence |
Nature | depicted the outdoors |
anatomy | focused on defined and precise human anatomy |
Realism | artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy |
depth | used light and shade to create this |
blue background | created depth |
symmetry | balanced proportions |