Baldachin: Canopy
Example: Baldacchio
Travertine: Porous stone that is less costly and more easily worked with than marble
Example: Piazza Navona
Tenebrism: Forms emerge from a dark background into a strong light that often falls from a single source outside the painting
Example: Calling of Saint Matthew
Parterres: Planting beds
Example: Embroidered planters located in Palais de Versailles
Prix de Rome: Prestigious scholarship offered by the French Academy
Example: Given to Hyacinthe Rigaud
Retablos: Spanish for "altarpiece" The screen placed behind an altar
Example: Portal of the Hospicio do San Fernando
Nepotism: favoritism shown to relatives or close friends by those in power
dry point: Sharp needles used to scratch shallow lines in a plate
breakfast pieces: showing a table set for a meal of bread and fruit
camera obscura: A dark box with a hole in one side sometimes with a lens, it operates when a bright light shines through the hole. It projects an upside down version of the image on the interior wall which then can be traced
vanitas: an image in which all the images symbolize the transience of life
still life: paintings artfully arranged on table, comes from stilleven a Dutch word
flower pieces: Still-life painting in which cut-flower arrangements
Bays: vertical divisions
Ex: Banqueting House, White-hall palace, London. Indigo Jones
clapboard: horizontal plank sliding
Ex: Parson Capen House. Topsfield
Limners: face painters
Ex: Mrs. Freake and Baby Mary; Anonymous "Freake Painter"
Baroque: "imperfect pearl" to designate certain formal characteristics of Art and its history; "absolute unity"
Ex: practically everything in this chapter
impasto: thickly applied pigments
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