CHAP 5

• an arrangement of objects both made by humans and found in nature, such as flowers, fruit, insects, sea creatures, and animals from the hunt.

  still life
• A still life falls into a subject category known as ??? subjects or scenes of everyday life.

  Genre
• The artist of Still Life with a Gilt Cup

  Heda
• These artists specialized in painting still lives that were beautifully arranged and stunningly lifelike

  Heda and De Heem
• The subject of Heda’s painting, Still Life with a Gilt Cup, is ostensibly the remains of a meal of ?? and ??

  Oysters and Bread
• applied blobs of molten glass

  prunts
• still life of our own mortality and the transience of life in the face of certain death.

  vanitas
• Greek word of technique or technology which means art

  tekhne
• refers to the use of specific figural or naturalistic images, or abstracted graphic signs that hold shared meaning within a group

  symbolism
• an image or sign that is understood by a group to stand for something.

  symbol
• the broader study and interpretation of subject matter and pictorial themes in a work of art.

  iconography
• individuals who died for their faith, on such instruments of torture

  martyrs
• another cross form, with a looped handle, seems to have been devised by the ancient Egyptians as a symbol of the life-giving power of the Sun

  Ankh
• the levels of the created world were presented in different sizes, according to their relative importance

  hierarchal arrangement
• three-part, format was used by the artist to emphasize the Crucifixion as the dominant overarching event that is related to each of the sacraments.

  triptych
• distinguishing features or ideas

  motifs
• god or goddess, and divinely related creatures

  deity
• a circular area of light appearing behind the head of a person or creature.

  halo
• a figure of speech in which one thing symbolically stands for another, perhaps unrelated, thing or idea.

  metaphor
• a pointed circle of light or radiance surrounding a holy figure

  aurole / mandorla
• decorative work created by affixing metal strips to a surface, making compartments, that are filled with powdered material and melted at high temperatures.

  cloisonné
• a relationship of parts achieved when the longer part divided by the smaller part is also equal to the whole length divided by the longer part; the golden ratio in art and architecture provides the most harmonious and visually pleasing proportions.


  golden ratio
• a collection of objects.

  hoard