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AP Art History Vocab
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1. Top of a columns shaft where it joints the lintel.
Atrium
Capital
Gigantomachy
Fresco
2. Distorted image that must be viewed in a special way or angle to be correctly perceived
Anamorphic Image
Gouache
Ambulatory
Encaustic
3. Plaster mixed with a binding material. Sometimes to prepare wood panels for altarpieces
Gesso
Impressionism
Horror Vaqui
Impasto
4. Alomd shaped glory surrounding christ figure on tympanum.
Fauvism
Mandorla
Hypostyle Hall
International Style
5. Abstract painting in which the gesture is seen as the subject of the painting
Action Painting
Chimera
Gigantomachy
Daguerreotype
6. Row of vase shape columns with a railing on top - a decorative fence
Canon
Cartoon
Eucharist
Balustrade
7. Post-modernist art creating an environment in a room or gallery
Dy Point
Action Painting
Installation
Fresco
8. Refrence to elevation in clouds and heaven - which includes angelic and historical figures
Art Deco
Acropolis
Apotheosis
Futurism
9. Art movement that focused on idealistic - utopian and geometric forms
Impressionism
Balustrade
De Stijl
Impasto
10. Term used by Jean Dubuffet to describe art that is untaught and brutish
Expressionism
Hard Edge Painting
Art Brut
Eucharist
11. Painting applied with thick - heavy surfaces
Installation
Impasto
Earth Art/Environmental Art
Aisle
12. Modeling with light and dark in a drawing to create depth and volume
Chiaroscuro
Fauvism
Carpet Page
Dy Point
13. Covered walkway outdoors in a cloister - or covered walkway indoors in a church following the apse.
Ambulatory
Clerestory
Conceptual Art
Dy Point
14. Canopy on Columns. Most often seen over an altar - st.Peters
Gouache
Baldacchino
Daguerreotype
Grisaille
15. Highest point in Greek city-state - specifically Athens.
Acropolis
Chi-Rho-Iota
Chiaroscuro
Butress
16. 3 first letters in Greek spelling of Christ
Art Brut
Chi-Rho-Iota
Caduceus
Mannerism
17. The Italian word for a drawing
Chiaroscuro
Constructivism
Disegno
Earth Art/Environmental Art
18. Mythological battles among greek heroes
Gigantomachy
Hiberno-Saxon
Gesso
Conceptual Art
19. Late 19th cent movement attempting to capture fleeting moment of nature
Constructivism
Concrete
Caduceus
Impressionism
20. Associated with E.Catholic Church
Byzantine
Minimalism
Caryatid
Chiaroscuro
21. Bell tower separate from the main church building
Cubism
Collage
Gesso
Campanile
22. Black cube symbolizing the center of Islam in Mecca
Action Painting
Eucharist
Butress
Kaaba
23. Area of a church rising above other parts. Along the nave in churches and right below the ceiling
Clerestory
Grisaille
Balustrade
Acropolis
24. Referring to medieval art of British Isles
Baptistery
Atrium
Hiberno-Saxon
Acropolis
25. Right angle intersection of two barrel vaults
Dada
Groin Vault
Horror Vaqui
Cubism
26. LAte Renaissance movement in which mannerisms were used to evoke emotional expression
Kaaba
Mannerism
Byzantine
Chiton
27. Portion of church bordering the nave - but separated from nave by columns of piers
Emblema
Daguerreotype
Cubism
Aisle
28. Early 20th cent movement that rejected naturalistic deception of shapes and forms
Grisaille
Chiaroscuro
Hard Edge Painting
Cubism
29. Public building used for assembly. Evolved from Greek and Roman Tempe. Foundation of axial plane: entrance at short end with apse at eastern end.
Impressionism
Basilica
Metope
Impasto
30. Pain mixed with hot wax - and applied to painting while still hot
Constructivism
Modernism
Conceptual Art
Encaustic
31. Rule applied to proportion
Fresco
Abstract
Mannerism
Canon
32. Engraving in which image is cut into the plate NOT with a burin - but a steel pencil like tool .
Campanile
International Style
Futurism
Dy Point
33. Semi-circular form at a short end of a basilica or eastern end of the nave
Gigantomachy
Chiton
Apse
Apotheosis
34. Art emphasizing derived character with visual reference to objects in nature.
Chryselephantine
Abstract
Acropolis
Modernism
35. Having to do with Charlamagne
Dada
Chiton
Etching
Carolingian
36. Space opens to sky in an ancient Roman house
Ambulatory
Altar Piece
Atrium
Conceptual Art
37. Painting technique using pigments ground in water
Baroque
Collage
Gouache
Baptistery
38. A hall with a roof supported by columns. popular in Egyptian architecture.
Carpet Page
Cella
Femmage
Hypostyle Hall
39. Movement that defined industrial design as art. Used decorative patterns that were elongated and symmetrical. Ex: Chrysler Building
Art Deco
Gouache
Kachina Dolls
Caryatid
40. Pointed tool for incising an engraving plate
Apse
Abstract Expressionism
Burin
Grisaille
41. Swelling of shaft to adjust for optical allusion
Entasis
Horror Vaqui
Basilica
Dy Point
42. Space between triglyphs in a Dporic frieze carved with a relief figure
Metope
Hiberno-Saxon
Fresco
Apotheosis
43. Concentric bands on arch of church
Altar Piece
Basilica
Archivolt
Carpet Page
44. Art movement that captured the spirit of 1850s+. After WWII - associated with formalism.
Apotheosis
Baroque
Modernism
Dada
45. Early photographic process developed by Louis Daguerre
Daguerreotype
Clerestory
Abstract
Jamb
46. A sculptural medium made of ivory and gold. Known especially in the statue of Athena in the Parthenon
Chiaroscuro
Kaaba
Cartoon
Chryselephantine
47. Side posts of a doorway
Caryatid
Gesso
Jamb
Chiton
48. 'Fear of empty space' meaning total covering of space with pattern. Popular in ISlamic and Hiberno Saxon art
Fauvism
Capital
Atrium
Horror Vaqui
49. Composition made by combing various materials
Contraposto
Disegno
Collage
Chryselephantine
50. Female figure used as structural column
Capital
Chimera
Anamorphic Image
Caryatid