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AP Art History Vocab
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1. Black cube symbolizing the center of Islam in Mecca
Kaaba
Etching
Installation
Gouache
2. French elements in Italian art. Focused on lavish fabric - intricate ornamentation - and brilliant color.
Mandorla
International Style
Dada
Anamorphic Image
3. Engraving in which image is cut into the plate NOT with a burin - but a steel pencil like tool .
Dy Point
Minimalism
Apse
Clerestory
4. Name of an image that depicts an anthroned virgin mary and baby jesus
Kaaba
Maesta
Basilica
Hard Edge Painting
5. Pain mixed with hot wax - and applied to painting while still hot
Mannerism
Encaustic
Chimera
Chiaroscuro
6. Art emphasizing derived character with visual reference to objects in nature.
Encaustic
Modernism
Abstract
Chryselephantine
7. Composition made by combing various materials
Collage
Anamorphic Image
Grisaille
Daguerreotype
8. Movement that defined industrial design as art. Used decorative patterns that were elongated and symmetrical. Ex: Chrysler Building
Kaaba
Baldacchino
Art Deco
Baroque
9. Row of vase shape columns with a railing on top - a decorative fence
Balustrade
Basilica
Altar Piece
Eucharist
10. Northern American dolls of the Soutwest representing the powers and spirits living in mountains and water sources
Fauvism
Byzantine
Collage
Kachina Dolls
11. Elaborate - flowery - grandoise art and architecture. Associated with rococo design --> elegant furniture - ornamental mirrors - and extravagant detail.
Abstract Expressionism
Baroque
Art Deco
Hypostyle Hall
12. Site for baptism but separate from a church
Baptistery
Earth Art/Environmental Art
Art Deco
Acropolis
13. Side posts of a doorway
Jamb
Entasis
Dada
Kachina Dolls
14. Bell tower separate from the main church building
Gouache
Campanile
Aisle
Concrete
15. Back to back columns with lions to indicated 4 directions
Metope
Emblema
Campanile
Addorsed
16. Plaster mixed with a binding material. Sometimes to prepare wood panels for altarpieces
Daguerreotype
Anamorphic Image
Encaustic
Gesso
17. Swelling of shaft to adjust for optical allusion
Entasis
Metope
Mandorla
Caryatid
18. American art movement of 1960s. Predominantly sculptural - with a focus in a reduction to homogeneous forms.
Minimalism
Cella
Gesso
Cubism
19. Central section of a mosaic
Byzantine
Balustrade
Emblema
Fauvism
20. Top of a columns shaft where it joints the lintel.
Contraposto
Capital
Action Painting
Clerestory
21. Referring to medieval art of British Isles
Hiberno-Saxon
Atrium
Anamorphic Image
Burin
22. Engraving on a metal plate covered in a protective wax. Incised parts are etched when surface is bathed in acid.
Impasto
Etching
Apse
Jamb
23. Portion of church bordering the nave - but separated from nave by columns of piers
Aisle
Hard Edge Painting
Anamorphic Image
Momento Mori
24. Late 19th cent movement that focused on synthesis of all arts in creation of natural forms that could be mass produced
Hard Edge Painting
Art Nouveau
Baldacchino
Cire Perdue
25. Medieval pages that are illuminated and decorative. Looks like cloth.
Installation
Concrete
Carpet Page
Baptistery
26. Space between triglyphs in a Dporic frieze carved with a relief figure
Metope
Baroque
Baptistery
Abstract Expressionism
27. Art movement in response to nihilism and horror of WWI. Rejection of art and civilizations that produced it in favor of the absurd
Dada
Action Painting
Impressionism
Mandorla
28. A hall with a roof supported by columns. popular in Egyptian architecture.
Baroque
Hypostyle Hall
Abstract Expressionism
Basilica
29. A sculptural medium made of ivory and gold. Known especially in the statue of Athena in the Parthenon
Art Nouveau
Caduceus
Chryselephantine
Cella
30. Led by Matisse --> color is the most important element in a painting - and it is held together by intense line and pattern
Fauvism
Collage
Cella
Abstract
31. Associated with E.Catholic Church
Byzantine
Cire Perdue
Eucharist
Jamb
32. Uses land as a medium. Great scale - simple form.
Cire Perdue
Earth Art/Environmental Art
Mandorla
Hiberno-Saxon
33. Theory about nature of art - expression - and beauty.
Cubism
Caryatid
Aestetics
Art Nouveau
34. 20th century modernist movement that focused on artists personal vision and its emotional impact
Chiaroscuro
Abstract Expressionism
Expressionism
Basilica
35. A greek chambre in the nave where a cult statue would stand. Most famous in the Parthenon
Cella
Baptistery
Capital
Earth Art/Environmental Art
36. Painting on plaster
Campanile
Fresco
Action Painting
Chimera
37. 'Fear of empty space' meaning total covering of space with pattern. Popular in ISlamic and Hiberno Saxon art
Aestetics
Horror Vaqui
Byzantine
Aisle
38. The wine and wafer that symbolize the last supper - literally or figuratively
Futurism
Eucharist
Modernism
Impressionism
39. American avant-garde movement of the 1960s that stressed the ideas of the artist rather than the final product
Carolingian
Aisle
Conceptual Art
Cubism
40. Rule applied to proportion
Fresco
Dy Point
Canon
Baroque
41. Pointed tool for incising an engraving plate
Action Painting
Constructivism
Burin
Chimera
42. Area of a church rising above other parts. Along the nave in churches and right below the ceiling
Canon
Art Deco
Apotheosis
Clerestory
43. Canopy on Columns. Most often seen over an altar - st.Peters
Baldacchino
Metope
Hard Edge Painting
Art Deco
44. Greek monster with head and body of a lion - trail of a serpant/dragon - and 2nd head of a goat from the butt
Chiaroscuro
Chimera
Impasto
Carpet Page
45. The Italian word for a drawing
Jamb
International Style
Mandorla
Disegno
46. Rod in Greek mythology intertwined with serpents and magical powers. Most commonly associated with Hermes and medical symbolism
Gigantomachy
Caduceus
Mandorla
Cella
47. Lost wax method of making a bronze statue
Cire Perdue
Metope
Chi-Rho-Iota
De Stijl
48. Art movement that captured the spirit of 1850s+. After WWII - associated with formalism.
Kachina Dolls
Contraposto
Minimalism
Modernism
49. LAte Renaissance movement in which mannerisms were used to evoke emotional expression
Cubism
Mannerism
Action Painting
Chimera
50. Painting technique using pigments ground in water
Contraposto
Baldacchino
Horror Vaqui
Gouache