SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
AP Art History Vocab
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
fine-arts
,
ap
,
history
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Area of a church rising above other parts. Along the nave in churches and right below the ceiling
Hard Edge Painting
Groin Vault
Clerestory
Caduceus
2. Elaborate - flowery - grandoise art and architecture. Associated with rococo design --> elegant furniture - ornamental mirrors - and extravagant detail.
Chiton
Entasis
Femmage
Baroque
3. American avant-garde movement of the 1960s that stressed the ideas of the artist rather than the final product
Conceptual Art
Futurism
Installation
Carpet Page
4. Composition made by combing various materials
Altar Piece
Daguerreotype
Impressionism
Collage
5. Covered walkway outdoors in a cloister - or covered walkway indoors in a church following the apse.
Balustrade
Ambulatory
Caduceus
Cella
6. Engraving in which image is cut into the plate NOT with a burin - but a steel pencil like tool .
Dy Point
Campanile
Altar Piece
Contraposto
7. Greek monster with head and body of a lion - trail of a serpant/dragon - and 2nd head of a goat from the butt
Caryatid
Chimera
Byzantine
Butress
8. First major american avant hard movement. Art expressed state of mind to evoke emotional response from the viewer
Jamb
Archivolt
Encaustic
Abstract Expressionism
9. Pointed tool for incising an engraving plate
Collage
Burin
Action Painting
Acropolis
10. 'Fear of empty space' meaning total covering of space with pattern. Popular in ISlamic and Hiberno Saxon art
Futurism
Disegno
Campanile
Horror Vaqui
11. Pain mixed with hot wax - and applied to painting while still hot
Minimalism
Atrium
Encaustic
Gigantomachy
12. Engraving on a metal plate covered in a protective wax. Incised parts are etched when surface is bathed in acid.
Impasto
Chimera
Horror Vaqui
Etching
13. Early 20th cent movement of artists who advocated revolution against all forms of traditional values and styles.
Addorsed
Baptistery
Chiton
Futurism
14. Concentric bands on arch of church
Eucharist
Groin Vault
Cubism
Archivolt
15. A hall with a roof supported by columns. popular in Egyptian architecture.
Cartoon
Hypostyle Hall
Daguerreotype
Encaustic
16. Swelling of shaft to adjust for optical allusion
Campanile
Entasis
Cella
Aisle
17. Lost wax method of making a bronze statue
Cire Perdue
Hiberno-Saxon
Addorsed
Impressionism
18. Movement that defined industrial design as art. Used decorative patterns that were elongated and symmetrical. Ex: Chrysler Building
Art Deco
Chi-Rho-Iota
Femmage
Clerestory
19. A panel located above or behind the altar. Has a predella which is a shelf like base
Hypostyle Hall
Acropolis
Altar Piece
Momento Mori
20. Associated with E.Catholic Church
Byzantine
Gesso
Chiton
Disegno
21. A sculptural medium made of ivory and gold. Known especially in the statue of Athena in the Parthenon
Art Brut
Action Painting
Gigantomachy
Chryselephantine
22. Highest point in Greek city-state - specifically Athens.
Disegno
Acropolis
Horror Vaqui
Art Brut
23. Art movement in response to nihilism and horror of WWI. Rejection of art and civilizations that produced it in favor of the absurd
Femmage
Dada
Impressionism
Abstract
24. Right angle intersection of two barrel vaults
Concrete
Caduceus
Groin Vault
Campanile
25. The Italian word for a drawing
Burin
Expressionism
Abstract Expressionism
Disegno
26. Early photographic process developed by Louis Daguerre
Chiaroscuro
Byzantine
Daguerreotype
Ambulatory
27. Medieval pages that are illuminated and decorative. Looks like cloth.
Altar Piece
Cubism
Carpet Page
Horror Vaqui
28. Using simple geometric figures rather than gestures
Hard Edge Painting
Jamb
Chiaroscuro
Action Painting
29. Art emphasizing derived character with visual reference to objects in nature.
Maesta
Carolingian
Caduceus
Abstract
30. LAte Renaissance movement in which mannerisms were used to evoke emotional expression
Futurism
Gigantomachy
Constructivism
Mannerism
31. Art movement that captured the spirit of 1850s+. After WWII - associated with formalism.
Modernism
Anamorphic Image
Balustrade
Chi-Rho-Iota
32. Black cube symbolizing the center of Islam in Mecca
Byzantine
Kaaba
Mannerism
Fauvism
33. Theory about nature of art - expression - and beauty.
Gouache
Hiberno-Saxon
Aestetics
Atrium
34. Bell tower separate from the main church building
Chi-Rho-Iota
Butress
Contraposto
Campanile
35. Grays and monochrome used to shade a painting. Most frequently in outer sides of altarpieces
Grisaille
Encaustic
Fresco
Chi-Rho-Iota
36. Abstract painting in which the gesture is seen as the subject of the painting
Capital
Action Painting
Balustrade
Gouache
37. Northern American dolls of the Soutwest representing the powers and spirits living in mountains and water sources
Gigantomachy
Capital
Kaaba
Kachina Dolls
38. A greek chambre in the nave where a cult statue would stand. Most famous in the Parthenon
Cella
Constructivism
Campanile
Grisaille
39. Side posts of a doorway
Installation
Altar Piece
Jamb
Encaustic
40. Painting applied with thick - heavy surfaces
Baroque
Caduceus
Impasto
Fresco
41. Painting technique using pigments ground in water
Chi-Rho-Iota
De Stijl
Entasis
Gouache
42. Portion of church bordering the nave - but separated from nave by columns of piers
Modernism
Ambulatory
De Stijl
Aisle
43. Late 19th cent movement that focused on synthesis of all arts in creation of natural forms that could be mass produced
Carpet Page
De Stijl
Etching
Art Nouveau
44. Referring to medieval art of British Isles
Hiberno-Saxon
Expressionism
Art Nouveau
Fresco
45. 3 first letters in Greek spelling of Christ
Dy Point
Etching
Chi-Rho-Iota
Clerestory
46. Rule applied to proportion
Dy Point
Canon
Apse
Femmage
47. Term used by Jean Dubuffet to describe art that is untaught and brutish
De Stijl
Art Brut
Archivolt
Abstract Expressionism
48. Having to do with Charlamagne
Carolingian
Encaustic
Baroque
Kachina Dolls
49. Alomd shaped glory surrounding christ figure on tympanum.
Mandorla
Gesso
Balustrade
Altar Piece
50. Site for baptism but separate from a church
Daguerreotype
Addorsed
Baptistery
Art Nouveau