Test 1 Vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Cuneiform | composed of slim triangular or wedge-shaped elements, as the characters used in writing |
| Register | a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept. |
| Relief | the projection of figures or forms from a flat background, as in sculpture, or the apparent projection of such shapes in a painting or drawing. |
| Hieratic Scale | It is the manipulation of size and space in a picture to emphasize importance of a specific object. |
| Ziggurat | A rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. |
| Naturalism | treatment of forms, colors, space, etc., as they appear or might appear in nature. |
| Abstraction | process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties. |
| Lapis Lazuli | blue mineral used in art |
| Stele | up right stone slab |
| Twisted Perspective | torso is twisted so you see both shoulders. This shows strength. |
| Sculpture in the Round | Sculpture in three dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials. |
| Additive/Subtractive Sculpture | Subtractive is removing from the sculpture and additive is adding on to the sculpture. |
| Canon of Proportions | Egyptian artist were mandated to regularize dimensions and scale. |
| Necropolis | A cemetery, esp. a large one belonging to an ancient city. |
| Ka | spiritual entity,an aspect of the individual, believed to live within the body during life and to survive it after death. |
| Monotheism | The doctrine or belief that there is only one God. |
| Sunken Relief | where a carved or modelled form is lowered. |
| Book of the Dead | name given to the ancient Egyptian funerary text. |
| Continuous Narrative | figures are shown multiple times but in different stages of a story. |
| Papyrus | Paper made from pithy and stem water plant. Used for writing and art. |
| Imhotep | Egyptian architect and scholar, who was later deified. |
| Ceramic | Made of clay and hardened by heat. |
| Black-figure | pottery painting of the sixth century B.C., in which the decoration is black on a red background. |
| Red-figure | pottery painting of the sixth century B.C., in which the decoration is red on a black background. |
| Personification | The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman |
| Foreshortening | Portray or show as closer than it is or as having less depth or distance. |
| Kouros | An archaic Greek statue of a young man, standing and often naked. |
| Kore | An archaic Greek statue of a young woman, standing and clothed in long loose robes. |
| contrapposto | human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs. |
| Lost-wax casting | bronze or brass is cast from an artist's sculpture |
| Doric | sturdy column and a thick square abacus resting on a rounded molding |
| Ionic | column topped by a single scroll just below the top. |
| Corinthian | essentially more elaborate Ionic columns. They are almost always fluted. |
| Entasis | A slight convex curve in the shaft of a column, introduced to correct the visual illusion of concavity produced by a straight shaft. |
| Column | An upright pillar, typically cylindrical and made of stone or concrete, supporting an entablature, arch, or other structure or standing. |
| Capital | Capitals are the tops of round columns and may be of several distinct types or orders. |
| Entablature | A horizontal, continuous lintel on a classical building supported by columns or a wall, comprising the architrave, frieze, and cornice. |
| Frieze | A broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration, esp. on a wall near the ceiling. |
| Architrave | A main beam resting across the tops of columns, specifically the lower third entablature. |
| Metope | A square space between triglyphs in a Doric frieze. |
| Triglyph | A tablet in a Doric frieze with three vertical grooves. |
| Pediment | The triangular upper part of the front of a building in classical style, typically surmounting a portico of columns. |
| Cornice | A horizontal molded projection crowning a building or structure |
| Raking cornice | either of two straight, sloping cornices on a pediment following or suggesting the slopes of a roof. |
| Stylobate | A continuous base supporting a row of columns in classical Greek architecture. |
| Stereobate | A solid mass of masonry serving as a foundation for a wall or row of columns. |
| Entasis | A slight convex curve in the shaft of a column, introduced to correct the visual illusion of concavity produced by a straight shaft. |
| Repatriation | the act of returning to the country of origin |
| Caryatid | A stone carving of a draped female figure, used as a supporting column of a Greek or Greek-style building. |
| Terra cotta | Unglazed, typically brownish-red earthenware, used as an ornamental building material and in modeling. |
| Stucco | Fine plaster used for coating wall surfaces or molding into architectural decorations. |
| Sarcophagus | A stone coffin, typically adorned with a sculpture or inscription and associated with the ancient civilizations |
| Verism | artistic preference of contemporary everyday subject matter instead of the heroic or legendary in art and literature. Extreme Realism. |
| Apotheosis | Glorification, sometimes to a divine level. God like power. |
| Basilica | A large oblong hall or building with double colonnades and a semicircular apse. |
| Engaged column | column embedded in a wall and partly projecting from the surface of the wall. |
| Arch | A curved symmetrical structure spanning an opening |
| Voussoir | A wedge-shaped or tapered stone used to construct an arch. |
| Keystone | A central stone at the summit of an arch, locking the whole together. |
| Pier | an upright support for a superstructure |
| Bay | unit is defined as the zone between the outer edges of an engaged ('attached') column, pilaster, or post; or within a window frame, doorframe, or vertical 'bas relief' wall form. |
| Barrel vault | A vault forming a half cylinder. |
| Groin vault | roduced by the intersection at right angles of two barrel vaults. |
| Pilaster | A rectangular column, esp. one projecting from a wall. |
| Nave | is the central approach to the high altar, the main body of the church. |
| Apse | A large semicircular or polygonal recess in a church, arched or with a domed roof |
| Oculus | A round or eyelike opening or design, in particular. |
| Coffer | A decorative sunken panel in a ceiling, dome, soffit, or vault. |
| Clerestory | The upper part of the nave, choir, and transepts of a large church, containing a series of windows. |
| Synagogue | building where a Jewish assembly or congregation meets for religious observance and instruction. |
| Syncretism | The merging of different inflectional varieties of a word during the development of a language. |
| Atrium | An open-roofed entrance hall or central court |
| Narthex | An antechamber or porch at the western entrance of early Christian churches, separated off by a railing |
| Transcept | The transept is the area set crosswise to the nave in a cruciform ("cross-shaped") building |
| Theocracy | A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god |
| Mosaic | A picture or pattern produced by arranging together small colored pieces of hard material, such as stone, tile, or glass. |
| Tessera | A small block of stone, tile, glass, or other material used in the construction of a mosaic. |
| Icon | A painting of Christ or another holy figure on a tablet of wood. |
| Iconostasis | A screen bearing icons, separating the sanctuary of many Eastern churches from the nave. |
| Iconoclasm | The action of attacking or rejecting cherished beliefs and institutions or established values and practices. |
| Central plan church | A blue print or idea of a church. |
| Pendentive | A curved triangle of vaulting formed by the intersection of a dome with its supporting arches. |
| Naos | the inner chamber of a temple |
| Gallery | A balcony, esp. a platform or upper floor, projecting from the back or sidewall inside a church or hall |
| Ambulatory | A place for walking, esp. an aisle around the apse or a cloister in a church or monastery. |
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