Study sets matching "art history exam 1"
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Aryans
Dravidians
Reverse Relief
Vedas
Caucasians who moved in successive waves out of the region of…
Prevalent native Indian people before the Aryan invasion.
Incised carving, as opposed to carving in relief. By pressing…
The Indian writings on the basic concepts of humanity, life, t…
Aryans
Caucasians who moved in successive waves out of the region of…
Dravidians
Prevalent native Indian people before the Aryan invasion.
Artist: Pol, Hennequin & herman De Limb…
Artist: Robert Campin... Gothic... Type: Oil…
Artist: Jan & Van Eyck... Gothic... Type: Oil…
Artist: Rogier Van Der Weyden ... Gothic... T…
Les Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry January
The Merode Altarpiece
The Ghent Altarpiece open
The Escorial Deposition
Artist: Pol, Hennequin & herman De Limb…
Les Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry January
Artist: Robert Campin... Gothic... Type: Oil…
The Merode Altarpiece
Altarpiece
Predella
Tempera Paint
Gilding
Painted or sculpted panel representing a religious subject; ab…
Lower part of the altarpiece
A permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored…
A thin layer of gold or a paint containing or simulating gold;…
Altarpiece
Painted or sculpted panel representing a religious subject; ab…
Predella
Lower part of the altarpiece
Construction used on Stonehenge
Types of Megalithic Structures & Charac…
Purpose of the Pyramids of Gaza
Egyptian Akhenaten period (The style an…
Cromlech, Poste & Lintel, Trilithon
1. Menhirs... -Upright, single stones in rows, clusters, or indiv…
To express Pharaoh's power in life and death. To house the dea…
-Curvilinear forms... -slightly more naturalistic... -more humanity…
Construction used on Stonehenge
Cromlech, Poste & Lintel, Trilithon
Types of Megalithic Structures & Charac…
1. Menhirs... -Upright, single stones in rows, clusters, or indiv…
The Swing
Marriage of the Emperor Frederick Barba…
Interior of the Pantheon, Rome
The Marriage Contract
Rococo; Jean-Honore Fragonard; 1766; the swinging back and for…
Rococo; Giovanni Battista Tiepolo; 1751; fresco that depicts a…
The Grand Tour; Giovanni Paolo Panini; 1734
Neoclassicism; William Hogarth; 1745;... satire of aristocracy, m…
The Swing
Rococo; Jean-Honore Fragonard; 1766; the swinging back and for…
Marriage of the Emperor Frederick Barba…
Rococo; Giovanni Battista Tiepolo; 1751; fresco that depicts a…
Mesopotamia
What site is the fertile crescent thoug…
Lamassu
Caryatids
(land between the rivers)was a historical region situated with…
Garden of Eden
Assyrian guardian in the form of a man-headed winged bull or l…
female sculpture, greek time period
Mesopotamia
(land between the rivers)was a historical region situated with…
What site is the fertile crescent thoug…
Garden of Eden
Italo-Byzantine Style
Altarpiece
Icon
Narrative
-the people who fled byzantium to Italy bringing influences th…
a work of art, especially a painting on wood, set above and be…
a painting of Jesus Christ or another holy figure, typically i…
A story told through images
Italo-Byzantine Style
-the people who fled byzantium to Italy bringing influences th…
Altarpiece
a work of art, especially a painting on wood, set above and be…
Palette of King Narmer, c. 3000-2920 BC…
Mastaba Tomb, Early Dynastic
Stepped Pyramid of Djoser, by Imhotep,…
Great Pyramids at Gizeh (Giza), Old Kin…
-unification of lower and upper Egypt ... -broken into registers…
*mastaba- an ancient Egyptian mudbrick tomb with a rectangular…
*stepped pyramid- A pyramid consisting of several rectangular…
-Menkaure ... -Khafre: c. Limestone top... -Khufu: Tallest pyramid…
Palette of King Narmer, c. 3000-2920 BC…
-unification of lower and upper Egypt ... -broken into registers…
Mastaba Tomb, Early Dynastic
*mastaba- an ancient Egyptian mudbrick tomb with a rectangular…
Vogelherd Cave, Germany, Paleolithic
"Venus" of Willendorf, Austria, Paleoli…
Bison Relief Sculpture, Laussel Cave Fr…
Holenstein- Stadel, Germany, Paleolithic
Polished ivory figurines
Limestone figure of woman... Figurine is a symbol of fertility
Made out of limestone
Made out of mammoth Ivory ... Mixture of human and animal
Vogelherd Cave, Germany, Paleolithic
Polished ivory figurines
"Venus" of Willendorf, Austria, Paleoli…
Limestone figure of woman... Figurine is a symbol of fertility
Renaissance
humanism
Continuous Narrative
Low Relief Sculpture
...
ideology that resulted from movement away from religious, focu…
-This is a form of narrative in which multiple scenes of a nar…
A relief sculpture in which the area that projects from the su…
Renaissance
...
humanism
ideology that resulted from movement away from religious, focu…
form
line
shape
color
refers to purely visual aspects of art and architecture, i.e.…
actual - when the line is visible... implied - when the movement…
-geometric... -biomorphic: organic, i.e. suggesting living things…
warm colors: appear to advance toward us... cool colors: seem to…
form
refers to purely visual aspects of art and architecture, i.e.…
line
actual - when the line is visible... implied - when the movement…
Hall of the Bulls
Human with feline head
Venus of Willendorf
Two bison, reliefs in cave
-Paleolithic... -charcoal pigment... -16,000-14,000 BCE... -mural
-Paleolithic... -sculpture in the round... -wooly mammoth ivory (ver…
-Paleolithic... -sculpture in the round... -exaggerated sex characte…
-relief sculpture... -additive process... -profile rendering (easier…
Hall of the Bulls
-Paleolithic... -charcoal pigment... -16,000-14,000 BCE... -mural
Human with feline head
-Paleolithic... -sculpture in the round... -wooly mammoth ivory (ver…
4 Apostles
Sistine Chapel
Book of Hours
Merode Altarpiece
Durer, 1526... Reformation
Michelangelo, 1508-12... High Renaissance (bodies)... Neoplatonism (…
Limbourg Brothers, 1411-16... International Gothic Style:... - brigh…
Campin, 1425-30... Realism of Particulars... Personal devotion, genr…
4 Apostles
Durer, 1526... Reformation
Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo, 1508-12... High Renaissance (bodies)... Neoplatonism (…
NATURALISM
GEOMETRICAL
STYLIZATION (schematizing)
IDEALIZATION
more realistic depictions
using shapes
un-realisitic, more symbolic or simplified... ex: early Cycladic…
representing something in the best way... ex: any sculpture where…
NATURALISM
more realistic depictions
GEOMETRICAL
using shapes
linear perspective
vanishing point
confraternity
patron/donor
a type of perspective used by artists in which the relative si…
where all the line of a painting connect
in Late Antiquity an association of Christian families pooling…
a portrait of the individual who commissioned a religious work…
linear perspective
a type of perspective used by artists in which the relative si…
vanishing point
where all the line of a painting connect