Ap Test vocab practice
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| 373855215 | Abstract | Works of art that may have form, but have little or no attempt at pictorial representation | |
| 373855216 | Academy | An institution whose main object is to train artists in an academic tradition, ennoble the profession, and hold exhibitions | |
| 373855217 | Acropolis | Greek for "high city". The chief temples of the city were located in this complex | |
| 373855218 | Action Painting | an abstract painting in which the artist drips or splatters paint onto a surface like a canvas in order to create his or her work | |
| 373855219 | Allegory | a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms; figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another. | |
| 373855220 | Altarpiece | a panel, painted or sculpted, situated above and behind an altar | |
| 373855221 | Ambulatory | an aisle or walkway around the apse, or cloister, of a church or monastery | |
| 373855222 | Amphora | A two-handled Greek storage jar | |
| 373855223 | Anamorphic image | A distorted image that must be viewed by some special means (such as a mirror) to be recognized. | |
| 373855224 | Animal Style | a Medieval art form in which animals are depicted in a stylized and often complicated pattern, usually seen fighting with one another | |
| 373855225 | Apadana | an audience hall in a Persian palace | |
| 373855226 | Apotheosis | a type of painting in which the figures are rising heavenward | |
| 373855227 | Apse | the endpoint of a church where the altar is located | |
| 373855228 | Aqueduct | an aboveground water system | |
| 373855229 | Arabesque | A flowing, intricate, and symmetrical pattern deriving from floral motifs | |
| 373855230 | Arcade | a series of arches supported by columns. When arches face a wall and are not self-supporting, they are called a blind arcade. | |
| 373855231 | Archaeology | the study of ancient people and cultures principally revealed through excavation | |
| 373855232 | Architrave | a plain, nonornamented lintel on the entablature | |
| 373855233 | Archivolt | a series of concentric moldings around an arch | |
| 373855234 | Assemblage | a three-dimensional work made of various materials such as wood, cloth, paper, and miscellaneous objecs | |
| 373855235 | Atrium | a courtyard in a Roman house or before a Christian church | |
| 373855236 | Avant-garde | An innovative group of artists who generally reject traditional approaches in favor of a more experimental technique | |
| 373855237 | axial plan (Basilican plan, Longitudinal plan) | a church with a long nave whose focus is the apse, so-called because it is designed along an axis | |
| 373855238 | Baldaccino | A canopy on columns, frequently built over an altar. | |
| 373855239 | Baptistery | in medieval architecture, a separate chapel or building in front of a church used for baptisms | |
| 373855240 | Basilica | In Roman architecture, a civic building for legal and other civic proceedings, rectangular in plan with an entrance usually on a long side. In Christian architecture, a church somewhat resembling the Roman basilica, usually entered from one end and with an apse at the other. | |
| 373855241 | Bay | a vertical section of a church that is embraced by a set of columns and is usually composed of arches and aligned windows | |
| 373855242 | Benday Dots | printing process, names after illustrator and printer Benjamin Day, is similar to Pointilism. Depending on the effect, color and optical illusion needed, small colored dots are closely spaced, widely spaced or overlapping | |
| 373855243 | Bi | A round ceremonial disk found in ancient Chinese tombs. They are characterized by having a circular hole in the center, which may have symbolized heaven. | |
| 373855244 | Biomorphism | a movement stressing organic shapes that hint at natural forms | |
| 373855245 | Bodhisattva | Deity who refrains from entering nirvana to help others | |
| 373855246 | Book of Hours | a book of prayers to be said at different times of day, days of the year | |
| 373855247 | Bottega | the studio of an Italian artist | |
| 373855248 | Buddha | Siddhartha Gautama and all others who have by their own insight attained perfect enlightenment | |
| 373855249 | Bust | a sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person | |
| 373855250 | Calligraphy | art of beautiful handwriting | |
| 373855251 | Calotype | a type of early photograph devoloped by william H.F. Talbot, characterized by grainy quality; considered the forefather of all photography as it produces both a postive and negative image | |
| 373855252 | Camera obscura | Latin for "dark room" a box with a lense which captures light and casts an image on the opposite side | |
| 373855253 | Campanile | the detached bell tower of an Italian church | |
| 373855254 | Cantilever | a projecting beam that is attached to a building at one end, but suspended in the air at the other | |
| 373855255 | Canvas | a heavy woven material used as a surface of a painting; first widely used in Venice | |
| 373855256 | Capital | the upper part of a column that supports the entablature | |
| 373855257 | Caryatid | a supporting column carved in the shape of a female | |
| 373855258 | Catacomb | an underground cemetery of connecting passageways with recesses for tombs | |
| 373855259 | Cathedral | the principal Christian church building of a bishop's diocese | |
| 373855260 | Cella | the chief room of a Greek temple, where the statue of the god was located and, frequently, the temple's treasure was kept. | |
| 373855261 | Central plan | a church having a circular plan with the altar in the middle | |
| 373855262 | Chacmool | a Mayan figure that is half-sitting and half-lying on its back | |
| 373855263 | Chaitya | a rock-cut shrine in basilican form with a stupa at the endpoint | |
| 373855264 | Chalice | A cup used in a Christian ceremony | |
| 373855265 | Chevet | the east end of a Gothic church | |
| 373855266 | Chiaroscuro | the use of shading to increase naturalness in a painting. Along with linear perspective, this technique was perfected during the 15th century. The techniques permitted the artist to rationalize space and paint a more natural world. The results were paintings filled with energy and life and stood out from their canvas in three dimensions. | |
| 373855267 | Choir | The area of the church between a transept and main apse. it is the area where the service is sung and clergy may stand, and the main or high altar is located. | |
| 373855268 | Cinquecento | the 1500s, or sixteenth century, in Italian art | |
| 373855269 | Cire perdue | lost wax process: a bronze- casting method in which a figure is modeled in wax and covered in clay; the whole is fired, melting the wax and hardening the clay, which then becomes a mold for molten metal | |
| 373855270 | Clerestory | the third, or window, story of a church | |
| 373855271 | Cloissonne | enamelwork in which colored areas are separated by thin bands of metal, usually gold or bronze | |
| 373855272 | Cloister | a covered walk, especially in a religious institution, having an open arcade or colonnade usually opening onto a courtyard | |
| 373855273 | Close | An enclosed gardenlike area around a cathedral | |
| 373855274 | Codex | A manuscript book | |
| 373855275 | Coffer | in architecture, a sunken panel in a celing | |
| 373990190 | Collage | A composition made by pasting together different items onto a flat surface | |
| 373990191 | Colophon | a commentary on the end panel of a chinese handscroll | |
| 373990192 | Color field | a style of abstract painting characterized by simple shapes and monochromatic color | |
| 373990193 | Compound pier | a pier that appears to be a group or gathering of smaller piers put together | |
| 373990194 | Confucianism | A philosophy based on the ideas of Confucius that focuses on morality, family order, social harmony, and government | |
| 373990195 | Contrapposto | a graceful arrangement of the body based on tilted shoulders and hips and bent knees | |
| 373990196 | Corbel arch | a vault formed by layers of stone that gradually grow closer together as they rise until they eventually meet | |
| 373990197 | Cornice | Projecting decorative molding along the top of a building | |
| 373990198 | Cromlech | A ircle of megaliths | |
| 373990199 | Cubiculum | a Roman bedroom flanking an atrium; in Early Christian art, a mortuary chapel in a catacomb | |
| 373990200 | Cuneiform | a system of writing with wedge-shaped symbols, invented by the Sumerians around 3000 B.C. | |
| 373990201 | Cupola | a roof in the form of a dome. In architecture, it is acheived by rotating an arch. | |
| 373990202 | Cyclopean masonry | A method of stone construction, named after the mythical Cyclopes, using massive, irregular blocks without mortar, characteristic of the Bronze Age fortifications of Tiryns and other Mycenaean sites. | |
| 373990203 | Cylinder seal | a round piece of carved stone that when rolled onto clay produces an image | |
| 373990204 | Daguerreotype | An early photographic process with the image made on a light-sensitive silver-coated metallic plate.They have no negatives and are completely unique. | |
| 373990205 | Daoism | It is a philosophy which is founded by Laozi. Daoism emphasizes living in harmony with nature | |
| 373990206 | Documentary photography | a type of photography that seeks social and political redress for current issues by using photographs as a way of exposing society's faults | |
| 373990207 | Donor | a patron of a work of art, who is often seen in that work | |
| 373990208 | Embroidery | a woven product in which the design is stitched into a premade fabric | |
| 373990209 | Encaustic | an ancient method of painting that uses colored waxes burned into a wooden surface | |
| 373990210 | Engaged column | a column that is not freestanding but attached to a wall | |
| 373990211 | Engraving | a printmaking process in which a tool called a burin is used to carve into a metal plate, causing impressions to be made in the surface. Ink is passed into the crevices of the plate and paper is applied. The result is a print with remarkable details and finely shaded contours. | |
| 373990212 | Entablature | the upper story of a greek temple | |
| 373990213 | Etching | printmaking process in which a metal plate is covered with a ground made of wax. The artist uses a tool to cut into the wax and leave the plae exposed. The plate is then submerged into an acid bath, which eats away at the exposed portions of the plate. The plate is removed from the acid, cleaned, and the ink is filled into the crevices caused by the acid. Paper is applied and an impression is made. This produces the finest detail of the three types of early prints. | |
| 373990214 | Exemplum virtutis | a painting that tells a moral tale for the viewer | |
| 373990215 | Facade | the face or front of a building | |
| 373990216 | Fan vault | a type of vault so-called because a fanlike shape is created when the vaults spring from the floor to the ceiling, nearly touching in the space directly over the center of the nave | |
| 373990217 | Ferroconcrete | concrete with metal and/or mesh added to provide extra support against stresses | |
| 373990218 | fete galante | an 18th century French style of painting that depicts the aristocracy walking through a forested landscape | |
| 373990219 | Fetish | an object believed to have magical powers; an object of unreasoning devotion or reverence | |
| 373990220 | Flying buttress | A half arch used to counteract the outward thrust of the vault, and to transfer the thrust to piers outside the walls | |
| 373990221 | Foreshortening | The visual phenomenon whereby an elongated object projecting toward or away from a viewer appears shorter than its actual length, as though compressed. | |
| 373990222 | Forum | public square or market place in a Roman city | |
| 373990223 | Fresco | a method of painting in which pigments are mixed with water and applied to a layer of wet plaster so that the plaster absorbs the color and the painting becomes part of the wall | |
| 373990224 | Frieze | ornamental band on the wall | |
| 373990225 | Frottage | A textural transfer technique; the process of making rubbings with graphite or crayon on paper laid over a textured surface | |
| 373990226 | Genre painting | painting in which scenes of everyday life are depicted | |
| 373990227 | Glazes | thin transparent layers put over a painting to alter the color and build up a rich sonorous effect | |
| 373990228 | Gospels | the first four books in the New Testament that tell the story of Christ's life and teachings | |
| 373990229 | Grisaille | a painting done in neutral shades of gray to simulate the look of sculpture | |
| 373990230 | Ground plan | the map of a floor of a building | |
| 373990231 | Haniwa | sculpted fired pottery cylinders, modeled in human, animal, or other forms and placed on japanese tumuli of the kofun period. | |
| 373990232 | Harlem Renaissance | a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished | |
| 373990233 | Hierarchy of scale | a system of representation that expresses a person's importance by the size of his or her representation in a work of art | |
| 373990234 | Hieroglyphics | an ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds | |
| 373990235 | Horror vacui | Latin for "fear of empty spaces" a type of artwork in which the entire surface is filled with objects, people, designs, and ornaments in a crowded, sometimes congested way | |
| 373990236 | Humanism | intellectual movement at the heart of the Italian Renaissance that focused on worldly subjects rather than on religious issues, an , Emphasized human beings, their achievements, interests, and capabilities. | |
| 373990237 | Hypostyle | a hall in an egyptian temple that has a roof supported by a dense thicket of columns | |
| 373990238 | Icon | a devotional panel depicting a sacred image | |
| 373990239 | Iconostasis | a screen decorated with icons, which separates the apse from the transept of a church | |
| 373990240 | Ignudi | nude corner figures on the Sistine Chapel ceiling | |
| 373990241 | Impasto | a thick, heavy application of paint with either a brush or a palette knife | |
| 373990242 | Impluvium | In a Roman house, the basin located in the atrium that collected rainwater. | |
| 373990243 | in situ | a Latin expression that means that something is in its original location | |
| 373990244 | Installation | a type of art medium in which the artist arranges objects or artworks in a room, thinking of the entire space as the medium to be manipulated. | |
| 373990245 | International Gothic Style | 14th and 15th century painting begun by Simone Martini; style is characterized by elegant and intricate interpretations of naturalistic subjects and minute detailing and patterning in drapery and color, catering to an artistocratic taste | |
| 373990246 | Jali | perforated ornamental stone screens in Islamic art | |
| 373990247 | Jamb | the side posts of a medieval portal | |
| 373990248 | japonisme | an attraction for Japanese art and artifacts that were imported into Europe in the late nineteenth century | |
| 373990249 | Ka | the soul, or spiritual essence, of a human being that either ascends to heaven or can live in an Egyptian statue of itself | |
| 373990250 | Keystone | the center stone of an arch that holds the others in place | |
| 373990251 | Kiln | an oven that can reach extreme temperatures necessary to harden clay and melt glazes | |
| 373990252 | Kiva | a circular area, sometimes underground, where tribe members talk, work, or perform religious ceremonies | |
| 373990253 | Kondo | a hall used for Buddhist teachings | |
| 373990254 | Koran | the Islamic sacred text, dictated to the Prophet Muhammad by the Angel Gabriel | |
| 373990255 | Kouros | archaic greek sculpture of standing male youth | |
| 373990256 | Krater | a large greek bowl used for mixing water and wine | |
| 373990257 | Kylix | a Greek drinking cup | |
| 373990258 | Lamassu | a colossal winged human-headed bowl n Assyrian art | |
| 373990259 | Lantern | a small structure with openings for light that crowns a dome | |
| 373990260 | Literati | Scholars in China and Japan whose poetry, calligraphy, and paintings were supposed primarily to reveal their cultivation and express their personal feelings rather than demonstrate professional skill. The concept was first formulated in China in the Northern Song dynasty but was enduringly codified in the Ming dynasty by Dong Qichang. | |
| 373990261 | Lithography | a planographic printmaking technique based on the antipathy of oil and water. The image is drawn with a grease crayon or painted with tusche on a stone or grained aluminum plate. The surface is then chemically treated and dampened so that it will accept ink only where the crayon or tusche has been used. | |
| 373990262 | Loculi | openings in the walls of catacombs to receive the dead | |
| 373990263 | Longhouse | a long Native-American dwelling made of wood. Characterized by having supporting inerior poles that create long inerior corridors | |
| 373990264 | Lunette | a crescent-shaped space, sometimes over a doorway, that contains sculpture or painting |
