3201044028 | Sculptures, Murals, and Mosaics | Three most common types of Roman Art are? | 0 | |
3201050742 | Romans | Loved Greek sculptures and decided to create portrait sculptures | 1 | |
3201055904 | Portrait Sculptures | Based on realistic detail, not artistic expression. Used for revering the dead and honoring the living. These were sculptures of people as they are. At first many officials received these sculptures, but later it was just the great Roman's like caesar | 2 | |
3201065760 | Narrative Reliefs | Art of proclaiming ones victories | 3 | |
3201068707 | Altar of Peace | Celebrated Augustus' Triumphs | ![]() | 4 |
3201072050 | Arch of Titus | Celebrating Emperor Titus' victories over Jerusalem | ![]() | 5 |
3201074896 | Trajan's Column | Celebrating Trajan's victories. Also an example of a narrative relief. | ![]() | 6 |
3201079878 | Roman Painting | Use of illusion to create depth | 7 | |
3201091797 | Roman Mosaic | Made of cubes of colored marble | 8 | |
3201137171 | Jesus Fish | Important early Christian Art Icon | 9 | |
3201187049 | Catacombs | Christians bury their dead and decorated with Frescoes | 10 | |
3201200783 | Constantine legalized Christianity | Art was created above ground when | 11 | |
3201207222 | Christians | Avoided full size sculptures as they could be seen as idols | 12 | |
3201216091 | Illuminated Manuscript | Illustrations to accompany a written text, usually incorporating gold leaf | 13 | |
3201221816 | Codex | A book | 14 | |
3201225361 | Vienna Genesis | One of the first illuminated manuscripts. It was a illustrated bible | 15 | |
3201229253 | Greeks | Are known for their Pottery and Sculpture | 16 | |
3201241564 | Greek Sculptures | Were made from marble, a better material than their predecessors had | 17 | |
3201247742 | Archaic Sculpture | Were stiff and seemed like egyptian styles. Greek sculptures tried to make the sculptures look more realistic | 18 | |
3201252698 | Kouros | Greek Male youth Statues of the Archaic period. They stood very firm and were unnatural as they were Archaic | ![]() | 19 |
3201273556 | Realism | Making sculptures look realistic | 20 | |
3201280838 | Idealism | How people and animals would ideally look | 21 | |
3201286410 | Baroque Painting | Giving as much detail to the lighting and the background, as you do to the men and women. Sought to engage the viewer. Used theatrical effects, replacing straight lines with curves and domes. Made landscape painting popular and acceptable. | 22 | |
3201295761 | Baroque Themes | 1. De-Emphasis of the figure 2. A mastery of light and shadow 3. Realism in all things 4. New subjects, like landscape, still life, and self portrait. 5. Painting ceilings to give them depth, and show it extending to heaven. | 23 | |
3201301534 | Caravaggio | Used Chiaroscuro and spot lighting which gave his paintings the impression of spontaneity. Was a famous Baroque who showed realism in all things. His Dutch equivalent is Rembrandt. | 24 | |
3201305572 | Chiaroscuro | Strong contrasts between light and dark in a painting to create drama. | 25 | |
3201315440 | Claude Lorraine | Showing an idealistic figure of nature. "The money is for the landscape, the figures you can have for free". Famous Baroque renowned for his landscapes. | 26 | |
3201320201 | Rembrandt | Known for his etchings of landscapes. He sketched in his free time, many sketchings survived. He painted many self portraits of himself. His paintings were theatrical. The greatest Baroque painter from Holland, pulled all of the themes together in each painting. | 27 | |
3210196297 | Velazquez | Famous Baroque, but made very mundane works. Used neat effects like mirrors and self portrait. Well known for his "Las Meninas" in which he painted a self portrait (shown here), the King and Queen in a Mirror, and a 5 year old girl | ![]() | 28 |
3210221709 | Rubens | As likely to paint a mythological scene as a religious scene. He was known as a court painter. Known for the counter reformation. Made art exciting and engaging. Used Baroque style and painted religious paintings. | 29 | |
3210295411 | Poussin | Shows shadows as a metaphor for death in ET in Arcadia. | ![]() | 30 |
3211293296 | Greek Gods | Are made in human form, so their sculptures of god's looked like men | 31 | |
3211296595 | Acropolis | Is an ancient citadel with multiple buildings on it, on top of a mountain in Athens | ![]() | 32 |
3211304422 | Parthenon | Is one of the buildings in the Acropolis, It's geometric shapes were later implemented across different cultures. Is of the Doric order and had a statue of Athena inside. | 33 | |
3211329948 | Roman Architecture | Known for arches, Concrete, Trajan's column, and the Colosseum. Which was made of concrete and arches, brought people together to watch gladiators. | 34 | |
3211334581 | Pantheon | The greatest of Roman Architecture. The world's largest dome for over 1800 years | 35 | |
3211344062 | Roman Art | Mixed Christian scenes and pagan beliefs a lot | 36 | |
3211352802 | Constantine | The Romans are known for letting Christianity rise under? | 37 | |
3211370624 | Romanesque | 11th and 12th centuries, there was a revival of art and development of churches. They tried to build Roman looking churches but, they transformed the Roman form with chapels, windows, stone vaults, and stone columns | 38 | |
3211379602 | St.James Pilgrimage to Santiago | Could save your soul. So many churches popped up along its path. | 39 | |
3211385348 | Vezelay, Autun, and Santiago | Great churches of the Romanesque period | 40 | |
3211393246 | Gislebertus | A sculptor of religious scenes on Romanesque churches, especially in Auton. He also sculpted Judas' suicide | 41 | |
3211398048 | Saint Benedict | Believed in lives dedicated to labor | 42 | |
3211403398 | Paray-Le-Monial | Was a church in the shape of a cross. Known for its stone vaults, chapels, and Windows | ![]() | 43 |
3211407114 | Durham Cathedral | A Norman cathedral. A Romanesque church with gothic elements | ![]() | 44 |
3211418794 | Gothic Style | Has pointed arches, rib vaults, and flying buttresses | 45 | |
3211421554 | Norman Architecture | Is a type of Romanesque architecture | 46 | |
3211426711 | Saint-Denis by Suger | This church was the birth of the gothic style. It removed the divisions between units leaving the church big and open. It had stained glass windows and placed jewels everywhere to compliment the light coming in through the stained glass windows | ![]() | 47 |
3211438220 | Chartres Cathedral | It was the most famous gothic church which held the relic the "Tunic of Mary". It also had glass stained windows which were of Mary | ![]() | 48 |
3211454337 | Churches | Were judged by the height of the cathedral and vaulting | 49 | |
3211464085 | England | Was the first country to adopt the gothic style | 50 | |
3211467099 | The Effects of Good Government | A Fresco painted by Lorenzetti first panoramic landscape on this scale in western art | ![]() | 51 |
3211474885 | Renaissance | The rebirth of learning and culture. Rediscovering of Roman and Greek culture, key figures were Michelangelo, Raphael, Donatello, and Leonardo. Focuses on the human form. Incredibly religious. 1400-1500. Notable in Italy, but happened in all of Europe. Florence is well known | 52 | |
3211478122 | Humanism | The shift from God-centered to human-centered art | 53 | |
3211480967 | Giotto | Influenced Raphael and Michelangelo | 54 | |
3211484643 | Brunelleschi | Discovered "linear perspective" which gives 3d space to 2d art. Built the dome of the Florence Cathedral | 55 | |
3211489319 | Donatello | Studied sculptures and made the first free standing bronze sculpture of David. He sculpted David as a boy killing Goliath. Sculpted with linear perspective to give a new illusion of depth. | 56 | |
3211493740 | David by Donatello | ![]() | 57 | |
3211506973 | Leonardo Da Vinci | Mona Lisa, Last Supper. Pioneered perspective and diagonal lines, to put the focus at christ's head. Used Sfumato, a technique in which the painting "Evaporates like smoke" this leaves no lines. Hence why the mona lisa is so smooth in places. | 58 | |
3211511726 | Michelangelo | Carved the famous pieta, Jesus's body on Mary's lap. Chiseled his name on Mary's sash, painted the Sistine chapel. Painted the Creation of Adam on the ceiling of the sistine chapel. In his later years he believed in Sculpting the human form instead of painting. | 59 | |
3211519679 | Raphael | Painted rooms in the Vatican, also painted the School of Athens. A painting of many different philosophers of Athens with himself inside the picture | ![]() | 60 |
3211526716 | Mannerism | Painting inside such a way that you give a visual tension to the work. Emphasizes dramatic light and motion. Purposefully distorted bodies and spacial relationships. | 61 | |
3211530515 | Tintoretto | Was a mannerist. His work is characterized by its muscular figures, dramatic gestures, and bold use of perspective in the Mannerist style. | ![]() | 62 |
3211534367 | Rococo(Late Baroque) | Art of the Aristocracy. End of the Baroque period. Paris became the capital of culture. More playful and witty themes | 63 | |
3211538241 | Neoclassical | Looked back at the classical era for inspiration of art. Finished painting's should be perfectly smooth. Many washington D.C. buildings are designed in the way of looking like old Greek and Roman buildings. Coincided with the age of enlightenment | 64 | |
3211542966 | Ingres | A french neoclassical painter | 65 | |
3211546424 | Hellenistic Period | Added more emotion to their sculptures. And started sculpting nude women | 66 | |
3211562416 | Romanticism(Opposed Neoclassicism) | 18th century. About evoking emotion. Fear or joy. Captures human emotion | 67 | |
3211568706 | Géricault | Painted the raft of the medusa. Was a Romanticist | ![]() | 68 |
3211570926 | Courbet | A realist, painted only actual participants of events and downplays their emotions. Father of Realism. | 69 | |
3211578164 | Impressionism | How color affects light. Mixing colors to let eyes decide the final look. They did not paint pictures to convey meaning. Made great atmospheres. Used Optical Mixing to but two colors next to each other. Was influenced by Leonardo from the renaissance. They built on his observation that a persons face and clothes appear green when walking through a sunlit field. | 70 | |
3211586579 | Monet | Was an Impressionist who was fixated with lighting - almost at a scientific level. Painted many landscapes, known for using Sunny hues and dissolving forms into light | 71 | |
3211591864 | Sunrise | Monet painted this which gave Impressionism it's name | ![]() | 72 |
3211596497 | Pointillism | Applying confetti-sized dots of pure, unmixed color over the whole canvas. The individual specs never merge so pictures can seem grainy. Seurat identifies with it. | 73 | |
3211601118 | A Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte | A pointillist painting by Seurat | ![]() | 74 |
3211611781 | Seurat | Was identified with dot theory but he was also an impressionist | 75 | |
3212450459 | Manet | Painted contemporary scenes with hard edges, uses dark patches and outlining in black. Was a Realist and an Impressionist. | 76 | |
3212451722 | Post-Impressionism | Used Impressionist techniques but added passion and feelings into their paintings. | 77 | |
3212452485 | Van Gogh | Was a post-impressionist used vibrant colors and was very extremist. Influenced by Japanese Art. | 78 | |
3212454472 | Aesthetic Movement | Art should be for it's artistic matter. Not for it's subject matter. James McNeil Whistler. | 79 | |
3212455711 | Art Nouveau | Used flowing curves to give more organic shapes. To show buildings as being formed by nature rather than man. | 80 | |
3212459083 | Symbolism | Used visual art as a symbol for deeper meanings. The Scream (shown here) was a Symbolistic painting made by Edvard Munch. The Scream greatly influenced German expressionists. | ![]() | 81 |
3212461000 | Fauvism | Used color to defy reality. Pablo Picasso and Mattisse have roots in this.. | 82 | |
3212462125 | Pablo Picasso | An art prodigy trained in the academic style was influenced by African art and Cezanne. Was a fauvist who kept his planes splintered and 2D. Distorting his images lines and curves. Which started cubism. | 83 | |
3212463546 | Les Demoiselles D'Avignon | Cubist painting by Picasso, distorting lines and splintered his planes | ![]() | 84 |
3212466611 | Dada | The rebel artists. Defacing mona lisa and submitting urinals as art. Believed in art with no rules. Became known as Dadaism. | 85 | |
3212467651 | Surrealism | The landscape of dreams. Drew weird images that could be scene in dreams such as melting pocket watches | 86 | |
3212468586 | Dali | Was a surrealist who created "The Persistence of Memory" an image of melting pocket watches. Used his "softness" and "hardness", which was central to his thinking at the time | ![]() | 87 |
3212470412 | Rene Magritte | Was a surrealist who created "The Son of Man" a picture of a man with an apple over his face. His art provided no answers. | ![]() | 88 |
3212471196 | Expressionism | Expressing extreme emotions | 89 | |
3212472028 | German Expressionism | Purely Abstract compositions using different colors to express different harmony's and states | 90 | |
3212472618 | Abstract Expressionism | Emerged in America out of the Chaos of WWII. They would fling paint at the canvas to create art | 91 | |
3212473280 | Wassily Kandinsky | A leader in the German Expressionist movement, he claimed he could see colors as music and vice versa. | 92 | |
3212474608 | Jackson Pollock | A leading Abstract Expressionist, developed the technique of dripping paint onto a large canvas. Flinging paint to create art | 93 | |
3212475844 | Pop Art | 2D art that POPPED, Andy Warhal made images from popular culture into art. Like a can of Campbells tomato soup. Made to satirize middle class values. Was a reference to popular culture. | 94 | |
3212477240 | Op Art | Optical illusion art | 95 | |
3212478896 | Georgia O'Keeffe | Painted Large Flowers and created pottery as art. Land art, art made in the land | 96 | |
3212480099 | Contemporary Art | Current Art that uses Appropriation | 97 | |
3212480854 | Appropriation | Taking old pictures and giving it a new look or new meaning. | 98 | |
3212481734 | Cindy Sherman | Dressed up as an actress and taking an identical picture from an old movie | 99 | |
3212483380 | Bill Viola | Redid an old painting as a video | 100 | |
3212484947 | Botticelli | Being an Italian painter of the early renaissance. He was known for painting nudes and the Birth of Venus painting. This painting depicts a nude goddess standing on a seashell with her hair being blown by the wind. | 101 | |
3212486169 | Birth of Venus | By Botticelli | ![]() | 102 |
3212487552 | Jan van Eyck | Known for his use of "Oil painting", "The Arnolfini Wedding" (shown here), and "Man in a Red Turban" which was supposedly himself, he was also a Renaissance painter, but Northern. Was more focused on realism than Classicism. | ![]() | 103 |
3212492446 | Goya | Was a lifelong rebel fitting no artistic category | 104 | |
3212495061 | Third of May Painting | It was in Goya's response to the slaughter of 5,000 Spanish civilians by Napoleon's french army. Represented humanity's dark and corrupt side | ![]() | 105 |
3212499466 | Oath of the Horatii by David | This is a famous Neoclassicist piece in which Three Brothers swear to defeat their enemies or die for Rome. It symbolized the new mood of self-sacrifice instead of self-indulgence, and the death of Rococo and Birth of Neoclassical art. | ![]() | 106 |
3212503245 | Bauhaus School of Design | Created by Walter Gropius, it is known for constructing buildings out of simple glass boxes | 107 | |
3212507068 | Helen Frankenthaler | Created soak stain painting | ![]() | 108 |
3212512252 | Delacroix | A defender of Romanticism, championed emotion and color. He was attracted to violence. | 109 | |
3212517962 | Borromini's Facade of San Carlino | Was a building with distorted lines to make it seem as if the stories were curved. Baroque style. | ![]() | 110 |
3212520355 | Frank Lloyd Wright | Most famous architect, known for very strange buildings. | ![]() | 111 |
3212522099 | Palladio | A renaissance Architect known for his villas and palaces, also his arches and columns | ![]() | 112 |
3212525213 | Pilgrimage on the Isle of Cythera | Which rococo painting by Antoine Watteau was very prominent | ![]() | 113 |
3212527544 | Athens | Was known as a place of worship | 114 | |
3212528365 | Minimalism | Is art after WWII that was minimalistic. | 115 | |
3212528867 | Futurism | Trying to display movement through fractured Cubist planes and bright Fauve colors | 116 | |
3212529321 | Titian's Assunta (Assumption of the Virgin) | Is about Mary's acceptance into heaven | ![]() | 117 |
3212530422 | Vermeer | Was a Baroque master who was considered the "Master of Light" and honored women in his paintings. This is one of his pieces. | ![]() | 118 |
3212530746 | Art Vernacular | Art created by untrained artists who do not consider themselves artists | 119 | |
3212531959 | Site-specific art | Is art designed to exist in a specific place | 120 | |
3212532737 | Contrapposto | Weight shift. The weight of the body rested on one leg, with the body aligned accordingly. | ![]() | 121 |
3212534700 | Divisionism | The separation of colors into different patches that interacted optically | 122 | |
3212535681 | Albrecht Durer | Combined the renaissance and realism, he was fascinated with nature and referred to as the "Leonardo of the North". | 123 | |
3218159189 | Byzantine Iconoclasm | Constituted a ban on religious icons and images by Emperor Leo III. | 124 | |
3218197160 | Stele of Hammurabi | ![]() | 125 | |
3218202336 | Realism | Is the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, implausible, exotic and supernatural elements. Its chief exponents were Courbet, Millet, Daumier, and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. | 126 | |
3218275075 | Die Brücke "the bridge" | A group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905, after which the Brücke Museum in Berlin was named. Founding members were Bleyl, Heckel, Kirchner and Schmidt-Rottluff. Was the Germans way to link/connect past and present art. (20th century) | 127 | |
3218359557 | Da Vinci | Became the most prominent practitioner of sfumato - his famous painting of the Mona Lisa exhibits the technique. He described sfumato as "without lines or borders, in the manner of smoke or beyond the focus plane" | 128 | |
3218386252 | Sistine Chapel | Showed the Creation, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and the Great Flood. | 129 | |
3218412087 | Vietnam Memorial | Located in Washington D.C. It shows the sadness of war. Designed by Maya Lin. | ![]() | 130 |
3218426134 | Andy Goldsworthy's Pebbles Broken and Scraped | Romanticism Artist. He would try to copy and replicate. Mostly site specific art. | ![]() | 131 |
3218444988 | Margaret Keane | An American artist. Creator of the "big eyed waifs", which feature children with large eyes. Is famous for drawing paintings with big eyes and mainly paints women, children, and animals in oil or mixed media. | 132 | |
3218450814 | Cylinder Seal | Typically about one inch in length, engraved with written characters or figurative scenes or both, used in ancient times to roll an impression onto a two-dimensional surface, generally wet clay. Were invented around 3500 BC in the Near East, at the contemporary sites of Susa in south-western Iran and Uruk in southern Mesopotamia. | 133 | |
3218499453 | Mastaba | Means tomb | 134 | |
3218607187 | History Painter | Rubens is known as a | 135 | |
3219362047 | Veduta | Is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, actually more often print, of a cityscape or some other vista. Paul Bril | 136 | |
3219375125 | Rothko | Was an American painter of Russian Jewish descent. He is generally identified as an Abstract Expressionist. One of most famous post war American artists. Known for color field paintings as well. | 137 | |
3221210331 | The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba | By Lorraine | ![]() | 138 |
3222990549 | Melencolia I | An engraving by Albrecht Dürer. | ![]() | 139 |
3224909696 | Caryatid | Supporting column, sculpted as a woman. | ![]() | 140 |
3234777327 | Las Minenas | Painting by Velazquez | ![]() | 141 |
3258289473 | Vasari | Father of Mannerism | 142 | |
3844359032 | Masaccio | Was one of the first to use linear perspective in his painting, employing techniques such as vanishing point in art for the first time. Learned from Brunelleschi. One of his best-known paintings is this fresco, Holy Trinity (1427) | ![]() | 143 |
3845427276 | Cezanne | Post-Impressionist artist. Reduced images to a geometric form and influenced future artists of Modernism, Fauvism and Cubism | 144 | |
3845434603 | Gustave Klimt | Austrian painter and one of the founders of the Viennese Secession, or Art Nouveau, movement. His work is characterized by a use of jewel-like and gold colors, and eroticism | 145 | |
3848291906 | Verrocchio | Painter, sculptor, and goldsmith. Tutored Da Vinci. | 146 | |
3847507281 | Venus of Willendorf | One of the earliest known sculptures of a human. The sculpture is of stone and depicts an obese woman, believed to represent a fertility goddess | ![]() | 147 |
3847867350 | Bridget Riley | An English painter who is one of the foremost exponents of Op art. Created Movement in Squares | ![]() | 148 |
3849009613 | They didn't want to degrade/contradict/or undermine the new testaments | Why did Christians keep old testaments in Roman catacombs? | 149 | |
3849031471 | Avant-garde | Are people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics. | 150 | |
3849084602 | Millet | A realist artist. This is an example called the Sower | ![]() | 151 |
3849183298 | Bernini | An Italian sculptor and architect. He created the Baroque style, a style which is characterized by showing movement and emotion | 152 | |
3849234336 | Poussin | Based his paintings on ancient Roman myths, history, and Greek sculpture. Inspired Neoclassical artists David and Ingres. | 153 | |
3849553144 | Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty | When were most of the pyramids built? (Cheops/khufu) | 154 | |
3849700338 | Renoir | A French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. Works include at Le Moulin de la Galette(shown here) and The Swing | ![]() | 155 |
3849720345 | Akhenaten | He is especially noted for abandoning traditional Egyptian polytheism and introducing worship centered on the Aten. Made art streamlined and thin. | 156 |
Art of the Western World DSST Flashcards
Primary tabs
Need Help?
We hope your visit has been a productive one. If you're having any problems, or would like to give some feedback, we'd love to hear from you.
For general help, questions, and suggestions, try our dedicated support forums.
If you need to contact the Course-Notes.Org web experience team, please use our contact form.
Need Notes?
While we strive to provide the most comprehensive notes for as many high school textbooks as possible, there are certainly going to be some that we miss. Drop us a note and let us know which textbooks you need. Be sure to include which edition of the textbook you are using! If we see enough demand, we'll do whatever we can to get those notes up on the site for you!