Preview

Art History key terms

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
684 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Art History key terms
Chapter 1-Pre-Historic Art
Key Terms Attributes- Symbolic object or objects that identify a particular deity, saint, or personification in art

Ceramics- Wares made of baked clay

Corbel vault-

Dolmen- Prehistoric sculpture made up of or more large stones supporting a large, flat, horizontal slabs Capstones- The final topmost stone in corbel arch or vault which joins the sides and completes the
Structure

Henge- Circular area enclosed by stones or wood posts set up by Neolithic peoples

Megalithic-

Modeling -in painting the process of creating the illusions of three-dimensionality on a 2 dimensional
Surface by the use of light and shade. In sculpture the process of molding

Passage graves- prehistoric tomb under a cairn, reached by a long narrow slab lined access passage or
Passageways

Post-and-Lintel-architectural system of construction with two or more vertical elements (posts) supporting
A horizontal (lintel)

Sculpture in the round –Three dimensional sculptures that is carved free of any background or block

Chapter 2- Art of the Ancient Near East
Key Terms Alabaster- a soft fine translucent white stone

Cylinder seals- a small cylindrical stone decorated with incised patterns. When rolled across soft clay or wax the resulting raised pattern or design served as an identifying signature.

Conventions-a traditional way of representing forms.

Cuneiform- an early form of writing with wedged shaped marks impressed into wet clay with a stylist used primarily by ancient Mesopotamians.

Hieratic scale-the use of different sizes for significant or holy figures and those of the everyday world to indicate relative importance. The larger the figure the greater its importance.

Mesopotamia-

Pictographs-a highly stylized and simplified depiction serving as a symbol for a person or object.

Relief sculpture-a sculpture image or design whose flat background surface is carved away to a certain depth setting off

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Satisfactory Essays

    The sculpture is located at the FIU Frost Art Museum. The medium used by the artist to create this sculpture was a ceramic tile. The mass of the sculpture is small. The artist created a sculpture in high relief which he then painted and covered in gloss making the visual texture of the sculpture smooth. Some of the formal elements used by the artist were intense hues of blue as the background for the sky . The Airman himself which is the focal point of the sculpture is painted in light shades of beige and intense whites as well as the four airplanes flying above him. The sculpture is not symmetrical the Airman covers most of the sculpture giving the illusion that the airplanes are flying high above him in the sky. This was done using the linear…

    • 475 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    * sculpture in the round – sculptured on all sides – to be viewed from any angles. Detached from a background.…

    • 1404 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Grisaille means a. imitation sculpture. b. gesso. c. foreshortening. d. contrapposto. e. oil painting.…

    • 1261 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Chapter 4- Ap Art History

    • 451 Words
    • 2 Pages

    II. Cycladic Art- abstract human figurines that are mostly female made of clay, limestone, and sometimes marble…

    • 451 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Pueblo Maiden Essay

    • 1076 Words
    • 5 Pages

    The body of the figure is long and oval shaped. The body of the sculpture is the largest part of the figure. The shoulders are rounded and there is a long oval indentation that resembles a neckline for a dress. Where the neckline is exposed, there is a layer that covers the figures breasts and appears to be similar to an undergarment for the dress that the sculpture is wearing. On the right side of the…

    • 1076 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Quiz: Renaissance

    • 798 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Which artist believed that a living figure was concealed in a block of marble and that only the excess needed to be carved away to reveal it?…

    • 798 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Josiah Mcelheny Analysis

    • 369 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Josiah McElheny produced a series of works known as “Paintings”, although not as well-known as some of his other works, they are interesting. A two-dimensional image with a three-dimensional feel. Specifically, the Crystalline Prism Painting III where press molded polished prisms are inset into a black matte oil painting and…

    • 369 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Comparison

    • 628 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The conquest of the whole of Mesopotamia and much surrounding territory by the Assyrians created a larger and wealthier state than the region had known before, and very large art in palaces and public places, I believe, intended to match the noble art of the neighboring Egyptian empire. The Assyrians developed a style of extremely large layout of very finely detailed narrative low reliefs in stone or alabaster, and originally painted, for palaces. The precisely defined reliefs concern royal affairs, chiefly hunting and war making. Power is given to animal forms, particularly horses and lions, which are remarkably represented in great detail. Human figures are comparatively exact and fixed but are also closely detailed, as in triumphal scenes of sieges, battles, and individual combat. Among the best known Assyrian reliefs are the lion-hunt alabaster carvings showing Ashurbanipal, which is in the British Museum.…

    • 628 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Mid Term Pre Sheet

    • 356 Words
    • 2 Pages

    1. _____ This term identifies a sculptural technique in which figures are carved out of a block of stone, part of which is left to form a background.…

    • 356 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Tomb of Eurysaces

    • 907 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The tomb is trapezoidal, measuring 8.75, 6.85, 5.80 and 4.05 meters on its sides, of concrete with travertine facing. This facing takes the form of horizontal and vertical cylinders in rows, which possibly are designed to represent measures for grain or vessels for mixing dough.…

    • 907 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The step pyramid of djoser was created all out of stone. It’s also often referred to (because of its rectangular base) as the Step Tomb. Its surrounded by ceremonial structures as well as many decorations.…

    • 429 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Early Christian Art

    • 172 Words
    • 1 Page

    From an artistic perspective, early Christian artists copied their Roman counterparts in creating forms such as frescoes, carving detailed relief sculptures resembling 3D pictures, designing impressive mosaics, and producing decorative marble tombs called sarcophagi. In terms of artistic motifs, they also borrowed some figures and changed the meaning of them. Some are the shepherd figure, the philosopher figure, the law-giver…

    • 172 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    a very stable shape for projects with large amounts of stone. They were specifically tombs that…

    • 410 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Sarnath Lion Capitol

    • 553 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The sculpture is volumetric with few high relieves. The animals and wheels can be considered as high relief where as the lion’s top portion would consider three…

    • 553 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    The Stone Age Notes

    • 3857 Words
    • 12 Pages

    The works of art and construction that survive from the Stone age are generally associated with ritual sites and places of importance to these first Irish people. Little evidence of their everyday lives or language survives, but we can find remains of the tombs they built to revere their dead. These early farmers brought seeds for crops and domestic animals to Ireland and had developed skills beyond the simple hunting and gathering society that first lived there. They had enough spare time to think out, plan and build large…

    • 3857 Words
    • 12 Pages
    Better Essays

Related Topics